Cider Press Review Deadline: 12/1/08 & others
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Cider Press Review is now accepting manuscripts for the 2008 Annual Book Award. The CPR Book Award offers $1000 and publication for a full-length book of poetry. |
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Final Judge for the 2008 award is Dorothy Barresi, American Book Award winner and author of All of the Above, The Post-Rapture Diner, and Rouge Pulp. |
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How to enter: Read more… |
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David Gordon’s landmark Trying Times purposefully “anti-signature” piece, linking a range of movement, visual devices and dialogue to weave a course between droll off-handedness and precisely calibrated design, comes to LA’s REDCAT Theater next week, playing Weds-Sat at 8:30pm and Sunday at 3pm–and Art Predator will be there! Read more…
Molasses Spice Cranberry Pecan Pumpkin Muffins & Bread with almond flour
This morning, I panicked when I couldn’t find my pumpkin bread recipe and swore at my first chance I would post it here where I would never lose it again–and other people might benefit! Here’s the standard recipe with some of the myriad variations I enjoy. Read more…
Thanksgiving trio of treats: Venus, Jupiter, new Moon plus Pluto in Capricorn & Uranus goes direct!
Tue Nov 25, 8:31 PM ET
In a rare alignment, the crescent moon, and the planets Venus, center, and Jupiter shine above a farmhouse in the eastern pre-dawn sky, in this Nov. 10, 2004 file photo, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Venus, Jupiter and a crescent moon will line up for a game of leap frog for family viewing this Thanksgiving weekend in an unusual celestial event–one more thing to be thankful for!
After many of us complete our turkey feast, and before the tryptophan sedates, gather the family and stroll outdoors to see with the naked eye bright shining Jupiter and Venus at sunset to the west. With clear skies, the planets will be bright enough to be viewed even in cities.
According to editor of Sky and Telescope Alan MacRobert, Jupiter and Venus will move closer until they will appear 2 degrees apart, which is about a finger width held out at arm’s length, by Monday and Tuesday. On Monday night, the two bright planets will be joined by a crescent moon.
All three will be visible to the naked eye around twilight in the southwestern sky Monday; for those of us who live on the west coast, the beach will be the place to be for unimpeded, memorable views.
“It’ll be a head-turner,” MacRobert said. “This certainly is an unusual coincidence for the crescent moon to be right there in the days when they are going to be closest together.”
According to AP, the moon is the brightest and smallest of the three and closest at 252,000 miles away. Venus, the second brightest, is 94 million miles away while giant Jupiter is 540 million miles away.
The three celestial objects come together from time to time, but often they are too close to the sun or unite at a time when they aren’t so visible. The next time the three will be as close and visible as this week will be Nov. 18, 2052, according to Jack Horkheimer, director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium.
Jupiter will trek out of view but Venus and the crescent moon only will delight our eyes again on New Year’s Eve, MacRobert said.
The original story is here.
You can find a well written post on it here which has this image:
With regards to an astrological outlook of upcoming celestial activities, astrology.com notes: Read more…
Thanksgiving Secrets: vodka, rum & sparkling shiraz!
No, my Thanksgiving Day secrets are NOT getting blotto by drinking vodka, rum and sparkling shiraz!
Instead, try VODKA in your PIE CRUST, RUM in your PECAN PIE, and sparkling SHIRAZ with your bird–whether it be turkey, duck, goose or even (flying!) pig! It even works well with my favorite vegetarian entree, stuffed portabello mushrooms. These secrets will give you EVEN more to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!
First up, staples of our Thanksgiving dessert tradition, pumpkin and pecan pies. Read more…
poem: i really should fix that broken windowpane, she said
it is still fall but the first winter storm
rattles windows fists of cold wind smash past
glass an arm reaches through a hand brushes
gainst breast cold dew breath on neck raises flesh
wind chimes warn now first drops of rain splish splash
splish
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splish splash splash
3:15 Experiment Poem: Aug. 8, 2001–too bright for stars
was I dreaming?
what are the dreams before sleep about?
last night I was a lesbian
I think I was going to get a tattoo
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the year gets so late
my knows bleeds
it rushes by so fast
my ears roar
where do my days go
how many have a speed
wandering lost in the living room
trying to find my way in the kitchen
stumbling over the lamp n the bedroom
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there are crickets outside
and the little girls ask about frogs
they want to find pollywogs
this I’m not sure of
they require still water
maybe some mud
the water outback
rushes today in its channel
doesn’t stop for pollywogs
a raccoon eats the catfood
knocks over the trash
chases the little black dog
the sky is too bright for the stars
yet here a frog nestles in the dahlia
a gray rock in the soft white tenderness
A Monday poem…catch the poetry train here! Or visit Read Write Poem for some rebellious rule-breaking poems.
And in case you’re new here, poets who participate in the 3:15 Experiment wake up every night during the month of August to write. After the end of the experiment, we transcribe out scribblings verbatim and post them on the 3:15 website.
Bacon wrapped filet & Teusner “The Riebke” Ebenezer Shiraz 2004
Give a little whistle (bacon!) Try a little bacon (whistle!)
OK, yes, maybe I’m a little bacon crazy. A little.
But who could blame me after being at the Grateful Palate warehouse sale yesterday for almost three hours smelling the stuff cooking? And of course, sampling.
I came home with a huge need for bacon. I was tempted to fry some up right then and there, with some eggs maybe, for a late lunch.
Instead, I went to the grocery store where I scored two beautiful filet mignons–on clearance at 30% off! Just in case, I had the butcher check them over, and he approved, so with a warm loaf of french bread under my arms and a bag of russets, I headed home to wrap my filet in two thick slabs of clove and garlic bacon; the Big Monkey dribbled gorgonzola on his when it came off the grill. With baked potatoes and broccoli on the menu, the remaining dilemnawas which wine to pour? After all, I had two cases of the good stuff, fresh from the warehouse!
The Big Monkey loves those cab/shiraz blends, and I looked long and hard at the ones I bought. And I can’t wait to try the Stray Dog GSM, but I wondered if it would have enough pow for the filet and bacon. So what I opened was the Teusner Riebke Ebenezer Shiraz–if anything could stand up to that steak and bacon I figured it would be an Eb Shiraz–and I was NOT disappointed. Yummy! This wine typically retails around $20, and I picked up two bottles for $10 each. I should have bought more1
The color is gorgeous dark purple, and the nose is filled with lucious black fruit–cherry and plum, especially. It had good structure, and surprisingly low alcohol at 14%, which for us made it more balanced than some of the other shiraz we’ve enjoyed. There wasn’t a whole lot more going on other than that lovely perfectly ripe fruit (not jammy, not over-ripe but perfect!) and maybe a little dark chocolate–a bit of the edge of super dark chocolate, a bit of that richness.
We didn’t care really for the particulars in the moment–it was such a pleasurable, feel good, taste good wine with a wonderful rich meal.
Hmmn…but could we have gotten more out of it if we hadn’t enjoyed it so quickly? We opened it not long before we ate; maybe with a little more air time, more would have been revealed. Let’s see if I can make that happen with bottle number 2! (where might I hide it??)
The only disappointment? By August 2008, according to Michael Pollard, Grateful Palate dropped Teusner from their roster of wines (or was dropped, who knows). What a huge disappointment! I do know I want to know more and have more of winemaker Kym Teusner!
Art Predator Scores 2 Cases at Grateful Palate Warehouse Sale!
Art Predator Carries out 2 Boxes of Wine!
Yes, that’s me there, carrying out two cases of wine, 4 pounds of bacon, and two jars of jam that I scored at the Grateful Palate Warehouse sale today! Even though many of the prices were higher this fall than they were in the spring (from 10-20% higher…which I guess isn’t too bad considering the fate of the US dollar when compared to the Australian).
What did I get, you ask? Which wines will I be drooling over and writing about this fall and winter? Read more…
On the Death of Blogging, Bertrand Russell, Ben Franklin, Hugh McLeod & Jason Calacanis
cartoon by Hugh McLeod of Gaping Void
Hugh McLeod drew the cartoon above at the Blog 08 conference in Amsterdam last month as a response to the October 20 Wired article by Paul Boutin which tells people to pull the plug on their personal blogs because they just can’t compete with professionally written sites like Huffington Post:
Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.
If you quit now, you’re in good company. Notorious chatterbox Jason Calacanis made millions from his Weblogs network. But he flat-out retired his own blog in July. “Blogging is simply too big, too impersonal, and lacks the intimacy that drew me to it,” he wrote in his final post.
Instead, he suggests people use Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, and revel in the brevity of 140 character posts like this one which he wrote to summarize his article:
@WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won’t find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook?
I know from talking with bloggers and twitter users at the Wine Blogging Conference that not being on Twitter left me out of a lot of the converation. But while they were twittering, I was having face to face conversations, and there’s definitely value in that for me.
I disagree also with his basic premise that it is impossible Read more…
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