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Election Day

You Are 40% Democrat

You're a bit Democrat, and probably more liberal than you realize. If you're still voting Republican, maybe it's time that you stop.

How Democrat Are You?

   

You Are 12% Republican

If you have anything in common with the Republican party, it's by sheer chance. You're a staunch liberal, and nothing is going to change that!

How Republican Are You?
   

This must mean I'm 48% something else.

No surprise there.

The Soundtrack of My Life

This playlist meme is from scribblingwoman, who says she doesn't usually post playlists, but...

. . .this music meme is a lot like found poetry. The trick is to put your music on shuffle and then take each track as it comes and fill in the following categories for the movie of your life...

So here's mine -- and I have to say, it's almost eerie:

[Added later: it seems odd to me that the meme is all about relationships -- and not at all about work. But then, I'm odd, I know...]

Fossil Stones?

You probably know that the Rolling Stones were in Missoula this week. At least one Montana blogger attended the concert; my next-door neighbor and I just sat on the deck and listened, watching the light show reflect off the cloud cover. She stuck with it the whole time; I came & went.

The other next door neighbors had a pre-concert party and then went, with their many and happy guests, off to the stadium. The morning after, I spotted this dinosaur floating above their fence. A party gift from daughter-in-law.

What could she have meant? 

Hmmm???

Just thought you'd like to know...

This site is:

by Official Web 2.0 Certifyrbeta

 

Now maybe I can go to sleep. Now that that's taken care of.

Poetry Thursday

   Today I'm just playin' around...

 

Some of these links I've posted before:

Poetry Tool.  Via Ample Sanity

My girl poet name is Amanda Blatherfroth. My boy poet name is Sir Francis De La Smarme. What's yours? Hers. His.  Also via Ample Sanity, of course.

Others are new:

Magnetic Poetry
randomly generated beat poetry
NobodyHere [dunno what to tell you -- except use your mouse liberally]
depictr

And finally, today's challenge: The Poetry Cube:

The Poetry Cube (the first of three interactive digital poetic machines) acts as a bridge for print poets to rethink/create/write their poems in a 3-D, multi-dimensional, multi-linear form. We havent yet figured out how many different combinations one 16 lines poem creates once entered into the Poetry Cube, so explore and play and tell us your thoughts on how it makes you rethink your writing.  -- Jason Nelson

And this is a challenge, to write, non-linearly. Sort of three-dimensionally. Awkwardly.

I gave it a try:

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Explore. You will find more successful attempts -- there are a few familiar names on that list.

Go. Write.

Street Sign Generator via Revolving Duck.

Official Watermark Seal

From Official Seal Generator via The Generator Blog

Feeling Evil?

Kill A Smiley

tag-based poems via microformats by email invite *only*

It has come to my attention that my website is not keeping up with the times. Or the Web2.0h! Or something. So I've decided to update:

Podcasts. Roll your own roll-your-own. Dynamic inline updating with yellow fades!We're about what Web 2.0 is about. We shall transcend borders. Hack it. Single. Word. Sentences! Clustering. Faster. Faster! The new is old. Label what defies categorization. MSM just doesn't get it. Splog is an aggregate noun. This is newer media. Always be launching. The words aren't what they were. Clear that. Give the users what they want. This will change everything. It's the wave of tomorrow. An AJAX-driven GUI. Cry out, blogosphere! It's all changing. You need someone who gets it. Float this. On-demand streams. 2.0! 2.0 is the new New. Feeds. The buzz is loud and clear. It's all about community. We are on the brink of a new age. Taggable folksonomies. With one click. "ASL" is geezer speak. Out of the box. News clouds. Social is the new push. [What was the question?]

Whaddya think?

[Up-To-Dating courtesy of the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator™, via TechCrunch]

Poetry: a laughing matter?

This week's Poetry Thursday topic is humor in poetry. I went through most of my poems, and gosh -- I'm not very funny. Amusing, sometimes, maybe -- but only dry.

Even the small poems I thought, at writing, were funny -- aren't really:

sitting alone
at a table for two
    drinking lemon tea

This is as close as I can get (so far, anyway) and it's not exactly funny, but sort-of funny, and was actually inspired by a joke:

exposed

i am like the woman
speaking and listening
on the telephone
when a hot flash
comes

immersed in
conversation
she absently removes
one warm garment
then another

until she stands
in her living room
before the undraped
windows
cooled and naked

as these words
fall from me
till i stand quiet
in the breeze
of your voice.

I look forward to what others come up with. Laughter is good for me.

Timely

Cartoon from Hugh Macleod via how to save the world

I'm way behind in my blog reading, due to all my blog-tweaking -- and this is one of the first things I came across while catching up.