From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Splat old thing,<BR>
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              Can I leave a deposit or will you accept an I.O.U.??........Visa?.......Mastercard??...although the mind boggles as to where you would swipe the card!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=676">Cyan</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Thanks a bunch splatipus. I like the phrase "blackberry winter" too. One of my faves.<BR>
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Zero Love~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.24.22.34.9175">what we did to love</a> is so true. I often find my friends saying they love a guy after 2 weeks of dating. I'm beginning to wonder if our 21st century culture and laid back views has caused it to take on a new meaning. It seems that way sometimes. And as for finding a new word, good luck! I could hardly imagine anything besides "I love you" giving the same emotional effect. But anyway, I liked it alot. Very thought provoking. Nicely written.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Hola! <BR>
Man, there has been lots going on here the past week.  If I dared comment on them all...I would be forced to send Kirk a check for the space.  However, I do want to give a few thumbs up.<BR>
  Kirk - the new front page really highlights, bolds, and underlines what this site is all about.  I think it will keep more first time viewers reading since they will have so much cool stuff to read.  Bravo - it is so interactive.<BR>
  angie: of late, you have had the magic pen. Keep 'em coming. <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.25.03.50.15116">cuerpo</a>  is so...personal and so fabulous.<BR>
  Declan MacManus: welcome, whomever you are...keep the posts right here.  I loved <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.24.11.38.8008">Talking In The Dark</a>. It is brimming with truth and honesty.    <BR>
  kev: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.23.05.14.30279">14</a>  Rocks! But, you already knew that!<BR>
  stephen: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.22.20.12.7811">"I evil Dyslexia"</a> - it took me a second to get this - but I love it. You are purposeful in your posts. <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.22.04.33.21001">Out to Eat</a>  is wonderful too!<BR>
  violet: as always, you share so much! <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.21.13.14.9780">inspiration</a>  is tempting - what is it about?<BR>
  Teej - Wow...wow...wow...<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.21.09.11.23606">I, Icarus II</a> .<BR>
  BK - These are SO universal - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.14.14.44.1789">Embroidery Lesson</a> and <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.22.18.51.9342">A Woman In Love</a> .  Next time I am in Music City (in July, I think) I will send you an email.  My brother is in Clarksville - but I try to go to Wild Oats and Opry Mills whenever I am there!<BR>
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I know this is way too long...and I still left SO much out.  But I have been working on commenting for weeks.<BR>
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Have a great day, all.  Rhetoric <BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=807">Peequa</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Hi all. I can't wait to have time to sit and read and read and read .......... I'm going out of town today though. <BR>
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This is quite funny, and I hope all of you believe me. I have to make a retraction to one of my comments I left on the board my first day here. LOL. My daughter was so kind to point out to me this AWFUL mistake. I am not 33. I was born in February of 1970. YIPPEE. I am ONLY 32. I would never intentionally lie about my age, "not to add a year anyway". This is one retraction that I am not sorry for!!!!<BR>
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I guess what they say is true. The mind goes first!<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Peequa ~ Pththththththththth!!!!!!!!!!!! Na-na na-na na-naaaaaaaaa..............you're still older than me, I was born in March of '70!  (Gawd, the things I'll cling to!) LOL!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Stephen ~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.22.04.33.21001">Out to Eat</a> Awesome, sir.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

angie...<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.05.25.03.50.15116">cuerpo</a> is wOw. Raw, honest. Aching lyricism. I've written several poems along those same lines. I know the feeling all too well.<BR>
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Teej~<BR>
I a big gurl now! Ha! Hardly...I still have my work cut out for me. But I'm glad you're proud of me. <BR>
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Hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend. I feel like I should be near water. But I'm not.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=22">angieubaldo</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Misti~  Thank you so much!  that means a lot to me, that you like my writing....i love yours!  =&gt;
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

hmmmm ( scratches pot belly...rubs migrating hair line... gets out cane.... limps to old man lounge...wonders to self  "when every one got to be so young?"....) ah well...<BR>
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jack<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Vanilla Sky, anyone seen it?  Some similar themes to "Mullholland Dr", though at the end it makes a (perhaps overly) explanation for what the setup is. Anyway, I prefered Vanilla Sky over all...not so much weird for weirdness sake.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Open your eyes...open your eyes...open your eyes.<BR>
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Hear that, but in the hauntingly beautiful accent of Penelope Cruz.<BR>
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I HATED the ending to Vanilla Sky...you are right, Kirk - it was over-explained.  But, it was a weird flick.  I don't think as well thought out as Mulholland Drive - but anything with Tom Cruise should be questioned.  He is a putz, I think.  His best will always be Magnolia.<BR>
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Bonne Nuit, Mes Amis
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Kirk; I was told the Spanish version that Vanilla Sky was taken from is much better but I can't remember the title. Will ask tomorrow..sleepy baby now..nitey night all.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=545">Madi</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Even with the explanation at the end, Vanilla Sky was still not completely unraveled - just teasingly enough to make us think we had the big key to the front door.  It was only the side door we were seeing.  There are layers to the movie that go unnoticed, inside the layers you think you’ve figured out.  Watch it again.  Think about what car he was driving in the first scene (almost run into by a Mac truck) and why he might have been driving the expensive car in the next scene.  Think about who was at the party, and how could they have been there given what we find out later, and about who was on the rooftop at the end and why.  And why wouldn’t (Cruise) have been able to afford the upgrade to his dream service, had he been the rich millionaire we’re presuming he was.   I loved this movie.  We saw it in an older movie theatre that had pulled out every other row and serves beer and Italian food to grouplets of four.  And the movie tickets are priced the same as anywhere else.  You choose from a menu and check off a pad with pencil while the waitress sneaks quietly by to pick up the next order.  All came out of the movie trying to figure it out.  When I told my version, everyone balked “no.  no.  can’t be.”  The next morning came the phone calls after they’d slept on it.  If you watch it again, look for an extra couple of layers within the script that you might have missed.  It makes the whole story completely different. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=670">Jennifer</a><BR>
Date: 25 May 2002<P>

Jack, hun...you can still think like us youngin's so you can still sit with us! ;) I'll save ya a seat.
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