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Coke

Still noon in the paddy fields  in Kerala, we sank a well  to stem the flow of desert,  but came up smelling of dust.  Watched rice plants wither as the slow sun  
silenced resolve in angry glare,  and warm dry gusts scattered  hope to the four corners.   
In Palakkad, an empty street, sold  to ten million-dollar-a-day death,  men nurse wounds and children.  The women have gone to find water-  when the supply runs altogether dry,  we may find out how to swallow  the dust.  Or our pride.  Lesson taught,  we shall learn to drink coke.   

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in Christmas Prose on 12/10/07
LogolepsyPerhaps it was the glamour that attracted me, the lure of foreign travel.  At the time it was the career of choice for boys from the better public schools.  With my nets and traps and baits - not to mention trunk upon trunk of reference books - I traversed the globe.  Certainly it was dangerous, but the pay more than compensated for the risks.  And when I returned home, triumphal, bearing another hitherto undiscovered specimen, I could feed off the adulation for weeks.  I would do the social round from my modest rooms in Kensington, in demand everywhere as a raconteur and adventurer. &nbs Logolepsy
in Fantasy on 4/3/07
Cake Eats Man.Cake Eats Man                                      -  A cautionary tale about Battenburg Cake -  
 
 
 
The grunting, straining taxi driver gave one last heave.  Mr Travis Enderby shot from the back seat of the black Honda like the cork from a bottle of well-shaken Babycham.  He landed splat on the pavement, his fall broken by the not-well-tipped-enough taxi driver.  Nonetheless, the impact shook the privet Cake Eats Man.
in Humor on 7/30/06
Neathorpe NostalgiaNeathorpe Nostalgia                                     - A poem about darts and beer and frozen fish fingers -                                                             &nb Neathorpe Nostalgia
in Open on 7/23/06
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Journal Entry: Mon Dec 10, 2007, 10:59 AM
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  • Listening to: Ian Dury
  • Reading: Jeckyll and Hyde
  • Watching: Life pass me by
  • Playing: KoL
  • Drinking: Moscow Mules

OK, so this is my all-new, new-look journal. Obviously I didn't do it myself.



I've been only sporadically present on this website for a while now. It's a state of affairs that looks set to continue on and off. I check in most days, post occasionally, lurk often. Occasionally, I like what I see. More often than not, I feel a bit behind the times. I don't know what it is we wanted to achieve with this community, back in the good old bad old days. I know this isn't it. I don't know if it would be better, if we'd achieved what we wanted, or if it would just have been a different kind of clusterfuck.




I've learned a lot from this site over the years. Props to those bad old guys who taught me stuff.



Groups


Wee! This is the place where I'm supposed to show you all the clusterfuck groups I belong to:

There aren't any. So instead a tribute.

:icontheparrot:

May you squawk in peace.





More stuff

I think, to be honest, this particular CSS layout was made for people who have a lot more to say than I do. Apparently.





Life



Well, in Real Life I'm happy. I have my own place, I've been working the same job for nearly three years. It's boring, but it pays the bills and gives me time to concentrate on more interesting things. I sold my car, which means I no longer need to wrestle with my environmental conscience. I've sold out a little on my past ideals, but not so much it's uncomfortable. I guess in my old age I've reached a state of compromise. And I'm happy with it.



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Apparently I'm supposed to put some more of those shitty stamps in this box. Instead I'd like to take this opportunity to commemorate the STFU truck, with a moment's silence:







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  • Current Age: 25
  • Current Residence: on a trip to cirrus minor
  • Interests: cutting earthworms in half
  • Favourite movie: reefer madness
  • Favourite band or musician: the levellers chumbawamba peatbog faeries pogues
  • Favourite genre of music: polka
  • Favourite poet or writer: noon orwell ballard hoban joyce keats (will) self
  • Personal Quote: blind and wretched trufflepigs

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!amyperticone:iconamyperticone: Mar 1, 2008, 2:08:08 AM
Wow! You really are a brilliant poet, aren't you?

Why don't you join the poetry contest from [link] ?


It's free and every nitwit such as myself who enters gets a small gift

but someone like you might win one of their $10 000 or $100 000 prizes.
~365-leap:icon365-leap: Nov 26, 2007, 8:27:04 AM
just ignore me. I've done some reading and come to the conclusion that someone must have lied to me as a child.

still, I've recieved a bit of education, which is no bad thing.

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Pote is to poet as pome is to poem.
~getbeneathmebird:icongetbeneathmebird: Nov 22, 2007, 7:50:54 AM
actually, some species do, while others are not as likely to do so. some species show a very progressive and prolific body regeneration growth while other species show little to no body regeneration growth. it's all about the worm. i was merely being the poet in my reply above. i can be the scientist, too. i must say, i have never heard of an instance of an earthworm ';preparing to split'. what do you mean by that phrase?
~365-leap:icon365-leap: Nov 18, 2007, 7:38:15 AM
actually, they can't, unless you slice them at the moment where they're preparing to split anyway.

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Pote is to poet as pome is to poem.
~getbeneathmebird:icongetbeneathmebird: Nov 9, 2007, 9:42:45 AM
true, true. thank you for humbling my drunken chatter.
~shackell:iconshackell: Nov 8, 2007, 10:43:07 PM
In theory. A nice picture you present, too.

You can still kill them if you aren't patient enough for them to grow up. I thought they could only survive four divisions before it became a pointless exercise.

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once you begin to do what is right, who will be able to do what is left?
~getbeneathmebird:icongetbeneathmebird: Nov 8, 2007, 9:12:48 PM
it does. not only are they asexual but they can survive being cut in half. my theory is that her point was exactly that. an infinite worm.
~shackell:iconshackell: Oct 9, 2007, 5:45:36 PM
How many times do you cut the earthworms? I mean, doesn't cutting them in half make two more earthworms to cut in half?

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once you begin to do what is right, who will be able to do what is left?
*futilitarian:iconfutilitarian: Sep 7, 2007, 11:05:15 AM
it wasn't a compliment

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98% of teenagers have tried smoking pot. If you're one of the... woah, look at my hand. Woah!
*irndit:iconirndit: Sep 5, 2007, 1:34:42 PM
Thanks for your visit..:rose:

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Go Confidently In The Direction Of Your Dreams. Live The Life You've Always Imagined
Henry David Thoreau
`adrift:iconadrift: Aug 7, 2007, 1:46:48 AM
:heart:

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gingerandhoney.blogspot.com

People shouldn't be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people.

You can't separate fucking and economics.
~zeratul547:iconzeratul547: Jul 15, 2007, 9:44:45 PM
Why the fuck didn't I add you? Acid Attack Man was like fucking awesome, I remember reading it when you first posted it.
~purecoldbath:iconpurecoldbath: Jul 9, 2007, 7:18:57 AM
No handwritten poem. Not even a postcard.
Oh, truly disappointed.

I hope you've not found your carpet sodden with standing water lately.
~shackell:iconshackell: May 13, 2007, 9:19:33 PM
Hey there...

I'm finally happy for no good reason.

I had been wondering how you've been. I am wondering how you are.

I hope you're happy. :)

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once you begin to do what is right, who will be able to do what is left?
~discocabrado:icondiscocabrado: Mar 20, 2007, 8:01:51 AM Mood: Joy
Thanks for the add! disco x

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Spark up today at [link]!
~AxDude:iconAxDude: Mar 19, 2007, 3:20:19 PM
Just like to say, I caught your topic over in the dAlit forums (Useful resources for writers) and it was quite informative. I learnt some words had trouble originally pronouncing, which is kinda fun XD.

Also, don’t seem to see many British Deviants around here; if your Prose skills are anything like your vocabulary, I’ll really enjoy this little fiesta on words.

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Enigmatically yours,
*AxDude, LitMuse Founder.

'Moral Victory, hu... funny, that's what they said about Jesus when he was on the cross, "Oh, don't worry Mary, it's a Moral Victory..."'
*Iscariot-Priest:iconIscariot-Priest: Feb 4, 2007, 3:42:56 AM
Hullo there, the hedge was a wonderfull read, just thought I'd drop by and tell ya that.

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“Now me lay down
to sleep.
Mow da zeebas down
like sheep.
Give dem to me
nice and dead.
Me no happy
‘til me fed.”

-Bedtime prayer of crocs (Pearls Before Swine)
~KampfVerein:iconKampfVerein: Dec 13, 2006, 6:13:54 PM
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
- Robert Heinlein

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It can get pretty fascist in here.
- Thomas Pynchon
*futilitarian:iconfutilitarian: Oct 12, 2006, 10:59:42 AM
Alas, I didn't. And although my television viewing isn't rationed, I only have the five channels that my lack of freeview box provides. If it's on BBC4, it's likely to be repeated to death though, so maybe I'll see it some other time.

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98% of teenagers have tried smoking pot. If you're one of the... woah, look at my hand. Woah!
~misterlawrie:iconmisterlawrie: Oct 6, 2006, 6:44:35 AM
If you pick this up in time, look out for the Jake Thackray documentary on BBC4 tonight. Like the Bonzo's, (and from the same era) - very British, very funny... (even if your tv time is similarly rationed I'd recommend cashing in a couple of coupons for Jake).
~jl:iconjl: Sep 21, 2006, 4:56:12 PM
Aha! I wasn't even aware she had an account there.

Yeah, it's strange how the way interaction feels changes with the environment. With all due antipathy to dA, all this comment and notification stuff is kick-ass (and highly addictive of course :-))

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*futilitarian:iconfutilitarian: Sep 21, 2006, 12:40:10 PM
i've been unable to log in for a good while, yeah. tried a few times.

i been ok. hear from siedhr on livejournal occasionally, but it's not the same.

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98% of teenagers have tried smoking pot. If you're one of the... woah, look at my hand. Woah!
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