Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Experimenting....
Kim Komando's recommended sites have been safe ones, in my experience. A recent site was wwww.deezer.com. You can find most music and create an online music box. It's not downloadable, but there's a code to share the box of music on a blog. Try it. Minimize the screen and listen while you do something else. I picked some REAL oldies and then moderately old. See if it works for you. Oh, I had to double click on the first song to start it. I didn't set it to autostart.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Thank you, Boxcar!
I just found out this morning that Undertow,the poem that won May's Peer award in Boxcar Poetry Review was nominated The Best of the Web 2007 Anthology (Dzanc Books). I feel good about this poem, but nominations are coming in from everywhere and the competition for acceptance is steep.
To learn more about this competition, go to Dzanc Books Anthology Page
The note arrived this morning with these three nominations:
"Virginitiphobia" - Patrick Ryan Frank
Virginitiphobia at Boxcar
"Undertow" - Pris Campbell
Undertow at Boxcar
"The Death of Head and Leg" - Marco A. Dominguez
The Death of Head and Leg at Boxcar
Best wishes and happy writing!
Neil Aitken, Editor
Boxcar Poetry Review
I earlier posted and thanked the The Dead Mule for nominating one of my poems for The Best of the Web at Sundress Press:
Sundress Press Announcement Page. Thank you again, though, Dead Mule!
Pris
To learn more about this competition, go to Dzanc Books Anthology Page
The note arrived this morning with these three nominations:
"Virginitiphobia" - Patrick Ryan Frank
Virginitiphobia at Boxcar
"Undertow" - Pris Campbell
Undertow at Boxcar
"The Death of Head and Leg" - Marco A. Dominguez
The Death of Head and Leg at Boxcar
Best wishes and happy writing!
Neil Aitken, Editor
Boxcar Poetry Review
I earlier posted and thanked the The Dead Mule for nominating one of my poems for The Best of the Web at Sundress Press:
Sundress Press Announcement Page. Thank you again, though, Dead Mule!
Pris
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Days I wish I married a puter tech
I've not disappeared. Dealing with a pulled back and, today, an update on my logitech cam made my computer have a four hour nervous breakdown. Lost the mouse, the cam, the scanner, etc. Pulled all my tricks out. Deleting the cam, reinstall from the CD. System restore, etc. After all this, each time I reboot from a step towards goal, something is again missing. It's working for now. Tomorrow, who knows??
Kind of like life, eh?
Going to go drool for a while. Can make no logical sense and my back is crying 'pamper me, mama!':-)
Kind of like life, eh?
Going to go drool for a while. Can make no logical sense and my back is crying 'pamper me, mama!':-)
Monday, September 10, 2007
Where's your favorite posting place for creative work?
Just curious. I started out on blogger and have been keeping an off and on blog here for around 2-3 years. I like it, but my webmeter shows a lot more people read than leave comments so I don't know who's been here.
I've had a website since around 2001, though it's gone through a number of mutations. I keep all of my poems on it, but many are hidden away into archive pages that only I can access. The website acts as both a place to show my poems and to file everything in a place not on my computer or my external hard drive. A friend had an electrical fire and his hard copies of everything were destroyed. His computer was damaged but a tech managed to retrieve most of his work. He's published extensively, so can replace those but since he dates back to Bukowski, Creely, Norse (and published/knew) them, many of his publications are no longer available. The only problem with a website is that you REALLY don't know who's reading you and you have no interaction with them.
I started a blog on MySpace when poets started moving there. I like the bulletin system there, a way of getting messages to people you know. I like the more extensive feedback, but it takes too much time so I've backed off from there. I also don't leave poems posted there long. The other thing I like about MySpace is that I've met a lot of good poets and editors. Several publications and a chapbook have come from my contacts there.
Recently a poet editor/pusblisher moved her group blog to Facebook. You can't edit anything you post there. A definite drawback. The print is small. Someone is forever sending you a zombie invitation or a question invitation and that's getting overwelming, too. I started an Art For Fun group there and keep an eye on it and RSS feed my posts from blogger there, so it's low maintenance.
I'm thinking I should go back to writing my poems on bathroom walls. Lots easier:-)
Pris
I've had a website since around 2001, though it's gone through a number of mutations. I keep all of my poems on it, but many are hidden away into archive pages that only I can access. The website acts as both a place to show my poems and to file everything in a place not on my computer or my external hard drive. A friend had an electrical fire and his hard copies of everything were destroyed. His computer was damaged but a tech managed to retrieve most of his work. He's published extensively, so can replace those but since he dates back to Bukowski, Creely, Norse (and published/knew) them, many of his publications are no longer available. The only problem with a website is that you REALLY don't know who's reading you and you have no interaction with them.
I started a blog on MySpace when poets started moving there. I like the bulletin system there, a way of getting messages to people you know. I like the more extensive feedback, but it takes too much time so I've backed off from there. I also don't leave poems posted there long. The other thing I like about MySpace is that I've met a lot of good poets and editors. Several publications and a chapbook have come from my contacts there.
Recently a poet editor/pusblisher moved her group blog to Facebook. You can't edit anything you post there. A definite drawback. The print is small. Someone is forever sending you a zombie invitation or a question invitation and that's getting overwelming, too. I started an Art For Fun group there and keep an eye on it and RSS feed my posts from blogger there, so it's low maintenance.
I'm thinking I should go back to writing my poems on bathroom walls. Lots easier:-)
Pris
Friday, September 07, 2007
The question rises again. Does a blog or website constitute a 'publication'?
Some editors are beginning to say yes, it does.
The issue is being discussed currently byStephen Morse and his readers on this MySpace post. It explains why I've been putting up fewer of my poems. I still like to publish You'll see my opinion of the issue on his blog. Stephen Morse is a published poet, editor, and professor. If you're not a member of MySpace, you won't be able to post on his blog, but please do leave your opinions here.
Thanks!
The issue is being discussed currently byStephen Morse and his readers on this MySpace post. It explains why I've been putting up fewer of my poems. I still like to publish You'll see my opinion of the issue on his blog. Stephen Morse is a published poet, editor, and professor. If you're not a member of MySpace, you won't be able to post on his blog, but please do leave your opinions here.
Thanks!
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Hey, more neat news!
Moonset, a very fine journal of haiku, haiga and other short forms, held its first annual contest, ending this month. I can write a decent haiku but not great and I love the form. Decided to enter, anyway. To my surprise, I came in third, earning a year's extension of my subscription to the journal. It's print and comes out twice a year. After it's been published, I'll post the haiku. So wheeeee!
Pris
Pris
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Best of the Web nominations from The Dead Mule. Thanks!
The Dead Mule: An Anthology of Southern Literature has posted its nominations for Best of the Web entries for 2007. This includes fiction and poetry.
Go to Helen Losse's blog, poetry editor at The Dead Mule, to see the nominations and read the poems by clicking HERE.
I'm honored to be in such good company in these nominations, so thanks again!
(This is the main Best of the Net website)
Go to Helen Losse's blog, poetry editor at The Dead Mule, to see the nominations and read the poems by clicking HERE.
I'm honored to be in such good company in these nominations, so thanks again!
(This is the main Best of the Net website)
Friday, August 31, 2007
I'll be visiting other blogs soon.
I was 2 1/2 hours in the dental chair two days ago and 2 hours getting things updated/signed at the lawyer's today, so I'm waaay behind visiting. Need to get my energy reserves back up and I'll be around visiting again!
Oh, am posting my before and after teeth thing. After three years of filling cavities, root canals, three extractions, etc. we finally got to my front teeth where a cap had gone bad, showing the metal around it and two teeth that had been bonded when I had huge cavities there in the 80's had turned ORANGE. I was so used to covering my mouth when I smiled, it's hard not to do that now. At any rate, the visit was getting a special type of veneer bonded over those(not cemented or glued) and the veneers were made from impressions so they could be made to give the teeth an even look again instead of the capped on drifted back. I wore braces when young and had beautiful teeth so it feels good to have them back again.
(Click to enlarge)
Pris
Oh, am posting my before and after teeth thing. After three years of filling cavities, root canals, three extractions, etc. we finally got to my front teeth where a cap had gone bad, showing the metal around it and two teeth that had been bonded when I had huge cavities there in the 80's had turned ORANGE. I was so used to covering my mouth when I smiled, it's hard not to do that now. At any rate, the visit was getting a special type of veneer bonded over those(not cemented or glued) and the veneers were made from impressions so they could be made to give the teeth an even look again instead of the capped on drifted back. I wore braces when young and had beautiful teeth so it feels good to have them back again.
(Click to enlarge)
Pris
Friday, August 17, 2007
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Six Billion Others
On this amazing and moving site, already thousands of brief statements have been recorded on subjects such as joy, fears, dreams and the recording continues. All statements are shot in close face in the speaker's native language, with the translation in the language you choose to the side. I come to this site from time to time and watch several at a time it interests me so. More than anything, it shows us that, indeed, we are part of one family, each of us not so different from the other in the things that are important to us.
Six Billion Others
The following is a screen shot from this site of a man from Rhodesia in his thirties. He's quite a person. An avid sailor, he was in a car accident, losing the use of his legs, but continues to sail in a wheelchair.
And here's another participant, speaking of marriage.
Six Billion Others
The following is a screen shot from this site of a man from Rhodesia in his thirties. He's quite a person. An avid sailor, he was in a car accident, losing the use of his legs, but continues to sail in a wheelchair.
And here's another participant, speaking of marriage.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
You're never too old to take the ice
I found this as inspiring as the Young at Hearts singing a few blogs ago.
www.dailyherald.com/galleries/benskate/index.html
You’re never too old to take the ice
81-year-old woman competes at Edge arena in Bensenville
By Justin Kmitch
Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Friday, April 13, 2007
Yvonne Dowlen’s days of Salchows and Axels are well behind her.
But that hasn’t stopped the 81-year-old from lacing up her skates for regular competition.
Dowlen began figure skating competitively in 1938 in her hometown of Lakewood, Colo., and spent time with the Ice Capades in the 1940s and ’50s.
This week, she’s in Bensenville competing in the 2007 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships. Her daughter Sherry, 44, is also competing at the Master Ladies Senior level that she’s mastered previously.
“Be warned: Watching me is not like watching Sasha Cohen or Michelle Kwan, because that’s not my style,” Dowlen joked earlier this week after arriving at Bensenville’s Edge Ice Arena. “At my age I’m an absolute dud, but I still do my freestyle, edges and spirals and things like that.
“Just being on the ice, at my age, is important to me.”
Dowlen’s age — she’s the oldest person in the tournament — is only part of what makes her appearance in the competition noteworthy.
Last May, she was involved in a serious car crash and sustained head injuries. Doctors told her she should hang up her skates and call it a career.
“That was like waving a red flag in front of a bull, I’ll tell ya,” she said. “No doctor’s gonna tell me I better not skate. So here I am competing at the U.S. Championships for my sixth straight year.”
She doesn’t do Axels anymore, because she’s afraid of falling, but her routine does include a few less difficult jumps.
Dowlen, who says she’s “very happy to be 81 and two-thirds,” finished in fifth place Thursday in the age 56 and Over Ladies Masters Junior competition.
“I’m not doing extra wonderfully (because of a pulled muscle earlier in the week) but I’m here,” she said. “Whenever I start to feel down I just look at everyone else my age touting around oxygen tanks and I just put on my skates and smile.”
She attributes her health to a mix of exercise and daily vitamins and supplements. She still practices for about an hour a day and still coaches a small group of children and adults.
She will also take the ice at about 5:20 p.m. Saturday to compete in the Ladies Masters interpretive artistic program. Her 90-second performance will be set to “Stars and Stripes Forever” and will include baton twirling.
Regardless of their age or experience, her message to all her students is the same.
“If you enjoy it, go all out and give it your best,” she said. “But if you’re not having fun or feeling at peace on the ice, do something else.”
The feeling she gets on the ice is what has kept her coming back to the annual competition for the previous five years.
“It’s a whole different world,” she said. “It’s a camaraderie thing and it’s what I want to do, what I love to do.”
Thursday was ladies day at the Edge with ladies master and ladies gold events filling the schedule. Many spectators likened the atmosphere to the Olympics with the stoic judges, flowers launched onto the ice after each performance and the general buzz throughout the crowd.
“It’s a lot of fun seeing these adults out there living it up like kids and having their moment,” said Rachael Brennon, who came to support friends competing for the St. Louis Figure Skating Club.
The competition continues this morning at the Edge Ice Arenas in Bensenville and runs through 5 p.m. Saturday.
www.dailyherald.com/galleries/benskate/index.html
You’re never too old to take the ice
81-year-old woman competes at Edge arena in Bensenville
By Justin Kmitch
Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Friday, April 13, 2007
Yvonne Dowlen’s days of Salchows and Axels are well behind her.
But that hasn’t stopped the 81-year-old from lacing up her skates for regular competition.
Dowlen began figure skating competitively in 1938 in her hometown of Lakewood, Colo., and spent time with the Ice Capades in the 1940s and ’50s.
This week, she’s in Bensenville competing in the 2007 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships. Her daughter Sherry, 44, is also competing at the Master Ladies Senior level that she’s mastered previously.
“Be warned: Watching me is not like watching Sasha Cohen or Michelle Kwan, because that’s not my style,” Dowlen joked earlier this week after arriving at Bensenville’s Edge Ice Arena. “At my age I’m an absolute dud, but I still do my freestyle, edges and spirals and things like that.
“Just being on the ice, at my age, is important to me.”
Dowlen’s age — she’s the oldest person in the tournament — is only part of what makes her appearance in the competition noteworthy.
Last May, she was involved in a serious car crash and sustained head injuries. Doctors told her she should hang up her skates and call it a career.
“That was like waving a red flag in front of a bull, I’ll tell ya,” she said. “No doctor’s gonna tell me I better not skate. So here I am competing at the U.S. Championships for my sixth straight year.”
She doesn’t do Axels anymore, because she’s afraid of falling, but her routine does include a few less difficult jumps.
Dowlen, who says she’s “very happy to be 81 and two-thirds,” finished in fifth place Thursday in the age 56 and Over Ladies Masters Junior competition.
“I’m not doing extra wonderfully (because of a pulled muscle earlier in the week) but I’m here,” she said. “Whenever I start to feel down I just look at everyone else my age touting around oxygen tanks and I just put on my skates and smile.”
She attributes her health to a mix of exercise and daily vitamins and supplements. She still practices for about an hour a day and still coaches a small group of children and adults.
She will also take the ice at about 5:20 p.m. Saturday to compete in the Ladies Masters interpretive artistic program. Her 90-second performance will be set to “Stars and Stripes Forever” and will include baton twirling.
Regardless of their age or experience, her message to all her students is the same.
“If you enjoy it, go all out and give it your best,” she said. “But if you’re not having fun or feeling at peace on the ice, do something else.”
The feeling she gets on the ice is what has kept her coming back to the annual competition for the previous five years.
“It’s a whole different world,” she said. “It’s a camaraderie thing and it’s what I want to do, what I love to do.”
Thursday was ladies day at the Edge with ladies master and ladies gold events filling the schedule. Many spectators likened the atmosphere to the Olympics with the stoic judges, flowers launched onto the ice after each performance and the general buzz throughout the crowd.
“It’s a lot of fun seeing these adults out there living it up like kids and having their moment,” said Rachael Brennon, who came to support friends competing for the St. Louis Figure Skating Club.
The competition continues this morning at the Edge Ice Arenas in Bensenville and runs through 5 p.m. Saturday.
Friday, July 27, 2007
I was tagged
I was asked to share things people might not know about me. I had a similar tag on MySpace a while back and , due to these lingering shoulder problems, I made a goofy vid and loaded it to youtube. Here it is:-)
The youtube URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJpoLFuyJ9U
I was tagged by fromdowntherabbithole, formerly angel hicccups.
I'm no going to tag anybody in particular since I don't know who's around and who's not swamped right now with work/life, so if you'd like to do this, post in the comments below.
Pris
The youtube URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJpoLFuyJ9U
I was tagged by fromdowntherabbithole, formerly angel hicccups.
I'm no going to tag anybody in particular since I don't know who's around and who's not swamped right now with work/life, so if you'd like to do this, post in the comments below.
Pris
Monday, July 23, 2007
The Most Intriguing Album (or CD) covers
When the switch came from LP's to CD's I thought that the fantabulous art we saw on album covers would be a thing of the past. True, CD art is smaller. It's lost the grandeur of size, the feel of turning the cardboard over and over in your hands while the vinyl played, but there's good stuff out there. Go to the link below and find one of your favorite covers. Post the name below. If not, post the name and any of us can search the site for the CD.
I have many favorites. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac is another great cover...yes, originally LP size when I owned it. Tom Waits won out tonight, though. Click to see full size.
www.findmycover.com
Happy Hunting!
Pris
Oh..I couldn't resist adding the wonderful portrait of my favorite cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, on this CD cover..
And what search would be complete without that history changing album by the Beatles??
And....one just for Lyle!
I have many favorites. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac is another great cover...yes, originally LP size when I owned it. Tom Waits won out tonight, though. Click to see full size.
www.findmycover.com
Happy Hunting!
Pris
Oh..I couldn't resist adding the wonderful portrait of my favorite cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, on this CD cover..
And what search would be complete without that history changing album by the Beatles??
And....one just for Lyle!
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Young@Heart sings I Will Fix You (Youtube vid...from a UK documentary on the elderly.)
The below text comes from the youtube site:
'This is from a documentary shown on Channel 4 in the UK called 'Young@Heart'; the name of the New England octogenarian chorus line. The performer here is Fred Knittle, who suffers from congestive heart failure. This song was intended to be a duet between Fred and another chorus member, Bob Salvini. Sadly, Bob died of a heart attack and it was left to Fred to carry the song on his own. If I'm correct, the people you see crying at 01:13 are Bob's family. The lady you occasionally see mouthing the lyrics in the audience is Fred's wife.'
Dec 2010 edit: This video continues to be removed from youtube. Embedding isn't allowed but it can currently found at THIS YOUTUBE LINK
I added this edit, since my profile page webtracker regularly shows people coming to this page.
LYRICS
Artist: Coldplay
Album: X&Y
Year: 2005
Title: Fix You
When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
High up above or down below
when you're too in love to let it go
but If you never try you'll never know
Just what your worth
Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears streaming down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears streaming down your face and I
Tears streaming down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Coldplay Lyrics
[Fix You Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com]
'This is from a documentary shown on Channel 4 in the UK called 'Young@Heart'; the name of the New England octogenarian chorus line. The performer here is Fred Knittle, who suffers from congestive heart failure. This song was intended to be a duet between Fred and another chorus member, Bob Salvini. Sadly, Bob died of a heart attack and it was left to Fred to carry the song on his own. If I'm correct, the people you see crying at 01:13 are Bob's family. The lady you occasionally see mouthing the lyrics in the audience is Fred's wife.'
Dec 2010 edit: This video continues to be removed from youtube. Embedding isn't allowed but it can currently found at THIS YOUTUBE LINK
I added this edit, since my profile page webtracker regularly shows people coming to this page.
LYRICS
Artist: Coldplay
Album: X&Y
Year: 2005
Title: Fix You
When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
High up above or down below
when you're too in love to let it go
but If you never try you'll never know
Just what your worth
Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears streaming down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears streaming down your face and I
Tears streaming down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Coldplay Lyrics
[Fix You Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com]
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