From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

Real Tree- no poem really sucks. What do YOU think of yours? That's what matters. The more you read poetry, the more you mature in it. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=532">where is your heaven</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

Congrats all front pagers!!!! Keep up the good work. My place of sancution is always in well order :)<BR>
xoxo<BR>
elaina
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=574">VelvetGoldmine</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

I'm telling you guys about the 2nd "work" I have submitted <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.01.07.06.39.12042">CURING HOMOSEXUALITY</a>. The title my be shocking but let me say now it is a satire, I'm not trying to be condensing but here is the definition of satire –<BR>
1 The use of sarcasm, irony, or keen wit in denouncing abuses or follies; ridicule. 2 A written composition in which vice, folly, or incapacity is held up to ridicule. Just for those that maybe didn't have a clear picture of what a satire.  I hope I get more people responding to it, then I did on my 1st submission <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.21.06.14.20204">Ryan</a>. If you did take the time to read it the first I wish you would now, along with  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.01.07.06.39.12042">CURING HOMOSEXUALITY</a> and tell me what you think. <BR>
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Oh, one more thing I would like to thank Jon for the kind words (the only words)....Thank You   <BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

VelvetGoldmine, we get a lot of submissions here, so even good and comment worthy works may not get attention on the board...<BR>
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...anyway, <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.01.07.06.39.12042">CURING HOMOSEXUALITY</a> is kind of interesting.  It's a bit more political than romantic in some ways, but I guess romance and politics tend to be entwined in any wider cultutral view.  <BR>
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I just wanted to mention that it reminded me of my friend, a lesbian, who grew up trying to be a "good" girl in her very conservative church.  They suggested that she put a rubberband around her wrist, and snap it every time she had an impure thought about a woman.  Instead of a "cured" lesbian, they got a lesbian with a finely developed taste for SM/BD play... I think that's really funny.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

Velvetgoldmine:<BR>
I, too, liked Curing Homosexuality.  I really enjoyed the quote at the beginning: “There are no homosexuals,<BR>
Only fallen heterosexuals.”  It does seem like lots of great writing falls through the notable cracks at times - but when you really like a piece, does it matter if anyone else does?<BR>
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Kirk - a - rific:<BR>
Thanks for the front page pick this month.<BR>
Congrats to all the rest who were displayed so graciously by our Blender-Master.<BR>
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Teej -<BR>
Wow, we did seem to be right on target with our dating rants.  One significant difference is that I actually took mine home and did the nasty!  You prevented your date from going to that level of crapiness!  Bitter Rant isn't based on one particular night (it depicts a 3-year span in my early adulthood), but for several years I did feel the need to replace love with sex.  Poor me, huh?  He…he.<BR>
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And Misti Velvet Rainwater...<BR>
YEAH...what TJ said.  You suck - only if sucking means that most of the time you words reach a broad audience and are widely regarded as magnificent! Are you a rabbit by the Chinese Zodiac too?<BR>
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Jennifer  <BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

Mark McNabb,<BR>
I gotta say that your latest ee cummings is one of my faves.  Great post for this mood we all share: the excitement and the newness of a new year.<BR>
Rhet
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

Velvet Goldmine - I'm not sure, but I think that you got a fair amount of comments on "Ryan". I remember someone (Rhet? Ali?) say that they just coudn't stop reading it. And obviously Jon must have commented. Perhaps you didn't think that was enough, but as mentioned, there's A LOT of submissions here. I think getting ANY comment should satisfy us, IF that is why we are posting to the Blender. Now, thinking back, I'm not sure I saw you comment on anyone else's work. Did you not think any of it was noteworthy?<BR>
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I did read "Ryan". Read the whole thing, too. Which, for someone with my type of schedule, was a HUGE concession. It was an interesting story. As far as this next submission goes, I took  one look at the length of it and closed the window. I don't have time to read it, and homosexuality is not an issue for me. (Meaning I'm fine with it and feel no need to immerse myself in backing up my opinions about it.)<BR>
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Hope you keep posting here, and that you find what you're looking for.<BR>
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-Teej<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

TJ~<BR>
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'Twas not me that commented on "Ryan"...I think that it might have been Rhet...But maybe I'm wrong...<BR>
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Love and silver sighs, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

Courtney:<BR>
with all the excitement of our first real snow around these parts, I forgot to tell you how much I loved (reading) bulima.  Very descriptive and far too honest!  I see a romantic angle to that disease.  Bulimics are obsessed with their bodies (among other control issues) and it is not too far from romance and love in a twisted way.  I fear that it is too common to even mention - but thanks for giving me a different perspective.<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=526">nothing</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

congrats to all front pagers, fine work kirk and to pick one from one nut kinda shows that its the worth of the words and not the writer thats important . good choices one and all and heh well i feel time fer a change again ...jack
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=599">Lhamric3</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

I was wondering if I could get some feed back on the poem I submitted called "The Ark". You should see it in the new submissions page. I 've been working on it for some time now.  Thanks, Louis.  And if you do like it come check out my website at <a href="http://expage.com/paradiso">http://expage.com/paradiso</a> .  It think any poet will like it.  And of course all submissions are welcome.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=77">courtney</a><BR>
Date: 7 January 2002<P>

Rhet~thanks bulimia I guess could be looked at from different angles..hmmm made me think!
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