From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=48">Laurel Ahlfeld</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

~*~lunaa~*~ Congratulations!! Just wondering, what organization? I'm going to attend the Poetry.com festival in March to claim a prize of my own if the timing works out, and I'm wondering if perhaps I'll see you there?<BR>
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love always,<BR>
Laurel
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

Misti<BR>
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I've only been here in LA for the past year, I just started to attend UCLA, but living in LA is kind of like living in a big melting pot.  There is just so much to do and so many cultures to experience, it's a great place to be.<BR>
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Rhet<BR>
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Thank you for your comments on Peanut Butter, and I have to say I really enjoyed Bitter Rant and your latest one I forgot to the title too.<BR>
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Laura<BR>
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Thank you so much for your comments on my work.  And if I'm style reminds you of anyone I'm glad it could do so, hoping that it brings up fond memories rather than bad ones.  Thank you again.<BR>
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Well I'm awfully tired, and I'll probably re-read my comments later and think to myself that I should have added more, but right now my brain hurts from studying all day.  I swear, I wish they had cliff notes for everything.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=612">KareBear</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

Smiling Kat<BR>
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I just want to ask you if you remember this,<BR>
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"I'm a blond haired, brown eyed girl."<BR>
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People aren't who we think they are<BR>
just be careful.  You fall alot harder then some of us do.  I don't want to see you get hurt.  There are things that you don't know and that people won't tell you.  Ok.  I miss you so much, but I am doing fine.  I am strong and willing to make things work.  Things have never been perfect for me and they won't ever be.  I've accepted that now.  So now I am just trying to live from day to day, trusting the person that I love.  He may hurt me, but he always comes home to me.  That is what matters.  I haven't been able to transfer my account up here yet so write me at [email-masked]  Ok?  I love you, you are my sister.<BR>
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KareBear<BR>
The burnette half!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=566">Mark McNabb</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

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Blenderites...<BR>
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Whatever you do, be sure that you see David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE...I drove three hours to see it (again) in Pittsburgh last night.  Sheer brilliance, this is Lynch's masterpiece.  The greatest film of the year, easily near the top of my 10 ALL-TIME FAVERS.  Superb.  Magnifique.  Boffo.  Lynch's SUNSET BOULEVARD... __________ (fill in your 3 most descriptive adjectives OF praise here).  Do NOT wait for the video...<BR>
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And to Lila, Mook used to think you was a "Marion," but you are every bit a "Betty."<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

What's with all this movie stuff, McNabb??<BR>
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To quote everyone's favorite one-nutter, "...this is a POETRY SITE, isn't it?"
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=566">Mark McNabb</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

I'm not sure I get your comment, so here goes...<BR>
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The Love Blender is about romance, yes?<BR>
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AND poetry...No?  Poetry, prose, and so much more...<BR>
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And Lynch's film is SHEER poetry and has everything to do with romance and romanticising one's own demons<BR>
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To paraphrase another genius, J. G. Ballard...<BR>
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"The ultimate dystopia is the inside of one's own head."<BR>
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Highly Recommended 4 Stars Check It Out<BR>
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...I think that I shall never see, a poem as tragically romantically perfect as MULHOLLAND DRIVE.  Thats all...do I not have a right to post my thoughts here too?<BR>
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MMc
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=566">Mark McNabb</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

<BR>
<a href="http://www.rebekahdelrio.com/mulholland_drive.htm<BR>">http://www.rebekahdelrio.com/mulholland_drive.htm<BR></a>
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ASAP!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=407">hollymccormick</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

LAUREL AHFIELD AND LUNNA!!!!!!!!!!!<BR>
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Please, please you guys listen. Poetry.com and Internation poetry are the same thing, Itis all a BIG scam. Please, please follow this link before you do anything with them.<BR>
<a href="http://windpub.org/literary.scams/ilp.htm<BR>">http://windpub.org/literary.scams/ilp.htm<BR></a>
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Holly
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=407">hollymccormick</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

If that link doesn't work try this one:<BR>
<a href="http://windpub.org/literary.scams/ripoffs.htm<BR>">http://windpub.org/literary.scams/ripoffs.htm<BR></a>
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Holly<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=407">hollymccormick</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

And if all else fails go to :<BR>
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windpub.org and click on the "See this information before entering amateur poetry contest" link at the bottom right of the page.<BR>
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Holly<BR>
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Sorry Kirk for taking up so much room on these three posts.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=9">Madison</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

I'd have to say I'm with you, Holly.  I entered online years ago and right after I submitted a friend told me I needed to be very careful where [they] were concerned.  I immediately emailed and asked them to remove my poem from the contest.  I won anyway (yeah-right), and received a horde of mail anyway .  I think everyone who enters probably wins. _Then_ they want you to buy the book.  Have you seen the book?  The print is miniscule, the more poems they can cram in, the more $$$ they receive. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

Yeah, everyone that tells me they have won I have to tell that it's a scam too. Anyone that submits there wins I think, they try to get more money that way. Really scummy thing to do. Never tried it myself.<BR>
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TJ; A Bru ha ha is something brewing thats funny but usually turns into a  word fight or a brawl.<BR>
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Jon; 'Flesh Wounds,' is well done. Thanks for sharing.<BR>
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achoo-bk 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

Jon -- yes, the "shit fable" is a well-known tale, but still pretty funny!  More good stuff you've posted, BTW -- keep it up, I'm enjoying them all :)<BR>
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Mark -- I too thought Mulholland was incredibly fascinating.  Have you read any Jorge Luis Borges?  He was a writer of highly original and imaginative short stories in the 40s and 50s.  In particular, he has a story called "A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain" (there is no Quain, it's all Borges) wherein he reviews one of "Quain"'s works which sounds just like MD.  It's in a collection called _The Garden of Forking  Paths_, which you would probably also enjoy.  Very unusual.<BR>
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Also, for those of you who are classic sci-fi AND poetry fans, I just found out that Lord Dunsany and Havelock Ellis both wrote poetry as well.  Go figure.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 17 January 2002<P>

Whoops.  Was thinking of Harlan Ellison, NOT Havelock Ellis.  Havelock Ellis was in fact a gay British sex researcher.  My bad...
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