Attention folks! This blog will cease to exist on July 13, 2009. The lights are out, the doors and windows are locked as the Yahoo demolishing crane advances, 360 will cease to exist. I had some options, morph to the new program they offer, convert to another service or just let this thing die. It was on life support to begin with so DIE it will. Remove it from your links save what you can, the lights are out and nobody will be home.

In this world of ours, where wars rage, economies are in trouble there are always these people around to take your mind off it. Raging over gay elephants, methane producing cows, rubber chickens, throwing shoes and Chimps into prostitution they say? Cell phone use sends one Mom to jail and a Dad hammers one.

Some people even extend bigotry into the animal kingdom:

Politician fumes over "gay" elephant in zoo

And speaking of fumes:

Cows With Gas: India's Contribution to Global Warming

Aussie athletes get weird down under:

Players fined over chicken "sex" video

Keep your dam shoes on:

Journalist throws shoe at India's home minister

Very strange indeed:

For chimps, candy is dandy but steak is quicker

I always thought Billy Bob was like potatoes without gravy:

Billy Bob Thornton's band cancels Canadian tour

'Girls Gone Wild' interrupts Good Friday mass

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090411

Girls_Gone_Wild__interrupts_Good_Friday_service.html

Some good news from Indonesia:

New orangutan population found in Indonesia

Telling Mom you love her:

Court fines mother for phoning son too much

Dad hammers away:

Hammer time for cell phone used to run up $5K bill

I am not sure when, but until next time,

G

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Poem talk with Tom Mandel, Bob Perelman and Tom Devaney discuss one poem in Lyn Hejinian's unfinished series, "The Book of a Thousand Eyes." PoemTalk is sponsored by the Kelly Writers House, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, and the Poetry Foundation.

http://www.poemtalk.org

Check out Gontarek’s Workshops here: www.leafscape.org/LeonardGontarek

Poem of The Week at Narrative: http://narrativemagazine.com/node/2128

Reviews of Contemporary Poetry and Literary Fiction: www.gentlyread.wordpress.com

Quatroche Poem of The Month: http://www.rubbereden.com/poetry/

The Orange Spot Light on Scandalabra: http://orangealert.net/node/153

2^nd Tuesdays in Fox Chase: http://foxchasereview.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/2nd-tuesdays-kicks-off-march-10th/