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• Quote of the Day

  
  flahute — Authority: 122
  Big town’s got its losers Small town’s got its vices A handful of friends One needs a match, one needs some ice Call-waiting phone in another time zone How do you say I miss you to An answering machine? How do say good night to An answering machine?   — The Replacements, “Answering Machine”
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• Lately

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    Lately I’ve been disregardening .   note: the only things growing in my yard are the pile of leaves, the number of dead flowers, and what the nextdoor neighbour’s cat has been daily  ” deposhitting ” on the lawn. double note: it’s the usual suspect  again … and again … and ...
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• An Impressure Point

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    When someone does an impression of me … does that make me impressionable or impressive?     note: pressure cooking makes me nervous. double note: I don’t do well under pressure … sometimes coal is just coal. … if you’re looking for diamonds I think there are some in my pack of cards. ...
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• Expiration Chug

  
  Master Marf — Authority: 129
  Expiration Chug was the word of the day at Urban Dictionary yesterday. when someone drinks milk very quickly on the day of the expiration date - Urban Dictionary It made me think of this comic strip:
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• The Ory Theory

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    I guess if I speculated enough and assumed a position … I could produce a theory.   note: Theories and Laws are separate … in fact. double note: “ theory: an assumption or guess based on limited information or knowledge. “ I think I’m living in a theory … but it’s just my theory. ...
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• It Happens Every Day

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    Every day ends the same way: … with “day” written at the end of it.   note: why do people say the entire day’s name? “ To is Mon; yester was Sun; tomorrow is Tues. “ Maybe I’m just a simplificationist … or simple … or something. double note: no one ever asks what night it is. I ...
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• Awkward words

  
  flahute — Authority: 122
  Anyone who knows me well knows not only that I have a fascination with words, but also love to debate … I can argue semantics for hours, much to the dismay of people around me at times. I’m pretty sure that’s why a friend of mine gave me a book this past summer; because I was driving her crazy with my ...
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• Translating the Pen, Penning Translations

  
  Aristotle's Feminist Subject — Authority: 494
  “Bob Cargill has penned. . . .” In that broader context, is “pen” a crucial element of the phrase that needs to be translated? The above question is Joel Hoffmans, as hes " Thinking About Translation In Just One Language." Hoffman is asking, "[S]hould the translation be the equivalent of wrote with a pen ...
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• Sleep Deeping

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    I’m voting for the “hibernational party” this Winter. It’s time for people not to wake up … and smell the roses until Spring … or whenever roses start smelling.   note: some birds fly south for the Winter … where do penguins fly to? double note: bears don’t truly hibernate: ...
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• Common Sensorship

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    Sometimes I feel like beating people without any common sense. … then I realize that they have already been beaten common senseless.   note: there seems to be two types of people: those with common sense and those who drive in front of me. double note: common sense is getting less common all ...
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• Walden Pondering

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    I was feeling walled in , so I went Walden and wandered off the usual roads today. What did I find? A  foggy golf course, barb wire fences protecting nature, a squirrel, a garbage dump, a bunch of farms, and a few junker businesses. I was Thoreau ly surprised.   note: this bus was the most ...
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• Some Days

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    Some days I think I’m radioactive because … it feels like I’m living a half-life.   note: a candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, so a candle that burns twice as dim must burn twice as long … but why bother? double note: an unlit candle lasts the longest but it’s kind of ...
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• Poetry Friday

  
  flahute — Authority: 122
  NOVEMBER NIGHT Listen. . . With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees And fall.   — Adelaide Crapsey IT IS THE TIME OF RAIN AND SNOW It is the time of rain and snow I spend sleepless nights And watch the frost Frail as your love Gathers ...
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• Saturday Word Play- WWI Syllacrostics

  
  NWT Blogs — Authority: 150
  
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• Poetry Friday

  
  flahute — Authority: 122
  NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O never give the heart outright, For they, for all ...
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• Word play on a Friday

  
  Doodles of a journo — Authority: 422
  Yay for Fridays!Im feeling the happiest Ive been in almost two weeks, I think. I got a new commission from a magazine I occasionaly freelance to, which is good for my little business, and TSC and I got up early this morning and had a brisk walk around the neighbourhood before popping into Vida e Caffe for skinny ...
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• Parenthetical Marks

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    My face just keeps getting more linear every year.   note: everything I say is in parentheses now. double note: I was going to use a smiley photo, but I saw that I had something stuck between my teeth. triple note: laugh lines are better than punchlines. quadruple note:  I’m living ...
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• Not Inconsequential Ordering

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    People who eat dessert first because they like it the best have no anticipatience.    note : eating dessert first by rationalizing that you could die before the end of the meal is kind of pessimistic. double note: on Planetross you can order whatever you like first, but you’re still going to get ...
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• Where Am I?

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 129
    People usually can’t think straight when they have a cold. On Planetross it’s the opposite: I can’t think in my regular round about way. I’ll be back shortly.   note: I think I’m clairabouyant … I see a bath in my future. double note: the photo is the view from the hotel window on ...
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• Sunday, November 1: The A.D.D. Detective

  
  criminalbrief.com — Authority: 129
  STICKS ‘n’ STONES by Leigh Lundin This week, we thank the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, for today’s column. English may not be his first language, but he has no trouble sneaking four letter words, specifically the ƒ-word , into an official message to the State Assembly. For a larger ...
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