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PSI Basic Membership: $15 PSI Venue Certification: $45 PSI Poet Gallery Feature: $100 (Associate member, $35, or higher only) iWPS Registration Fee: $100 NPS Registration Fee: $350 Buddy Wakefield questioning someone’s contributions to PSI: PRICELESS!!!

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In other news… Judge overturns ruling on Redskins nickname “There is no evidence in the record that addresses whether the use of the term ‘redskin(s)’ in the context of a football team and related entertainment services would be viewed by a substantial composite of Native Americans, in the relevant time frame, as disparaging,” she wrote.

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Conscious self Overall self The Enneagram is a system which divides all human behavior into nine personality divisions. Your main type is whichever of those nine behaviors you use most, in your case Type 7. Your mean type, Type 6w7, is who you are on average, based on the sum influence of all nine behaviors.

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Clark, Dean Urge Rush Limbaugh’s Firing I wasn’t going to comment on this at all but after seeing the above headline, I just couldn’t resist. Talk about some old-school, pandering bullshit! First of all, I saw Limbaugh’s comment live and in context and felt there was absolutely nothing racist about it, then or now. The

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Not to be all starstruck stupid or anything but how cool is it that Jessica Rydill, author of Children of the Shaman, not only read through my blog but dropped me a note in the guestbook? It’s VERY cool is what it is. 🙂

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Authors-on-your-shelf meme (Meme: copy somebody else’s list, delete the authors that aren’t on your shelf, and add some authors you have – keeping the number at ten.) Dawn Saylor’s List: Neil Gaiman Michael Chabon Jack McCarthy Douglas Adams Philip K. Dick Sandra Cisneros Lee Francis Erica Jong Jhumpa Lahiri Jonathon Franzen My List, in no

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Site Updates

Oh, yeah! I’ve tweaked loudpoet.com somewhat over the past couple of weeks, among other things, improving navigation between it and this journal – check it out over on the right. I’m still too lazy to figure out how to post this thing directly into my web site and kind of like the blogspot address. I’ve

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Still recovering from a long weekend… -> My new favorite song: Harder to Breathe, Maroon 5. Also, I bought the Nappy Roots’ new CD, Wooden Leather, and, after the first listen, it sounds like another winner. -> Taylor’s Teacher, Teacher was a lot of fun. A little unfocused and uneven in its tone but I

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It’s felt like an unusually long week and I’m tired as hell. Might have something to do with letting myself get dragged back onto the poetry_slam listserve yet again! Grrrrr… Went to Urbana last night for Cristin’s surprise tribute and send-off to Australia for her six-week trip. Hadn’t been there in a while and it

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Thought for the day: Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. -Frank Lloyd Wright I have something of a reputation for being both stubborn and contentious. While it’s true that I will debate most anything with a passion

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