1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Played in a band with two drummers.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't really do resolutions...but...um...I'd like to be putting more money into a savings account.

3. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
In Indiana.

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http://www.ted.org/index.php/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots.html

6 minutes of evolutionary robotics.  Hod Lipson is the man.  This is the most interesting stuff on the planet to me.

Americans are easily persuaded to act on solutions presented to them for problems they didn't know they had.

....Although, maybe it's just human nature.

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Shannon

You stand
in taut ribbons.
And in a water lily spiral
your small pale hands
trace the inside
of Aphrodite,
and you watch the storm clouds
rising in our chests.
We are a glistening
Pompeii gladius ready to cleave
any breast or arm or clenched fist
assailing you and heave our
bodies blithely at the walls together
like thunderclaps
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From XKCD:

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Playing a Tele

Simple. Ugly. Like plucking
a block of wood
ringing heavy.
Can you hear
the hot snap of lightning
split the grain
splinter the rings of the Alder tree?  The tree
that became the hollow hard body
you cradle in your lap like a large dog.  It sings square. 
The knot-holes flute out. Shine.
Simple.
Ugly.
Shimmer.
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Banana slices + vodka + raspberry passion fruit juice + ice + shaker = "A Raspy Banana Hammock"

Yo people. Slam poet, Mr. Rich Boucher (founder of the old-skool Tuesday NIght Open Mic And Slam in Newark, DE), is running away to New Mexico. Come see him off at our spot up in PA. You'll want to, bad.

PLS message back if you want details/directions.  Or email me at kleptocracy-at-gmail-dot-com

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