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September 15, 2009 06:07 AM EDT --
My daughter Britta works after school at a local espresso shop. Often I will stop in to see her, and see if she'll need a ride home after work. I did so tonight, but she seemed a wee bit like . . .
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July 22, 2009 07:11 PM EDT --
Breakfast Haiku #1
sausages sizzle
eggs yolks look with startled eyes
the breakfast beast lurks
Breakfast Haiku #2
pancakes . . .
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June 12, 2009 02:43 AM EDT --
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. If you teach his wife how to fish, you feed the whole family for a lifetime .
This reality . . .
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April 07, 2009 09:22 AM EDT --
Last night I received an email advising me of an amazing deal on an item (a pancake compressor, of course) which I hadn't here-to-fore known to be in existence, much less that I would be found "personally . . .
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April 06, 2009 08:05 PM EDT --
I just received an email notice that these are available from Amazon.com for only $175.49 (with Free Super Saver Shipping! ) Amazingly, I didn't even know that I needed a Pancake Compressor! . . .
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April 03, 2009 10:52 AM EDT --
My NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday Puzzler Experience! (Almost)
I didn't want to jinx the process, and bragging about it would have done just that. One needs to be discreet when on the verge . . .
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March 17, 2009 10:34 PM EDT --
I admit it... I'm angry. Very angry. I have many friends in the real world, and online, who work hard at their jobs, and would have been thrilled at even a modest raise over the past couple . . .
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February 26, 2009 05:22 AM EST --
This just in: Unconfirmed sources are reporting that several House Republicans were rushed to Walter Reed hospital early this morning. Hospital spokesperson Al B. Dern would only confirm that there . . .
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February 25, 2009 03:32 PM EST --
This just in... congressional Republicans have announced Phase II of their strategy in response to the current economic crisis. (You know... the one that they themselves had ABSOLUTELY NO ROLE IN CREATING . . .
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February 24, 2009 10:29 PM EST --
Many of my Gather friends may know that I have children. What they may not know is that I have three children. Two of those children (the two oldest) are sons, and they are both attending . . .
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February 24, 2009 12:10 AM EST --
Wasn't it Sting who sang:
♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫
♫ Though Ive tried before to tell her
Of the feelings I have for her in my pants...
Every time that I come near her
I just lose my nerve
Once again . . .
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February 18, 2009 04:52 PM EST --
Unconfirmed, anonymous and seemingly tipsy sources are reporting the renowned author and Gather celeb femme-fatale Tracy Fabre is engaged to someone known only as Mark Jepsen.
We have been unable to . . .
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February 17, 2009 09:54 PM EST --
Gather is getting creative with my "Comments" page:
I'm not sure whether this is intended.
http://media-files.gather.com/images/d750/d517/d745/d224/d96/f3/full.jpg
Anyone . . .
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February 16, 2009 12:12 PM EST --
Dream A Bovine Dream of Me
Stars shining bright to woo you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I moo you"
Cows singing on the pastoral lea
Dream a bovine dream of me
Say "Night-ie . . .
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February 15, 2009 01:40 PM EST --
I know how to place images in article posts using html. And I know how to post images in a comment. I thought that I knew how to place an image in a ping, but I seem to have lost that knowledge . . .
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February 11, 2009 08:58 PM EST --
I Teeter-Tottered Upside Down: Variation #3
I teeter-tottered upside down
my childish glee denies the ground
a boyish spirit flying free
cannot be tamed by gravity
On the cusp I now . . .
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February 11, 2009 05:02 PM EST --
I know what you're thinking... if you've just read my excellent expose' on Portland Island (ref: Portland Cement is a LIE! ) you're thinking to yourself: "Surely, O Pudgy But Studly . . .
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February 09, 2009 08:18 PM EST --
*This is an Asterisk (Since I'm spoofing a classic best-seller from the 60's that used an asterisk in it's title, I found myself with little choice but to put one in the title as well. . . .
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February 09, 2009 07:14 PM EST --
[New York Times News Item: Rodriguez Admits He Used 'a Substance' -- Alex Rodriguez told ESPN on Monday that he did not know what he was taking and that he has not used performance-enhancing . . .
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January 29, 2009 10:59 AM EST --
It Wasn't God Who Made Coffee Cup Gremlins... an Homage to Kitty Wells
As I sit here with the brewmaster makin'
the java that will get me crankin' inside
As I'm lookin' for . . .
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Mark Jepsen
Twin Cities, MN, USA
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