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Monday, November 21, 2022

cdeemer2kindle greetings!

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cdeemer2kindle     https://bit.ly/3XjSvWp         CharlesDeemer
Thursday, October 03, 2013

R.I.P.

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R.I.P. The Writing Life II 2006-2013 As part of the personal and professional downsizing I've been doing for some months now, I a...

Very sad

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New York City Opera files for bankruptcy http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/03/us/new-york-city-opera-bankruptcy/index.html

UCLA plays tonight

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Thursday night football of special interest to me. Before then, will make a batch of scrapple using the leftover brother from yesterday...

How the Shutdown Is Devastating Biomedical Scientists and Killing Their Research - Wired Science

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How the Shutdown Is Devastating Biomedical Scientists and Killing Their Research - Wired Science : 'via Blog this'

Oregon Poetic Voices- Charles Deemer

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Oregon Poetic Voices- Charles Deemer : 'via Blog this'

Human Assault Pushes Ocean to Limit Unseen in 300 Million Years | Common Dreams

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Human Assault Pushes Ocean to Limit Unseen in 300 Million Years | Common Dreams : "'We are entering an unknown territory of marin...

Are the Republicans Crazy? No! | Kathleen Reardon

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Are the Republicans Crazy? No! | Kathleen Reardon : "The Republicans have chosen not to be good, not to be fair, not to be rational i...

Oops, missed!

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Daily Kos: Poll: Tea party approves Republican shutdown, everyone else disapproves

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Daily Kos: Poll: Tea party approves Republican shutdown, everyone else disapproves : 'via Blog this'

Tea Party Reality

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 When I was a freshman at Cal Tech, we had an incredible, creative final in our Physics class. You are an astronaut and have landed on a dis...

Meet Butch Matthews, A Republican Who Came To Love Obamacare After Realizing It Will Save Him $13,000 | ThinkProgress

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Meet Butch Matthews, A Republican Who Came To Love Obamacare After Realizing It Will Save Him $13,000 | ThinkProgress : "But after do...

Hanging out

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Yesterday after taking H to PT, instead of reading in the waiting room I drove to a nearby Starbucks, got my ritual iced coffee and ... hung...

Good question

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Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science? http://zite.to/18T9oIu

What actresses go through

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Jennifer Lawrence 'told to diet' to save career http://zite.to/1aNSxs4

Demon of self-promotion

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Franzen: writers 'coerced' into social media http://zite.to/GAJGQU What a different world! Young today, I can't imagine becomi...

Cal Tech #1

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Caltech, Oxford and Harvard lead world university rankings http://gu.com/p/3j8ne
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Spiritual equation

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Homer + Lombardo + Iliad = Sanity in an insane world

Happy birthday, Graham Greene!

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Should have been given the Nobel Prize.

Have they no shame? Nope.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sally-steenland/have-they-no-shame_b_4029668.html

Exceptional, yep

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World baffled by America's self-inflicted wound http://zite.to/15JD7GU

Surreal

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These Republicans In Congress Really Hope You'll Forget The Government Shutdown Is Their Fault http://zite.to/170In3d

Storm the White House!

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Mothers whose kids are being deprived of health and nutritional benefits lead the march, followed by at least a million citizens being hurt...

Bowl of the soup of the wife of Kit Carson

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Cooking therapy. First step, fresh turkey broth, which takes all afternoon. Perfect.

Fracking and other obscenities

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Dangerous levels of radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania http://gu.com/p/3j89b
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The game is called marketing

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Guerrilla Screenwriting: PowerPoint Presentation For Movie Financing http://zite.to/1fJ1lW8 I had an indie producer believe in a splay of...

Mum's the word!

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Are You Unwittingly Sabotaging Yourself by Talking About Your Writing? http://zite.to/16gEpI5 "The problem is, if you spend too much ...
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Votes are there!

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The Two Basic Facts That Should Be in Every Shutdown Story http://zite.to/19kSuR2

The new civil war

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America’s Long-Simmering, Semi-Civil Civil War http://zite.to/16gD1F9
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Day 1

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Great start to my class. No complaints.
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Quotation of the day

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" ...there is something more here. How does one party that has lost two presidential elections and a Supreme Court case – as well as tw...

Timothy Leary's Transformation From Scientist to Psychedelic Celebrity - Wired Science

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Timothy Leary's Transformation From Scientist to Psychedelic Celebrity - Wired Science : 'via Blog this'

Guess who still gets paid?

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Quotation of the month

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Fellow from New Zealand on bombing after a big lead to lose the America's Cup ... "You won the cup but we have free health care!...

CNN Host Asks GOP Representatives Whether They'd Give Up Their Salary During A Shutdown, Hilarity Ensues | ThinkProgress

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CNN Host Asks GOP Representatives Whether They'd Give Up Their Salary During A Shutdown, Hilarity Ensues | ThinkProgress : 'via Bl...

Just 30 Out Of 233 House Republicans Actually Want The Shutdown Fight | ThinkProgress

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Just 30 Out Of 233 House Republicans Actually Want The Shutdown Fight | ThinkProgress : Tells you something.

Obamacare Enrollment Is Beating Expectations | ThinkProgress

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Obamacare Enrollment Is Beating Expectations | ThinkProgress : Anything to piss off the Tea Party, man, ha ha.

PHOTOS: World War II Veterans Force Open WWII Memorial During Shutdown | ThinkProgress

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PHOTOS: World War II Veterans Force Open WWII Memorial During Shutdown | ThinkProgress : 'via Blog this'

For the last time ...

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In my office for the new term. It occurred to me, everything this year is "for the last time", i.e. my last "first day of a f...
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Getting ready: JFK assassination 50 years later

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4 essential books of the event, 1 thought-provoking read, 1 poem and a ballad. 1. Who Really Killed Kennedy?  Recent overview of the vario...
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Scandanavia rules

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The best - and worst - places to grow old are... http://www.cnbc.com/id/101075450 U.S. 8th. I believe it.
Monday, September 30, 2013

Best high school football logo

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Orofino Maniacs

Song butchers

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Stumbled on Monday Night Football in time to hear 5 seconds of butchering the National Anthem. I didn't have to hear more. There are t...

Lombardo's Homer

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"Soldiers sprawled on the ground, closer now to vultures than to their wives." Still listening to, enjoying, impressed by Lombardo...

Engaging historical speculation

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Screenwriter and producer Bryce Zabel (Dark Skies) has written a gripping novel, SURROUNDED BY ENEMIES, based on the premise that JFK sur...

Stooges film

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Three Stooges film discovered in garden shed http://gu.com/p/3j6d6

War stories

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How we made Monty Python's The Meaning of Life http://gu.com/p/3j6nd

SuperPuddle City

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Oregon storm 2013: Portland, Astoria see highest September rainfalls on record http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/20...

Sanders on health care

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A Single-Payer System, Like Medicare, is the Cure for America's Ailing Healthcare | Common Dreams : "I start my approach to hea...
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75%

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Not running on all cylinders this morning. The new term begins. A year of transition. Many personal changes ahead.

From bees to us

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The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Upon Us: Can Humans Survive? http://disinfo.com/2013/09/sixth-mass-extinction-upon-us-can-humans-survive/

AP

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Associated Press Top 25 Poll Updated: Monday September 30, 2013 01:28 AM                                                       Mor...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Our dismal schools

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This Year's SAT Scores Are Out, and They're Grim http://zite.to/1eT2Pfm

Manning breaks record

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http://www.9news.com/sports/football/nfl/denver_broncos/357508/72/Manning-ties-4-game-record

Thanks a lot, Chip!

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Denver is beating you so bad (49-13 early in 4th), TV switched games so I can't watch in awe as Manning picks you apart.

A Sunday poem

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http://cdretire.blogspot.com/2013/09/sunday-mourning.html

The Wallowa County Who-Who

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I believe this is the last story I published in a print journal, then only because The Portland Review asked for something. http://cdretir...

Nez Perce victory

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http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/20/nez-perce-victory-us-forest-service-forbids-mega-loads-along-highway-12-151372

Climate chills

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A climate report that gives you the chills http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/29/4349179/a-climate-report-that-gives-you.html

Quits flying as moral issue

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Meteorologist Who Says He Will Never Fly Again Has A Compelling Explanation http://www.businessinsider.com/meterologist-eric-holthaus-quits-...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

She got it!

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The grad student screenwriter I'm mentoring got the for-hire gig with a very sweet contract. Hey, this makes my last year. So fine.

Tweet trouble

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News from @AP: Professors chide KU for sanctions over tweet: http://apne.ws/1aAfLld

TV v. film

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Why TV Is Pummeling the Movie Industry http://zite.to/16TKF57

R.I.P.?

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New York City Opera near bankruptcy; Kickstarter effort falling short http://zite.to/16TJUc5

College football at its best!

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WV upsets Ok St, 30-21, in Morgantown, homecoming, and I heard it on WV radio, first rate old school announcers, exciting to listen to. Does...

West Virginia

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First rate announcing team! I'll listen to more through the season.

Underdogs

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Great fun to listen to underdog's radio station when they are competitive. My morning team ends up being West Virginia, leading Ok St in...

Duh

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Screenwriting venues don't like promoting my free tutorial because it competes with (and is superior to!) products they advertise. Makes...

Football Saturday

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Wind and rain outside, good day for the entertaining escape of college football. Navy and Harvard games early, later two good Pac games toni...

Learn something new

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According to the LA Times, Portland is the strip club capital of the world. This came out in an article about a NJ politician having a Twit...

There are lists and then there are lists

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Here's one to be on ha ha ... http://roundbendpress.blogspot.com/2013/09/chuckie.html
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