From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

umm... I'm an out of work web design chick?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

wistful~<BR>
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Damn girl,<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.17.22.09.13060">See? No Evil!</a> is really great.  Excellent writing.  Powerful emotions.  I could really feel what you were feeling.  ((HUGS)) <BR>
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Love and wild stillness, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Yes touch is important, but it isn't necessary I think.<BR>
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My cousin was in a horrible car accident and she was paralyzed from the neck down. She can't move, she can't feel anything, but you know what the amazing thing was? Her boyfriend stood by her side and eventually married her. Even though she was unable to please his physical needs...the emotions, the love they share was just enough for the both of them. One day I hope I can love someone that much.<BR>
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Touch is important. But love, that fire that is inside your heart...it touches the inside in ways that no physical action could ever match on the outside.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

I really need to stop doing that....<BR>
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The above post was for the survey question. HA.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Jon~<BR>
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<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.18.09.03.3474">upstream</a> is excellent writing. I could really relate to it a lot.  *smile* Have you been reading my diary again? *giggle* (I'm in a silly mood today).  Anywho, great writing...*smile*<BR>
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Love and forbidden eyes, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Ali~ I thought you were right around my age... maybe 20.  :-) Where are you from?<BR>
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Misti~ You were right, it is Max Factor. It comes with a little glass stick thing, and the number on the bottom is 120.  I love it,  Where can I get this Stain you speak of? :-) 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

I meant "gloss"
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Just Some Girl -<BR>
Driving down here, I was listening to those Tori Amos CD's I burned from you and I heard Northern Lad (that song you posted here a while back). I simply love it.  I can see why you wanted to post it.<BR>
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It was flooding at home all last week - then as soon as I leave and head south, it storms and floods in Nashville too!  Man, I can't wait for some sunny skies.<BR>
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Any of you Blenderites actually enjoying spring?  If so, maybe we can have a poem challenge about the wonder of weather-induced romance (aren't we more romantic when spring gets our hormones stirring).  Anything...something that is bright and cheery, PLEASE!!!!!<BR>
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Rhetty, Rhet La-Rue
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=801">Bridget O</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Jon, I loved "Upstream", it was amazing.<BR>
The question was perfect.<BR>
~me~
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Yes, Northern Lad is a kick-ass song...my favorite on that album. So pensive, so melodic, so soulful!<BR>
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I am sorry to hear of your foul-weathered trip. I think the spring poem challenge is a great idea. You first!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Rhet, on second thought, my favorite song on that album is Playboy Mommy...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Violet~<BR>
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I live in southern New Jersey.  What about you? Where you from? *smile*<BR>
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Love and wistful rain, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=254">chris</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Hey Rhet, had to weigh in on the spring thing... Misti and I have been in New Mexico since around March 1st. Since then it's rained exactly twice (just a sprinkling each time) and we've had (by my count) about one or two true cloudy days. The rest have been warm and sunny with minor variations thereof. I will NEVER move East again!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

ummm sunny san diego  do i realy need to say more? lol sorry rhet...<BR>
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jack
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=765">spaceman</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

I live in New England where it was 70 degrees yesterday, and SNOWING this morning.   Not just spitting snow, wet, heavy cold snow.  I had to clean my car off before I could go anywhere.  I daydream about sun and warm sand and not wearing a jacket!!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Spaceman~<BR>
*Lord Foulgrin's Letters* by some dumb asshole from Oregon. I thought dumb people weren't allowed to reside in Oregon. I have this thing for Oregon and the Pacific Northwest in general, see, but I can't move there 'cause of all the rain. It would worsen my depression. Anyway, I would have never found or paid for this book on my own. A Christian friend of mine who is in the ministry sent it to me because she's concerned. I told her I don't consider myself a Christian anymore. It's basically propaganda, based on C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. It's anti-astrology/New Age/meditation, anti-abortion, pro-fear, pro-Fundamentalism, pro-paranoia, anti-Internet, anti-pornography, anti-amiocentesis, pro-Starbucks. Blecchhh. It presents a real cheery thought. We are surrounded by demons and angels. They're the ones who whisper,"Check out that hottie, big boy. Wouldn't you like to give her a tumble?" and "You're married, remember?" in our fragile little ears. They are constantly battling over the fate of our eternal souls. When your remote control doesn't work, it's an angel's fault. The angel doesn't want you to watch the Playboy Channel. When your car won't start, it's a demon's fault. They don't want you to get in a bad wreck, get laid up in the hospital and visited by a minister who will lead you to Christ. I finally threw the book across the room. It was starting to freak me out hardcore. I'm now reading the latest issue of JANE magazine (Pam Anderson graces the cover, whooohooo), a book of Lawrence Ferlinghetti poetry, The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey, Read My Lips...A Cultural History of Lipstick by Meg Cohen Ragas and Karen Kozlowski, The Rules of Seduction by Daniel L. Magida and The Woman in Your Life by Barbara Corcoran. I'm a buffet reader, basically.<BR>
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...Yesterday I told Chris,"We've got to move to West Hollywood or San Francisco or Seattle or New York. Albuquerque is a conservative city." I wore my cerulean wig yesterday. Had to go inside the bank and get my paycheck cashed 'cause I'm not a customer. The security bitch whispered in the teller's ear when she saw me and then proceeded to stand staring at me from a few feet away, arms folded across her chest, looking me up and down. Yeah, I can see how a woman wearing a bright blue wig poses a real threat to society. But Chris says it's not Albuquerque...it's banks. Banks are conservative places. But yeah, the weather is fanfuckintastic. Everyday I see the Sandias and the mesas and I think to myself,"I can't believe this. I live inside a postcard."<BR>
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Violet~<BR>
(proof that there is intelligent life in Oregon!)...go to www.lipink.com. They're runnin' a special. I'd cave in if we hadn't maxed out our credit card on the move from Texas. <BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=254">chris</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Jack,<BR>
Never been to San Deigo...you live there? Santa Cruz is as far south as I've been. San Francisco's amazing, of course. My Uncle used to live there. It was the first city I ever wanted to move to. Now I know I could never afford it in a gazillion years... ;)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

What my husband just said isn't true. We WILL be able to afford it when I become a...a...screenwriter! Producer! Fashion designer! Lead singer of a progressive punk band! Bye.<BR>
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San Francisco Dreams and East Texas Nightmares,<BR>
Misti
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

First off, B.K.........thinking of you girl,hang in there!!<BR>
Splatters and spaceman......the secret is NOT to BUY houses or property, it's to get yer kecks off!!.......personnaly, I prefer nude ferret racing, it's much more exciting!!!!.......OR there's always indoor hang-gliding!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Wordley- I am falling off my chair with laughter at the thought of welly'd yokals indulging in a bit of nude ferreting. As for indoor hang-gliding, does that involve jumping off wardrobes?<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Splatters old thing,<BR>
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                    Indoor hang gliding!!........... you've sussed that one!!........It's not the take-off, it's the landing that must be perfect, or you could really be in the .....whoa, lets not go there!!.......anyway, whats wrong with racing nude ferrets??........It makes the rabbits SO much more attractive... all that fur!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Obi-Wan Kenobi - (kneels before Yoda) - Master, what is thy bidding?<BR>
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Yoda - <BR>
(in his silly voice) <BR>
- the ferrets racing, nude, they are, again<BR>
<BR>
Obi-wan kenobi -<BR>
(absorbing the fact) -<BR>
-and the lovely fluffy bunnywunnies Master? How do they react?<BR>
<BR>
Yoda -<BR>
(still in silly voice - very Scooby-Doo)<BR>
- themselves shitting, are they.<BR>
<BR>
Obi-wan kenobi <BR>
- Master, I know your thoughts, I feel your request, I will arrange my departure.<BR>
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Yoda - <BR>
(needing a damn good exfoliation and facial don't ya think)- (and a bit of hair dye??) <BR>
-  Obi-wan, nude you must go<BR>
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Obi-wan - (blushing) <BR>
- Whatever the force dictates, I am not frightened.<BR>
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Yoda - (how come he ended up living in a hovel on Dagoba dressed in a sack?) - parts exposed, of you, will be. Let not, your willy, them chop.<BR>
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Obi-wan - (Ewan Mcgregor, now, very nice chap, but dont you think they could have cast someone with a little more undercurrent .....e.g.  Brad Pitt - needs to do a real spiritual part - eh girlies?  Even Liam Nieson would have been better cast. After all, Alec Guinness was quite an enigma, with his white hair and beard, blue eyes and robe, and Ewan Macgregor is a bit 'brother who's down the pub')<BR>
- Do not be concerned Master, I am aware that that will seriously disappoint the Fluffy Bunnywunnies. It shall remain intact. <BR>
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Obi-wan - (is he blue or green?) - Force be with you, may the.<BR>
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Ok, confess to being BLADDERED! Spent a marvelous Saturday day marking exam papers. In a desperate effort to combat the effects of braindeadness one indulged ones-self with a few bottles of 'Biere-Speciale' - (real name LOL)- from the damn fine cheap range at TESCO's. Ooops, must buy Hardys<BR>
tra-la-la<BR>
Splaterbooze-idly<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

still bladdered<BR>
Bridget O - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.18.10.34.20403">Your Shirt</a> - marvelous darling<BR>
splatter-oops<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

you know that you are bladdered when you notice that you have two cigarrettes burning in the ashtray before you.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

Kindred Spirit49, Cyan, Spaceman, Thanks for the comments on works. I am behind in reading but promise to catch up soon.<BR>
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Kirk, Everyone, Thanks you all so much. This is why I love this place. But I think like everyone else, it's just my time on the rack and I guess I have been quite spoiled to any of this before now. (Just have to get tough to it)<BR>
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Jon; What a lovely story about your cousin.<BR>
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Rhet; Next time you are in Nashville woman call me. We can talk and maybe do lunch or something. If you are still here e-mail me.<BR>
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Splatipus; You and R.H. make me laugh so hard. <BR>
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Bridget O; If you are new to the blender, Welcome. I enjoyed "Your Shirt" very much. Nice writing.<BR>
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Jack; Where are you, why aren't you writing?? Are you hiding under another one of your secret identities again?<BR>
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bk 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=71">Me aka Niki</a><BR>
Date: 18 May 2002<P>

 2 Jon~ wow.. upstream..exactly how I feel right now...it's true..I still kick...but I know I'll lose,,, in the end...so you prepare youself..all the while still kicking..and then sometimes I wonder if I shoul stop kicking and just swim to shore...<BR>
Anyhow,,wonderfull work..<BR>
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Lots-a-luv<BR>
~Niki
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