From: Misti<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Chris~<BR>
Hey, darlin'! Hope you enjoy reading all the e-cards and e-mail I just sent ya! I just e-mailed Kerry from swellaudio and told him I won't be able to participate in the recording session. Bummer. <BR>
...I've got toothpaste all over my face so I'm ready to get in bed and look at my new *Premiere* magazine. I'm going to help Mom with children's church in the morning. Scary thought, huh? Ha! Love ya!!!<BR>
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx your Misti xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: Misti<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

P.S. I just sent Kerry a Waterhouse postcard telling him I'll participate in the recording session if he can pay for my gasoline and a beer and burger for you and me. I'm definitely going to bed now. Come over if the fumes are too bad from the fogger! Don't worry about waking anyone up!<BR>
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo goodest girl xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Misti could that not have been said via email? 
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From: Chris<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

O Nameless One,<BR>
Yeah, I guess it could have. What's your point? Are you the bandwith police or something?<BR>
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Misti,<BR>
Loved everything you sent me--and your newest poems, too. You're amazing. I will never stop loving you. Write that down. Remember it.
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Date: 18 March 2001<P>

the point is this is not the Misti and Chris message board, do we really need to hear what you eat for breakfast and why you emailed who for what?  Its so sad you are married why do you need to leave messages on a poety board to do your day to day communication?
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Misti~  I never got a chance to say.....loved your latest screenplay. Best of luck shopping it around...<BR>
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terry
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From: Misti<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

terry~<BR>
thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. After working on it for almost a year, I'm terrified of facing rejection. But I know that rejection is inevitable and necessary in the creative process.<BR>
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chris~<BR>
I don't think I'll eat breakfast this morning. I think I'll eat a big lunch. Ha. I'm going to check my e-mail now.<BR>
xxxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooo
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From: Riggs<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

I think I'll have pasta for dinner tonight. Perhaps ravioli. Maybe not. Maybe I'll just go out for dinner. Maybe I won't eat at all. Maybe I'll lie in my hammock out the back and drink cold beer from a green esky. Now I wonder what sort of beer would be appropriate..........<BR>

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From: B.K<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

The sky is grey again today, think I'' just go to a movie and take the dogs for a walk. wow, maybe i'll see some cranes by the lake. Maybe the castle will call and give me a part in the new Robert Redford movie being made here.(You have to look like you belong in an insane asylum to get the part..lol) maybe I'll look for a rhyming dictionary and go crazy with silly rhymes, maybe i'll get the dogs toenails cut intstead. Maybe we'll all go crazy if I don't stop this now..lol
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From: Harem<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

To Lina Tinylina :<BR>
Loved your poem "Love didn't last"... I dont know which was better.... your thoughts or the way you wrote it.... Had me laughing my *ss  off......... Bravo.... wonderfully written... and sooooo funny.....<BR>
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To Distant Moon:<BR>
Went back a bit and was reading some of your stuff....It was all good but "Op" and "clouds below my eyes" got my attention.....  Your writing was well above par... Excellent..... Your thoughts attracted me to them..... Thanks for sharing........<BR>
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******
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From: Misti<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Went to Sunday school with Mom and Joe this morning. Ate a glazed donut. Drank coffee with one packet of sugar and a little bit of non-dairy creamer. Heard the Legion/2000 pigs story. Sang songs in church. Helped Mom with children's church. Passed out cookies. Asked questions regarding the Easter story. Passed out pictures of Jesus on the donkey in Jerusalem for the children to color. Got a little periwinkle dinosaur out of the Blessings Box for my help. Now I'm going to go home and show Chris my new haircut. Not only did I get a new haircut, I got eggplant streaks that look really dramatic with my raven black hair. <BR>
...I realize ya'll are soooooo enthralled with the mundane details of my luscious little life. I'm being facetious. And oh my! I mentioned church and Jesus. Oops.
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From: Ali<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Chris~ 'Finding Out' was heartbreakingly beautiful...<BR>
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Willtobe1~ 'Dream' was very good...it had a very dream-like quality...keep writing!<BR>
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Misti~ 'Apologies Are So Nothing' was powerfully exquisite writing...<BR>
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Love and lavender, Ali
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From: Toklas<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Madison, <BR>
that last strophe of Windward is absolutely wonderful! Good job! Nice to see you again also:)<BR>
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Misti- good luck on your publishing adventure. You are awesomely talented- I am sure you will get there.
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From: Chris<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Riggs, try not to be a bastard. Try hard. :)
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Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Chris, but what you are allowed to be one?
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

*smirk*<BR>
<BR>
Misti there is a site that several blender folk use, called Xanga, its a place where you can write a daily journal, you can mark pages private or public which ever you choose.... you can write shopping lists or your life history, what ever you want..... people can even comment on in if you want them to, maybe it'd be a good addition for your day?<BR>
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Http://www.xanga.com<BR>
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From: gardenguru<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

*extra big smirk*<BR>
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I found a special site, as well, deeva.<BR>
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It's www.stickupmywazoo.argh.<BR>
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It's where curmudgeons, whiners, hardened people, and other generally unhappy folk can feel free to spew uncalled for complaints, criticisms, stabs, jabs, and bitter remarks.<BR>
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It's perfect for those who've had enough of harmless silliness, beautifully romantic gushing sappiness, and whatever else doesn't fit into their own imperfect day.<BR>
<BR>
Thanks for the opportunity, deeva (not aimed at you), to offer this site to those who may wish to spend their time elsewhere.
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From: Misti<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Ali and Toklas~<BR>
Thanks so much for your kind words. I appreciate your positive feedback!<BR>
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Gardenguru~ Deevaa was offering a useful option to her fellow blenderites. What you offered was sarcastic tripe that read very much like an attack on the lady. Be a gentleman of class ....apologize.<BR>
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terry
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From: B.K.<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

I found a neat place to write as well. They take all types of writing. But you have to submit and they decide who gets to be on their page.<BR>
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Try;  www.girlswrite.com
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Our BK is being modest folks. She is published front page with a magnificent poem at www.girlswrite.com.....go see.<BR>
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Congrats darlin'.....you are it girl!<BR>
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t.
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From: B.K. (again)<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

You know we all get a bit crazy here and its fun to see what goes on in everyones lives.(even amusing) But deevaa's right I just checked out zanga and it looks pretty cool for diary writing and everyday thoughts or your laundry list or even gripes, guru. If we all put our everyday lives on this board well thats a bit much to take harmless or not, thats all I was getting at. It's bad enough that in order to write something foreign to ourselves we have to change our writing names...lol without everyone wondering whats going on...LOL Don't you think the boards should be for special happenings or needs in our lives, and of course to talk about poetry and burrittos lol lol.<BR>
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Hey Kirk, whats your opinion here?
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From: ray kinsella<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

First corollary of "if you build it, they will come":<BR>
<BR>
if you ignore them, they will go away...
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Date: 18 March 2001<P>

One Less Bell To Answer!
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From: Argyle<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

The dummy spit was heard around the world, but nobody listened...
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From: Chris<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

she devil (aka Nameless Idiot),<BR>
<BR>
I think you've got some issues to work out. My wife--and I'm assuming that's who you're writing about but are too cowardly to come out and actually SAY that--is more multifaceted, genuine, generous, gracious, and just plain talented than you'll ever be. Yeah, I don't know anything about you...but I think it's safe to say that. <BR>
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I don't enjoy being negative in this forum, but there are some very bitter people out there--and they seem to consistenly single out my wife for their conscpicious lack of lives. Oh...and please don't tell me that she makes herself a target, either. That's just another way of saying, "strong women threaten me."
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From: she devil<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Misti didn't name any names, in any of her works either, work your issues out with your wife.
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From: Argyle<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

as the glass crashed around their ears...
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Date: 18 March 2001<P>

argyle=she devil=vindictive little twerp
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From: Chaiki Yamashita ([email-masked])<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

This is the first time I actually turned in my poem where others can see it.  I was searching for some poems of which meaings and of which writers'feelings I could relate to.  Then the next thing I realized I was contributing mine, too.  <BR>
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This is a good site just to feel different, since I've been very patient and lonely for not having my BF around the past 8 months, and for envisioning the up comoing day I see him in 2 months from now.  I wish there were someone who I could talk to about such feeling, but it's hard to find, so I thought putting my poem up here might be a good way to let it out.<BR>
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From: Argyle<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

I have too much respect for the owner of this site, both for his hard work and the long history here which I have not been a part of, to dignify that inaccurate statement with a response, and for the same reason am supressing my desire to tack on what I, being a casual observer of this site for no small amount of time, really think of the behaviour of certain talent who freqent it.<BR>
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Good day to you all.
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

I think what argyle was saying with his glass comment was that people in glass houses shouldn't be casting stones and I agree with him.<BR>
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Chris if you have such a problem with Misti being attacked maybe you should also have a problem with at least one of the poems she wrote today, some of which is offensive to blender regulars.<BR>
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I'm a strong woman too and I'm proud of it, I disagree when you say being strong is the reason why Misti gets attacked. <BR>
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Garden Guru, Terry -- its ok, no offense was taken.<BR>
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From: Galadrial<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

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Boys and Girls?<BR>
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         Can we please get back to poetry? I know it's nearly spring---and people get testy...but I am personally praying for this @&#%*)@!&*$!*_ winter to end---and will try and cook up a Gala challenge soon...<BR>
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         Madison, I bow low before you woman...everytime I read something by you, I wish I'd written it.<BR>
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         Terry---this cinquaine thing cooks, truly....<BR>
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          BK---you got it  girl----very proud of you...                                      <BR>
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

uh-hum Misti, no Argyle is not 'she devil' but thankyou for treating him with so much respect.
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From: gardenguru<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

terry ...<BR>
<BR>
No, I won't offer an apology.  But I will offer this clarification.<BR>
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I used deeva's funny *smirk* comment as an opportunity to offer a facetious comment to Mr. or Ms. "no-name" who said something about Chris' or Misti's posting about food or some such.  Chris' or Misti's comment was harmless (and kind of cute in my opinion) and I thought no-names comment was uncalled for.<BR>
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Deeva's offering was cute and an inspiration to my FUNNY comment.<BR>
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I suppose the tension in here is making more than a few people lose their sense of humors.
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From: gardenguru<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

terry...<BR>
<BR>
You're welcome to tell me in a gentlemanly way that you simply misread my dry humor.<BR>
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If others, after reading it again, still feel that I miswrote it in some way so that it does, indeed, come off as an afront to deeva, that I shall refrain from such posts in the future.
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From: DarkAngel<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Dear Friends,<BR>
   I had no idea when I made my last post what sort of things were about to take place.<BR>
   As I write this, I am in the ICU unit of the local hospital - having suffered a stroke.  A very good friend of mine will post this letter tonight.<BR>
   Let it be enough to say that so many of you mean so much to me.  I didn not want you fretting over my silence.  <BR>
   I am improving daily and promise I will  victimize you all with my ramblings as soon as possible.<BR>
    So, Gala, Deeva, BK, Terry, Ali, and All,   All my love.<BR>
    Keep me in your prayers and look for me soon.<BR>
        Gary/DarkAngel/StandswithaSmile
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From: B.K.<BR>
Date: 18 March 2001<P>

Dear Gary,<BR>
     You have moved me so much with your writing that I had to write this tonight. I pray for your speedy recovery and that you will soon be back amongst us writing with whatever name you choose. God be with you and yours.<BR>
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Always,<BR>
<BR>
BK<BR>
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