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  • Memorial's Day

    I have lived in the Washington DC area since 1996. I try to go to the Mall as often as possible, but like many of us who who live in areas where there are large attractions, we sometimes don't go to the trouble to see th…

  • Minority Report: Response 2

    If you want to submit your senryu poem,click hereMy past two entries have further elicited responses from some of you... and nothing from others. It is a touchy subject, I realize, and I hope that I am not turning …

  • Empty Praise: Response

    If you want to submit your senryu poem,click hereIt was amazing how varied the comments were to yesterdays post. I think I exhausted my "racial issues" energy for the next month or so, but I just want to squeeze ou…

  • June topic

    Change of topic please,Poems make me think a lot,Spare my brain sensei. by ekin Interesting poem. If nothing else, it made me laugh... Okay here's the next topic... But remember the rules of composition. Read m…

  • Empty Praise: Identifying by Race

    Recently, Sleetse wrote that he was tired of being a "glob." I was surprised and flattered that he remembered the word I "coined" in nlute, a short narrative of selected periods of my life. I too was a glob--good little …

  • Identity: Self-image

    First an announcement: I think that Xanga now allows 8 blogrings instead of 4. Well, Zettonv has started a blogring for the man who was my favorite read. If you have the time, room and inclination, join SAMMY STORM ROCKS…

  • Who's looking you up: revisited

    Who the hell am I? This has been a major theme in my life, because I am often very lost. I always pictured myself as a geeky, unathletic, ugly kind of kid. The reason of course is because I allowed others to identify me …

  • I once knew a guy...

    For the Record 1: Cicada Songs In case you haven't noticed, the sound eminating from your computer is the song of the cicadas. This is exactly what it sounds like. In fact I hear them right now, and I have the volume co…

  • Do I bug you?

    I have previously stated my distaste for bugs, but I must admit that I am still fascinated by them. Yeah, I guess that make me a hypocrite. But not really. It's like people who feel badly about people who get into accide…

  • Interim update

    Balance has been restored to my life :)

  • The American who could speak English

    I have spent many years in Japan and I fancy myself an adequate teacher of Japanese Language and Lit, but I was born and raised in SoCal, and did not learn to speak Japanese until I was an adult. My first language, my mo…

  • I'm not artistic...

    I'm not a very artistic person, so I wouldn't know the difference between a good poem and a bad one... -SATO Ah, the quote on the left was left by SATO in response to the senryu poetry I previously posted…

  • Me and Xanga

    The Xangans In "What a tough crowd" (a couple of weeks ago) I asked if you recognized six Xangans--regular readers of this site. Well getting a speeding ticket on his way home from FSU is Zettonv. The guy who has a stab …

  • Senryu Tsubame: May

    Nice start....Okay, I lost the post where I commented on your poems, but fortunately, not the post in which you submitted the poems. So I recreated it from scratch... You can pat me on the back later...Th…

  • Brave new world 2

    Cutting edge technology simply boggles my mind. Recently, I have seen TV commercials for Sony DVD cameras. I'm not sure how it works exactly, except that it record directly onto a disc. Can you record over it? Can you ta…

  • Happy and sad

    First things first. I saw my first cicada today. No, no the one in my banner, but a live one... And only one. I saw another one, but it was already dead. Let me tell ya, they really do have berry red eye. Creepy. Secon…

  • Call 'em as I see 'em

    I cannot play sports, as I have said a number of times, because of my eyesight. But I have been following sports since I was a little kid back in the early 60s. As a result, I have seen a number of amazing plays over the…

  • Interim (not REAL) Update

    Has anyone noticed a cicada hanging around? I mean, reports are that they are starting to emerge, and I'm startin' to sweat, literally! ... um, okay, back to grading... Oh yeah, BarbEric_Bojo said it best: Xanga Spam! D…

  • Brave new world

    Interconnecting through Xanga O ne of the many wonders in my lifetime is the Internet. For many of you, the Internet is just another part of your lives, but for me, it is an amazing system. I come from a planet…

  • Aaaargh!

    I am royally pissed. I'm sure some of you have already read them, but do you remember my previous post with all the comments to your senryu poems? Well, Xanga lost them somehow. I don't know what happened, but after…

  • Entomophobia II

    The Cicada Days are fast approaching. According to sources, the cicada are due to emerge sometime between May 14 and 18 and will be above ground shedding, screeching, mating, laying eggs, and dying until the end of June.…

  • On Mother's day (2)

    Yesterday, Detachable commented: "I think the term mother's day shouldn't be taken so literally. it could mean a day for someone who takes care of you..." Gotta agree with that one... I spent Mother's Day shopping with…

  • Happy Mother's day

    Today is the second Sunday of May, Mother's day. Hmmm, I don't think that there are very many mothers who visit my site, but I'm pretty sure most of you have mothers. Be sure to wish them a Happy Mother's Day, give them …

  • Fulfilling Expectations

    This is a previous entry that I wrote but never posted. I think it was around mid-February. Kowagaru asked me the following question: This is really random but what are your thoughts on living up to your parent's expect…

  • Senryu salon 川柳つばめ

    Inspired by the recent posts of iiSoNySoUnDii, I thought I'd have another senryu meeting. If you recall, senryu is poetry for the commoners. If you're interested to see how I might evaluate poems read the comments I ma…

  • A Preserve for the Unwanted

    As many of you know, I go to a local sports bar to wet my whistle. M and I like our beer. We like it cold so we never order the large, bargain 22 oz. size. By the time I get to the bottom of the glass, its not so cold, s…

  • The attack of the Cicadas...

    The cicadas will invade a large portion of the Eastern US, according to reports. But these are not your run of the mill, yearly types. These are cicadas that have lived underground for 17 years--that's right, SEVENTEEN y…

  • Interim (read: not REAL) update:

    re: What a Tough Crowd silvermyst_ashke: those jokes were preeeety bad. bane_vixen: and i agree with silvermyst_ashke. the jokes were BAD. =) Duh, they were supposed to be. Haven't you guys ever heard of Henny Young…

  • What a tough crowd!

    The smell of stale beer is barely masked by the haze of cigarette smoke in this nondescript club at a rundown resort on the back roads of Xanga. The stage is black, the back curtains, too. The bartender busily washes d…

  • Weekend fluff...

    Now I should be grading, but I always seem to find myself in the brutal clutches of Xanga. Anyway, it's Sunday and time for some fluff.Random O-man records:Most servings of rice in conventional rice bowl: 12 servings…

  • Q & A

    On Eating Grass (4/28) Mr_Mephisto: I can't imagine what you were thinking!?! Eat something on fire?! Thats like Fear Factor stuff. O-man: I don't know what I was thinking either. I guess eating a lit stick would be …

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