it’s raining… & there’s not enough coffee to lift my heavy eyelids…
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Getting my hair cut. Man, I wish I had the confidence to pull off a Morrissey flip. Unfortunately, It would probably look atrocious.
no way… just got my hair but too…
fornale
poetry workshop chapbook
cover art for the poetry workshop chapbook. cover photo & design © 2009 matthew mulder. cover price $8. contact me to reserve your copy.
I rarely hand write.
vela: So when I started writing a note, I paused after a word I typically misspell. For a second I found myself waiting for the red squiggle to appear. FML
at a poetry reading yestarday afternoon, a poet confessed to loosing seven years of poetry when her computer crashed.
my notebooks contain sketches and drafts. composing poems in analog form first is how i begin the process. entering the content into my mac is considered part of the revision process.not that i’m gloating. notebooks can be easily lost, misplaced or stolen.
still, i suspect yesterday’s prizing-winning poet uses a pc.
zero one one zero one one
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i’m really diggin the new gasoline heart album… (in know, that sounds so archaic thanks to itunes… full disclosure: i did actually download the entire cucumber riot album)…
btw, gh is on tumblr…
25 years from now I want to…
scumblr: microwalrus: gumnos: mediatinker.com
‘91 was the summer after graduation… this is not a page from my journal even though some of the goals are the same… maybe it’s a a post-glam rock/pre-grunge thing… maybe it’s a gen-x thing… maybe i don’t want to look at the list page from my journal… maybe…
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over the weekend i was asked, on a couple occasions, why people abandon the faith of their childhood. i fidgeted, looked out the window, & offered some anecdotal comments anemic of any real answers. anthony bradley offers a more articulate response to why people move from youth group to agnosticism. but i didn’t have an answer, nor do i have fond memories of youth group.
church youth group, for me, was a dull experience in perseverance. most of the youth attended the church’s christian school. a couple of us attended the public school & were reminded that we were pagans within a cathedral. “why would i want to invite friends from school to youth group?” i asked myself. “to be ostracized like me?”
somewhere in those murky years of high school i turned to books for companionship & writing poetry for private enterprise. maybe not in the way wallace stevens did: “after one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.” i felt abandoned, but did not seek to abandon.
perseverance, poetry, & a feeble faith have traveled with me, but members of the youth group seem to be pebbles in a path long ago traversed.
tumblarity
Awesome! Congrats on reaching the bottom. I thought you might want to stay there, so no reblogs yet.
yeah, i reached tumblarity nirvana… it reminded me of an episode of the muppets… i got the t-shirt & turned out the lights… now i just want to tumble on…
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for what it’s worth, the barnes & noble store now has free wifi… tried it last night… they’re open ‘til 10 p.m. …
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some days the office is the loneliest place in the world…
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gpowy – bele chere 2009 5k where’s waldo edition… *hint* i’m behind these runners wearing the blue 30th anniversary bele chere 5k shirt…
found poetry (headlines edition)
if your familiar with found poetry, here’s my find for today (using headlines):
if you’re not familiar with found poetry , it’s sort of like mad libs… but not really…
bele chere 5k
completed my first 5k this morning in 35:48… the winner finished in 14:38… here’s the results…
the MAP launch party
good to see fellow tumblrs at the party & discover more tweople as well.
thanks all for advice on which social network sites work for you and why.
the south garden (or the pepper & tomato patch) at mid july
1 hot banana pepper plant & 1 jalapeno plant are still struggling to grow in this shady spot. the 4 bell pepper plants began to blossom. i think i may have a few spare dollars to buy additional pepper plants to fill in the empty space in the garden.
The north garden
the north garden patch, mid july: though a quarter was destoryed by a very hungry critter, there are still a variety of un harmed plants: 4 pumpkin plants, 4 winter squash plants, 4 zuchini plants, 10 canaloupe plants, 4 cuccumber plants, 10 beefsteak tomoto plants & 6 cherry tomato plants.
i’ve heard it’s not to late in these parts to replant spinach plants. anyone know if that’s true?
something thing attacked the north garden late saturday night, early sunday morning
i’m not sure if it was a raccoon or the groundhog couple that was spotted late last week.
library catalog card
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reading ‘the myth of multitasking.’ eventually i’ll reply to all the fb comments. will now unplug from tweetdeck to get stuff done.
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blogs survive as scavengers
Field notes
// finished first dose if coffee & audio script. next step, editing & producing today’s broadcast…
Field notes
// re-entering the matrix after a completely analog (well, almost) weekend…
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