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Something I found funny today

Submitted by ceaton on October 6, 2008 - 12:26pm
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Reinforcing how Nitin has started his month of residency here with a much more intellectual approach than my own, I felt strangely compelled to return for at least one more blog just to post this link to a skit on Saturday Night Live. The Palin imitations are great, but this one (which i found while looking for the palin one online) actually had me laughing even harder:

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Ni...

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GIVE A POEM THIS CHRISTMAS

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Submitted by lrogers on November 25, 2008 - 1:23am

GIVE A POEM THIS CHRISTMAS

Now that Bay Street and Main Street are miserably conjoined, and Christmas is only one month away, I'd like to share my favourite gift idea with you.

Give like a kid. The people you love only want to know the ways in which you feel for them; and poetry is perfect.

I gift poems all year, to friends, to people who need affirmation, to those who deserve thanks and, and, and...

Ever since I became best friends with the Medieval Japanese novelist Lady Murasaki, who accorded with the Japanese custom of gifting friends and lovers with poems on auspicious occasions, I have searched for beautiful paper and ink, concentrating on presentation.

Cut and paste is a great therapeutic activity for a mind worker.

Chris Eaton

Chris Eaton is the author of two novels: the inactivist (Insomniac Press, 2003) and The Grammar Architect (Insomniac Press, 2005). He also writes and performs music in the band Rock Plaza Central.

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