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  • “So we’ll go no more a-roving” [by Lord Byron]

    December 31, 2008

    So, we’ll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears…

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  • Buon Anno [by Moira Egan]

    December 31, 2008

    Happy New Year from 2009 in Rome!!

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  • Dorothy Parker (by Jenny Factor)

    December 31, 2008

    Got a New Years’ Resolution? Here’s what poet Dorothy Parker* might have to say… Observation If I don’t drive around the park, I’m pretty sure to make my mark. If I’m in bed each…

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  • 2009 [Jennifer Michael Hecht]

    December 31, 2008

    The snow is bipolar in Brooklyn today.   Yes, I mean that all four ways.   Day before 2009.  It’s almost the end  of the year on shiny eye glasses  double zero for eyes.  Try that…

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  • The Best Performance of a Song Ever

    December 31, 2008

    Okay, here's really my last post for 2008. from A Star is Born (1954) – but you know that.  Happy New Year – and enjoy!

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  • Pure Country [by Ken Tucker]

    December 30, 2008

    Leon Kagarise, who died in 2008 at age 71, was a Baltimore audio engineer who was also a pure amateur—an amateur photographer, amateur record-collector, and most of all a fan—who followed country musicians he…

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