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hmmnmm said:
oh my all this talk about puffin and passin and 420...

you know, by the time the seventies were over there weren't too many really original riffs left. So I don't know if it's really possible nowadays for something to not sound like something familiar or break entirely free from those influences, those seeds... especially if that's what you grew up on.:)

the response/acceptance is indeed oh so sweet
I'll not deny I got the heavy duty jitters when I saw it had been posted.
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It's almost like I could taste your past when I listened to it.

I was born in '71, so the most influential forces in my life during the 70's were Sesame Street & The Bugs Bunny & Road Runner Show.
But, I had 2 foster brothers who were with my family for several years. I remember them listening to Styx, The Eagles, and Elton John.

It wasn't until much later-- like the mid-80's-- that I discovered Pink Floyd, The Doors, and the Grateful Dead... and THAT's the chord that reverberated through your audio poem.
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snickering here... because the few people I've showed some of this to, they all, all ALL say about the same thing: sixties/seventies, but you know, a whole lotta styles and sounds and variety was explored in those times. So maybe it's an okay era to gladly submit to...:heart:
 
oh and I love bugs bunny and the road runner
you KNOW there was some passin and puffin goin on when those guys were making those characters and stories
 
when I once lived in another state and would go visit an acquaintance, he'd always bid adieu with 'see you in the next cartoon'
just about the most inspiring phrases anybody ever spoke to me and which I too often forget


that's at least two zappais eh?
 
It's snowing... yea!
..except I keep checking to see if my daughter at least has a school delay tomorrow. no such luck yet. her school is always the last in the county to have a delay or close, cuz it's a "city" school. Most of the kids walk to school. I guess they figure that unless the sidewalks have feet of snow on them, they are good to go.

I, on the other hand, have to drive my daughter to the high school.. It's hard enough to get her to go as it is. She would never go if she had to walk. (well, the high school is a little far from my house.)

My daughter and I often joke that we wish school would start at 8 pm instead of 8 am. It would work so much better for us night owls.
 
Yes, great work hmmmnmmmmerific! I thought it was Austin-bluesy. bbq it, dip it in ranch with a side of fried pickles

I saw ostrich skin boots. Grey.

LadynStFreknBed said:
omg, hmmnmmish

<bows to the audio master>

listening to it reminded me of something that i can't pinpoint. Don't you hate that familiar feeling of unknown source?

i thought maybe it was similar to the sound of a song in my past or something..
don't know, but somebody puff & pass...

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good morning, ya'll.

I just woke up. I started thinking that my daughter missed school again, so I rushed to wgal.com, my local news website, and found this:

Lebanon Sch Dist
Lebanon County
Closed
Submitted at: 5:20 AM EST on Wednesday, Jan 28

Thank God! Seeing that, it felt like I was the kid... when you see that school is finally closed after begging the tv...

really, one of these days I need to get myself a human alarm clock. it's just that whenever i do have one, it's turns out to be too loud or abrasive.
 
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Well, my daughter had a two-hour delay this morning. I was prepared to take her, but my street decided otherwise. My street does not get plowed. Well, it does if there is a lot of snow, but it's not a priority. My car was stuck in a mixture of ice and snow. We cleaned off the layers of snow and ice from my car, but I couldn't get out of my parking space.

I really like my Ford Focus, but it's not a car that can overcome many obstacles. It has some bizarre little quirks too. It drives better in snow than in rain, for example.

I'm hoping that it gets warm enough today that some of the ice melts. I'm gonna go check on the situation later.

Good times.
 
UnderYourSpell said:
Goodness Anna you actually wrote about tin foil! gotta hand it to you
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I am telling you, you need more crazy relatives. You can borrow some crazy people from the internet:


My windows are covered in tin foil cuz i work 3rd shift and need dark during the day to sleep..but my cat keeps trying to eat the tin foil. whats up with that?
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Here is a list of reasons people do it. Very interesting, I never knew...

http://askville.amazon.com/people-put-tin-foil-windows/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=2195182

This answer was particularly inspiring. So much so that I am going to stop whining about having to use the same triggers again.... I wanna do one about the last one.


The reason why people in South Texas do it is to help reflect the heat of the sun. Folks with any kind of money at all tend to have professionally installed solar film or solar tinted windows. However, those who don't have a lot of cash handy (or who are renting) tend to go for the foil look. It gives the neighborhood a kind of low-rent trailer park feel.



It is also helpful if you don't want people to see in, for example when you are cooking crack in the kitchen



As this guy said at http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic22833.html :



"Some of the windows on the southwest and northwest faces of my house are exposed to direct sunlight due to the lack of a tree or awning to provide shade. (Since I rent, I'm not authorized to make home improvements.)

So I just taped aluminum foil to the interior of these windows. The blinds don't do the best job of shading - they are beige and only partially obscure the direct sunlight. Aluminum foil, on the other hand, is opaque and also reflects the sunlight AWAY from the house. Since less direct sunlight can get in, the rooms should heat up less. If I really want to be a purist, I'd cover the glass entirely, but I'm leaving small gaps between the window frames and the foil coverings to let in a little bit of light.

I'm surprised that none of the experts on energy conservation suggest this. This is a cheap and easy solution. I also figured that if aluminum foil works well for the window shade in the car, it should work well for the house as well."



On the other hand there are many web sites that tout the use of foil to ward off aliens and mind-control waves.



At http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/11_15_2005.html it says:



"I put tin foil in Leta’s windows when she turned four months old to keep the aliens out. Something kept waking her up every two hours and I figured it was either the ambient light or the aliens, and I knew that tin foil would take care of both. During the winter it also kept out the snow elves so I never took it down. Often while changing her diaper on the table beneath the tin foil I would sing songs into the window and it produced a spectacular sound, like Richard Simmons screaming into an electric guitar in the middle of a wind storm. I often wondered if she would remember the tin foil, how I had gently taped it to each pane of glass, and whether or not the opening sentence of her memoir would read, “My mother taped tin foil to my windows when I was a baby and that is why I sit here now writing this from the corner of my cell.” "

This is actually written by a very talented woman..Heather B. Armstrong... and she was kidding about the aliens. Quite a writer! Check out her blog sometime. http://www.dooce.com/
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LadynStFreknBed said:
I really like my Ford Focus, but it's not a car that can overcome many obstacles. It has some bizarre little quirks too. It drives better in snow than in rain, for example.


Good times.
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ooh I want to write about your Ford Focus. Not a car that can overcome many obstacles.... trigger trigger trigger :)
 
you know, the first thing I thought about when I read the "tin-foiled covered windows" trigger was paranoid schizophrenia.

What would you expect from a psychology student?

I had no idea there were sane reasons for covering windows with tin foil.
 
Did ya'll see it? Did you look? Come on, I know you peeked...

Did you see that I got nominated for a Reader's Choice Award for June?

It was for my How to piece. Nothing spectacular, really. Just a lot of common sense... but, it rang true for a lot of authors.. Simple advice for readers, such as read the categories that you enjoy instead of bombing stories in categories that you don't like. If you think a story about incest is wrong, then don't read incest stories just to bitch about them, ya know?

Anyway, I didn't win, but when I started writing here, I set a goal to be nominated at least once a year. So far, so good.

Anyone else have a personal goal that they have for their experience here? I would love a chance to support any goals that you guys have.

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LadynStFreknBed said:
Did ya'll see it? Did you look? Come on, I know you peeked...

Did you see that I got nominated for a Reader's Choice Award for June?

It was for my How to piece. Nothing spectacular, really. Just a lot of common sense... but, it rang true for a lot of authors.. Simple advice for readers, such as read the categories that you enjoy instead of bombing stories in categories that you don't like. If you think a story about incest is wrong, then don't read incest stories just to bitch about them, ya know?

Anyway, I didn't win, but when I started writing here, I set a goal to be nominated at least once a year. So far, so good.

Anyone else have a personal goal that they have for their experience here? I would love a chance to support any goals that you guys have.

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Ah. Now I can go around saying, "yeah I know her... traded a couple pokes back in the old days... ":)
 
Congratulations! Goal? Just to finish one round of survivor.

LadynStFreknBed said:
Did ya'll see it? Did you look? Come on, I know you peeked...

Did you see that I got nominated for a Reader's Choice Award for June?

It was for my How to piece. Nothing spectacular, really. Just a lot of common sense... but, it rang true for a lot of authors.. Simple advice for readers, such as read the categories that you enjoy instead of bombing stories in categories that you don't like. If you think a story about incest is wrong, then don't read incest stories just to bitch about them, ya know?

Anyway, I didn't win, but when I started writing here, I set a goal to be nominated at least once a year. So far, so good.

Anyone else have a personal goal that they have for their experience here? I would love a chance to support any goals that you guys have.

:heart:
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hmmnmm said:
Honey the way you're going, you're blazing well beyond mere survival.
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I've ground to a standstill I haven't written anything of note for days. If I thought I was having trouble with the haiku it's double with the ones that have to be stressed on certain words, everytime i post something to ask I get asked what meter I am going for and it's all wrong. It's very dispiriting to have to keep starting again
 
Annie, one thing that helps me when I'm writing poems with a particular meter (like iambic pentameter) is to first write several lines without worrying about the meter-- just to get my thoughts down. They are the important points that I want to make in the poem.

Then, I look at what I wrote and start marking the accented syllables in bold. If I'm not absolutely certain which syllable in a word is accented, I check an online dictionary. The accented syllable in the pronounciation key for that word is either in bold or has a ' after it.

After I have my keywords and phrases marked, I feel ready to start organizing my thoughts in the poem's form. I think most forms are typically iambic pentameter, which just means that their are 10 syllables in a line and every other syllable is an accented one.

A lot of times, my keywords or phrases can be used as they are. Sometimes, I have to change them to fit the form, but I try to change them in a way that improves them. I may look at a phrase that I thought I wanted to put in, and in making it fit the form, I stumble onto something even better.

Oh, here's a hint for iambic pentameter-- small words are usually easier to work with! Words with three syllables can be a bitch unless the middle syllable is the accented one. You see what I mean? Some words with three syllables are easier to use-- like "creation" The middle syllable is accented, so if the syllable before it and the syllable after it are accented, then it's fine.
But, take a word like "poetry"- a three syllable word in which the 1st syllable is accented. Try to use "poetry" in iambic pentameter and it forces you off meter.
 
UnderYourSpell said:
I've ground to a standstill I haven't written anything of note for days. If I thought I was having trouble with the haiku it's double with the ones that have to be stressed on certain words, every time i post something to ask I get asked what meter I am going for and it's all wrong. It's very dispiriting to have to keep starting again
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One thing to remember, almost all of us are going through exactly what you are going through. Don't think you are the only one that has a good poem for a trigger, and find on writing down our thoughts that we don't have to work it over and over again. We do.

While the English language lends itself to the alternating stresses in a sentence than makes iambic or trochaic poetry so much more common, we don't talk that way, and so it takes all of us some amount of work to do this.

Also, not EVERY line in a poem needs to conform to type. Sometimes we just can't make a line better no matter how much work we put into it. Let those things go.

Don't stress too much over it. What you are doing is absolutely normal.
 
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