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  • Obama in the Play-by-Play Booth

    July 14, 2009

    The pitcher-in-chief throwing out the first ball at the All Star Game in St. Louis. Hail to the Chief In White Sox jacketwalking with Albert Pujolsroots for the Sox but doesn't hate the Cubsmet…

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  • Allons enfants de la patrie, le jour de gloire est arrive

    July 14, 2009

    Hilary Kole's new album is Haunted Heart (Justin Time Records) It's Bastille Day 2009 and what do I recommend you doto celebrate the 220th anniversary of the stormingof the prison and the beginning of…

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  • ‘Mad Men’ second-season now out on DVD: ‘Lunch Poems’ vs. ‘Meditations In An Emergency’

    July 14, 2009

    The second season of Mad Men is released on DVD today. I'm assuming that if you read this blog and you own a TV, you watch this show, to judge from the enthusiasm BAP…

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  • Why I am not a painter [by Emma Trelles]

    July 14, 2009

                                                                         "Sardines," by Michael Goldberg, 1955 1. I can't draw. 2. I am already a  dilettante on the bass guitar. 3. I prefer mulling to doing. 4. I hope never to attend Art Basel Miami…

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  • Mitch Sisskind presents a poem by Cher Li

    July 14, 2009

    You know how you meet a new person and you start talking about Elvis and you say, "Do you like the late Elvis or the early Elvis?" and they say, "The early Elvis" —…

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  • WTF!!?!

    July 13, 2009

    Hey, what does Law and Order Criminal Intent have against poets?  In last night's episode, "Passion" an arrogant poet/editor pimps out his young attractive assistants to potential financial backers.  During tonight's episode, "Folie a…

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