I'm off fretting with Violet....
Can someone tell me EXACTLY what a "bump" is (or should be)?
Thanks,
gp
"If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
~ "Rush" Limbaugh
A-men, brotha. The man's past comments should be taken literally at this point. Beyond that, all I have to say is: "Ha ha."
"New Utopia? Horrifying Sham."
(Anagram of "Information Superhighway")
...language is a virus
Crap, I don't know what's up with the new submissions page. I'll look into it. That's the kind of thing people should e-mail me about, ideally after confirming the problem with at least one other blender-ite, since it might be happening in one of those periods I'm not checking in here.
In terms of what a "bump" is, it's just a new work that is inspired by or a response to or otherwise influenced by an existing work.
The term just kind of started being used here. I was trying to think about how that word got chosen, and then I realized that the same word is used in a similar-but-different sense on message boards that have seperate message threads (as opposed to the one page paradigm I have here)...often the list of threads will sorted by date of last post, latest first, so a "bump" is just an information-poor post to a thread meant to make the thread hop up to the top of the list. (Sometimes the person just types "bump" as the content of the message)
Crap, I don't know what's up with the new submissions page. I'll look into it. That's the kind of thing people should e-mail me about, ideally after confirming the problem with at least one other blender-ite, since it might be happening in one of those periods I'm not checking in here.
In terms of what a "bump" is, it's just a new work that is inspired by or a response to or otherwise influenced by an existing work.
The term just kind of started being used here. I was trying to think about how that word got chosen, and then I realized that the same word is used in a similar-but-different sense on message boards that have seperate message threads (as opposed to the one page paradigm I have here)...often the list of threads will sorted by date of last post, latest first, so a "bump" is just an information-poor post to a thread meant to make the thread hop up to the top of the list. (Sometimes the person just types "bump" as the content of the message)
dude, i submitted a pome and the machine buried it as "untitled" in my index thingy
say, dude - could there maybe be an alpha list page of the entire blenderhood - the author search is good but you have to know whom or whatm you're looking for, dude
Untitled like so
Injun Joe, I don't see any poems called 'unititled' on your author page.
You could try a google searh on the site, using the link on the front page.
Cheech's partner, Tommy Chong star of "Up in Smoke" is now up the river serving a 9-month prison term under Attorney general John Ashcroft's "Operation Pipe Dreams", for selling smoking paraphernalia across state
lines over the internet. Although clearly labeled "For Tobacco Use Only," bongs are specifically cited by a federal statute "to facilitate and enable the use of various illegal drugs."
"On the eve of my jail term," he said in his standup act, "if you had told me Arnold Schwarzenegger would be the next governor of California, I would have said, 'what are you smoking?'"
Although enjoined from commenting on his case, Tommy said, "I had to. I talked about how I wasn't supposed to talk about it." He describes the bust in surreal terms. The agents burst into his home wielding flashlights. "What are you looking for? He asked, "the light switch?"
"The DEA said, "do you have any marijuana in the house' I said. "Of course, I'm Tommy Chong.'"
But they then told him they didn't have a search warrant for pot, prompting him to say, "Let me get this - you're the DEA and you aren't looking for pot? What are you looking for?"
"Glass pipes."
It was a shattering experience.
He's been learning the tango recently with his wife of 30 years, Shelby, and has been practicing in limited spaces so he can continue to dance in his cell. "It looks like I'll be out by spring...I just tell myself I'm going 'on location.'" And actually, a documentary is being made of his ordeal.
He's taken a hit for all of us, and I'm not just blowing smoke when I say, God bless.
Simple rule, Injun Joe: keep it on-topic, OR keep it short.
People who've submitted over the past few days, leave a note here if there's a work that you sent in that's on your author page work but not on the new submissions page.
Kirk ~ I submited two yesterday that shows untitled where the text should be...if lost not a problem...thanks
did you check the page again? It was rebuilt, I don't see any untitleds anywhere
Ok, I see what's happening.
Poems that are showing up as "untitled" need to be re-entered. Sorry. :-(