From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

SterlingRose~ my sympathy to you ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

After the night I had at work tonight, I don't foresee any stellar poems in my future. I think I lost about a billion brain cells. I'm surprised I didn't have an aneurysm. I should go around to high schools and warn kids that if they don't get a college degree, they could end up like me...taking catalog orders from people who can't even spell their own name/drunk bimbettes in Las Vegas/men who are so whipped they are ordering for their wives or girlfriends and are unable to string a sentence together/rich retards who sigh like they just lost their place in the bread line if the $2.99 candy hearts clearance panties they so desperately crave are no longer in stock. I will never buy another pair of panties. I will never write another poem. I'm officially dead. No eulogies, please.<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Kirk ~ Thank You...I am honored once again and my son says thank you as well...he is such a laid back young man and responded by "cool"...<BR>
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Congrats to all the front page picks...great work...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Misti; Sometimes it feels that way. I think you and I could tell the funniest stories of that same very thing only in different directions. (I do insurance claims) Don't let them get to you toots. You're better than that and besides it makes for great fuel for the creative mind. Just think of that job as one big twilight zone episode in your life and remember all you have to do is change the channel.<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

LOL! thanks, chica...my life is a "Twilight Zone" marathon!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1159">lilla</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

ladyinwaiting:"I am a Princess" "I am a Princess", and I will never stop believing.  Many thanks.  :)<BR>
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Kirk:  "What's with Friday Nights" making it in last month's Front Page Picks is definitely more than taking home an Oscars.  I cherish the compliments very much.<BR>
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Crystal:  "I hope" moves me.  I always end coming back for it.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Congrats to the all the front pagers this month.<BR>
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Mysteriousone07 - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.07.10.30.16834">Ever After</a> - Just beautiful.<BR>
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wolfscreamer - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.08.10.58.21308">In the past</a> - LOL. One of the reasons I haven't been able to do the CD thing is it's making me feel OLD. I'm surely not that old?!?!?<BR>
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dee - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.08.07.46.3570">journal entry: 09/06/03</a> - Love it. I like Georgia O'Keefe's work, I have a couple of pieces displayed in special exhibits.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

OOOPS! Oh yeah, for sure. Good one. That should read:<BR>
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I have SEEN a couple of pieces displayed in exhibits. Sheesh. I should be so lucky!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Thanx for the link, Rennie. The J. Geils Band - anyone remember "Freeze Frame"? - was a solid fixture of my childhood. Plus I have a weakness for songs about strippers.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

indefensible - I remember that song... I never knew it was about strippers? Too young... I mustn't be THAT old? lol.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=943">jessica</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

B.K.- lol ok but i wont tryign to start n e thing...and acually to be honest...i didnt understand a word u said!!!.......i am blonde!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

I'm not blonde and I STILL didn't understand...<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1174">Dana</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

SterlingRose: "In Memory of Karl" was a wonderful piece. I am truly sorry for your loss. - Dana
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

  teej.~"IT IS DONE"....put the peyote down NOW...take two of my poems and get some sleep....
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Congratulations to all front pagers. Excellent work up there as usual.<BR>
Great job Kirk. Hope you had a fab time in Europe. Sorry about the weather :-)<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

SterlingRose: "In Memory of Karl" - nice. I am sorry for your loss...<BR>
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Teej: Peyote-inspired or not, I enjoyed "It Is Done" very much. Inspired metaphors and good use of repetition. Nice Christ allusions too ("Eli, Eli, Lama, Sabachthani....today you shall be with me in Paradise....it is finished.")<BR>
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Oh, to clairify, BK, I do not like John Tesh (or even John Teshes). His album made the list strictly as essential chick music. It serves a purpose, in other words. I don't especially like Manson either; he was just there to provoke. (Oops. Did I say that? Or just think it?) Your Board rap was amusing, however. I will try using that word "confessive" in a conversation one of these days. Unfortunately I fear I am on "PERMANENT BATMAN IGNORE," though I do not know why. I apologized for all that political stuff, did I not? <BR>
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I do hope everyone enjoyed the bedtime story, although I regrettably submitted it without noticing that "thought" in the last sentence should have been "though". Hate when that happens. Still, I consider it a good addition to the cannon of childrens lit. Y'know, it's actually much harder writing for children than it is for adults. A curious thing. <BR>
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More poems, Rennie? I write poetry when I'm inspired to write poetry, which is almost never. Still, I love that Nabokov quote. He got impatient with an interviewer once who kept wanting to talk about "stories writing themselves" and "characters taking control of stories," etc. But it seems that most artists/writers DO ascribe a certain mysticism to the creative process; Nabokov was unusually empirical for an author. He would have made a good physicist or mapper of the human genome. As it was he enjoyed capturing butterflies and preserving them under glass. Not altogether surpising... But your nice comments have been heartwarming (yes, I have a heart) and very much welcome, Rennie.<BR>
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Good vibes and the benevolence of the universe to all sentient beings!<BR>
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SUSH
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Another Marvelous Monday here at the Oil and Gas Operating Company in beautiful downtown Shreveport...The sky is bluer here than anywhere I have ever been...<BR>
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Great to see the new front june page!  Congratulations to all those that made it there...if you can make it there you may can make it anywhere? (hhhmmm that has a familiar sound to it??? better not try to copyright that)<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1233">misunderstood</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Yeah for all of those who made the front page!!!!  Keep working for those who didn't.  Maybe you can make it in the club someday.<BR>
~ mis
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

sush~ <a href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/nabokov/">http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/nabokov/</a> I also draw and paint many a butterfly. I've even written a line or two about them at Blender -- metaphorically. I just don't need to put them under glass to do it. Sush, I enjoy the bios on writers as much as their works. The tidbits shared on them will make their work much more meaningful to anyone. I read Nabokov in the 60's. I also lived with an astrophysicist then, so understand your comment. Poetry? I wrote something at Litkicks that gets into my idea of writing, unstringing lines and stacking 'em. Verbose from extending copy often, I enjoy minimalism much better now when twisting lines :). I'm recovering from time in a coma / bit of aphasia, so I'll often latinize an english sentence (en sueños sueños son). "Club" ??? -- I don't remember a "club" .. (ahem) am I overdue on some dues or something? ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Sush~ I don't post poetry online except at Blender, but per levi's request: <a href="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=OnBeingBeloved">http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=OnBeingBeloved</a> -- With encouragement from friends, I first came to Blender with some of my minimalist works I'd never used elsewhere. Kirk seemed to like those at the time. These were snippets from some of my larger works, not unlike the two on the Front Page this month. Like Paul Harvey, I felt there was more to the story with your Turquoise Trader's Wife, and I wanted to see it if possible :) ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Jessica; Honey I'm blonde too and it's no excuse..should make you smarter. If I can figure yours out (And I'm old enough to be your mother.)then you can figure mine. Go figure ha.<BR>
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Sush; You been drinking the Peyote tea with teej or something. We've never seen you this mellow in your life. It's like you've become another person entirely..go figure<BR>
  My son for some god awful reason decided I needed some John Tesh tickets (he'd won on the radio) So I called my best Republican girlfriend and we went. It was all we could do to get out of there fast it was so barfable. I sorta thought that music list had to be a bit of a stretch..go figure<BR>
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Teej; I kept looking for the peyote poem ha. Must be some inside joke. I went to a wedding once with peyote tea as the wedding punch. That was one mellow marvelous afternoon but see god nawwwwwwww. But then you wouldn't have caught me chewing on one of those horrid tasting mushrooms. I understood Carloses concepts but I just had this horrible inability to surrender and let go. That was way back and now I won't even take an aspirin unless I'm dying. Go figure<BR>
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Misti; Hang in there kiddo, it's not over till the one eyed one horned flying purple people eater says so. At least you still have VTO. and you can go vamoos your nerves. They took ours away and now I have to really work... (oh woe is me)You know us blondes need to stay home and make Martha Stewart like Meat Loaf, ha-Go figure<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Wow. Nice piece on Carver, Rennie. (Read it! Everyone!) I've always enjoyed him, and he's served as well as a conscious model when it came to the short story (along with Beattie and Cheever and Hemingway in his very short, pseudo-mundane, conversational works). In our time we live and breathe minutiae (for better or worse); it has always seemed fitting to me that our art should mirror that. And if infinity ISN'T in a grain of sand, then where the hell is it? On a less pretentious note, you didn't know about the Blender Club, Rennie? Better send in those dues before your password doesn't work anymore. ;)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

bp ~ Any of your poems would serve as a rest stop on the treacherous highway of life! *wink*<BR>
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Sushi ~ I'm impressed that you picked up on the Christ allusion. I thought twice about even doing that, for the whole 'akin myself to a god' thing. But since that wasn't what I was doing, I went ahead with it. Totally glad you enjoyed it. Your kudos are that much more valuable because of the thought you put into it, rather than simply, "I liked it." So, thanks.<BR>
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B.K. ~ Here ya go...<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.05.20.10.32620">It Is Done</a>. The peyote reference was just random and began with bp. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

sush~ thanks much :). Carver is a good one for poets to study for minimalism. I should have given front page at Litkicks on that link and then scroll down to The Breakfast Club for my Carver piece. Yes, Hemingway is also a fav. He was so intense in his writing that he left an extra space between each word as he typed (reminds me of Mejico's Octavio Paz: "every word has weight"). But other favs are Bugeja (Millenium's End / Pulitzer nomination / Ohio professor / Writer's Digest), and many other modern poets. I posted a snippet from my SHEWOLF here after dragging an old work out of mine that was influenced by DiPrima, which I had first shown to C. E. Chaffin. Both DiPri and Chaffin were nominated for California's first Poet Laureates by a committee including Luke Breit (Sacramento Poetry Calendar / Norman Mailer's fav poet), who gave me a "blown away" review on a short I posted here dubbed "Indecision" ... just egged me on a bit -- no, a lot. Google these folks, if you don't know of them. Any of them can be a great influence for new or questing poets looking for a muse. I am thrilled to see everyone pushing to the edges of the envelope with their subs here ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

  BK~~yes BK sorry 'bout the "wild goose chase" it was the first thing to pop into my head upon finishing her post It Is Doneone....<BR>
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 tJ~ you go girl... might have been the angle from which I was reading it<BR>
 ps.. study hard, I wanna see some "A's"<BR>
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 bp<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Teej; Are you majoring in music. This sounds like something you would hear read, sung or chanted in a Universalist Church service. It has a spiritual nature.<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=16">kevin urenda</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

oh Rennie...<BR>
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Re:<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.09.17.23.19811">SHAMELESS SCRIBBLING</a>...  have I EVER been there...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=16">kevin urenda</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

While I'm on it (in no particular order):<BR>
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Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session<BR>
Nirvana - Nevermind<BR>
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue<BR>
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty Dread<BR>
Led Zeppelin IV (or II, or III, or I - depends on the day)<BR>
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime<BR>
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood<BR>
Eva Cassidy - Songbird<BR>
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon<BR>
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=855">Amethyst</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Hi everyone!<BR>
Just wanted to say that I was honored to be a front page pick! I haven't submitted much or been very vocal, but I've been faithfully reading everyones works for over a year now. Finding this site and all of you has given me the inspiration to write and to get in touch with my creative side again...something that's pretty difficult when you're a senior in college and a geology major! I used to write poetry all the time, but the more absorbed in science I got the more I drifted from what I used to love doing. So, I want to thank you all for the desire to continue writing. You all write some stellar pieces and I look forward to getting to know you all! <BR>
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~Amethyst
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 9 June 2003<P>

Champagne ~Violin Virtuoso...lovely work...awesome visual...love your work...<BR>
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Misunderstood ~ What is it?...really like this piece...sorry for the mix up...the bump should have been for you...<BR>
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muryan ~ One Question?...lovely work...really talked to me...sorry for the mix up...<BR>
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Kindred ~ Untitled Thoughts...WOW...sizzle...<BR>
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lill hugz ~ hdksf...how true this is...<BR>
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Dana ~ Lingering...awesome...don't you just love it when their smell holds you close in their absence...know this feeling well...hope all is well with you...<BR>
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Rennie ~ SHAMELESS SCRIBBLING...oh yes, know this well...lovely...hope all is well with you...<BR>
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Chances ~ To Dream...how true how true...hope all is well with you...<BR>
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wolfscreamer ~ In the past...yes I know this feeling...always nice to look back to when...and have fond memories...hope you have found the number to ghost busters!!!<BR>
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deevaa ~ journal entry: 09/06/03...lovely just lovely...such talent...hope all is settled for you<BR>
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Dylan ~ Quote...oh yes...know that feeling too...<BR>
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squeen ~ That Chill...being a sooouthern gal...I know this to be true...<BR>
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daysea ~ Happiness...nothing better than finding self again...wish you luck...<BR>
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Kase and empy...hope all is going well for you...<BR>
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Chat bot...opps Kirk ~ I enjoy your works and enjoy the<BR>
kisrael...thank you for allowing me a little piece of serenity...looks like you and Mo had a great time...she is a lovely lady...<BR>
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kareem, spaceman and stack...I miss reading you...come back come back...<BR>
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So nice to have things back to semi normal on the blender...but not so much in my life right now...lost the wrestling match with a leave blower...now resting a broken foot...strange how such a simple item can cause so much damage...oh well, life continues...just call me hop along kathidee...or grace :)...<BR>

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