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July 13th, 2009


nerak_g
01:05 am - soggy
Soggy evening at Java Monkey.Unbelievable rains and downpours.But we carried on.Loyal audience stuck it out.Jon Goode featured & I really liked some of his newer poems.Nice banter in between, too.
Apparently there's an MTV filming crew doing some sort of docu on poetry ---don't know what they're working on, but they were there for the early part of tonight & will be back again next week.
Oh, and are the next two weeks ever full.Rock  Camp planning, rehearsals, Cliterati, two poets out of pocket,then next week is actual camp & then the Blood Bath Slam, ATL teams versus Charlotte.Woooooskippy. Better rest up!Easier with the sounds of rain & cats puring at the sides.
Current Mood: [mood icon] cheerful

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lbmango
12:24 am - random encounters
So, after climbing and lunch with the usual crowd, I went home and had a shower, futzed on the computer, and decided that it was such a lovely day, I'd walk down to Davis Square with a book and sit out, maybe get a smoothee and read for a while.  )

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weirdjews
[whitepowderboy]
12:02 am - PunkTorah.com Tour...
Birthright Israel, PresenTense, Adath Jeshurun Synagogue, Moderntribe.com, PunkTorah.com and Shemspeed.com are sponsoring my band CAN!!CAN's first long tour...here are the dates if anyone is interested...

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July 12th, 2009


b0st0n
[nordicllama9]
11:10 pm - Laundry?
Does anyone know of any wah,dry, fold places near Quincy??

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b0st0n
[whimseywisp]
09:16 pm - Harry Potter meetup?
So I really want to go see the midnight opening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince but I have no one to go with, because I’m only in Boston for the month and no one I know is dorky enough to go see it with me. Anyone out there getting a group of people together to go, or maybe in a similar situation? I’d love to tag along :).
Current Location: Allston, MA
Current Mood: [mood icon] hopeful
Current Music: Oh No! Oh My!: On The Town

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b0st0n
[ficali]
06:04 pm - Futuristic Photoshoot need locations
I'm planning on doing a futuristic photo shoot in boston, can anyone direct me to any buildings that have that style? Anything that looks like it could be from the future?
Thanks!

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madbard
10:34 am
The first thing to note about the financial crisis is that the federal government never had any business intervening in the personal decision of whether you want to own a home. There is no rational economic argument, or any argument I know of, that says the market of buying and selling homes is imperfect in some way, requiring government action. Construction firms have plenty of incentive to build homes and sell them. People who have the wherewithal have plenty of incentive to buy homes if they so choose. For the government to intrude into homeownership was an off-budget, nontransparent, backdoor attempt at redistributing income. And when the policy became a way of transferring income to people who couldn't afford those homes, it was doomed to failure.

...

The stunning thing about Obama's spending proposals is that there's almost nothing you could defend from the perspective of efficiency. It's all about redistribution — not redistribution to the poor but redistribution to Democratic interest groups: to unions, to the green lobby, to the health care industry, and so on. At some point these everescalating government interventions will affect the size of the economic pie. If we start looking more like France, with more than 20 percent of GDP controlled by the federal government, output growth and economic freedom will all suffer.


The Case For Doing Nothing, by Jeffrey A. Miron, director of undergraduate studies at Harvard's economics department, reprinted at the Cato Institute website

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b0st0n
[skoll_swallows]
09:46 am - Where to get a 25 lb plate?
I'm looking for a 25 lb plate (as in weight lifting). Anyone know where I can get one around the Boston area? Just need one. Thanks!

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b0st0n
[jstatic]
09:32 am - Ceremony Monday
Ceremony July 13th )

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alchemyjen
11:22 pm - 7.11
185/365: fruits

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sparkymonster
10:47 pm - Hello Nothing
( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. )

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weirdjews
[arib]
05:17 am - Israeli wierdjews- sci-fi bookshops in J-lem?
Hi guys,

I'll be in Israel until early Tuesday morning. Since I've been in town, I've been trying to find a translation of John Scalzi's book, Old Man's War (translated into Milchemet HaAdam HaZaken back in 2007 or so). Aside from randomly sticking my head into every Steimatsky's that I walk past, can anyone suggest other shops that might be helpful?

(One place offered to order it for me, but I won't be around for that long...)

Thanks!!
Current Mood: [mood icon] curious

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July 11th, 2009


mstegosaurus
06:56 pm - Oy!
Wednesday night, having learned that I am in fact of Jewish descent, [info]ladyliberal invited me to Shabbat dinner at the Kibbutz at which she lives, up in Ravenna.

It was a delightful time, and I expect to go back next week, and possibly many additional weeks in the future. I knew they were cool kids when at the point in the evening where it's customary to thank G*d for the weekend, they thanked G*d and the unions. Right on.

But there was a very funny thing that happened, about which I was unable to tell anyone else at the time. To be clear-- this is important later-- I am a totally 100% secular Jew. I didn't even have a Bar Mitzvah, haven't been to any kind of, like traditional Jewish event or ceremony in well over a decade, I don't think. (With the exception of the Seder we hosted at our place in SLC, but that was entirely [info]thefeaze' doing). So, secular. Jew stuff isn't even on my radar, most of the time.

Not wanting to go into too much detail, so I can avoid the need to flock the entry, one of the, uh, "Special Interest" websites of which I am a member (by "Special Interest", I mean weird perv stuff, if that wasn't clear) includes in my bio a description of my connection to and involvement with furry as being "sort of like John Goodman's character in the Big Lebowski's relationship to Judaism, if you know what I mean", by which I mean that I got involved in furry by way of a relationship, and when that relationship ended, I purported to still identify as a furry, but worry sometimes that I'm just a "furry by [ex-]marriage" and have no real claim to it as my own identity.

So, but where I'm going with all this, is that I have the habit of checking my email on my cell phone, like, all the time, and last night in the middle of dinner-- my first Shabbat in like forever-- I get a message from a guy on this site-- a total stranger-- the subject of which is, no kidding: "It's Shomer Shabbos, Dude!"

Any other weekend, it would've meant nothing at all, but I nearly bust a gut. The only thing that stopped me was knowing how awkward and weird it would've been to explain to a group of strangers what I was laughing at.

Later in the evening, I grabbed a guy's crotch, but he was asking for it.

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b0st0n
[giazz_40]
08:14 pm - Preschool in Woburn, MA
Hey parents in North Shore!  There is a new preschool in Woburn, MA that has ONLY 5 seats left!  The website for more information is http://www.preschoolsocial.com let them know that I sent you!  Thanks!

Current Mood: [mood icon] chipper

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b0st0n
[acamstar]
07:07 pm - Jaded is tonight!
goth/industrial/fetish night with live art modeling



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madbard
02:14 pm - So far, goodness
The weekend thus far, which I define as late Thursday through right now, has been nonstop awesome.

Yesterday: Dinner at El Cholo with subset-of-friends-circle. Though it is tamale season, I decided to spare my stomach some of the calorie bomb and enjoyed a fajita instead.

Then, along with a giant heap of my friends, enjoyed MTLA's production of Cabaret, at the conveniently located Met (not that one) theater. [info]furfybird, though onstage only occasionally, was fantastic as I've come to expect. Her gorgeous voice just fills up the room, and she completely owned the end of the first act. I wish she could have cloned herself and simultaneously sat in the audience so she could have seen herself and swooned. One day, science, one day.

This morning: I defied most of my rules for jogging and somehow had a great time. Under the impetus of the running-enthusiasm-generator that is [info]duckierose, I drove up the very end of Encino Blvd to the Mulholland Fire Path. We did a five mile run in the blazin' heat (usually a huge no-no for me) and along a dusty, hilly trail. The view was gorgeous, though; we followed an mountside ridge circling a broad valley of SoCal hillocks and chaparral. I was covered in dust and sweat by the end, but miraculously unsunburned.

After I finished the run, Lance Armstrong congratulated me on my longest run to date. This Nike+/iPod gizmo never runs out of surprises.

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theryk
05:10 pm - This is Like a Fucking Free Poem for [info]theklute
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Saturday, July 11, 2009 -- 4:53 PM ET
-----

Cheney Is Linked to C.I.A. Concealment of Terror Program

The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a
secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years
on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the
agency's director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and
House intelligence committees, two people with direct
knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal
the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the
mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush
administration had put a high priority on the program and its
secrecy.

Mr. Panetta, who ended the program when he first learned of
its existence from subordinates on June 23, briefed the two
intelligence committees about it in separate closed sessions
the next day.

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b0st0n
[harpstring]
03:32 pm - Bed for sale!
Hi there, fellow Bostonites. I am finishing up grad school at BU this year and moving away from good ol' Allston into an apartment downtown with my boyfriend. I'm looking to sell my bed, and I've posted a few times on Craigstlist and keep getting emails from scammers. I figured I should give lj a try. :-)

Here's the details:

* Full-size frame/mattress
* Sleek dark wood finish
* Tall headboard
* Drawers that come out underneath the bed (for clothing storage)
* Less than a year old; originally bought at Boston Bed Company on Commonwealth Ave. (the model is actually still in the window)

I am asking for $375 but I am willing to negotiate.

click here for a few pictures... )

If you are interested, please contact me asap at dekole@gmail.com. Thanks!

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urban_nature
[erotic_vulcha]
12:44 pm - One of the birds in my neighborhood -- New Orleans
I think the photo speaks for itself.

Sorry it's small, it's from a phone.

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Not too shabby.

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nerak_g
01:39 am - 123/365
Two hearts beat as one
--one for each ear
in off rhythm

1.
It's the absurdity
fisting you in the gut
like her legs on the plastic
red
of the eat-in booth seat
maniacal yellow happy M
rising outside the window
and french fry stuffed kid faces
hanging upside down on monkey bars
while she is very definitely
having a heart attack
you hold her stranger hand
for an hour
wait and wait and wait for relatives to show up
because she's less worried about dying
than an ambulance ride and the trip to the hospital
she can't afford, doesn't have insurance
and she's embarassed about it
like it's her fault
a flaw
sticky
like the countertops
minimum wages don't encourage
to clean.

2.
we have no fucking right
we have no fucking rights
even when we pay for our walls
they can come and handcuff you
they can come and handcuff you before
you reach for your ID
shackled wrists make it harder to grab your identity
shackled wrists make it harder to grab for your identity
or the grip on your heart
pounded guilty before proven innocent
lumps to swallow
lumps to swallow like shame

as though they weren't adding to the fear
with behavior more like perpetrators
traitors
traitors to our senses of safety

3.
we come in to this world
with an oceanic squall in our throats

gummy
all small and imprinted
mucked with hopes and dreams
and we go out with muffled throats,
paper flesh, thinness like the beginning
but drained
along the way
suffering indignities of body fluids leaving
,
sores and tempers deserving of respect
and dignity most under undignified conditions
weaknesses make us human
more than bags of bones
with jellyfish guts of fear
in the darkness
---be a lighthouse
see yourself there
in the rheumy eyes of the war veteran
begging for change at the gas station
the story of the man plugging away after a life of service
then let go
and the grandmother whose schizophrenic child
has stage four lung cancer
and babies.

4.
if you can't
ask yourself
who the fuck are you
how much do you really fucking need
at the expense of someone else's
safe sleeping spot
plate of food
medical attention

5.
one heart clangs in my chest
and the other is hers
traveling with witness eyes
relaying stories from the road
because we are open
blood sisters to vulnerabilities
we swap our testimonies
and wonder
where the hell is this place
we call our country
and what can we salvage
?










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