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The e-book and Poetry, NOT. Beware name dropping.

I was lucky enough to slip in unnoticed two summers ago to an elite and rather expensive Summer Workshop in Southampton. Okay, so I wasn’t unnoticed. I came with vodka.
And this was the thing, I have never been one of those crazed band groupies, or even someone who thinks about celebrities more than, wow, they work hard for that money, look at all the privacy they give up. Passing a well known actress on the street, I may spend more time admiring her shoes than her wrinkle-free face, and if I ever see them dining, I

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Isn’t it ironic?

Isn’t it ironic?

Betty Lou Lynn, the woman who portrayed Thelma Lou, on The Andy Griffith Show moved to Mount Airy, NC  ( the town that inspired Mayberry) to avoid crime of big cities.

Last week, she had her wallet stolen in a local shopping center.

Police arrested Shirley Walter Guynn, of Cana, Va.

I find it doubly ironic that the dude’s name is Shirley.

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Reading, Writing and Publishing. In the Digital Age.

this is from: www.researchinformation.info

Project studies mobile digital publishing in education

20 April 2010

Abilene Christian University, Cambridge University Press and Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs have embarked on a three-year joint research project into transforming education through digital publishing and mobile devices.

With the advent of converged mobile technologies (such as Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch and most recently by the introduction of Apple’s iPad mobile digital device), the three organisations have been analysing what it means to read, write, and publish in the learning space in the digital age.

The three parties are developing a core set of software prototypes…

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posted something sad and something odd

over at Another Good Thing.

stop over and browse

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I am SO GOOD, that three years later, I can still annoy you.

You can bow and chant that you are not worthy.
And I’ll blush and Aw- shucks you while kicking up dust….
but seriously?
I think it is FANTASTIC that I can continue to piss people off about something that I wrote way back when…
Here’s the original post and comments

Note the latest comments as like- last week, and totally off the mark. C’mon people? if you want to rant, at least get it straight what you’re ranting about. Haven’t I taught you anything?
Geesch.
Funny how I get a whole bunch of hits from employees at…

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Just when you thought you were technically caught up…

Here is the full article at the New York Times about Vook TV – a ebook platform that combines text, video and social networking. You can only sign up for the beta release at the site here . I am definitely in! You can also follow @vooktv on Twitter for the latest. the future of the book is here now!

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3 Death Cards in my Tarot Today=Obituary Post

Another person I wished I’d had the pleasure of meeting.


From the NYT 3-20-09 By WILLIAM GRIMES (read complete here)

“We are not after all intended to be consumed.”
So begins Lionel Ziprin’s “Sentential Metaphrastic,” a “poem in progress” of more than a thousand pages. “I reduced it to 785 pages,” Mr. Ziprin told The Jewish Quarterly in 2006. “I call it the longest and most boring poem since Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost.’ ”

Mr. Ziprin, a brilliant, baffling, beguiling voice of the Lower East Side and the East Village in all its…

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Because March is Women's History Month…or Life Tips from Thelma and Louise

I should talk about the role of women in history- how we have changed the world both with our own actions and voices and also by our encouragement and support of those weak-kneed bumbling idiots ruled by two heads, yes… men.

I could send you HERE to test your knowledge of the role of women in our history.
or link you to historical books and films that toot the feminine and not so feminine horn of achievement…
or I could just offer this:

13 Life Tips From Thelma and Louise

1. You get what

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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture

Man accused of drunken horse riding in snowstorm.

CODY, Wyo. – A man has been cited for public intoxication while riding a white horse during a snowstorm in the northern Wyoming town of Cody.

Police say they cited 28-year-old Benjamin Daniels after they received a call Sunday afternoon from a motorist concerned that a man was creating a road hazard by riding his horse on a street in conditions with poor visibility.

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I waited a good long time to say, "My psychic told me…"

He read these cards and told me wonderful, curious things and also some bad, sorrowful things. Just to be fair.
They say reading tarot cards can foster hope and temperance.
These particular cards are called PSY CARDS. They explore Jungian psychology in tandem with the meanings of the 40 cards in the PsyCard System deck.
it was pretty cool, except for me insulting the cat.
My friend who came with me did not have half as good a time, or half as good a psychic, but he still bought me lunch.

The good?
I…

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