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how many pull quotes can you possible use to answer whether poetry is poetry, or prose? Samuel...

Oct 31st

this reminds me that i need to finish writing my book reviews for spr… What I always say to...

Oct 31st

if you had $2000 to spend on publishing your poetry manuscript, why give that money to 76...

Oct 31st

crookedtooth: Life-size bookshelf photo project

Oct 30th

“The artists of the past all had their rebellion. Elvis was...”
— Jack White (so much to...

Oct 30th

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plainclothesman: holy crap. bobloblawslawblog: Pop Up Lego !!!

Oct 30th

the octahedron can be especially useful in book cover...

Oct 30th

sometimes you just have to take a stand… pick up your junk & walk away…

Oct 30th

tomorrow: 10th annual harvest gathering begins

Oct 29th

tonight: Natasha Tretheway and Katherine Soniat to read at Posana Cafe at 8 pm.

Oct 29th

a two-year absence from asheville, THE TRAVELING BONFIRES is...

Oct 29th

does ‘jack of all trades’ = ‘jack ass?’

Oct 28th

COLLISION: Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas...

Oct 28th

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it is inspiring for me to see public intellectuals debate with reason, civility & wit…...

Oct 28th

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awesome! awesome! awesome! deltafoxtrot: Northern Cree, Muckleshoot Pow-Wow 2007

Oct 28th

in poetry writing workshop tonight, we were discussing dylan...

Oct 28th

tonight is poetry writing workshop at the flood gallery fine arts center… it’s...

Oct 27th

hunsonisgroovy: Design Week 09 (via craig.keeling)

Oct 27th

not sure if it was the two advil, reading zen poetry, drinking herbal tea or taking a hot...

Oct 27th

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nashvilleneedsmoremetaphors: When she was a teenager, Roseanne Cash’s father (Johnny Cash) wrote a...

Oct 26th

went for a walk into a lovely autumn afternoon & did not take a digital camera to record the...

Oct 26th

watching a teaching on wisdom from mars hill…

Oct 25th

to run along the river on a lovely fall morning seems such a simple desire, yet unattainable this...

Oct 24th

One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big...

the album, the film, the book, & other collectible junk…

Oct 24th

remembering the death of jack kerouac… Bloated, reactionary and guileless, his was a painful...

Oct 24th

been thinking a lot about jack kerouac recently… his life… his work…

Oct 24th

for last few years i’ve had a yearning to visit...

Oct 23rd

vagile

wordjournal: adjective • /ˈvædʒɪl/ • wandering; vagrant; free to move about.

Oct 23rd

The Principles of Good Web Design (Part I)

Oct 23rd

the only remedy for the loneliness of this job is taking lunch at the fiddlin pig… soon as i...

Oct 23rd

finished producing 120 minutes of audio capture (with various quality issues) in four days… in...

Oct 22nd

If you get a free book, and don't disclose...

Oct 22nd

Want to Monetize the Web?

To monetize content requires a shift in thinking because one must move from sticking with the...

Oct 22nd

for those who follow advertising trends

CBS… won the night with ad-centric adults 18-49 with a 2.8/8 rating and share, had...

Oct 22nd

two years in a row, edgy mama is featured in the least favorite feature of the mountain x… but...

Oct 22nd

i love & miss analog design… codycurley: The...

Oct 22nd

another color palette i may steal… ...

Oct 22nd

i may just borrow this color palette… arriana:...

Oct 22nd

GPOYW - business trip edition

Oct 21st

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i’m a sucker for ballads & song lyrics about cowboys… this song works for me on so...

Oct 21st

social media fail: received a phone call from the nyc office informing me of office related...

Oct 21st

nice… crookedtooth: The measure of autumn.

Oct 21st

now there is fundamentalist atheists to add to the pantheon of fundamentalist religions…

Oct 21st

“America is no longer a Christian nation… that seems to...”
— [sf]

Oct 21st

it’s a privilege to edit the audio captured from last week’s event… the stories...

Oct 21st

Surefire poetry hits for the classroom and...

Oct 20th

poetry writing workshop tonight! drop ins welcomed… bring a notebook & pen…...

Oct 20th

listening to ‘the path’ [mp3 podcast]… there’s some really tough stuff in...

Oct 20th

i could really use one of these tonight… or maybe two...

Oct 19th

thomasfitzpatrick: shout it out loud this requires...

Oct 19th

can’t wait to get off work… so i can start freelance work… & then plan for...

Oct 19th

what i learned on facebook today

‘we are one choice from together’ posted on a friend’s status made me say,...

Oct 19th

“Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can...”
— George Orwell (via...

Oct 19th

'because clicking is so 90s'

first website with audiovisual navigation (via)

Oct 19th

(via bunnysuit)

Oct 19th

taciturn

wordjournal: adjective • /ˈtæsɪtɜːn/ or /ˈtæsətɝːn/ • silent; temperamentally untalkative;...

Oct 19th

WSJ announced 2.02 million copies paid...

Oct 16th

since when did tumblr start running ads on the dashboard?

Oct 16th

not my day for coffee drinks… first i spill a pumkin spice latte on my white dress...

Oct 16th

my flight consisted of two recordings of a teaching on ephesians… ‘it’s not about...

Oct 16th

A guy walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says, “A beer please, and one...

Oct 16th

i hate it when i confuse social media platforms & post something on facebook that was supposed...

Oct 16th

caliginous

wordjournal: adjective • /kuh-LIJ-uh-nuhs/ • dark; misty; gloomy.

Oct 15th

ok, second airport actually has some decent jazz music piped into the terminals… can’t...

Oct 15th

why is that airports have such sterile sounding jazz playing from the terminal soundsystem?

Oct 15th

thanks for the lunch suggestions… i found 2 apples & coffee for less than $0.75…

Oct 14th

i’m somewhere between ‘journal cartoonist’...

Oct 14th

“language matters… language is not merely descriptive....”
— steve timmis

Oct 14th

i’m down to $0.75. what can i get for lunch with $0.75?

Oct 14th

dare i live blog this writing workshop?

Oct 13th

drop-ins welcomed

just had someone walk through the gallery & ask, what’s going on? a poetry workshop, i...

Oct 13th

at clingman cafe waiting for the poetry writing workshop, coffee at albiani’s, to begin…

Oct 13th

“Nobody killed poetry. Guys like Epstein… hearken back...”
— Philip Levine (via the blog...

Oct 12th

“Performance poetry is not for everyone…. Poetry is a...”
— Iain Hollingshead, Standing up...

Oct 12th

Coffee at Albiani's: A Poetry Workshop

Every morning at 6 a.m. the young Donald Hall would walk to an all night cafeteria, called...

Oct 12th

“quomodo omnia nobis divinae virtutis suae quae ad vitam et...”

Oct 11th

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awesome jackson pollock music video… sort of… featuring ed harris…

Oct 11th

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another jackson pollock video…

Oct 11th

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i can not get enough of jackson pollock…

Oct 11th

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the man, the artist… jackson pollock…

Oct 11th

Jackson Pollack. Greyed Rainbow, 1953. Oil on canvas.

Oct 11th

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about...”
— Steven Wright (via sharlala) ...

Oct 10th

dawkeye: Memories of Saturday tea times past…. (BBC) a...

Oct 10th

Finished my first fartlek in the rain. Felt good, but it took longer than I thought. Maybe...

Oct 10th

“Brigitte, one of German’s most popular glossy women’s magazines, has banned...

Oct 7th

origami poems “Like the ancient art for which it is...

Oct 7th

“When I launched my own Web site two years ago, I wanted...”
— Todd Boss, Poets &...

Oct 7th

joyce's ulysses - a graphic novel?

Oct 7th

“So which is better: to reveal or not to reveal? It remains...”
— A. S. Maulucci, On Poetry:...

Oct 7th

“I am in no way different from anyone else, that my...”
— Franz Wright (via...

Oct 7th

haven’t read shampoo poetry in awhile… this is a good reminder…

Oct 7th

“The good thing about rats is they don’t lie. Cross a gecko...”
— Michael Gizzi, New Depths of...

Oct 6th

bly comes home

Oct 6th

“life is too short to live without poetry…”
— Frank Turner

Oct 6th

(via crookedtooth) yeah… hurts like a sliver in the...

Oct 6th

(i know this annoys a lot of tumblristas) so, disabling tumblr feed to tw… beginning… now…

Oct 5th

disabling tumblr feed to fb… beginning… now…

Oct 5th

On Oct. 3, 1849 Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious in the...

Oct 5th

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“go moan for man, go moan, go groan… [open] up inward toward the lord” kerouac...

Oct 5th

Upcoming poetry writing workshop

Oct 4th

heckyeahjesus: In dutch this reads, “The LORD is my...

Oct 4th

“Omnis voluntarius et prono animo offerat eas Domino”

Oct 4th

yes, it’s sunday morning… last night’s bonfire was brilliant, the moon bright...

Oct 4th

the great harvest moon rises tonight… it’s time for a bonfire under the red oak...

Oct 4th

she was going to take me to raleigh for the u2 concert & then we found out how much tickets...

Oct 3rd

trying to figure how to get out of this…

Oct 3rd

“We don’t take [poets] seriously; we don’t think that poetry...”
— utne, how to read poetry &...

Oct 2nd

these sketchbooks were unearthed not long ago while i was...

Oct 2nd

mmm, can’t wait to try this diy pumpkin spice latte...

Oct 2nd

listening to an excellent recording of fierrabras, an opera by schubert

Oct 2nd

myserendipities: ‘modern painters’ by brian dettmer, 2008 ...

Oct 2nd

the cupboards are empty. the only thing for breakfast is oatmeal. i’m not complaining. could...

Oct 2nd

woke up this morning with the alice in chains song man in the box running through my head & the...

Oct 2nd

restaurant hostess: hey, there.
me: afternoon...
restaurant hostess: wanna booth?
me: yes, please... for one.
restaurant hostess: will a booth in the back work? i know you usually sit over there. (sho points to a section just off stage right.)
me: a booth in the back will do.
restaurant hostess: it's always nice to eat at a place where every one knows ya, isn't it?
(i smile & almost make a reference to cheers but stop -- i realize that the hostess was probably born when woody harrelson joined the cast.)

Oct 1st

there must be some benefit to taking lunch at 2 pm… but i haven’t found it...

Oct 1st

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excellent video from state of design festival in melbourne featuring david berman David is a...

Oct 1st

dear city of asheville, thank you for finally letting me out of my own driveway this morning. you...

Oct 1st

yeah, it’s after midnight… time to stop designing schtuff & get some analog...

Oct 1st