tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41283272011-07-14T19:40:39.090-05:00Closer to Edger24 HOURS TILL SANITY Explanations why some people have it and some people do not. No reminder that I've got all the rejection stuff.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comBlogger1161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-1110333395288992832005-03-08T19:56:00.000-06:002005-04-03T12:45:03.150-05:00Okay I know its been awhile...but my template has been funked...I am trying to find what has been causing all the errors. In the mean time check out my current blog socialechallengedcrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-1057192367320867252003-07-02T19:32:00.000-05:002003-07-02T19:32:47.276-05:00So, I too have started slacken a little lately...but this is because I have been studying for my GRE exam. I've decided to consider Graduate School to obtain a MFA degree-either that or I may attend UMT in Missoula this Spring semester to continue my studies in Anthropology with the option in forensic/ archeaology. I am heading to a Tracy Chapman concert on the 5th in the cities and then going crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-960167972003-06-25T09:37:00.000-05:002003-06-25T09:37:41.990-05:00Allo Gibbs I am back on the blog saddle. I am not sure what you would like me to throw on here for you, but I have some summer writings I guess could go, if the theme was right. Anyway, people were still active on my site, so I figured I had better be active too. See you soon, blogger.Joshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-957700452003-06-17T17:55:00.000-05:002005-04-03T12:50:17.226-05:00still working on this damn poxy servercrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-957265462003-06-16T14:19:00.000-05:002003-06-16T14:19:18.906-05:00I can not start at the beginning...but I will at the end because that is the freshiest thing in mind.....- so if you will let me I will display my introspection of where I am- I suppose. But keep in mind that this is not going to be in detail...for purpose it is vague because it is a conclusion of where my thoughts and feelings stand now.... The place, person and time really doesn't have any crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-952428562003-06-03T11:29:00.000-05:002003-06-16T14:08:46.000-05:00***peeks in*** helloooo......((((echo)))) looks pretty vacant....hmm......I'll have to start something up again...maybe make a few changes....move some furniture around....clear off the fireplace and wipe off the dust..... UPDATE... everything is PEACH....taking two summer classes and working in the talley gallery all of june, and putting hours in for BQTS at the Northern, it seemed to stretch crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-938129542003-05-05T13:11:00.000-05:002003-05-05T13:11:28.990-05:00CLOSER TO EDGER IS NOW SHOWING GALLERY Xcrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-925453722003-04-13T17:22:00.000-05:002003-04-13T17:31:03.000-05:00The New Voices presentations went very well on Friday...I got to meet some of the students- most of the kids were the poetry writers, only one of the fiction writers attended...(sniffle, sniffle). I can't believe these writers are in High School....they put my creative writing to shame. I was on the fiction board so I didn't get a chance to read the great selection of poetry but when I got a copycrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-923743512003-04-10T13:14:00.000-05:002003-04-10T13:15:44.000-05:00Perspective sure can be a bitch. Hi Crystal. Finally stepping up to the edge(r).Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00518656205777822397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-921822172003-04-07T18:40:00.000-05:002003-04-07T18:40:41.170-05:00So I went to visit our northern neighbors in Winnipeg this weekend and I picked up the weekly Uptown mag and on page 4 they have printed out the Top 12 Reason why the U.S. invaded Iraq: 12. If you don't murder innocent civilians everyone knows you're a wimp. 11. Diplomacy failed. They could not get anyone to support a war. 10. They need to liberate these people. A life without Walmart and crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-921618862003-04-07T12:47:00.000-05:002003-04-07T12:50:49.000-05:00Thanks Faith for looking at "Drunk at 2pm". I guess I usually try to welcome all kinds of impulses and ideas, not making a huge effort..sometimes the most moving can be in the simpliest forms. In those first moments of encountering my writing, I don't want to restrict the pace or flow of the language. Once everything is written or said...and when I look back I theorize in different ways about crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-919452302003-04-03T17:47:00.000-06:002003-04-03T17:47:26.653-06:00Ah, a poem, inspired by a cheap bottle of White Zin. This one has spunk, not exactly sure why my voice came out the way it did. Can you feel a beat? Drunk at 2 pm Wanna break waves shake the moon from it's golden light illuminating my face in perfect expression- a (heartless-spine-rock blackaspitch Zen lunitic) into a good rhythmic walk always downdown singing 'don't let blues make you badcrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-916146532003-03-29T13:42:00.000-06:002003-03-29T13:42:59.653-06:00On Old Man poem The Hey, Hey reminds me of a Jethro Tull song. The rhyming scheme works and I think its a great poem....and how it applies to all of us. You speak to get the old mans attention but I feel you are asking and telling us too. Also how you went full circle into putting yourself sitting in the sun and how you arrive at lifes questions throughout the piece.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-910893202003-03-20T17:49:00.000-06:002003-03-22T14:11:03.000-06:00Back to Insomniac mush, mush, mush...my mind is complete mush. So I haven't been sleeping much...well, I think 3 or 1 hour isn't exactly a suffecient sleeping schedule. I get into these bouts every now and then...and it has effected my writing. I get excited to start a new project, I write sentences in my head and I think about them constantly, yet I don't take it to the next level and actually crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-910869222003-03-20T17:01:00.000-06:002003-03-20T17:01:14.030-06:00It Thrives So I was being a little closed minded about rhyming poetry...I was limiting myself....I have a lot to learn..and it surely showed my ignorance to the genre. I will embrace all poetry. I am pleased to see the poems postsed...let me sink my teeth into them. Escape What a great way to reach beyond yourself. Thank you for the rhyme scheme link, there are so many styles I have forgotten crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-909911122003-03-19T08:17:00.000-06:002003-03-19T08:17:40.466-06:00 Landlocked If I were the captain I wish I could be, I would sail all the seas from farthest away to closest to me, spars sodden and creaking in tempers of tempests, or straight still and silent with dry slack sheets. I would know all the oceans their ships and their sails their mariners’ secrets of masterful knots With sole undulations of decks over waves no trip but a voyage no song Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192452293593971724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-909753522003-03-19T00:14:00.000-06:002003-03-19T00:17:21.000-06:00Here is my favorite rhyming poem from my collection: Escape I long, as others have I’m sure, To leave the confines made for me. My house. My home. I once thought pure Now does its best to smother me. No brick. No mortar. Just these words To make the confines left for me. And all these people flock like birds To rest upon halls academe-- No brick. No mortar. Just the words. Failing, in Joshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-909432702003-03-18T14:22:00.000-06:002003-03-18T17:42:26.000-06:00Do they survive? Yes- Good to hear from you again JP. I agree, I almost forgot about Silverstein thank you for pointing this out for me. Dig them out, dust them off and post, post, post, post....enlighten us. One of the many reason I enjoy poetry is that it gives me a different feeling each time I read a piece...it grows with us, certain situations/thoughts are heightened depending on your crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-908939292003-03-17T20:18:00.000-06:002003-03-17T20:20:58.000-06:00Gosh. I just said Gosh. Anyway, in response to your earlier question about rhyming poetry, I think it is best to stay away form it if you are ont comfortable with it. The worst poetry is forced poetry, whether it be forced rhyme, meter, or metaphor. I would like to point out, though, that some of the best poetry we have form early times (Shakespeare, Milton, Frost, even Dickenson (in slant)) Joshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-908435542003-03-17T01:43:00.000-06:002003-03-17T01:43:50.670-06:00Happy St. Patty's Day!crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-906840222003-03-13T20:36:00.000-06:002003-03-13T20:54:24.000-06:00Informal talkity talk talks For my senior project part-duece, I will be showing my writing and art work in Gallery X, in Ed Arts- during May 3-9th......You are all encouraged to stop in and tell me what you think. Because I fear the clock, I have begun this project planning a while ago...but this week is spring break and I have started painting and drawing again....I haven't done this for such crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-906197332003-03-12T19:01:00.000-06:002003-03-12T19:50:58.000-06:00I was skimming through this poetry website and I ran into this poem...or maybe it ran into me..??? A Way To Miss You It's like a painting in the mind. Pure euphoria, in a conscience form. Tints and shades of red and blue, as the heat of air and body lower. It's as if an entertainment for all senses. The change may prove harsh, yet needed, filling every soul with contentment. Each of us misses crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-905994652003-03-12T12:27:00.000-06:002003-03-12T12:31:13.000-06:00I was recently asked....is rogue suppose to be rouge? Because rogue means: -Vagrant, tramp -dishonest, worthless, scoundrel -mishievous person -and among other things..... Where rouge is the french term for the color red. It is suppose to be rogue.....Rogue is my favorite character from X-men (the girl with the streaked hair...and really powerful) But rogue..in the sense I was using is crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-905974822003-03-12T11:47:00.000-06:002003-03-12T11:47:32.623-06:00 It wasn’t until I read a particular passage by Kerouac, which grabbed me by the throat, and captured my lust to meet all kinds of people and to see story book places. He stated “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, the ones who never yawn or say a common place thing but burn, burn, burn”. I also wanted the sheer sensation of crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-905257522003-03-11T09:37:00.000-06:002003-03-11T09:37:09.263-06:00So Rowanstaff is wondering...if Edger ... actually is pronounced....Edge-er...or the name Edger-as in Poe...when I was thinking of a pen name ...I thought about that too...will people know how to pronounce this name?....But I guess I want my writing to be on the edge, things that aren't the so-called-norm, almost to the brink of insanity, after someone reads a piece I wrote I want them to get a crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-903652042003-03-08T13:21:00.000-06:002003-03-09T18:29:02.000-06:00Studio Visit Spectacle Voice of a Child Rowanstaff Jing Tong's web blog, seems to be more worldly and educational- I enjoy it. Her project proposal is being fulfilled and she is definatly working her way to 1000pts by posting longer entries, but maybe a few more during the week will really make it over the top. As a project goal Jing is using this blog as a medium to connect to her family and crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-902460472003-03-06T10:55:00.000-06:002003-03-08T13:55:26.000-06:00the sexual revolution of the generation before my own was born out of lack of confidence, uncertainty about the future of a nation, and unsuredness. hippies and whatnot clamied to make love and not war as some sort of enlightened reason for not having jobs and casual drug usage. have sex and don't fight. have sex with me because there is love between us and that's all that really matters. fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04063203802629028028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-899389242003-02-28T22:32:00.000-06:002003-02-28T23:27:09.000-06:00My Review on The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood. It seems to me that Blood has taken the “Online Rules of Having a Weblog” to the extremities of “Online Rules in How to Receive a Marriage Proposal”. Blood has a combination of profound psychological insight and deep spirituality that has already drawn hundreds maybe even thousands of people to her blog. Blood lets us know the importance of crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-898887702003-02-28T01:17:00.000-06:002003-02-28T01:17:25.826-06:00KUDOS to all those who came out...it was a great time..but I think you left alittle too early cuz yes....i sang off pitch in front of a crowd...Tom Petty Free Fallin....and Vanilla Ice....Ice Ice Baby......you missed out Josh too bad you had to get home so early to see the wifey!!! Oh yes....pete, dan, steve and I want to get everyone together on monday night at the Eagles club to meet up with crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-898233842003-02-27T00:30:00.000-06:002003-02-27T00:30:25.860-06:00This next poem was written by Andy Browers, now Andy might kill me for putting this up for all to read, but it is worth it, I found it very flattering and one of the most beautiful things a friend could give me. Andy's poetry is absolutely amazing, and I think it deserves a lot more praise. Thanks Andy Every flick of her pink tongue forms a beautiful portrait of American Zen Sorceress blood crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-898072142003-02-26T19:09:00.000-06:002003-02-26T19:09:29.653-06:00I am very happy to accept your invitation, okay, really, really, really happy!freezengirlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-898047752003-02-26T18:23:00.000-06:002003-02-26T18:23:29.640-06:00Thanks for the invite - expect some postings REALLY SOON since I severely need some feedback on pieces for my Advanced Writing class. This may sound bad, but its hard to really get my creative juices flowing after a barrage of boring journalism classes (and it sounds like the juices will be flowing on Thursday!) Good idea, Crystal! See you all in a bit! Jessicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-897947902003-02-26T15:15:00.000-06:002003-02-26T17:59:27.000-06:00I would like to thank you for having me and give you a little something to chew on. hidden youth a bright future - like recoiled disaster - fears behind clear glass, summers loss challenges reckless experience, a students worldly value faces heavy debate; together with society and empty choices a restless self lingers toward identity engaged in life. Boszleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291666386596098909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-897930062003-02-26T14:42:00.000-06:002003-02-26T14:51:32.000-06:00So what goes best with writers??? ....you guessed it hard liqueur and dark beer!!! So to start off this community of writers...I and the help from JP are trying to get all of us together this thursday at Union Station for $ tap night...then once we worked the toxins we will have the guts to sing Karoake at Keg-n-Cork...or we can just drink some more. $ taps start at 8pm and for those underage crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-897754152003-02-26T08:26:00.000-06:002003-02-26T08:26:23.936-06:00I write and teach in order to be awake. Each requires present attention.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192452293593971724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-897632292003-02-26T01:09:00.000-06:002003-02-26T01:09:11.873-06:00What's your reaction? "We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep." - Walden, H.D. Thoreaucrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-896962502003-02-25T00:19:00.000-06:002003-02-25T00:43:32.000-06:00Did someone say "Karaoke?"Joshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-896949632003-02-24T23:50:00.000-06:002003-02-25T00:25:25.000-06:00Here's an idea, how about we get a community of english majors together and go to dollar tap night or maybe karaoke? C'mon, any takers? So I've been thinking about changing my project proposal, (just a thought) but how about people blog in and challange me to do something, a dare....anything...then afterward I will write about the experience.....okay maybe this isn't such a good idea considering crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-896694422003-02-24T16:21:00.000-06:002003-02-24T16:21:24.263-06:00I think the quote just inspired it, "who knows where thoughts come from, they just appear"-empire records yeah I look back on it and I say to myself "What the hell!" I think it had to do more with the entire movie and going back to my teenage angst and trying to make sense of my surroundings while wanting my elders to treat me as an adult....which we all know is just a pipe dream. But, damn I crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-896675792003-02-24T15:52:00.000-06:002003-02-24T15:52:17.140-06:00I like it as "rouge". Gibbs, where did that last writing (prefaced by the basketball diaries quote) come from? Is it the same vien as the poem? I read them quite differently.Joshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-896410092003-02-24T07:35:00.000-06:002003-02-24T07:35:50.560-06:00Is "rouge" supposed to be "rough"? Only when I am secure enough to be alone am I also ready to form relationships.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17192452293593971724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-896180132003-02-23T16:39:00.000-06:002003-02-23T17:16:02.000-06:00"You're growing up and rain sorta remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And that's good there is rain, it clears the month with sorry rainbow expression and it clears the street with the silent armies, so we can dance"- Basketball Diaries :My thoughts: Can you hear it as much as taste it? It makes me remember of the times when I was tactless and bent the rules to crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-894539002003-02-20T14:58:00.000-06:002003-02-20T14:58:47.440-06:00I, for one, am quite interested in how to "snag the right guy". All theones I bring home to my mother give her the funniest feelings. Just Kidding. Seriously Crystal, I would like to see how the poem first looked when you were typing it as prose, for a comparison. I think it would be a unique look into the writing process.Joshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-894194992003-02-20T01:16:00.000-06:002003-02-23T17:33:09.000-06:00So I have noticed that there is a lot of relationship help books....and relationship help day-time TV shows. I am home from school and just finished lunch (tomato/basil pepper jack turkey wrap) and Dr. Phil....is having an hour episode of why men cheat...hmmm...I might have to indulge myself this afternoon and see what all the advertisment is about. But all of this is just relationship propagandacrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-892895112003-02-18T00:15:00.000-06:002003-02-18T15:26:33.000-06:00Zephyr Wind is where cold goes, once the weather becomes almost tolerable Flying hard pecking at lips making skin taut and rouge or dries the stare from eyes, pushing me along toward tomorrow. ::On the writing:: This poem was originally going to be prose, but the condensed version seemed more comfortable and speaking short sometimes gives more to the reader, it has a better feeling for me. Thecrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-892239192003-02-16T23:48:00.000-06:002003-02-16T23:48:18.883-06:00Send me to the shades of sleep slowly on my own.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-891172442003-02-14T17:22:00.001-06:002003-02-18T09:50:34.000-06:00cleaning shop..thought I would change a few things....tweek..tweek..crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-890986382003-02-14T10:44:00.000-06:002003-02-14T12:25:36.000-06:00 1px; color:black; background-color:#bbbbbb;"> I am, of course, none other than blank verse.I don't know where I'm going, yes, quite right;And when I get there (if I ever do)I might not recognise it. So? Your point?Why should I have a destination set?I'm relatively happy as I am,And wouldn't want to be forever aimedTowards some future path or special goal.It's not to do with laziness, ascrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-890662542003-02-13T20:11:00.000-06:002003-02-14T12:56:30.000-06:00Is anyone else going to start V-day with a BEER in hand?crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-889573562003-02-11T23:37:00.000-06:002003-02-11T23:44:44.000-06:00That explains it.... What's your Inner European? funked by Quizilla crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-889335702003-02-11T15:45:00.000-06:002003-02-11T15:45:36.050-06:00I was just informed that maybe my last blog might be taken the wrong way....if I have offended anyone...my apologies. There was no intensions to offend anyone....just a kid venting. I should remain polite and hospitable to those blogging in. So far there has been a few votes swaying toward the "fooking" party and 0 for the nay sayers. This is excellent. KUDOS for jpage on putting tagboard goodiescrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-888652282003-02-10T13:27:00.000-06:002003-02-12T15:17:38.000-06:00So I guess, I've been slacking.???.. my grade shows it...Brutal....not doing so well on my mission to 1000 points....I'm a little confused on exactly how to do the assignments, is it just me? Any other suggestions will help and yes! KUDOS will be awarded out to all who help with my mission. But I think it's because my blog and wiki isn't set for academic standards.....did I spell academic right? crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-888379062003-02-10T00:55:00.001-06:002003-02-12T15:18:55.000-06:00Roads -The road is a place where giants write their names-the dotted line down the center- or a start to cut the world in two.- So for my next project/prompt I will write about is voluntary staying in one place. It seems the re-occuring theme for my writing is on the road/moving and being some place better. But what's better than the present? It's hard to imagine that I have now lived in crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-888365152003-02-10T00:14:00.000-06:002003-02-10T00:14:43.896-06:00Class Comments I agree with Brown that Blood’s book offers suggestions and there is not a right way to have a blog. But I’m not sure if I get the same feeling about Bernstein, because I don’t think he’s trying to attack Bloods perspective but simply state what he feels about blogging and just using Blood as an example. I also read over Page’s comments, I liked how he covered points focusing not crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-888080952003-02-09T13:10:00.000-06:002003-02-09T13:14:05.000-06:00My project proposal. I'm finished *cartwheels*crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-888078652003-02-09T13:04:00.000-06:002003-02-09T13:04:40.700-06:00My project proposal is finished!!!crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-888026332003-02-09T10:38:00.000-06:002003-02-09T10:38:30.300-06:00okay...so does anyone think my imood text is too vulgar....i'm talking about the 'fooking' ....I'm starting to think of audience and if it looks bad, especially for my final project, a few of your opinions would be nice ..... Should I keep the 'fooking' or should I throw it out?crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-887909272003-02-09T01:59:00.000-06:002003-02-09T01:59:59.890-06:00I've got goodies.....did I mention I love computers!!!!!crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-887891772003-02-09T00:56:00.000-06:002003-02-09T01:21:32.000-06:00this is getting out of control, wasting time, need to write proposal...crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-887874092003-02-09T00:04:00.000-06:002003-02-09T01:35:45.000-06:00check check....1,2,3...check testing...testing.....Tag me using Thus Sayeth or shout out for comments! crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-887834042003-02-08T22:13:00.000-06:002003-02-08T22:47:19.000-06:00So i'm trying some new graphics..how do you like my bouncing blobby his name is herbie ..so the rest will be underconstruction for a few days. zip zip zip zip...crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-887825842003-02-08T21:50:00.000-06:002003-02-08T21:52:46.000-06:00Listening to some 3doorsdown, in hopes that an idea will POP into my head for this proposal, I'm starting to think of audience...this is getting me nowhere. So I came back from the school, and it's a sad thing because noboday was there, here are kids trying to raise money for a trip down south so they can build houses for those who are in need...and nobody show up to support them. They have been crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-887772852003-02-08T19:12:00.000-06:002003-02-08T19:12:52.763-06:00still thinking about my proposal...and oh no I still have to blog your responces to blood/bern. But wait..I have to go to Raise the Roof... Anna says "FREE FOOD" for anyone who shows up....SUBWAY!...did she say SUBWAY...FREE...I am so there!!!!! Never mind that I ate a half pint of mango icecream 5 mns ago...this is FREE FOOD!!!crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-887307322003-02-07T17:32:00.000-06:002003-02-07T17:32:59.490-06:00if blogger keeps up with these glitches then I might have to surrender to the wiki...I've decided that I want to do the blog..but this thing can be damn slow and tempermental. Mens VB is playing in Morris this weekend: GOOD LUCK to Casey, Tim and Stevo, I'm your biggest fan!crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-887304262003-02-07T17:24:00.000-06:002003-02-08T19:07:47.000-06:00Ack...has it been that long.....oops....I guess I was extreamly busy this week, had a test on tuesday in my geog. of africa class...hmmm...didn't do so well...maybe I should study next time. It seems i'm at the school at least for 12 hours everyday...but today I came home after my wiki /blog class..and vegged....the kindof vegging when you eat a pint of icecream and rent movies with your roomies,crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-883801672003-02-01T10:14:00.000-06:002003-02-01T12:53:09.000-06:00When I visit truckstops I notice that the men hold their cup of joe more than they hold their wives. I'm still in love with the blue plate special that goes three years back. I was in love with Medora, the moment I fell off my ride. It had a certain smell, like a door that hadn't been open for 20 years. Or maybe the smell was from the slopes that fell into the valley, or maybe it was me. It was crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-883796832003-02-01T10:00:00.000-06:002003-02-01T12:56:02.000-06:00Road Signs Have you ever been to Wibaux, MT in the summer time?...No. Well, hit the small bar in town (you'll know which one) on a Sunday night. It's a real shocker- a marble shaker. Momentum is known to throw you and I believe some people need it and yet never see it coming. crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-883380122003-01-31T12:25:00.000-06:002003-01-31T12:49:44.000-06:00Ich liebe dich bis die Poletzi kommon! crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-882842002003-01-30T14:08:00.000-06:002003-01-30T14:09:19.000-06:00Penumbra So Lee had a good prompt, write about the soundtrack of your life...oh, this is going to be difficult..I'm going to make a list..I will get back to you on this one....I'm interesting in what songs make it into the soundtrack of your life....BLOG ON!crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-882366872003-01-29T18:27:00.000-06:002003-01-29T20:39:39.000-06:00I wonder if there are any smarts underneath lumpy mascara. I have failed...I drank coffee yesterday, not even good coffee, the kind you get out of that damn machine down the hall....ughblug! Foul Reflection on this morning I had a nice hawiian blend, shot of amaretto, lbs. of sugar: the roast made me walk fast.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-882337612003-01-29T17:27:00.000-06:002003-01-29T17:39:54.000-06:00Operation Angkor If I could go anywhere, I would go to Angkor. calm, calm, calm, calm..... KUDOS to Shunryu Suzuki for your inspirational book! "Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring."-Suzuki crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-882328442003-01-29T17:10:00.000-06:002003-01-29T18:29:45.000-06:00Problem solved As long as it's dark you can't see the holes in my door Warming up-no need for extension cord Found student ID baught toothpaste working more hours(he he he...) "I wouldn't really say I've been missing work Bob" -character Peter Gibbons Office Space crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-882196742003-01-29T12:58:00.000-06:002003-01-29T16:54:25.000-06:00LUNCHTIME crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-882183292003-01-29T12:33:00.000-06:002003-01-29T12:45:58.000-06:00So, I've been skimming over the blogs by you guys...and I'm happy to know that i'm not the only one who is up during the dark hours of the morning...KUDOS to my blogging classmates!!!crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-882168652003-01-29T12:04:00.000-06:002003-01-29T16:38:27.000-06:00 I think i'm going to enjoy the wikis ...then I won't have to deal with graphics and HTML.....YIPPIE ooow....look at the colors, possiblities.....he he he he....crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881792562003-01-28T16:31:00.000-06:002003-01-29T10:00:37.000-06:00oh what the hell....my image worked on my computer....why why why....isn't it working at the school...crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881456832003-01-28T01:48:00.000-06:002003-01-28T15:39:08.000-06:00z z z z crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881450442003-01-28T01:23:00.000-06:002003-01-28T01:30:31.000-06:00what I wanted to ask was....... How often do you stop to ask yourself questions? How many hours a day do you sleep? Do you have enough time to do all the things that you want to do? Do you have enough energy? How are you affected by standardized time, designed solely to synchronize your movement with millions of other people? How long do you ever go without knowing what time it is? Who or what crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881446102003-01-28T01:08:00.000-06:002003-01-28T01:08:51.736-06:00Say It Again We are all fed false messages about success in life, made to believe it's a point of arrival. So we spend our whole lives waiting to arrive. We expect that once we get there, the long story of life we just lived will be infused with meaning. But while were waiting our voices dry up. We forget how to ask, we forget how to tell, and we forget how to listen. I was having a convo. withcrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881440382003-01-28T00:50:00.000-06:002003-01-28T00:51:04.000-06:00 I'm just going to throw this out there. A Slow Disease Go crazy drunk Fight over Misty Ultra Light menthols Loose your teeth Madness is contagious Tame your emotions Write desperate poetry on bathroom walls Drink coffee instead Keep those white picket teethcrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881435422003-01-28T00:35:00.000-06:002003-01-28T00:39:27.000-06:00Am I satisfied or saturated? There is an importance to going with the flow -your chi- rather than squeezing it into shape and organizing everything. It is odd when people generally show less and less willingness to wait for anything that should be. I would rather savor deeply, privately and unscheduledcrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881433002003-01-28T00:28:00.000-06:002003-01-28T00:28:06.500-06:00Problems 6 Holes in my bedroom door Car extension cord is too short Out of toothpaste Missing student ID Badly need money-saving up for spring break if unable to go on spring break it will then be owing to a hole in the wall. crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881323042003-01-27T20:38:00.000-06:002003-01-28T00:21:09.000-06:00How do I want my world to look? I can not throw out The Road Less Traveled where else can you turn for spiritual guidance.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881320142003-01-27T20:33:00.000-06:002003-01-28T00:15:28.000-06:00Off The Map I've been lost in thought for about 10 mns. Immobilized by the seeming emptiness of a place I don't want to be. Work! When I could be watching Joe Millionaire crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881129032003-01-27T14:09:00.000-06:002003-01-27T18:02:22.000-06:00On Huck Finn: Revisited When I was young I read all kinds of books, looking for heroic girls in the pages, but I couldn't find anything. I don't want to be the boring girl that the boys in adventure stories get crushes on. I want to have my own adventure stories. So i'm gonna make some new pages.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881058072003-01-27T11:42:00.000-06:002003-01-28T00:43:07.000-06:00On Blood Just write your own personal, intelligent, insightful and eloquent reflections upon the whys and wherefores of your life, just make catchy and infectious sentences.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-881044902003-01-27T11:14:00.000-06:002003-01-27T11:15:48.000-06:00Clutz..... so I fell again today outside, I'm blaming it on my inner ear problem, I have trouble balancing on two feet. So my hand feels broken and I can barely slide my fingers for every key. I slammed my hand into the damn deck post, and I heard a loud POP and CRACK... followed by a long string of cursing. crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-880852182003-01-27T01:21:00.000-06:002003-01-27T01:23:25.000-06:00Tiny whiplashes I think I might need coffee in a few hours to get through the day......I'll be having my 12 o'clock withdrawls and that strong coffee drinker breath. ack. I got scolded again for not going out on Thursday. The house had a cook-off for XXXVII....we put a pretty good dent in the food supply today. I slept....I actually slept-no scotch required, kudos maybe awarded. "He's a cat Greg.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-880844492003-01-27T00:54:00.000-06:002003-01-27T00:59:05.000-06:00Can I borrow some ambition? I didn't have a lot of time to check out everyones blogs and I have yet to add more of them to My Roll. My roomates are getting pissed because I'm tying up the phone lines in the afternoon so I reverted to do this now.....but I did bounce back and forth with my classmates entries I agree with coldcomfort there are so many ideas and so little time! Looks like tweence iscrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-880630022003-01-26T16:06:00.000-06:002003-01-26T16:06:03.506-06:00Picked up some cd's today, had lunch with my buddy benji, and ate subs...hmmm......still time for a nap......I have to get rid of this candy.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-880624532003-01-26T15:50:00.000-06:002003-01-26T15:50:42.083-06:00So this site caught my eye...because I love Nofx so i had to click on it you should click on it here too. This log is sweet, there is an awesome graphic/background and its in a foreign lingo. His entries are short and probably to the point...the way I like'em.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-880621672003-01-26T15:42:00.000-06:002003-01-26T15:44:05.000-06:00It's really hard to read weblogs with dark background for me at my home computer...the sun shines through the blinds and there is a glare, I had difficulty reading intellectually Revered Maybe I should plan on moving my desk so it doesn't get that damn glare all day long. The site is pretty plain but the content seems alright, i'm not a fan of the long winded blogging, like this one. There isn't crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-880618172003-01-26T15:33:00.000-06:002003-01-26T15:35:58.000-06:00So looks like I have to start my homework now before you know ...The Game begins....maybe i'll just try and take a nap today.... I should put the candy down then...so i've been surfing, kindof got sidetracked shopping so i'm going to create a wishlist link to Barnes and Noble... I found this cool blog by some chick, she has some nice links, tells what the weather is like where she lives. cutesy, crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-880603222003-01-26T14:56:00.000-06:002003-01-26T16:02:50.000-06:00WORK......I was late today. It was my own damn fault, spent most of the night playing pool with jen and anna then came home to do some surfing, decided to take a 2 hour nap, set the time for 5:45 ........PM. instead of AM. Ack!....So I wake up at 6:30 am and i'm running around my room trying to decide what I need to do first...tripped on my own damn pant cuff then after starting my car I hopped crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-879482112003-01-24T03:10:00.000-06:002003-01-24T03:13:32.000-06:00FRIDAY MORNING FEVER My roomies went to $1.00 tap night...I was not feeling comfortable to make my Mad Hand presence known yet. Good thing too because I guess the gang was refered to as the SIGN PEOPLE the whole night. sorry fred and roomies I know I promised to meet up with you, got a little side tracked...*wink wink, nudge nudge* Maybe next week I'll go for a binge.crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-879480482003-01-24T03:03:00.000-06:002003-01-24T03:03:55.460-06:00CAINMOSNI I read chapter 2 from Walden Where I Lived, and What I Lived For but it just got me hooked maybe I should have read chapter 1 Economy instead. Anyway, I think my roomie Brad wouldn't mind if I snuck a few sips from his flask. So I've been thinking...daydreams are really only life, when you live them up close. Take away the distance, live daily in the beauty you had imagined from afar, crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-879252752003-01-23T17:46:00.000-06:002003-01-23T17:46:47.323-06:00So a couple of my classmates/friends and I have started a writing circle. Penumbra, thats our name, definition: an earth shadow on the moon. Actually Andy came up with it, but we all agreed he is the smartest in the group and so he manipulated us into not voting his word of choice off the island. It went well, we came up with some prompts, discussed them, picked which ones to write about and readcrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-879225802003-01-23T16:48:00.000-06:002003-01-23T17:26:08.000-06:00My Music Picks No particular order Tracy Chapman Bad Religion DaveMatthewsBand crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-879209762003-01-23T16:14:00.000-06:002003-01-23T17:27:28.000-06:00KUDOS AWARD GOES TO.... josh page for helping me out this morning with my inabilities to use a computer jason bradley I will definately try the disconnected old dead guy bit, if that doesn't work...bring on the Scotch!crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128327.post-878796552003-01-22T22:00:00.000-06:002003-01-27T11:08:18.000-06:00Top Books to Read The Cather in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger Republic, by Plato Howl, by Allen Ginsberg Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac The Rum Diary, by Hunter S. Thompson Windows for Dummies Ten Lousy Things Men Do to Be Rotten, by Dr. Laura Sleshslinger crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16602025347209467356noreply@blogger.com