From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=131">Akash</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

B.K - Thanks. I cannot believe I could ever have a fan. Although, I don't comment much (good or bad) about other peoples work - but I immensely enjoy everyone's work and yours too. ~ Akash.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

Morning bp; I am offering you the same olive branch that I offered Teej and I hope you will accept. I see no need to carry this further.<BR>
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Leamus; There is only one thing I regret saying to you and that was the thing about your son. I too have a son and I know the difficulty of being a parent. I taught my son chess at the age of six. At the age of ten we found he had an IQ so high they wanted to make him a freshman in college. I didn't want him to be an adult at ten so I said no. He had a regular childhood if you can call hanging out in a recording studio with a lot of famous people normal. Now he makes his own kind of music and is very creative. But I nearly tore my hair trying to stay three steps ahead of him ha. (I can still beat him in chess) Anyway I apologize for saying that part anyway. Good luck in raising your boy, its a super challenge and the best thing I ever did in my life.<BR>
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Misti; I just read the Henry Miller thingy. I read him and Anias at about the age of 22 and I loved them. I thought Henry a bit of a misognist but he was so funny I almost forgave him for it. And Anias is wonderful. We should all be so lucky to be able to write like that.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

I would like to say a big Bravo to Kirk and Blenders Server for still being on line while many places are down by one major virus attack. Way To Go! (Now I hope where I works computers are completely down hahahah) Kidding I think.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

~BK~ top of the morning to you, I accept your peace offering on the condition that you accept my very sincere apology to you. and for the record my poem was nothing more<BR>
than its misspelled title, a fantasy. My wife of 29 years pointed out the error to me... I spelled it fantacy, and  I don't believe that I could live 29 wonderful years with her<BR>
and carry on such subsersive (spelling), thoughts chipping away at me. I love her too much. I would also like to apologize to anyone else I might have offended. now let's get down to the business at hand, more good poetry....
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

loveblender is hosted on a shared unix server, which for a variety of reasons, technological and social, is less prone to the kind of attack that was going on than its Windows server cousins.<BR>
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Not that its been immune from problems over the years either, but that's usually random system things (disk full or whatever) or one of the co-space-users doing something obnoxious like becoming a spammer.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

Rennie...<BR>
thanks, i was hoping that "freckles" would bring a smile to someone else, besides me...I hope it did for you...when i hear that you are in the midst of busy, are you recovering well??? and how's your mother??? <BR>
Pam   
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=909">leamas</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

bp, <BR>
How the heck are ya?  I'm doing well, thanks for asking.<BR>
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TJ,<BR>
Hi.  I like to swim.<BR>
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BK,<BR>
Hello.  My son too is a genious.  Given the mid to high 160's by U.W.  He did like to place chess at one point but I think he got bored with it.  He cares a great deal for Trix cereal and the yogurt.  He calls the cereal "flower cereal".  Have a good day and may the sun not burn your shoulders.--LEAMAS<BR>
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scqueen, <BR>
I don't believe we've met.  Hi my name is Leamas.  I enjoy long walks on the beach, poetry by the fire, and the Push up Pop-sickles (?) with my friends.  I would hope that you would feel free enough to be candid and honest about my sumbissions.  I understand that I am not an author of poetry, rather poetry is the author of me.---LEAMAS.<BR>
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Have a good day everyone.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.08.13.12.41.26771">Not easily said</a>  I really do like the references to the cycle of disillusionment.  A very nice piece, very moving.  Thanks....... Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

~Hey Leamas, you seem in good spirits....hope your day is going well...<BR>
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bp
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

Champagne~ I had a really good laugh at Organ Donor and Mermaids and Schwinns. Fun to see the differing points of view<BR>
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jim~ after reading your latest, here's hoping you are okay from now on. Congrats again on the recent good things that have happened in your life<BR>
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bp~ it was lovely inspiration to read your public declaration about your wife in recent board comments ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

Only if you like the orange creamsickle kind, leamus. Then we can be friends. Maybe. But probably not. We'll see.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

B.K.~<BR>
Miller wasn't a misogynist. I thought the same thing there for awhile because he went through women like Kleenex without apology or conscience. He loved women too much, I think. He praised new ones every chance he got. That reminds me...I used to have a ton of his books but I lost them in storage years ago. Right now I just have The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. I'm currently collecting L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz books but after I've collected all of those I need to buy all of Henry Miller's books. Starting with Crazy Cock. Yum. Oh, and one of the first things Chris sent me in the mail was Anais Nin's Delta of Venus. Her stories don't turn me on. They frighten me. I love the way she wrote about June, though. She made lust lyrical. And Ferlinghetti kicks ass all over the place...thanks for submitting that! I have Wild Dreams of New Beginnings and Coney Island of the Mind. I think Gregory Corso was the sexiest of all the Beats. There is nothing sexier than an ugly Italian man. Except for a handsome Italian man, which would be my husband. ha.<BR>
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Kevin~<BR>
thanks, man! Do you still go to Insomnia? I need to find a place I'm comfortable with. I called Dial a Poem this morning and that was a cool experience. I think you get a new poem every time you call! And what's this monsoon season I've heard so much about??? <BR>
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Rennie~<BR>
thank you. I'm endlessly inspired by this land. When my parents-in-law were here last week with the group they brought from Dutchess Community College (it was an anthropological field trip), they took us to Acoma Sky City and the Santo Domingo Pueblo for the Corn Festival. Acoma was absolutely sublime. These people have lived on this mesa for centuries with no electricity or running water. Our guide's name was Leo, a Native who has lived on the Mesa before with his family. He was awesome. He invited me and Chris back for this procession in September and for the four holy days in December. At the end of the tour, you could ride down the mesa on the shuttle or walk down a steep rock staircase that was made by the Anasazi back in the day. Leo said,"You can go down the stairway in five seconds or ten minutes." It was scary but we did it! Er, in about ten minutes or less, fortunately.<BR>
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scqueen~ I've been madly in love with myself lately for some odd reason. My M.A.C. Ruby Woo lipstick definitely helps. I'm wooing myself with my cosmetics. Oh, and someone has a birthday coming up...GRIN!!!<BR>
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btw, I've wasted countless hours in therapy since I was nine. I've found that the best therapy in the world is a twenty dollar bill and a trip to the M.A.C. counter.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=339">jack</a><BR>
Date: 13 August 2003<P>

(lifts rather heavy boulder, climbs out from under, pads to middle of floor, looks around) .... GOD I LOVE THIS PLACE....(dives back under rather heavy boulder, peeks out)<BR>
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lol<BR>
love <BR>
jack
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