Jun
3
Curiosities
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Google sets plans to sell E-books
Critics: Google book deal a privacy, monopoly disaster
Google Wave combines hybrid of instant messaging, e-mail, blogging and wiki technology all in one
Is ‘slam’ in danger of going soft?
Forbes Magazine on making a living as a poet
May
30
A poegle like no other
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A Moment Like No Other
Sitting at ringside for the next big boxing event just won’t be the same.
This is truly our lucky day for we are here to live it. This is a moment that is like no other. We traveled by bus from Brooklyn, New York; “in terms of its historic magnitude,” we waited a lifetime for a moment like this.
This was very obviously no Colgate moment. More a Kodak moment for their would be no repeat, in other words. We owe all of them for this moment. … that are part of their lives and no big deal, For young blacks and other, to those rare politicians like Lyndon B, you could hear, where these and others were going
His diploma in one hand, his classmates embedded in his heart, the beauty and inspiration of a reunion like no other: It was a moment in time … As the hour drew near for Barack Obama to be sworn in as this nation’s 44th president, it’s impossible not to suffer from a bit of whiplash trying to capture the meaning of this moment that would be like no other.
Donna in Napoleon, Ohio (search phrase: “A Moment Like No Other”)
May
30
Poegling in Virginia
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Ramblings of a Geek Hacking for Christ
Condomania lives.
Couples pack their separate cars.
Mobile Manor is the next trailer park casualty.
Sonny James, I wish it hadn’t happened.
Remember the man caught in a vacuum
sex act that got him 90 days in prison?
Maybe he came back under a different name.
Blessed are those who go in circles.
I’m tired of my room smelling like Bengay.
I’m tired of watching nipples that aren’t mine.
I am the great broken pecker.
I used to believe
in an omnipresent Trotsky force,
and laugh at internet dating, flyfishing,
Woody Allen’s failed romantic comedies.
I used to hum along to
Sinatra covers in our elevators,
and watch sportspub brawls.
Last week the Knicks proved
there is no such thing as a rebuilding year.
Maybe I’ll turn Bedouin,
travel to the outskirts of the Haraldskær marsh,
watch the sky for comet Lulin,
and the mystery of a shrinking violet zodiac.
-Chad in Virginia Beach (search phrase “i wish i hadn’t”)
May
30
Kitty Cat Poegle
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The Last Time the Cat Meowed
The last time the cat meowed, he meowed so much that my husband passed away! My companion, my 16 year old cat, meowed at dawn for MONTHS afterwards. In the last few months though, he has begun howling like a banshee instead. He hasn’t done it all the time, as it started last year after he had to go to the vet for some issues. Since then, he has meowed a little for no reason. Now, since the weather is nice, he jumps from our fence and creeps into the woods. “Maybe you shouldn’t come around here anymore!” he meows sternly to the other cats that come around. He repeats his meow, each time putting extra feeling into it. “The funniest thing happened last night.” My neighbor told me yesterday. “I found out there is no way to stop a cat from meowing.”
-Abby in Florida (search phrase “the last time the cat meowed”)
