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Media

Chocolat

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m probably the last person in the world, well at least among the movie goers, but I finally saw Chocolat tonight. Gently, funny, romantic, melancholy, quirky. I like movies that leave me with a smile on my face at the end. Not a grin. Just a smile. Maybe I should paint […]

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Just Shelley

Fog is in the Bay

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am in such an ambivalent mood this morning. Maybe the orange is getting to me, also. Maybe it’s the story I wrote last night. Maybe it’s the emotions that have run behind the scenes via email this week. Some of my weblogging friends have been hurting, and that hurts […]

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Weblogging

Too Orange

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. And I apologize for the tastelessness of the post. Orange. Orange. Orange! Let me hear you folks — is BurningBird’s color scheme too hot? Too bothersome? Does it burn your eyeballs out, and make you want to grit your teeth? Well, if you said yes to any of these questions, […]

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Weblogging

Weblogging Songs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A few days back I posted some words from a weblogging song I discovered. Well, I found that I didn’t search hard enough as there’s actually an MP3 recording of the song, in addition to just the lyrics. I found this tidbit out via an email from another weblogger, Dave of Simple Weblog. (Is it […]

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Writing

Who burnt the pizza?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve had a piece I’ve been wanting to write for the last few days, and today, it finally decided it was time to come out. I put on Sting’s Brand New Day and put a homemade pizza into the oven, promptly forgetting about it in the middle of my muse. […]