From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Hey Misti; this is a lot harder than it looks. Ha I will get it yet though..ha<BR>
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Little Blue Man; I don't know you or your brother but I have heard rummors. Good Luck to you.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Violet, Squeen, I guess i have to start reading that damn book now. LOL.<BR>
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and I went and checked out Gala's feature spot, (she posted the URL further up the board)... if you haven't already been, go now...  it looks stunning, the whole site over all is lovely.<BR>
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dee
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Ya, I have to say, "The Pilot's Wife" is definately a good book. I read it about 3 months ago. Man, let me tell ya, whoever said you'll never look at your mate the same way was right. (But then, I went through that "Oh, so you have a double life" thang a while back, so it was even more to the point than it would have been otherwise.) And while I was reading the book, I kept thinking, "OMG! What ELSE can happen?" And then something else DOES happen that just blows you away. LOL! I was almost at the end of the book when it took a turn and seemed that it would need another 100 pages to work through it!<BR>
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And Gala...congrats!! I checked out that link and you were very well presented! Proud of ya, wench!<BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Thanks TJ...<BR>
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And Misti---<BR>
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           I'll give it a whirl sometime---but my heart isn't in it at the moment. Last year I went nuts preparing a chapbook---and not only lost, but lost to a subliterate moron on a suicidal stream of conciousness bend...<BR>
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           DEPRESSING!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Blue song...<BR>
Wow...your writers challenge submission makes me wish I never posted mine.  I wish I had put more effort...<BR>
I think that I tried to get them all in as few sentences as possible...you however, took your time and mapped out a scenario.  Well Done<BR>
Rhet
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Blue Song ~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.03.00.55.20913">frantic silky verbena bumpy sprint sparingly backwards ... anyone?</a> I love it!!!!!!!!!!<BR>
Now that took talent.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=450">Blue Song</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Ah thanks Rhetoric  and Scqueen ... lol... I take it, I done got  da words right?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Yep, you done did.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Gala~<BR>
Congrats on being the Featured Poet! I just checked it out and was very impressed. As for the chapbook contest, I'm sorry to hear you don't feel like entering but that'll just make it that much easier for me to win or at least place! The winner of last year's contest is a truly phenomenal writer, a hard act to follow. <BR>
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It's weird...I've submitted hundreds of poems to the Blender these past three and a half years, but when I read my old poems I feel like I don't really have a decent body of work. There are maybe twenty poems that I feel really, really good about. But I'm still young. I've only been writing for ten years (the Snoopy diary and Queen Velvet and King Matthew stories don't count)...around eighty, maybe I'll be bombastic. The thing is, I have to write. It's how I get through. <BR>
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I'm glad to see takers for the challenge. Now I'm going to give it a go. Hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday. Last night I started watching "Pollock," which I bought for ten bucks at Hollywood Video. It's the best movie I've seen in a long time. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Hey Kirk ~ I just read the blog about your car. You don't know how in style you are! I think you should paint a big eye on the side... Then you'd be right in sync with the new Pixar movie, 'Monsters, Inc.' :-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Damn Misti!!!<BR>
Let me reinforce what I said in my email - you are an amazing writer.  You captured that movie (possibly the man as well) in so few words - yet there is so much vivid context to be absorbed still.  Isn't Ed Harris wonderful?  Since The Right Stuff, I have thought him one of our greatest actors.  Some of you Blenderites must get your water from a different well than me - could you send me some?<BR>
Rhet
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Misti~<BR>
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I like Jackson Pollack's work...*smile*...Great poem...=)<BR>
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Love and sparkling moonlight, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Know what you mean Misti---when I was working on my chapbook last year, I was little horrified when I saw how much was love poetry...(I mean I LIKE love poetry, but editors don't take it seriously...) Turns out I had just enough to make the entry---with all the stuff I write??<BR>
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Good luck girl...fingers crossed!<BR>
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                                    Gala
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=50">MichaelT()</a><BR>
Date: 3 November 2001<P>

Misti ~ Thanks for the compliment of thinking I'm up to the challenge -- but that's not what I'm after at the moment. I did go to the website though. Didn't find the thread. <BR>
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Gala~ Congrats! Very sensual works..
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