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(I'm the loud tenor)ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-26983819553798150422011-10-28T05:17:00.000-05:002011-10-28T05:17:57.067-05:00Opt-In Email<span lang="en">Getting someone's permission before sending bulk e-mails is critical because without it, the e-mail is Unsolicited Bulk Email, better known as spam. The solution is to have visitors to your site join your </span><span lang="en"><b>Opt in e-mail </b></span><span lang="en">list.</span><span lang="en"> </span> <br />
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<div lang="en">Several common forms of opt-in e-mail exist:</div><dl><dt lang="en"><b>Unconfirmed opt-in</b> </dt>
<dd lang="en"> An uncomfirmed opt-in is when a new subscriber voluntarily gives you an email address, but you take no steps to verify its authenticity. Should a malicious user, a prankster, or a careless user give you someone else's email address, you could be considered a spammer when you start sending out offers and advertisements. The internet is largely an anonymous trading site, you need to guard against mischief.</dd><dd lang="en">
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<dt> <b><span lang="en">Opt-out </span></b> </dt>
<dd lang="en" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"> An opt-out gives the user the option to be taken off a list. The business (you) simply send out your mailings to any address you receive, without confirmation. The footer section of this mailing will contain a link to click, should the user not want to receive further mailings.</dd>
<dt lang="en"> <b>Confirmed opt-in (COI</b>) </dt>
<dd lang="en"> In a confirmed opt-in, after a user registers with you, you send a confirmation email to the address they gave you. In a “single opt-in” you inform the user he will begin receiving your mail unless they send back a message saying they'd prefer not to. In a “double opt-in” the user applying for your content has to take the extra step of clicking an enclosed link to confirm their subscription.</dd><dd lang="en">
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</dd><dd lang="en"> There is still a debate over which approach should be used. Some marketers contend that requiring a confirmation simply amounts to asking permission twice before giving your potential customer value.. Others, still more concerned with the value of the contact information rather than sheer number of contacts, prefer the double opt-in approach.</dd><dd lang="en">
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</dl>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-35686236415631229142011-10-27T13:12:00.000-05:002011-10-27T13:12:13.740-05:00What Is a Content Management System?<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>What Is a Content Management System?</b></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A content management system (CMS) has become crucial to running a successful RELATED TECHNOLOGIES business. Yet some business owners still may not realize the benefits of putting this technology to work for them. Below, we outline some all too common business problems and how you can overcome them by using CMS for your RELATED TECHNOLOGIES business.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The initial cost of building your website can be dwarfed by the costs for support and maintenance of the site, once it's built. Your developer may charge what seem to be unreasonable fees to change one word or one paragraph of web page content. The computer code to change the page may exist on some other computer and may not be accessible to you, or to another developer you may hire. Your old pages may have been built using static information instead of giving you the ability to change your content at will. And, what if you need several people working on your site, and all of them need to be careful not to change data that affects other workers?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Basically, you have a website with one or more of these problems:</span></span></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You are unable to quickly update your web content for a reasonable cost.</span></span></span><br />
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<h2 class="western" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #37770b;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Solution</span></span></span></h2><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The solution to solving your website design and maintenance problems requires the use of a Content Management System (CMS). A CMS uses a database to store, retrieve, and edit the content of your website. Each page of your site is stored as simple text – making it easy to edit, search, and manipulate. </span></span></span> </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">With a CMS database, you easily add features to your site: user logins, security levels, events and calendars, blogs, news feeds, a shopping cart, and much more. All of this functionality has already been designed in to keep you website up to date. And, your content can consist of literally anything-- videos, photo galleries, recorded messages, even content streamed from other sources including news agencies to your suppliers, to whatever you imagine.</span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <br />
</div><h3 class="western" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <strong><span style="color: #709f33;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Our Solutions:</span></span></span></span></span></strong></h3><ul><li><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our websites are created using the “WordPress” platform, by far the most popular and easy to use content management system (CMS) available.</span></span></span></div></li>
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<li><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We teach you and your staff to use the CMS so you can update your website yourself.</span></span></span></div></li>
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</span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0.21in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Your site’s content will be displayed using current web standards. You will have better accessibility and your content will be “future proofed”.</span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0.21in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <strong><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Your website can grow and change as your business grows.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><ul><li><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Room to grow – You decide when to add functionality and features when you and your business are ready: set up blogs and newsletters for your growing list of users and subscribers.</span></span></span></div></li>
<li><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You are not trapped with a single high-priced web developer -”WordPress” is an open source software product embraced by thousands of users and developers.</span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> </div></li>
</ul><h3 class="western" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <strong><span style="color: #709f33;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Many Users, Many Places</span></span></span></span></span></strong></h3><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0.21in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You can have multiple users for your website. This means</span></span></span></div><ul><li><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The ability to update and change your content anytime using a web browser</span></span></span></div></li>
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</h3><h3 class="western" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <strong><span style="color: #709f33;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Climb in Search Results:</span></span></span></span></span></strong></h3><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our CMS software makes it </span></span></span><strong><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">easier to optimize your search engine results</span></span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">. That means your site is more likely to land on the first page of Google results , which means people are more likely to find you.</span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <br />
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The implication, of course, is that no time is gained as a result of the change. I will concede that logic, sort of, but I have some deeper issues with the analogy itself. Perhaps, a more apt comparison between daylight savings time and a candle would be: “Don’t waste your candles by burning them when it's light outside”.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: small;">The human concept of time is linked to the observation that the sun is in a different position in the sky from one meal to the next. We notice that a while ago there was darkness, and now there is light; so something time-related must have happened. And, wasn't it 30 of these dark-light periods ago when the moon looked this way? Time and clocks, on the other hand, are artificial. Like all sciences, they only attempt to explain concepts larger than ourselves in terms we can understand. The only important tasks time and clocks serve is to synchronize humans to each other so that we can coordinate our business and social efforts.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nature, on the other hand, doesn't give a bug's tuggle about your schedules. She just keeps on doing her thing, and lo and behold, the period of light begins happening sooner. But, it is only happening sooner in our human reckoning. The birds have no trouble singing at daybreak. The fireflies know when it's first true darkness. We humans should know that when it's light out, we will better be able to use our vision to hunt and operate. We know that after dark, we need the protection of burrows.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Daylight savings time is merely re-adapting your schedule to nature's true schedule. The pain you are feeling is only temporary. And, how overused is that line? I want a mocha, and I want it, now! Isn't it wonderful that they call it “SAD”? Ah, the lost feelings of winter. But, brighten up! You're on the road to recovery!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: small;">As you struggle with the groggy effects that the change-over is having on you, my suggestion is to go back to your roots. Live as the inner caveman of cavewoman of your dreams. Embrace nature's dictum that you are supposed to be up and hunting at first light. That is when the gifts and weapons you have been graced with are at their most efficient. You don't need artificial concepts to know when it's your advantage. Carpe Tunnel!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Edward J. O'Brien Wednesday. October 26, 2011</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: small;">aka Ned O'Brien, aka ejjobrien </span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: small;">aka linuxPigPen, if you've ever played me at PokerStars</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blog: <a href="http://ejjobrien.blogspot.com/">http://ejjobrien.blogspot.com</a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Portfolio: <a href="http://ejjobrien.wordpress.com/">http://ejjobrien.wordpress.com</a></span></div>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-64047242407057562382011-10-26T03:07:00.000-05:002011-10-26T03:07:40.549-05:00My Top 10 One Hit Wonders<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>My Top 10 One Hit Wonders:</b></i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>10) Edison Lighthouse:</b> <i>“Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes”</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To be honest, I wouldn't have thought of including this song if it hadn't accidentally ended up the top listing in one of those middle of the pack, “Next 20”, Top 100 bests lists. On the one hand, you could say typical hippie love warbling. On the other hand, not many people have written a song with <br />
“rosemary” in the title. There was just something that drove this song, a really heavy and catchy back beat.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>9) Devo:</b> <i>“Whip It”</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The first time I saw Devo, they were the special guests on Saturday Night Live. Though a bit quirky, I was intrigued by their electro, quick jerk movements as they launched into their eponymous , “We Are Devo, D E V O “. When they came back out for their second number, they countermanded with what I consider their biggest hit: “Mongoloid”. “Mongoloid” had some Jethro Tull “Aqualung” overtones. Both songs were sung in an embracing baritone with just a little too much vibrato, but touching on the subject of humans who have fallen below many folks' radar.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>8) Blue Suede:</b> <i>“Hooked On a Feeling”</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ooga Shaka Ooga Ooga, Ooga Shaka Ooga Ooga</span>. Having these words blare out at you for the first time while trying to put the moves on the new honey in the student union is an experience you'll cherish. Somebody at tech central had forgotten to pull the plug on the all male chorus and their burgeoning hormones gone completely side-step whacko. You could tell the lead singer was putting his all into it; he had to.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>7) Lynn Anderson</b> <i>“Rose Garden”</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Most folks today would classify this as country. But, remember, it debuted in the era of AM Top 40, and Casey Kasem. One minute you would be listening to Steppenwolf , the next: the Jackson 5, followed by Lynn Anderson, and Napolean XIV. Good times. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>6) Napolean XIV</b> “<i>They're Coming to Take Me Away'</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">... ho ho to the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see my friends in their pretty white coats and they're coming to take me away! Ha ha. Yes, people actually bought $0.79 plays of this insanely catchy ditty. At least the vinyl discs the plays came on could be used as frisbees when you tired of the song.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>5) Brewer & Shipley:</b> <i>One Toke Over the Line</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The top entry on the list of songs from the “Love” era where the artists claimed, “Oh no! It doesn't mean that!” Well, what you talking about? Of course, it does! The only one of those songs I'm willing to give a pass to is “Puff, the Magic Dragon”. Being “one toke over the line” is apparently a loose interpretation of a Damascan expression, used in Europe during the spice trading days. And it means being a bit beyond where you thought you were. Which is exactly what we've been saying.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>4) Iron Butterfly:</b> “<i>In A Gadda Da Vida”</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">17+ minutes of non-stop, inter-orgasmic, stoner pipe organ. So majestic, it was even featured in its own skit on a Simpson's TV episode.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>3) Mountain:</b> “<i>Mississippi Queen”</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The original cowbell song. It inspired Will Ferrell enough to get the Mark Twain Award for his sterling performance in the beloved “More Cowbell” skit on Saturday Night Live.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>2) Buffalo Springfield:</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> “</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>For What It's Worth”</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Richie Furay, and Jim Messina and they only managed one hit between them? I kind of like Neil Young's “Mr. Soul”, and “Broken Arrow” equally as well as the song they are most well known for. Still, the band made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, so they must have been doing something right.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1) Norman Greenbaum:</b> “<i>Spirit in the Sky”</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Enough with the jokes about the guy with the Jewish name writing the ultimate Jesus song. What drove this song was the same ambitious and horny bass line that drove ZZ Top's “La Grange”. Just good old American blues played with enough sass to cut through 13 shots and a beer.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-69383823916853484432011-10-25T18:27:00.000-05:002011-10-25T18:27:02.038-05:00Fuel Efficiency<div style="line-height: 0.2in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fuel efficiency is simply how well your car uses the fuel it is burning in your engine. Every fuel has a “potential energy”: the potential to affect other objects when provoked. In your car's case, the engine wants to change the fuel's potential energy into enough “kinetic energy” to move a piston, which then turns a crankshaft, which then turns a gear, and so on until the energy is transferred all the way to your wheels. Or, to put it in another way, the fuel's chemical potential energy has been converted into work.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 0.2in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 0.2in;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">There are two ways in which the fuel efficiency of your car is measured. The one you are probably most familiar with is miles per gallon (MPG), i.e. I can go 27 miles if I have 1 gallon of gas. Of course, in the rest of the world, execpt for Britain and the U.S., the standard is kilometers per liter. </span></span></span> </div><div style="line-height: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 0.2in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If driving through Canada, you' may notice signs on the gas pumps that will say, “With our gallon, you get more.” Technically, this is true, The Imperial Gallon is bigger than the U.S. Liquid gallon. The Imperial Gallon is </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>10</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> pounds of water at </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>62</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> degrees Fahrenheit, while the U.S. Liquid gallon weighs in at </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>8.33</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> pounds of water at </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>60</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> degrees. This figues usually to </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>231 cubic inches</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> in volume measure.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 0.2in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 0.2in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is probably a program, somewhere, that will calculate this difference down too the drop. But just knowing you will be getting </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1 2/3 more pounds of gasoline</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> is useful enough. And just for odd notes, there is also a U.S. Dry gallon, which is apparently 1/8 of a U.S. Winchester bushel. Yes, that is the information I have been seeking. What a tremendous way to lead off on the definition, sirs. We have been seeking this information. And apparently you can't mix water and grain, as there is no useful reason to convert between these 2 unique American gallons. Because, now, wait for it, a dry gallon is </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>268 cubic inches.</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> It seems sometimes dictionaries don't want to lead off with the clear answer first.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 0.2in;"><br />
</div>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-54558730457566104422011-10-25T16:59:00.000-05:002011-10-25T16:59:37.461-05:00On Carbon Based Life<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a yellowed husk of half-gram weight</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">estoppelled by my sojourn</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from claiming polish, fit or lustre</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">quality or clarity</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unfit to live among the stars</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or any singularity</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what will Mr. Saint Pete think</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when I, mortal, uncoil?--</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he'll treasure gems of better cut</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and send me to a mohel</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to facet forty days and nights</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in carborundum, tempered</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by blasts of heat upon my seat</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">until I shine, then pester</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">him to try and smuggle me</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">past borders, snugged in colon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He'll tell me then to kiss his ass,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I might just oblige him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll climb right in and trust for once</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as I eschew my fate,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">those puckered cheeks won't up and say</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, what </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ameliorate</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!</span></span> </div>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-7432088979892363662011-10-25T14:46:00.000-05:002011-10-25T14:46:12.254-05:00Dilma Rousseff<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">On Jan 1, 2011, Dilma Rousseff was sworn in as Brazil's first female president, in what many considered a referendum to continue the social and economic policies of her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Mr. da Silva had appointed Ms. Rousseff to be his chief of staff and is thought to have hand-picked her as his successor as well.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Ms. Rousseff wasn't the first female president from South America, that honor had already been taken by Eva Peron. What is noteworthy is that she was the latest in a growing swell of female world leaders elected in recent years. Not only does this list include Ms. Rousseff, but also Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina, Michelle Bachelet of Chile and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div>In what is perceived as voters having sent the message that they preferred giving the governing Workers Party more time to broaden the successful economic policies of Mr. da Silva, Ms. Rousseff, who has no elected political experience, is expected to continue the policies that lifted millions of Brazilians out of poverty and into the lower middle classes.<br />
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In June of 2011, her top adviser resigned under suspicious of scandal and as a result, some are now questioning the strength and stability of her administration. Ms. Rousseff's handling of the scandal is viewed as having been too passive a reaction and seems to have affected her popularity.ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-13141933772563867302011-10-24T23:57:00.001-05:002011-10-25T00:25:35.252-05:00Shop In America Now!<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Shop In America Now!</b></i></span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">One of my favorite jobs to do online is English to English translation. I am often confronted with a well-meaning text that makes no sense whatsoever without transcendental meditation. I mean, you literally have to yank the answers right out of the blue psychic karma. One of the earliest examples of this endearment was my introduction to an outfit who called themselves Services In USA. They were promoting a service I had no idea was needed. They were going to be your America experts, citizens of the world! Shop in the USA today!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">You gotta dig these self-taught entrepreneurs. They've got the guts and the instinct to preach that America vision and follow it up with action. I, for one, have never had a problem shopping in the U.S. , quite the opposite. And, this is America and doesn't it work like that everywhere? It had never occurred to me, that people would need help in getting our goods.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Why would it be hard for citizens of overseas nations to get our goods? The answer that seemed obvious was that they must be from the countries of doom. Persona non grata nations and others that just don't like us. But now through new-found American ingenuity, this problem was going to be solved. Then it struck me, this must be the electronic age equivalent of the more traditional Halwallah guaranteeing the passage of goods, if I skim just a bit off the top. I was now assisting in setting up the world's farthest-flung Halwallah site.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I thought I remembered hearing a few years ago that some boutiques or online stores wouldn't ship to addresses in certain parts of the world because of uncertainty about both payment and delivery. Things could disappear, or get held up in customs, or even get confiscated because they were American goods. A little spreading of the Halwallah<sub>1</sub> amongst local chieftains usually could lead to a more assured delivery. And here I was, helping spread the tradition over even more far-flung avenues!</div><div style="border-bottom: 7.50pt double #000000; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><br />
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</div>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-52713033764154656282011-10-23T21:27:00.004-05:002011-10-25T15:10:17.740-05:00Exactly What Is 'Gastric Bypass NO Surgery"?<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><b><i></i></b><br />
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="color: blue; font-style: normal; line-height: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b><i> <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eating Glucin Pudding with “NO” Surgery</b></span></span></span></i></b></div><b><i> </i></b><br />
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<i>Oftentimes as a copywriter, you are called upon to produce text for products which may leave you feeling a little dubious. The text below was the landing page of a FAQ I developed for a company that essentially sold its jello derivative as the natural alternative to gastric bypass surgery.</i></span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="color: blue; line-height: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
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<div style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We as copywriters have to leave our mortal core and take on the dreams of the people who will be using our product. What do they see when their eyes close to look at their visions of heaven? How can we be love counselors or pitchmen, if we can't internalize these longings? I'll try to speak their words. What will they whisper to themselves, or refuse to whisper at all? Do they speak differently when speaking to groups or to friends? How will they go about putting their best faces on their longings and disappointments? Indulge yourself in their dreams and escapes as they see themselves thinner and more attractive. What are the subtle triggers to their tears, and how can we instantly soothe them? Go back to high school, and revisit every incident you witnessed. See the hurt persons face. Feel that pain. Know her desires at the moment.</span></i></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>B:</i></span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="color: blue; line-height: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Do we as copywriters have the ability to divorce ourselves from our preconceptions and take on the persona of the people who will be listening to our words? It is only the willingness to leave the comfort of a stable persona and assume these covert identities that enables us to be effective counselors and pitchmen. I try to imagine myself writing their diary. What would they be saying about their condition solely to themselves? What will they tell friends that is different from what they will think in private, and what do they want to hide from the world at large? Put yourself in these embarrassing situations, torture yourself with the cognitive dissonances you imagine these people having. Then learn how they put their embarrassments and fears into their back pockets, then function, knowing those secret desires and cravings, and self doubts will rise again.</i></span></span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="color: blue; font-style: normal; line-height: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="color: blue; line-height: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Without further delay, I present: “What is Gastric Bypass NO Surgery?”. </i><i>A or B</i><b style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">?</b></span></div></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: small;"><b>What do we mean by "gastric bypass NO surgery" ?:</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">KonaLabs™ Natural Gastric Bypass Formula is a new way of creating a natural GASTRIC BYPASS EFFECT in the stomach. Tested in Europe for the past six years, it works without the expense or risk of surgery. Simply take it with water in the morning and it quickly expands in your stomach leaving you feeling full. You'll want to eat less, up to one-half of what you ate before. As a result, you take in fewer calories and start losing weight from day one. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">KonaLabs™ Natural Gastric Bypass Formula also helps eliminate cravings. The patented ingredient, β-Glucin®, helps balance your blood sugar levels almost immediately, leaving you with fewer cravings for sweets and snacks Surgery, alone, isn't capable of this. With our program, you not only eat less, you eat healthier as well!</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: small;"><b>Eat less from day one:</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Because the formula physically FILLS your stomach, it reduces the amount of space available for food. You find yourself eating up to one-half of what you did previously, and yet you still feel satisfied. You reach a calorie deficiency: burning more calories than you take in. And you feel more energy! All without surgery!</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Safer and healthier than gastric bypass surgery:</b></span><b> </b> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Over 27,000 users worldwide have now benefited from this formula. Since its introduction, the Natural Gastric Bypass Formula has achieved an overwhelming 90% success rate. Satisfied users continue to post YouTube videos sharing their stories and their successes with us. In comparison to standard bypass surgery, the Natural Gastric Bypass Formula is faster, healthier, and much less risky. And best of all, it costs only a fraction of the $15,000 or more you could spend on surgery and there are almost NO SIDE EFFECTS or complications. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">KonaLabs™ Natural Gastric Bypass Formula gives you the weapon you need to win the fight against obesity. Following our formula, you will lose weight. You will look better. And your health will improve, easily and naturally. We put the power to succeed in your hands.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Hello there all. I'm back to tell ya I'm listening to my favorite choir's recording of “Be Thou My Vision”, which I'd stuck on my hard-drive so I could practice along. It's St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church Prayer Choir and somehow I keep getting them confused with a furniture company formerly of Birmingham of the name “Marks-Fitzgerald Furniture”. I often find myself referring to them as St. Marks-Fitzgerald being as how all the Irish sounding names sound Papist.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The Catholic Church, through my last two or three choirs, have been putting out some good Celtic songs for their choirs to sing. And of course, that brings to mind, Sophie. Ten minutes before service one day, she handed out an improvement to the great Celtic hymn known as “Greensleeves”. It required the tenors and basses, long noted for their spontaneous and independent arrangements, to sing an exotic scale, ascending some 13 steps or so. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Now everyone familiar with the haunting and familiar strains of “Greensleeves”, KNOWS that every note in the chorus should sound a bit lower than the one note before it. What no one suspects is that twelve men stuck singing a mixolydian harmony sound like James Earl Jones losing a pair. Sophie had kindly put this in as the exit hymn and everyone exited grateful.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But what brought this all up was listening to the St Mark-Fitzgerald Catholic Church Choir serve up a</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">tasty, yet melodically different rendition of that wonderful hymn, “Be Thou My Vision”. The arrangement I had learned with Sophie had been sung by a Mormon attending Bob Jones University on a faculty trade. He'd even mentioned on the back of the octavo that he'd practiced choral harmony with his wife in Salt City and that they had declined an invite to join the “I'm A Mormon” campaign as they'd just gotten back in from Greece.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">There! There!-- Flocked in a swoon:</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">sky-dancing, drifting, dirigible sisters.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Frolic with mirth! Usurp the sparrow hawk.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Shinny-dip, skip through the sky...</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Anterior whimsical, musical laden spheres:</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">one dropped, Dear Jesus, on our house today.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">The bastard basenji broke both back legs barking-</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">dirigible sisters came piffffting his way.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">There! There!-- Sandbags of soil-bound,</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">sky-dancing, piffffting dirigible sisters.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Frolic with mirth! Usurp the mighty shrew.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sisters, dirigibles have come to play.</div>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-10645956605354917582011-10-20T21:35:00.001-05:002011-10-21T05:52:30.947-05:00<div align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Seething mass of tangled lines</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Explodes recklessly in air.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 1.45in;">Horrid claps-- maid snapping sheets?</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Angel one, you've got some gall.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Naked, brazen in the wind.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Orange pumpkin with screaming thud.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Corn field bound at speed of light.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Diving to ripe melon fall.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jettison with mind-numb speed.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Falling, twisting manticore.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Colonel's bucket slowly turns;</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Invites me in for one last call.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Corn field rises up to greet me.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Find ripcord! Reserve, deploy!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Reaper, keep your cold derisions.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;">Angel slaps me by the balls.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Copyright 2005 ejjobrien</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Edward J. O'Brien</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"></span></div>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-28812870162563784522011-10-19T20:47:00.000-05:002011-10-19T20:47:49.411-05:00100 Insults For A Ball Hogging Dodge Ball Opponent!Dodgeball 100 October 18, 2011 9:05 PM Birmingham, AL<br />
Written by: Edward J. O’Brien, aka Ned O’Brien, aka ejjobrien<br />
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<b>100 Insults For A:</b><br />
<b> <u>Ball Hogging Dodge Ball Opponent:</u></b><br />
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It's dodge ball, not lodged ball!<br />
Hamlet didn't talk to Yoric that long!<br />
What have you got? Sphere of failure?<br />
I've had stocks I didn't hold onto that long.<br />
There's no such thing as a buzzer beater here!<br />
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Rubber fetishes involve your whole body!<br />
Will they give you a new car if you keep your hands on it another hour?<br />
Even Mary never held Jesus that tight!.<br />
Thank God you haven't moved! You could have been called for traveling!<br />
Robocop called! Adjust your target acquisition!<br />
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Wall Street called. You're occupying too much space!<br />
I'll bet even Yokozuna could steal second on you. And thirds... And fourths...<br />
Hollywood called. They can't give you your own action flick.<br />
If you were Tom Brady, you'd be on your ass by now!<br />
I've already given you the signal; it's supposed to be a curve ball!<br />
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Try it, you'll like it!<br />
eBay called. Nobody's buying your act!<br />
Rubber Duckie, you're the one. You can make my bath time fun...<br />
Stall that much, you could run for Congress. Make that walk...<br />
You'd hate Vegas. Too much action...<br />
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Need a windup key installed up your backside?<br />
At least in the Nutcracker, the toys came to life!<br />
What's the matter? Daddy didn't pitch catch with you?<br />
Dirty Harry had more bullets in his gun than you do.<br />
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Can I borrow that? Want to see if it works.<br />
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Let the schwartz be with you, Luke.<br />
Did you know MythBusters proved those things can explode left unattended?<br />
You waiting for better odds?<br />
If you like, we can play four-square. It's a sharing game...<br />
No wonder you failed at marketing! You couldn't pitch your ideas.<br />
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Delay of Game! Offense!<br />
You know, Al Oerter had this move where he'd spin before he shot put...<br />
If we still measured by the stone's throw, you'd keep us in the dark ages.<br />
Go Tex! Go Tex! Stop the Crimson Tide!<br />
Last time someone stared at me that long, I got married.<br />
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Paul Masson called. It's time!<br />
Karl Malden called. He said, “ Don't leave here with it”.<br />
Somewhere my love…<br />
Did you just birth that?<br />
I'd trust my good clothes in a dunk tank....<br />
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Are you waiting to be President to throw the first pitch?<br />
You 'd take two hours to watch 60 Minutes.<br />
The Headless Horseman called. You ride tomorrow..<br />
Holding the ball is low, man. If a grasshopper farted, you’d get sand in your eyes!<br />
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Oh my God! Put your finger back IN your nose!<br />
They call it a ball, not a sandwich!<br />
Are you auditioning for a sculpture?<br />
Did your mom forget your permission slip to play?<br />
Are you waiting for an engraved invitation from the queen?<br />
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Why do mice have such small balls? Because so few mice know how to dance!<br />
Are you posing for Muscle World?<br />
Hey, out front just called. They want their traffic cop back!<br />
It’s a ball. It’s a rubber ball. It moves. It has life…<br />
Eye tests were yesterday.<br />
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It puts the ball in the air. It puts the ball in the air…<br />
Stop dancing around! You’re squashing the mice!<br />
And here we have the bust of the immortal (enemy name here), still clutching the one ball he was born with.<br />
Your granddad called. He wants his truss back.<br />
It’s dodge ball, not codger-ball!<br />
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Next week called. They wanna know if should they look for you here?<br />
At least the Tower of London leans…<br />
Earth’s center called. They don’t need any help in gravity control.<br />
You think you can love that thing like Tom Hanks did?<br />
What are you, one shining beacon?<br />
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At least Newton TESTED the theory of motion!<br />
Get naked! You and the David statue could pose off!<br />
No! No! It’s not a substitute for a cup!<br />
No! No! In your mouth, not in your ear!<br />
If you’re going to stand there, at least put your good head on…<br />
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(singing) 100 bottles of beer on the wall, 100 bottles of beer…<br />
We’re here, on the last green. He picks a club! No! He surveys the shot… He picks a club.. No..<br />
Use it as a thigh master, why don’t you?<br />
What are you posing for a King Tut‘s tomb?<br />
Put some hair on me. Think you could hit it?<br />
Put some hair on it, it'd be your twin.<br />
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At least the Statue of Liberty had a play named after it.<br />
Mount Rushmore called. They said they’re changing their name to Rush Less.<br />
Ben Stiller called. Can he have that doughnut?<br />
You VILL throw the ball better. You VILL throw more velocity.<br />
Forget your Fruity Pebbles this morning?<br />
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Dodge! Duck! Dive! Defend! Dodge!<br />
Put the ball down, we'll just have a stare off...<br />
If you love it, you must let it go...<br />
The governor called. Take off that ankle bracelet and leave the house!<br />
King Tut called. He said stop stealing his look.<br />
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At least cross your arms; be easier gettin’ you in the casket that way…<br />
Dr. Kervorkian called. Will 2:00 this afternoon work for you?<br />
Even in the Irish jig, you move your legs!<br />
Call the medic! It’s Tommy John syndrome!<br />
What do you want on your tombstone?<br />
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With one for the other side, you could be Dolly Parton.<br />
Some people have cannons. Some people have rifles. You have a pop gun.<br />
Aristotle’s conundrum only works if the ball gets halfway here!<br />
You couldn’t even hit the showers.<br />
You going to take that home as a door prize?<br />
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Are you checking to see if the air hole is your size?<br />
Is that your new bust enhancer?<br />
That's gross! Stop feelin' yore mama!<br />
I hear your girlfriend's growing one too!<br />
If it starts turning green, get surgery!<br />
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Put it on your head and you'd be a double dip!<br />
Why isn't your other one that size?<br />
Oh My God! No wonder you had it removed!<br />
I'm quitting at 99.ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-1137077465730021022006-01-12T08:50:00.000-06:002006-01-12T08:51:05.733-06:00The Street Charles DeGaulle Walked On<hr size="1"> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>dans les jardins de mon pere, les lilacs sons floris</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br /><br /><br /> I already knew the big wooden sign<br /> cut in strange foreign words<br /> said, 'Children Not Wanted'.<br /><br /> The angry man had,<br /> with his affliction of waving arms,<br /> made me understand French<br /><br /> by saying it louder<br /> each time he yelled.<br /><br /> I got off his precious grass.<br /><br /> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Mon ami, would you like to see where i work?<br />It's just around here on the street Charles DeGaulle walked on.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br /><br /> He was new to this garden,<br /> this oasis of sand<br /> and I had already dug my moats.<br /> So, I followed him<br /><br /> out of the garden<br /> and into the street<br /> all the way to the corner<br /><br /> to the place where strange shadows<br /> grew in musty, cool air,<br /><br /> a big concrete building<br /> with the<br /><br /> drip drip drip<br /> of water.<br /><br /> He talked of his family,<br /><br /> then taught me to sing<br /> his favorite song<br /><br /> in French.<br /><br /> He handed me his wrench<br /> and said go ahead<br /><br /> so i shut off<br /> all the water in Versailles.ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-1137077310139199452006-01-12T08:47:00.000-06:002006-01-12T08:48:30.140-06:00Denying the Carnality of Onion<span style="font-size: medium;"><pre>And what of those boys with bad skin, in Camaros,<br />ciggie butts snazzed up their sneers--<br />left, useless arm hanging halfway to hubcap,<br />other hand clutching a beer?<br /><br />At eighteen, they left here, went cruising for angels<br />in towns with no names - like "Haiphong",<br />to cheer up those hoveled-down, domino bootie-boys<br />sandbagged by calls for reform.<br /><br />No angel cum mannequin, backflushcunt angel can<br />ease their need for Cindy's charms.<br />What angels spit arrows? What's left to repair those<br />lost boys who we took back with stones?<br /><br />Let's fill up the dime stores with beer, porn and leather<br />meat slatterned by pre-packaged sheen.<br />Have Harlequin Cindies shag packages, grimly<br />chant mantras to what might have been:<br /><br /> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Inspire me, leftists! Remind me why cameras wept</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br /> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>cheers on the vandal-clad throngs.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br /> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>I'd thrill once again to trill "tear-it-down" rhapsody,</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br /> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>gush to your vain call to arms,</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br /><br /> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>stop seeking salvation in disparate measure,</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br /> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>let numbness salve holes left with guns--</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br /> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>live elegant life as I hoped I would find: one</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br /> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>more moonie coked up on darvon.</em></pre></span>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-1137077143081235172006-01-12T08:44:00.000-06:002006-01-12T08:45:43.083-06:00Log RhythmsI've spent hours mauling<br /> them. Next, I'll form rows,<br /> nearly chest high, on iron dogs<br /><br /> out from the garage. Their length<br /> has been coded to master design;<br /> to fit snug, but not squeeze<br /><br /> over the firebox. Here, twenty-two<br /> inches of free BTUs left over<br /> from last season's hurricane.<br /><br /> Their prettier sisters have gone<br /> on to be bookshelves or a bedroom<br /> suite, perhaps an ergonome's chair<br /><br /> or some other new thing from Ikea.--<br /> Think spotlights!-- and giddy<br /> rushed spiels from the pitchmen--<br /><br /> think glowing<br /> in halogen poses.<br /> These will get picked up<br /><br /> by grateful new owners,<br /> who'll invite neighbors to the unveiling.<br /> Mine, cradled, just lie here--<br /><br /> in second ascension--<br /> absorbing what sun's rays they come to.<br /> At night, when the opposums come visit,<br /><br /> they'll pull on their cobwebs<br /> and dust off their vines, ready<br /> to proffer their sweet grubs by morning.<br /><br /> But mostly, they're aging,<br /> if dislodged, left akimbo,<br /> they'll be snatched by the lumberjack,<br /><br /> formed to the pile again.<br /> Some romantic notion compels me<br /> to gather them, burn them<br /><br /> to carols and wine.<br /> Those that are younger, that seasoned<br /> too green, may chitter, sap-swollen,<br /><br /> a time, in one massive flame<br /> rose that won't tarry too long.<br /> Would their beauty be fleeting<br /><br /> if beauty were viewed from this precept:<br /> The embers and ash linger on<br /> to be swept from the scuttle<br /><br /> with other debris<br /> while their essence<br /> is rendered to smoke?ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-1124665726563328152005-08-21T18:07:00.000-05:002005-08-21T18:08:46.563-05:00switchblade<span class="title"><br /></span> <hr size="1"> the handles' fake plastic, yet<br /> comely in dragons, the rib's sporting<br /> crossbars to parry the blow<br /> it glitters; it shines:<br /> the neck, burnished, furrowed<br /> it flits in your hand, this cold steel.<br /><br /> slip hickey from pocket,<br /> silk-screened obeisance<br /> infanticide fantasy, wield<br /> closed to my side<br /> one push on my hilt,<br /> deft cracker, slit<br /> cranium<br /> know i deal death:<br /> my erectionejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-1124665518306817662005-08-21T18:04:00.000-05:002005-08-21T18:05:18.320-05:00GourmandI shall eat freeze-dried curds<br />of lentil and fatty lamb, steamed,<br />or better: a stew vacuumed<br />in polypropylene oven bags,<br />perhaps a repast of collards<br />and shoulder meat<br />fit for the gizzards of gods.<br /><br />Let's teach this broil of halibut<br />fresh caught last night on Aisle 2,<br />to sizzle and pop<br />in its microwave pan<br />appearance bisque-mocking<br />the serving suggestion<br />enraptured in paint<br />on the lid.<br /><br />Top it off with a lemon sauce<br />and, oui m'sieur, it's properly dilled<br />with hefty doses of pepper tossed<br />from a plastic beaker<br />several times warped<br />by the broiler plate's<br />convection.ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-1120311328579093712005-07-02T08:31:00.000-05:002007-04-29T18:29:46.404-05:00Leaving The Vampire Breathless<span style=";font-family:century;font-size:100%;" ><br /><pre><br />Snow is a vagabond oat, dear.<br />It permeates winter: this wandertime<br />stooge who'll traipse, come to town-- thin<br />vanity semi-schooled, fluorishing<br />six-tongues unholstered.<br /><br />We'll call it shock-- the toxic<br />accretion of some comic pain. Your hand<br />is a sandwich for children<br />who magistrate--<br /> On your sad knees!<br />Sodding river.<br /><br />The meter slows-- hammer on tarmac.<br />Decant the old words, crack<br />one rust-colored fuse. I've licked<br />the sparse wine from the glass-stem<br /> in what you<br />laughingly called a silk suit--<br /> Bus stop posing.<br /><br /> When were you radiant, angel?<br />What stray cull stillbore you? You cradle<br />thin bowls. Lend me one,<br />Danaud, I'm bailing; I'm bound<br /> to your side by a stone.<br /><br />Come, come aerie!<br /><br /> Take flight to your <span style="font-style: italic;">reason</span>-filled haven.<br />Perfection comes ordained: it's sanity, rouged<br />by the miracle images kept of ourselves,<br />untarnished by parallax cues.<br /><br /> Too, too cozy.<br /><br /><br /> Stop bleeding feng-shui on my table.<br />I take back my life. I have no wish to be your<br />white-coated gentleman of needles and plums,<br /><br /> Tick<br /> tick tick tock<br /><br />tickle<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(coughing)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></pre><br /></span>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-1118276394886962362005-06-08T19:17:00.000-05:002005-06-08T19:19:54.893-05:00gas can man vs. the homeboy twinkies(i)<br />his mind sings of the flower-<br />the macabre day lily; declension<br /><br />a mako of rare pearls and gardens<br />pilched on 4 seats of the red line<br /><br />a mako? no shark, he: a scion!<br />low e train torn from its railing<br /><br />mere tensored greenbrier sprawl<br />pilched on 4 seats of the red line<br /><br /><br />(ii)<br />exotic drippers slappy ! ! happy day<br /> be done, dude travail shalom...<br /><br />fly this train to grain, when<br /> !windsanity<br /> "pilch these no more tonight"<br /><br /><br />(iii)<br />sug fish brawl entempest fugit<br /> toe knee muscle macaque mud stone<br /> salt-<br /> ambucco choose cheery choke cherry<br /> gloam knee-lights pantwaste kirk loam?<br /><br /><br />(iv)<br />snapback!<br />fordude<br />this can<br />can<br />can you<br /><br />slopsy<br />dripsin<br />dresden cream cone<br /><br />phartridge phondue<br />you nasty-cracker<br /><br />--backpack--<br /> attack!<br /> ! jumpback<br /> napalm!<br /><br /><br />(v)<br />brave molly, come save me, the train's at the station<br />loge fishbowl commuter gun gear-grind etude<br />velocipede-steeded grey dudley do do-right<br />imprison the mantis who damps us in crude<br /><br /><br />(vi)<br />his mind shrinks from the flower-<br />the macabre day lily; in tension?<br /><br />declension coal-smokes his eyes<br />this mako of rare pearls and gardens<br /><br />and jack all, no card he, i spy him<br />low e train scorned for his railing<br /><br />manacles tangle and jangle the mangled one<br />pilched on 4 seats of the red lineejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-1118247530313539122005-06-08T11:18:00.000-05:002005-06-08T11:18:50.316-05:00slats from the marriage bedSuppose this fall we go install new shutters<br /> on our windows. You know the walls have not fared well,<br /> old neighbors spot their every bruise. The possibilities<br /> are endless. You would choose a genuine wood:<br /> a cedar or cypress or west-coast pine while I would opt<br /> for dripless caps in plastic from Home Depot. I think<br /> I'd paint the damn things black. A sentient clerk could propose<br /> a lighter tone to soften our brick facade.<br /><br /> Then in spring we can chuck it all, take a trek<br /> along Schuylkill, past the kirks and fabled malls<br /> to my folks' house in Walden. They have cottonmouth<br /> under their bridge. It's a lonely place<br /> with aging wood, they bought it cheap and then condemned<br /> their bliss-free years to salvage the wreck<br /> and bring it up to par. With shutters caked<br /> in many layers, my father worried and scraped<br /> the paint; then lost his life in his attempt<br /> to find the wood again. At times, I envy him.<br /><br /> Or, say one night it rains in Versailles and there<br /> you'll lie alone in bed; listening to clatter<br /> as mid-winter gales shear the pins inside the holes<br /> of lattices bent on slapping blindly. One floor down<br /> the fury unmoors the railings from the building.<br /><br /><br />*ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-1118144467037306402005-06-07T06:39:00.000-05:002005-06-07T06:41:07.040-05:00borderline<span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><pre> <br />on the mexican sidewalks:<br />pudenda and beer and crones<br /> almed with cones<br /><br />for sport, toss nickels<br />to chicos off bridges<br />they'll snatch them<br /> or suffer<br /> their bones<br /><br /> cigarettes (horseshit)<br />and switchblades for sale<br />chess sets-- black onyx/soapstone<br /> always the pull<br /><br />of the strange, strange man<br />with lurid sorties to sell (she's swell)<br /><br />cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes!<br /><br />(pontiff, i care) beware<br />there's always good tail<br />yo, mato y picadors bend <br />bend send lend ears<br /> corrida!<br /><br />look on me! soon to be! frail!<br /> and aware<br /><br />unmuscled, soft-<br />heeling through shoals.<br /><br />it's carnivale!<br /> haloes and parrots all<br /><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>shuck-beat</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br />the worn path from hovel to woods<br /><br />candles burn lifeless, hymns<br /> sting the mass. i sing<br /> quarterflash: harden<br /> my heart<br /><br />and, i'm in ecstasy<br /> clinging to mud<br /><br />hurricanes slung through my veins<br /></pre><!--EZCODE CODE END--></span>ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13413413.post-1117903595094860032005-06-04T11:45:00.000-05:002005-06-04T11:46:35.096-05:00primordial arches in fungus, ebullientStart at the toes.<br /> Those pristine phalanges of mental confusion<br /> contain in themselves a most sublime cachet.<br /> Savor each growth and each razored, palled bunion.<br /> If the middle toe's longer, then just run away.<br /><br /> Yes, I'm a pediphile.<br /> Most days I'm up for fromage du pied.<br /> Champignon toes are parfum to my nose--<br /> a whisper of ginger: a roll in the hay.ejjobrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08474742366759270681noreply@blogger.com0