one for my VCFA peeps

Couldn’t get the image to upload, but you can check it out here:
http://www.oreillymaker.com/link/8444/information-dumps/
While you’re there, make some of your own!

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sideways diversion

I’m about to call it a night when I decide to check in on the various neglected blogs I’m no longer finding the time to read. I’m checking Children’s Illustration which has a link to a story that the Library of Congress is putting chunks of it’s photo archives on Flickr.
I am so there in [...]

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tar pits

When I’m starting a new story I sort of have to sneak up on it. Even when I know exactly how it’s going to start I usually get quickly bogged down. I’m like an actor during rehearsal trying to remember his lines and hit his marks. I’m not comfortable, the process isn’t [...]

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…and then i woke up

Ever wake suddenly from a nightmare and find yourself disoriented, like you don’t recognize the room you’re in, or the bed, or there’s something about the lighting that makes you feel like you’re supposed to be someplace?
Yeah, that happened this morning.  And in the haze of realizing where I was I remembered my nightmare was [...]

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simmering

That’s the best way to explain where my head is at right now.  I left the rez with a raging burner under my ass but the heat has yet to get the brain boiling.
Were I a younger man I would fret.  I would worry and have ulcers and generally be thinking of myself as a [...]

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a limerick

Said the Marshmallow Man of Luxor:
“Trick or Treat! Give me what I’ve come for!”
So we gave him a scorch,
With a creme brulee torch,
Then we dined on a forty pound s’more.
Recognizing that the limerick is oft considered juvenile form of poetry, more appealing to boys than girls, I have nonetheless come to embrace [...]

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scarecrow, i think i’m going to miss you most of all…

Well, here we are, our residency evaluations handed in, our semester plans signed by our advisors and filed, the packages that greeted us when we arrived now on their way home ahead of us. We’ve pre-packed our bags and organized rides to the airport, the train station, and all points of the compass.
We [...]

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prom

not really a prom
(adults don’t prom)
more a dance
like a school dance
with decorations and snacks
and a dark room for dancing
not that i danced
not much at least
only a few hours
only until i stopped thinking
about what i looked like
dancing
all jangly, uncoordinated
like i did when i was fourteen
when i would only dance
when no one was home
lost to the music
eyes [...]

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karaoke night

Did not sing.
I shouted out some key verses from the wings, but I log promised Suze that I wouldn’t sing for strangers if I haven’t sang for her.
So that’s that.
Because as much as I like to talk and write, I can’t bear the sound of my own singing voice. Besides, there wasn’t enough liquor [...]

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cafeteria style

There’s something odd about a bunch of mature college students hunkering down to their meals in a cafeteria.  It isn’t the food, though there are times when menu items take on the quality of the pale pink mystery meat and undercooked potatoes (always potatoes, every day, morning and night POTATOES!); And it isn’t the prescribed [...]

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no spring chicken

That’s my grand and insightful conclusion after staying up late in the lounge with a bunch of my fellow campers until just after midnight.  Well, midnight was the goal but somehow we all kept at it until after 1 AM.  Okay, so i was closer to 2 AM.  And who could sleep?  Not me, not [...]

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