From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=441">Randy1</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Hedvig, Thank you.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=340">BlueDenim</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Rhet: Thank you. Spur of the moment ones sometimes are the easier ones.<BR>
~Bob
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

BK ~  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.30.09.10.2461">George</a>  Beautiful, absolutely perfect.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Here's the latest writer's challenge:<BR>
luster, train, emulate, fiction, blanket, scrawl, contagious, syrup, reside, plaza<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Rogue:<BR>
<BR>
I loved "I Imagine!"  Very lovely!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Rogue and Hedvig, sorry but I stole a little motivation from your trains and incorporated them into my challenge as well.<BR>
<BR>
I thought it gave them even more continuity!!<BR>
<BR>
Bravo to you both<BR>
<BR>
Rhet
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Rhet~ bella bambina! i loved your latest. ;-)<BR>
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Twinkle~ Liked saving me part 2.... so sad, yet hopeful. :-)<BR>
When will you return to rainy Oregon? 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=499">Hedvig</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Rhetoric and Rogue -  Some truly great writing today !!!<BR>
and from a Writing Challenge - at that !!!<BR>
<BR>
Rogue's  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.30.11.55.16507">I Imagine</a> I liked this part :<BR>
      "... your train racing through the dark<BR>
The air cool after the rain"  I felt a chill as if a fast train had sped by me.  Even though you wrote - "The air cool after the rain." My mind forced me to see and read - "The air cool after the train".  If you have ever stood near a train track, when one was speeding by - you could feel the brisk breeze whisking by with your words.<BR>
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Rhetoric's    <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.30.12.29.3593">A visit to Italy</a>  First of all, I liked your format!  and this part :  "the warm rains on the Florentine plaza dripped like syrup, giving a soft, honey-hued luster to your olive skin" was truly BELISSIMO !!!<BR>
I hope that is a real Italian word.... if it's not, then I can't help it, but it explains how I feel about this expression.<BR>
<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Oh, Crap!!<BR>
<BR>
I didn't preface my latest as a submission to Misti's challenge!! <BR>
<BR>
But it is!!!  All the words are there!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Just Some Girl -<BR>
<BR>
In front of the mirror, I emulate the <BR>
confident woman I saw in the plaza <BR>
Thursday last. Twisting my hair, pursing <BR>
my lips. Damn...I'm fucking hot!<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Yes you are, Honey!!!  And sometimes, you are MY inspiration to get done up and be confident.<BR>
<BR>
Great lines...totally different than the other three trys...more grounded in the here and now.<BR>
<BR>
Jen<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Ah, Rhet!!!  Thanks!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=452">twinkle</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

violet - i'll be back in the rain on december 12 - hope i don't freeze to death! :P
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=520">Rogue</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Thanks for the comments.<BR>
<BR>
Funny how the train thing popped up in several people's.  It was the first thing that occurred to me.<BR>
<BR>
Rogue
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=499">Hedvig</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Holly McCormick's  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.30.13.43.378">She Waits</a> was so incredibly GOOD - that if I was to copy and paste the parts that I liked most - I would have to do the whole thing.<BR>
You tied thoughts of romance in at the end, to an already warm, descriptive story.<BR>
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JustSomeGirl's   <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.30.13.32.27034">A Day in the Life</a> <BR>
    I liked this part :  <BR>
"In front of the mirror, I emulate the <BR>
confident woman I saw in the plaza <BR>
Thursday last. Twisting my hair, pursing <BR>
my lips. Damn...I'm fucking hot!"  <BR>
<BR>
Lar Lar's    <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.30.12.56.31091">Can't Get No Satisfaction</a> <BR>
    I liked this thought:<BR>
"I am tired of guys that just want to satisfy me in bed, I want someone to satisfy my mind."<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=520">Rogue</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Here's a little better explanation of what I meant.<BR>
<BR>
Obviously since the word 'train' was in the list, it would show up in all of them.  But it is funny how it is a dominant thing in them all.  Some of the words get sort of tossed in and if they weren't in the list (and hence you are already half looking for them) you might not notice them at all.  <BR>
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Perhaps it's because the word 'train' is a noun and as such tends to be the subject and main focus of the sentence.  Odd that nobody thought to use the word as a verb.  (If someone did and I missed it, I apologize in advance.)<BR>
<BR>
Rogue
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Thank you, Hedvig! I appreciate your comments!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=407">hollymccormick</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Hedvig - <BR>
<BR>
thank you, thank you, thank you! You are so sweet!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=15">Untamed Bird</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Don't you just hate it when you make boo boo's. There should be no periods or commas in, 'Waiting On A Train,' ha, guess my fingers slipped there.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=63">blue sky to your clouds</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Liquidlife~ I love your writing. You write almost exactly like somone I know. You make me miss them, and I applaud you for that because I thought I didn't. Nice work!<BR>
<BR>
xoxo<BR>
Elaina
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=520">Rogue</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

I have to say that before reading JSG's poem[2001.11.30.13.32.27034]], I didn't think I would like it.  Basing that entirely on the small piece of it quoted in other messages.  But After having read it, I have to say it is most excellent.  My favorite of the writer's challenges (not to slight anyone else's efforts).<BR>
<BR>
Rogue<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=520">Rogue</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Oh yeah, and kudo's Hedvig for bucking the norm and using train as a verb. (Even if it was because of my comment).<BR>
<BR>
Rogue
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

for everyone who keeps asking *not looking at ANYONE in particular* the 2000 archives for deevaa.com are up.<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

SCQueen; Thanks for the comments on 'George.' The Beatles will go on forever but it is hard to see them pass so young.<BR>
I didn't cry when John was killed, and he was my favorite, but somehow, maybe it's just cumulative to what's been happening lately, this one made me cry.<BR>
<BR>
I love all the word challenge poems you all. It's fun to see how all those words come out so differently.<BR>
<BR>
There are a lot of poems that I really meant to comment on. They will all disappear tonight, and I promise to try and do better with the new month. Keep up the wonderful works!!<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Wow, Rogue!!<BR>
<BR>
Thank you! I'm speechless!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

I enjoyed reading all of the takes on my latest challenge, especially *I Imagine* by Rogue. Wonderful wording!<BR>
<BR>
...I'm saddened to hear of George Harrison's death. When John died I was just a kid but I "knew" him from my mom's 45s and my uncle's "Double Fantasy" album. When I was in high school I became obsessed with the Beatles. I would listen to John's solo stuff and just cry. And I watched "A Hard Day's Night" at least a dozen times. I loved John's wit, Ringo's looks (I had a huge crush on Ringo when I was sixteen...how weird is THAT???), Paul's flirtatious antics and George's accent. Today I was reading a tribute to George at MSN and found out that he provided lead vocals for "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" That song is one of my guilty favorites. Has the sweetest beginning of any Beatles song, in my opinion. And I smile everytime "Here Comes The Sun," "Something," and "My Sweet Lord" comes on the radio. George Harrison will always shine. He was a beautiful human being who did it for the love of music.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=483">One Nut Jim</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Just a general complaint about the Bored - please indulge me a bit (I've been a long-time reader and recent contributor)<BR>
<BR>
This really is quite absurd.  If the Blender could only be a place where anyone could write about ROMANCE, submit all the original or recycled works you want.  Fine!<BR>
<BR>
But all this well-intended (I assume) blather about "oh gosh this" and "oh gosh that"  ..well, it generally reads like high school madness.  Or AT LEAST, the Bored always diminishes the Blender for me (and I'm sure many others)   Writing shouldn't be about all this self-aggrandisement (for the multi-users commenting on themselves) and trite (yes...T  R  I  T  E  !) blind circle jerking that goes on here.  The great writers of our time must look down upon us mere mortals playing about on essentially a chat room in the guise of a serious poets site<BR>
<BR>
case in point<BR>
<BR>
if you KNEW some of these contributors (most of you DON'T except for the Blender), then you would realize that your responses to key lines are actually damaging or at least "co-dependent"   That is, to say, that if you knew that it really wasn't "poetry" but rather lines best saved for therapy...then you might think twice before you start chanting  "Yeah baby - SHOW US YOUR TITS!"   Not helpful for the damaged soul.  Hence, I feel the harm or damage the Bored does far surpasses the good it provides.<BR>
<BR>
Again, consider the writer who may dazzle you with wurds and slick twists, but whose comments in the Bored amount to <BR>
<BR>
"Gosh PooPay, I really like the way you make one word mean one thing and then suddenly blah blah blah<BR>
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or<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
"Gee Silly Sally, your poem TURDS IN HELL really rocked my boat, gal  blah blah blah "<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
I put it you you all, in these difficult times...let us request our Grand Poobar Kirk Whoeverheis to allow a vote of registered users<BR>
<BR>
TO RETIRE THE BOARD UNTIL THE NEW YEAR <BR>
<BR>
GIVE IT A REST<BR>
<BR>
FORCE WRITERS TO WRITE<BR>
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ALLOW "MEMBERS" THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXCHANGE EMAIL ADDRESSES<BR>
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AND BACK SLAP PRIVATELY LIKE ADULTS AND LIKE PROFESSIONALS<BR>
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IT IS EMBARRASSING SOME OF THE CRAP MOST VISITORS HAVE TO READ HERE (I MYSELF AM GUILTY SO I'M JUST BEING STRAIGHT UP HERE)<BR>
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GIVE IT A REST THROUGH THE HOLIDAZE, THE REMAINDER OF THE WAR, SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, AND JUST PROMOTE<BR>
<BR>
W    R   I   T   I   N   G<BR>
<BR>
Critique and chat elsewhere, PLEASE!<BR>
<BR>
So put it to a vote, or a vote whether to have a vote.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
We could all use a break, a sort of writer ego enema.<BR>
<BR>
Thank you for your time to express one of those amendment right thingys that I feel strongly about.<BR>
<BR>
Break the grip of addictions - GIVE THE BORED A REST!<BR>
<BR>
(Do it in the memory of John and George and all the pain that is occuring on this planet)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Jim...<BR>
I notice with all your little names (Jim, Victim, Daisy, whatever else), you have never have given anyone an email address to talk to you.<BR>
If you don't like what you read - censor yourself and click away.  <BR>
To anyone who has issues with the board or the posts - just don't read. <BR>
Ah, the power of choice. Unfortunately, some choose to be a source of constant negativity.<BR>
I think if that vote you speak of were to come to fruition, most "members" as you say, would vote you off the island.<BR>
One day you speak hate, the next...let's all save The Blender from the evils of women.  Poor me - I am unwanted and I have issues with blondes.  Gosh...your life is so hard.  It really is that easy...don't participate in the community.<BR>
When I see you speak in public, you appear so bright and intelligent.  However, here you make me wonder what she ever saw in you.<BR>
Sorry Kirk...he is just getting really tiresome and boring.<BR>
<BR>
Rhetoric/Jennifer/Lover of The Blue Devil
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

*rolls her eyes*<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

deevaa,<BR>
by the way...<BR>
The English Wife link is so amazing.  I love photography and he is quite inspiring.<BR>
You say your work is inspired by his?  Very cool.<BR>
Rhetoric
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

The Blender Board has always been what people have made it.  I don't think I'm going to shut it down because one guy doesn't like its mood. If there's a voluntary mass movement not to use it, then it won't be used.  I do agree that people tend not to be critical enough; at some point I may try to get people workshopping individual poems a bit more.  But it's kind of understandable that people are reluctant to criticize other people, because they know that skins can be kind of thin.<BR>
<BR>
Just a historical note...the comment board evolved from the old page where I used to stick comments people e-mailed me...you can see its first incarnation at <a href="http://loveblender.com/oldcomments.html">http://loveblender.com/oldcomments.html</a> , with comments all the way back to 1995.  (I get a bit of a kick out of "pedro demetrion cunha"'s comments.)<BR>
<BR>
Even though it's not a coincidence that the current form of the board was the easiest to program, and is simpler than many message board systems (that have seperate threads and the like) I've come to understand that its simplicity is its strength.  By being a single, unthreaded page, each commenter gets center stage for a moment.  I've realized that it's the same technique I like in some community blogs like <a href="http://memepool.com">http://memepool.com</a> , <a href="http://thinkattack.com">http://thinkattack.com</a> , and <a href="http://penismightier.com">http://penismightier.com</a> .  <BR>
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Anyway... look for a new blender digest this weekend.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=71">Me aka Niki</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

2 Twinkle: thx for your comment!:)<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=77">courtney</a><BR>
Date: 30 November 2001<P>

Blah blah blah...cry me a river. Oh wait, isn't that what we're all accused of doing? If you don't have control over your own eyes, why don't you try working on your mouth.
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