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Poetry and literary blogging now published at <a href="http://cdretire.blogspot.com"><i>A WRITERLY RETIREMENT</i> (hot link)</a>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">2006-2013</span><br />
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As part of the personal and professional downsizing I've been doing for some months now, I am bringing this blog to an end but keeping it online as an archive. I'll continue literary blogging at<a href="http://cdretire.blogspot.com/"> A Writerly Retirement</a>. Now you see him, now you don't.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/frag.htm">Fragments Before the Fall (The Literary Review, Summer, 1971):</a></div>
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You will follow. You must, for I have a parting gesture in mind but it depends on your following in order to make sense, and I give no value (absolutely none!) to gestures which do not make sense. You will follow and so I say, Welcome, my friend, Welcome to the Valley of the Waters of Fire, where you will be consumed. And sooner than you think, even as I will be consumed sooner than I think, since we all get tired of waiting and jump from the rope in the end. As we fall our hands trail over our heads, making the hand the last organ to go and the appropriate vehicle for whatever parting gesture can be mustered by flesh heated in agony. What do you think it will be, my friend? An erect middle finger? Perhaps you'll be surprised. I may give you the flat palm of my hand, raised horizontally to cushion your own fall, which so quickly follows mine. But hurry! For I am burning.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-20969045068407247752013-10-03T16:44:00.001-07:002013-10-03T16:44:39.646-07:00Very sad<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>New York City Opera files for bankruptcy <a href='http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/03/us/new-york-city-opera-bankruptcy/index.html'>http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/03/us/new-york-city-opera-bankruptcy/index.html</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-26561459355895272802013-10-03T10:37:00.001-07:002013-10-03T10:44:57.241-07:00UCLA plays tonight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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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's Bowl of the Soup of the Wife of Kit Carson, which was first rate! This is a fine soup: make turkey broth from scratch, then filter and add back the turkey, garbonzo beans, avacado slices and cheese squares (melted in broth). Man! Been a specialty of mine since I discovered it in grad school. Can't resist the name, of course.<br />
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Haven't made scrapple with a turkey broth base before ... curious how it turns out.<br />
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Playoffs in baseball have started, too, so I have lots of sports diversion from the utter madness of the news cycle.<br />
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I started watching Dark Skies last night, which I got because I admire the novel I'm reading by the creator of the 90s TV series, which I missed when it came out. So far, so good ... not great but entertaining.<br />
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Need to catch up on writing things tomorrow. I am making a lot of grunt work progress here in the office, which is nice.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-66810036880926795392013-10-03T10:26:00.001-07:002013-10-03T10:26:41.825-07:00How the Shutdown Is Devastating Biomedical Scientists and Killing Their Research - Wired Science<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/government-shutdown-affects-biomedical-research/">How the Shutdown Is Devastating Biomedical Scientists and Killing Their Research - Wired Science</a>: <br />
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<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk" style="font-size: 13px;">'via Blog this'</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-51575950195727266242013-10-03T10:22:00.001-07:002013-10-03T10:22:32.689-07:00Oregon Poetic Voices- Charles Deemer<a href="http://oregonpoeticvoices.org/poet/240/">Oregon Poetic Voices- Charles Deemer</a>: <br />
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<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk" style="font-size: 13px;">'via Blog this'</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-78836695297256654892013-10-03T10:20:00.001-07:002013-10-03T10:20:38.422-07:00Human Assault Pushes Ocean to Limit Unseen in 300 Million Years | Common Dreams<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/03">Human Assault Pushes Ocean to Limit Unseen in 300 Million Years | Common Dreams</a>:<br />
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"'We are entering an unknown territory of marine ecosystem change,' warns report. 'The next mass extinction may have already begun.'"<br />
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Is this a horse race? Do we destroy ourselves by immediate political stupidity or will Nature do the job for us, consequences from earlier arrogance?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-55992770640831980702013-10-03T10:16:00.001-07:002013-10-03T10:16:09.616-07:00Are the Republicans Crazy? No! | Kathleen Reardon<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-reardon/are-the-republicans-crazy_b_4030629.html">Are the Republicans Crazy? No! | Kathleen Reardon</a>:<br />
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"The Republicans have chosen not to be good, not to be fair, not to be rational in the common sense of these words. The needs of the "folks" pale by comparison to the distributive demands of the moment. Since they can't win -- and since where they have positioned themselves anything less than a win is a shameful loss -- they have chosen to bring the game to a halt. Their goal is to "win" by disallowing a win by the opposition and then to worry about explanations later."<br />
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...<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The ball in not only in their court right now, they think they own it. Laugh as we might at the ludicrous nature of their behavior, they aren't playing to the same audience as Democrats. They're in an entirely different theater. The show is underway. The die is cast. Now all they care about is how they look on TV.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-61631670604424972282013-10-03T10:12:00.002-07:002013-10-03T10:12:40.726-07:00Oops, missed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-49212302975059711722013-10-03T10:09:00.001-07:002013-10-03T10:09:03.156-07:00Daily Kos: Poll: Tea party approves Republican shutdown, everyone else disapproves<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/03/1243684/-Poll-Tea-party-approves-Republican-shutdown-everyone-else-disapproves">Daily Kos: Poll: Tea party approves Republican shutdown, everyone else disapproves</a>: <br />
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I think the Tea Party lives on such a distant planet where the laws and principles of LOGIC are different from what is established here on Earth. They are, in other words, aliens in the realm of logical discourse.Maybe someone can figure out their new reality.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-38284296875896869662013-10-03T09:48:00.001-07:002013-10-03T09:48:23.975-07:00Meet Butch Matthews, A Republican Who Came To Love Obamacare After Realizing It Will Save Him $13,000 | ThinkProgress<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/02/2721501/butch-matthews-obamacare-convert/">Meet Butch Matthews, A Republican Who Came To Love Obamacare After Realizing It Will Save Him $13,000 | ThinkProgress</a>:<br />
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"But after doing a little research, Matthews eventually realized how much the law could help him. And on Tuesday, his local Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) provider confirmed that he would be able to buy a far better plan than his current policy while saving at least $13,000 per year through Arkansas’ Obamacare marketplace."<br />
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So I do my hanging out solo these days. But not often.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-24000171369879063872013-10-03T05:49:00.003-07:002013-10-03T05:49:51.686-07:00Good question<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science? <a href='http://zite.to/18T9oIu'>http://zite.to/18T9oIu</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-18138706113284788902013-10-03T05:49:00.001-07:002013-10-03T05:49:09.977-07:00What actresses go through<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Jennifer Lawrence 'told to diet' to save career <a href='http://zite.to/1aNSxs4'>http://zite.to/1aNSxs4</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-40783826334101876772013-10-03T05:47:00.001-07:002013-10-03T05:47:15.816-07:00Demon of self-promotion<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Franzen: writers 'coerced' into social media <a href='http://zite.to/GAJGQU'>http://zite.to/GAJGQU</a><br/>
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What a different world! Young today, I can't imagine becoming a writer, other than privately. So much disrespect for content. So much hype and bullshit.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-34236698685851426752013-10-03T05:41:00.001-07:002013-10-03T05:41:59.987-07:00Cal Tech #1<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Caltech, Oxford and Harvard lead world university rankings<br/>
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Should have been given the Nobel Prize.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-83837608967177017862013-10-02T21:29:00.001-07:002013-10-02T21:29:17.461-07:00Have they no shame? Nope.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><a href='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sally-steenland/have-they-no-shame_b_4029668.html'>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sally-steenland/have-they-no-shame_b_4029668.html</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-89246880169550203972013-10-02T21:18:00.001-07:002013-10-02T21:18:51.831-07:00Exceptional, yep<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>World baffled by America's self-inflicted wound <a href='http://zite.to/15JD7GU'>http://zite.to/15JD7GU</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-40555247457628391572013-10-02T21:15:00.001-07:002013-10-02T21:15:17.170-07:00Surreal<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>These Republicans In Congress Really Hope You'll Forget The Government Shutdown Is Their Fault <a href='http://zite.to/170In3d'>http://zite.to/170In3d</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8502471156807193188.post-68259840535598707972013-10-02T14:01:00.001-07:002013-10-02T15:54:54.732-07:00Storm the White House!<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
Mothers whose kids are being deprived of health and nutritional benefits lead the march, followed by at least a million citizens being hurt by this immoral ideological posturing. At root, this is founded in the blatant racism of birthers. You can't convince me otherwise. Fed by the chickenshit shameful Republican leadership. To the streets! Don't let them get away with this racist hatred of Obama.<br />
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But actually this won't happen. Pardon the fantasy.</div>
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