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Born on State Highway One : From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 2

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:35:21 +0000

Ah, yes. It reminds me of that ancient Catalonian Christmas carol where all the users of the village's telephonic devices are encouraged to revel at the great celebration, shouting all the way, "Oh, I'm hungry! Two-score! Two-score! Two-score!" Which was the number of pies each of them felt like eating after a hard day of calling up all the other pie-eaters. "Oh, I'm hungry! [I could eat] Two-score [pies]! [I could eat] Two-score [pies]! [I could eat] Two-score [pies]!" Thus was born Boxing Day, the day on which all the children who have telephones don boxing gloves and pummel each other in frenzied violence induced by the hypnotic thrum of advertising jingles which only the fiery Iberian commercialism of a Catalonian Christmas carol could have inspired.

Born on State Highway One : From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 2

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:15:22 +0000

So it was a short story with line breaks. Well done. I think you'll find there's more to writing poetry than arbitrarily deciding to hit Enter every few syllables. And it's meant to be: "Your defect, we correct."

Born on State Highway One : That argument again...

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:30:58 +0000

I think this guy (http://www.essentialsolutions.co.nz/Free-Will-Kit... this reputable enough for me.

Born on State Highway One : Quoth the Raven, etc.

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:41:20 +0000

It's unfortunate that "Poe Toaster" looks almost the same as poetaster. I would rather be a "Poe Toaster" than the poetaster I really am. Then again, I'd rather be a Lamborghini Murcielago.

Born on State Highway One : From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 1

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:22:18 +0000

First off, this is the legendary Peter "One Dart" Manley, not Mr Porky. Second, Mr Porky is a fictional pig and brand of pork scratchings which sponsors Mr Manley. Thirdly, the reason he is facing away from the board is on account of crippling obesity.

Born on State Highway One : "O Vobis Praeteritos Referam Si Ego Annos" — after Vergil

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:04:58 +0000

O brächte Jupiter mir die vergangenen Jahre zurück!

Born on State Highway One : "O Vobis Praeteritos Referam Si Ego Annos" — after Vergil

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:20:03 +0000

By the way, the original Vergil goes, "O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos". I could have attempted to preserve the metre, but I think few would have appreciated the effort.

Born on State Highway One : On The Barbershop Quartet: or, a brief primer outlining the rudiments of close-harmony singing drawn

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:55:32 +0000

Save those for later. You can make them into a really nice stock.