Friday, 26 February 2010
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Do you like reading?  Nastyushka 17:47:20 |
 | Do you like reading? What books do you like? I love a reading, especially fairy tales and stories. And you? |
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Saturday, 23 January 2010
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| Re: K.J. Parker - Backsabre David Cowie 22:56:09 |
| | On Fri, 20 May 2005 12:23:24 -0700, Stacey C wrote:
Hi,> Has anyone figured out what a backsabre looks like? I want to find KJ> Parker and force him to draw me one at swordpoint!
This question was asked here back in March this year. Thomas Schoene
replied:
<quote>
I don't know the books, so this may not be helpful.
I don't think the term "backsaber" is used in real life. However, it may
be based on a real term. A "backsword" is any sword sharpened along only
one edge. Most European sabers are backswords; the author may have coined
"backsaber" to describe a saber sharpened along only one edge, as distinct
from the few sabers that are also sharpened part-way down the back edge.
</quote>
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David Cowie
Containment Failure + 13275:32
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Friday, 25 December 2009
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| >>>>>>>>>>>> Stella winx like Amore l and Dimu l 13:00:22 |
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Tuesday, 1 December 2009
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| Re: "The Garden" (George Dance returns) Will Dockery 10:51:25 |
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"George Dance" wrote:
On Feb 9, 4:22 pm, "Will Dockery" wrote: On Feb 9, 1:02 pm, Rob Evans aka Mushmouth, wrote: No, I don't agree with anti-semitism or racism of any kind, and said Gerard continues to pal around with the racist Dennis Hammes, and won't say whether he agrees with him or not... and came onto this thread apprently to change the subject away from the racism into attacks on "Will Dockery". Thus supporting and defending the racist. it's suddenly about talking to Dennis. It was "about" Dennis Hammes from the first, the rep of these poetry newsgroups spewing the racism on this thread, which Gerard still can't
Actually, his "original attack" Actually, the "original attack" was made by /you/ in a comment to the now-departed George Dance, spineless. Hey, Will. I'm certainly not reading threads like this, nowadays;
I don't blame you - Hammes and his racist supporters have turned it into
just another "Bash Will Dockery" smearfest, anyhow... so I'm adding your
name to the subject in case you stop by, and perhaps make it easier to find
in the rapidly approaching 1000 post mark.
though I come on to look for poems to read from time to time. Still reading off line, of course; I nabbed a copy of Atwood's Selected Poems last week, and am slowly making my way through it.
I found a great paperback of the collected poems of WB Yeats yesterday, for
two bucks, and am learning a lot from that... plus getting heavily into the
song-poems of Donovan on the car CD player, having found five of his albums
for just over ten bucks over the past couple of weeks.
Interesting how things converge, though. Since Boxing Day I've been reading and writing on the Ron Paul campaign. If you've been following that, you'll know that the race card's been played against him.
Here in the USA, the media pretty much never mentions him at all,
everything's Clinton-Obama vs. McCain-Huckabee, on the television, anyhow.
Some pals of mine are still behind Paul, though, notably trumpet player
Riley Yeilding, and "Zorro" collaborator Jocelyn (second video)...
It's a
fascinating story, with all kinds of twists and turns, and I've fallen into writing an entire series on it:
I'll go have a look at that, since this is the most interesting election
year in a long while... I see from your Google profile the other groups
you're posting in, these days, so may pop in on some of that, as well.
I take it that 'Gerard' is OB - I remember when I was last here, you were looking for his real name. Funny, I thought it was "Archibald Cakesniffe." (that's what I remember reading on his blog 8)
The blog where he claimed his /real name/ was plastered all over it,
right... heh.
Now he claims to not be Gerard Ian Lewis... wonder why he'd want to smear
poor Lewis like this, then ?!?
Forgive me if I don't weigh in on the issue; I don't want to take the time to read the 500 posts in the backthread, let alone the time to get involved in the thread myself.
Yes, even more difficult to follow since I know you use Google groups to
read this stuff.
But I wanted to let y'all know I'm still around, just one mention of my name away.
Glad to know.
I wondered if you were okay, since Eileen has been including your email in
on some of our music plans, which include the long-awaited "Lucky Penny"
project, she does a pretty "Can I get lucky, can I get lucky, can I get
lucky with you?" as I do a deadpan Leonard Cohen over the main lyrics, while
Gene Woolfolk rinky-tinks a "Honey Pie" style piano... I /will/ make the
prediction that the finished single will be pretty notable!
--
"Toxin on Glass" by Maxwell-Woolfolk-Frankfurth-Dockery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XWUdCRbVnc
Don't forget, you're not supposed to be "seeing" my posts anymore,
Dockery-Fowler:http://www.myspace.com/shadowvilleallstars
"Ozone Stigmata" by Will Dockery-Henry Conley
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Saturday, 26 September 2009
Saturday, 13 June 2009
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| Call for Entries: Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest Andre 21:52:14 |
 | Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest. Write a poem, thirty lines
or fewer on any subject or write short story five pages maximum on any theme,
single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme, fiction or non-fiction.
Multiple entries are accepted. Postmark deadline: December 31, 2009.
Awards: Writing Contest First Prize is $500; Second: $250; Third: $100.
Poetry Contest First Prize: $250; Second: $125; Third: $50.
All contest winners will be published online in the Dare to Dream pages,
on January 31, 2010. Entry fees: Writing Contest: $10 per short story.
Poetry Contest: $5 per poem. Info: Include title of poem or story, name,
address, phone#, email, brief biographical info. (Tell us a little about yourself)
on the coversheet; add a self-addressed stamped envelope for entry confirmation.
Entry fees payable to: “DREAMQUESTONE.COM”- Mail to: Dream Quest One,
Poetry & Writing Contest, P.O. Box 3141, Chicago, IL 60654.
Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com for details or to enter! |
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Saturday, 21 March 2009
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| Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest - Last Call AdamRCohen 00:10:57 |
| | TOM HOWARD/JOHN H. REID SHORT STORY CONTEST
17th year. Fifteen cash prizes totaling $5,350. Top prize $2,000.
Seeks short stories, essays and other works of prose, up to 5,000
words. Winning entries published online. Both published and
unpublished work accepted. Fee per entry is $15, payable to Winning
Writers. Postmark deadline: March 31. Judges: J.H. Reid, D.C. Konrad.
Submit online or mail to Winning Writers, Attn: Tom Howard Short Story
Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060. Winning
Writers is proud to be one of "101 Best Websites for
Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2005-2008). More information:
www.winningwriters.com/tomstory
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Saturday, 7 March 2009
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| Welcome back Nels Satterlund 01:21:16 |
| | Kip of the quip
Ulrika of the hovering
Now if Loren, Ray of the web page or Mike of the Orange would show up
we'd be rolling
Nels
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Nels E Satterlund I don't speak for the company
NelsS@Starstream.net <-- Use this address please,
My Lurkers motto: I read much better than I type.
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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| "Predators or Prey?" To Become A Movie Scott 18:48:17 |
| | My fourth novel, Predators or Prey?, is on its way to becoming a movie. For anyone interested in reading the e-book before the film is made, please go to - http://www.thedarkcastlelords.com/predators-or-prey.htm
My three self-published novels are also being picked up by Dark Castle Lords Publications. Anyone interested in those can find them at:
Winter's Rite - http://www.lulu.com/content/181234
Well Wishes - http://www.lulu.com/content/398695
Gauntlet - http://www.lulu.com/content/859502 |
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009
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| 2009 Newbery and Caldecott winners Steffan O'Sullivan 20:06:07 |
| | The winner of the 2009 Newbery Award for best contribution to
American children's literature is:
THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman.
I love this book, but I'm a bit surprised that Gaiman won. I didn't
think Britons were eligible to win the Newbery. Nonetheless, an
excellent choice.
Honor books: The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, The Surrender Tree by
Margarita Engle, After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson.
The winner of the 2009 Caldecott Award for best contribution to
children's illustration is:
THE HOUSE IN THE NIGHT by Susan Marie Swanson, ill. by Beth Krommes.
Another good choice.
Caldecott Honor books: A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by
Marla Frazee, How I learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz, A River of
Words by Jen Bryant & ill. by Melissa Sweet.
Congrats to the winners!
--
-Steffan O'Sullivan | Q: "Are they intelligent?" [of a bee-like insect]
sos@panix.com | A: "Together they are. Individually they're
Plymouth, NH, USA | stupid. The opposite of us, really ..."
www.panix.com/~sos | -Terry Pratchett
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| PICS: The Man of Steel AND BRAINS ???? WTH? Jla 01:21:38 |
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He may have died and returned to life in the early '90s, but this summer, DC Comics are going to give us what we've all been waiting
for: Zombie Superman. No, really. Spoilers ahead.
The Undead Man of Steel will be just one of many superpowered zombies appearing throughout the publisher's line, as part of their
big summer storyline, The Blackest Night; the identity of the zombie
characters - or "Black Lanterns," as they're going to be
called in the comics themselves - was supposed to be kept secret, but
DC themselves accidentally spoiled two reveals with their latest
action figure solicitation to retailers, identifying both Superman
and the recently-murdered Martian Manhunter as two future Black
Lanterns.
To comfort the Superman fans amongst you; it's not "our" Superman who'll be zombiefied; it's the Superman of parallel Earth,
Earth-2, who was revealed to have been missing in last year's Justice
Society of America Annual, written by Blackest Night writer Geoff
Johns. If it hadn't been spoiled six months ahead of time, it
would've made for a fun, and unexpected, reveal.
Okay, excellent. Three visible characters, and one blacked out. That s what you saw here. Not so the print version of Previews, or
the listing for DC s April 2009 products at Diamond Comics.com. As
you can see, the fourth figure is revealed in the ordering
information as the Black Lantern Earth-2 Superman.
In fact, in the print version, not only is the figure completely visible, so is the NEXT assortment of Blackest Night figures, which
features GL John Stewart, Sinestro Corps horroshow Kryb, one of the
as-yet-unseen-in-action Indigo Lanterns, and ANOTHER Black Lantern,
Martian Manhunter.
While we understand the necessity of listing the figures for order many months in advance, a regular practice for DC Direct, this would
seem to be a big blow to the element of suspense being cultivated in
the run-up to Blackest Night itself. Granted, theories have already
been flying around due to convention panels and what-have-you
regarding the oft-repeated statement The Dead Will Rise , but having
photos show up well ahead of the actual appearance has to blunt some
of the effect. A casual reader flipping through Previews could be
very annoyed by this. Thoughts?
View the attachments for this post at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=18552291#18552291
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
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| Re: Any info on these (heavily British) writers? Vixx 23:44:12 |
| | lenona321@yahoo.com wrote:
That is, are any alive? If not, when did they die? A few are illustrators. I've searched all over the Web and found little or no biographical info. What's odd about that is that at least one of them - Fyson - is a Carnegie Medal nominee. (Twice.)
Born in 1906: Victor Scheffer
a few minutes at google:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Blanchard_Scheffer
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Friday, 16 January 2009
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| newbie Dennis Powis 09:16:18 |
| | hello. I am new to writing, well on the groups, I wrote since I was little.
I've been looking on the net for groups, sites etc for a few weeks. I have
just started creating a site of my own, it will hold short stories and a
forum,
I thought I'd introduce myself. I like writing short fiction and novels, my
greatest ambition to become published. I have uploaded two pieces of work
to abc tales under the name jezzabellkrome, one was about fairys and the
other about sailors.I have sent them off to my friend who has also praised
me. I currently look on the one of us forums and save our history web site.
I can't think of anything else at the moment
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009
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| Question about language book... Autumn 01:05:58 |
| | I am looking for a book about how babies learn to talk. What I want is some
idea as to what sounds they learn first, as I am seeing my grand daughter is
unable to make certain sounds yet, even though she tries. I know this isn't
exactly a question about children's books, but hoping someone has some
suggestions. The local bookstore tried to help, but we really had no luck
with the books she found for me there.
Thank you,
Autumn
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Monday, 12 January 2009
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| Re: Looking for book Paul Colquhoun 03:40:14 |
| | On 20 Aug 2005 22:28:56 -0700, joe@internethostingnow.com <joe@internethostingnow.com> wrote:
| 30 years ago, I worked in a small book store and a local writer had
| printed up a book called "Two Cats, A Dog & A Bird" The book was
| incredible and sold 50 copies. I've never seen it again. Been looking
| for it over the past few years. I you've ever heard of it or have a
| copy, please contact me at joe@internethostingnow.com
It might help if you narrowed down which "local" you are refering to.
--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
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Saturday, 10 January 2009
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| Re: Hi, I'm new Joan in GB-W 07:24:48 |
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"jess" <usagi77777772003@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f05cc6d4-88f3-4ce9-9368-f4736b7770e0@s37g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...
Hey there, I just joined this group. My name is Jess and this group brings me nostalgic feelings. Anne of Green Gables was amongst my favorite literature years ago. I still enjoy rereading the books. I also liked Emily of New Moon. Anyone else a Montgomery fan?
Do not reply to Jess. He is a spammer. Do not welcome him . . . or maybe
he's a her. He started out in my other newsgroup talking about Nancy Drew
books . . . and then came his spam. He visits different newsgroup with the
same type of starting message . . . Hey, I just joined this group.
Jess, the people in this group don't want to hear how you earned over $2000
in one day!
Go home, Jess.
Joan
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Saturday, 3 January 2009
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| Re: 5 Nature Facts Kids' Authors Should Tattoo on Their Forearms Steve Hayes 07:01:53 |
| | On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:49:13 -0800 (PST), Miriam Axel-Lute <writer@mjoy.org>
wrote:
2008/12/31/5-Nature-Facts-Kids-Authors-Should-Tatoo-on-their- Forearms.aspx">5 Nature Facts Kids' Authors Should Tattoo on Their Forearms</a> Posting on a parenting blog, about the errors that come up over and over. Getting a lot of comments...
The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or
is temporarily unavailable.
And don't try putting html in newsgroup postings. It doesn't work.
--
Steve Hayes
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/litmain.htm
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/hayesstw
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Methodius
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Friday, 2 January 2009
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| Happy New Year! Aelfwina 20:20:54 |
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Happy New Year!
"In the New Reckoning the year began on March 25 old style, in commemoration
of the fall of Sauron and the deeds of the Ring-bearers."
Lord of the Rings
Appendix D
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