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  • Randomosity Archive Re: Rate the Avatar Above You! [3]

    7/10 iz fuuun!

    Jan 28, 2009
  • Lyric Poetry Re: The Day All the Roses Died

    There was at least one comment that it might be better to take rhyming out. I just want to check, would that entail hunting them and exterminating them? I'm guessing ...

    Jan 27, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: Snoink's having a baby!

    Rawr.. way to be necromancer's, y'all :P this thread is two years old.

    Jan 23, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: The "I'm Back" Thread

    Cal! Know I'm sure it was the right time to come back! And yes, I'm back. Most of you probably won't remember me - I've been around for a while, ...

    Jan 22, 2009
  • Information Desk Archive Re: How The Phasing In For The New YWS Will Work

    Oooh, excellent! I'm very impressed - it's a helluva job rejigging an entire website [and this place is BIG], immense kudos to you for putting in the time and effort ...

    Jan 22, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Role of Elegy

    I thought I'd get the specifics out of the way first, since they're the easiest to comment on. Design a lake. Place it at the edge of a city. Think ...

    Jan 22, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: sight unseen

    Very interesting indeed, I am impressed. I agree with June about your choice of style - I'm not always a fan of lowercase poetry [though lots of people seem to ...

    Jan 22, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Another Snowfall

    2) "I sleep alone—waiting for the world to rotten." This is an excellent ending, but "rotten" is usually an adjective and not an adverb. Maybe: "I sleep alone—waiting for the ...

    Jan 21, 2009
  • Lyric Poetry Re: The Day All the Roses Died

    Mmm, I'm impressed, a very worthy effort! I struggle to become emotionally involved in most of the political [broadly political, that is, not necessarily party-political] poetry I read, the majority ...

    Jan 21, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Another Snowfall

    Interesting, it's a very earthy poem - smells of the dark and the dank, I like the style. Very evocative of Heaney to my mind. The world burrows its arms ...

    Jan 21, 2009
  • Randomosity Re: Imagine how the person above you looks like by their avatar

    Hmm... short and extremely slender with very light brown hair down to around the jawline, swept back across the forehead. Tanned quite brown with very pale blue eyes. [Why? No ...

    Jan 21, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: Presidential Inauguration

    I'm a big fan of Obama [as, you Americans will discover, is most of the world outside your borders, especially compared to... well, yeah], and I thought his speech was ...

    Jan 20, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: Top 20 Selective Colleges

    There is an innate problem here - all your colleges are in the USA, and everyone knows an American undergraduate degree isn't worth the paper it's written on. Your list ...

    Jan 17, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: There are no men on Young Writers Society!

    I'm male.

    Jan 17, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: Post Your Pic Here [6]

    Holy moly, Bob! Kerouac much? Funny you should say that... [well, it's the trip last year, but still :P]

    Jan 13, 2009


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