Magnetic Poetry 365:90

[beckycochrane]

One of the things I've had the most fun with this week was following @BronxZoosCobra on Twitter. Someone has been tweeting what the cobra, who escaped from the Bronx Zoo about a week ago, has been doing in the city while on the loose. Of course, the real cobra was never actually outside the reptile house, and she was found today and is safe and

Comments

[marikanola]

Do you put all your all words together in one big container?

[beckycochrane]

I used to, but because the container was metal, the magnets were destroying my fingernails and fingertips. (Remember, my fingertips already take a lot of abuse between keyboards and lancets.) Now I have several small plastic containers that I draw from (taking a few from each container). They are divided by:

1. Nouns
2. Verbs
3. Adverbs/Adjectives
4. Short words like conjunctions and prepositions
5. Word endings (e.g., ly, s, er)

Those first five contain words from, if I recall correctly, about six Magnetic Poetry sets. In addition, I have containers for:

6. Magnetic poetry sent to me by Rob E
7. Magnetic poetry sent to me by you
8. "Gay Word Magnets," a set I got in San Francisco in 1998, made by a different company

Re: container distribution

[beckycochrane]

We can never have too many words!

[chas_lou]

We've been following the snake on twitter at work, too, and were kind of sad today to hear she was caught. "Shawsnake Redemption" was one phrase heard this afternoon about her capture. But whoever tweeted in her name certainly made it enjoyable. What does it say about us that we "followed" someone pretending to be an escaped snake? Such pop culture vultures we are.

[beckycochrane]

She's still tweeting! And she hijacked Ryan Seacrest's blog for April Fool's Day. That snake is a legend!

[beckycochrane]

Thank you--so nice always to see you commenting here and elsewhere. =)

Re: (people fon't Like to be meddled with)

[beckycochrane]

Maybe BronxZoosCobra can be your power animal.