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A haiku is a poem consisting of three lines and 17 syllables.

The first line is five syllables.

The second line is seven syllables.

The third line is five syllables.

You can pack a lot of meaning (or a lot of nonsense) into 17 syllables. Haiku is like the Twitter of the poetry world.

You can approach a video haiku at least a couple of different ways. Syd's format is to present her lines as three video clips, the first lasting five…

Dang.   NPR has all of the new Damien Rice Album.  It's going to be a week before I get my hands on a physical copy of this thing.  

My Favourite Faded Fantasy    <- NPR Link.

I am stunned....   So beautiful. Kind of blown away by "It takes alot to know a man" and really moved by "trusty and true".    The Lyrics are not as poetic as in the…

So my sister and I found my brother Charlie's biological mom and I've been telling "Tales of Charlie" again. For those of you who don't know, I had a beloved brother named Charlie and he was quite a character. I wanted to share this tale with you. It is a true tale. I call this one

                                                                  Subjugate

I was about 10 years old and Charlie was 12 or 13 when I came home from school on a day that a police…

FYI: My video is still rendering.

It might be ready by Spring........

maybe Summer......

or whatevs.

I took advantage of a chair at work where someone had retired and they have yet to replace her.…

One of the weirdest acts I've ever seen. Why do I keep expecting Adams and Alex to pop out in the background?.

Are there local legends you've heard that are not as widely recognized that you could share with us?

Being from the Northeast United States, there were a few I carried in my "baggage" until about age 16. The Jersey Devil of the Pine barrens 

(not this one)

is a popular tease for local Halloween events

and addressing letters to friends who still live in…

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek#/beitrag/video/2257218/Anschnallen!-Jaron-Lanier-im-Interview…

Mellonheads. To this day, they still roam those woods. It's been four years now. It was the last time I saw my family. Such as they were then.

The Mellonheads from NatureJunkie on Vimeo.

For BlancheNoeE, because I love you, Blanche.

1. Go to the video you want to embed. If it's at Vimeo, then look in the upper right portion of the frame. For the most non-intuitive icon ever selected to represent share, Vimeo picked a paper airplane icon. Click on the paper plane icon.

2. You'll be given three options for sharing, via URL, email, or an embed code. Click in the embed field. This selects the embed code. Then copy…

This is a genuinely unsettling little movie. It fits roughly in with Fright Month theme, and also I wanted to see if I could figure out how to embed something in the blog section since Amy was asking.

It was made in 1908 (for Vitagraph Studios--the same studio that produced "Princess Nicotine") and the very ending is missing.

Would somebody who knows how to embed in a blog please embed this  (in comment section) ?

http://vimeo.com/17259912

...and then do a blog about how the hell to embed shit in the blogs ?

NatureJunkie's blog sparked memories of the many horror stories and strange local lore I've learned about since I moved to the state of New Jersey.  Weird NJ Magazine explained the details and history of many of them for me. I have a few of the first publications of this bizarre mag. 

In my Weird NJ thoughts, I was reminded of the park we lovingly…

I just happened to have encountered a lot of mentions lately about how people in the 18th and 19th centuries were fearful of the very real possibility of being buried alive.

Then, while researching something else entirely, I came across this plate o' shrimp today.…

Okay, It's for LtAdams. Who the hell else would it be for :

If it turns out I'm too stupid to embed, just use this link >  http://vimeo.com/19469568

<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/19469568" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="…

Evidently I am LOST.…

...in the car again with the windows rolled up in 70 degree weather  a day before his birthday.

Happy Birthday pen !

I only remembered because when I stepped out onto the back porch this morning at 5am the squirrels had left a charred pile of peanuts, sunflower seeds and those weird spikey balls . It looks like they tried to use a twig as a candle and it sorta' went lop-sided. I'm still trying to figure out how they got it lit. I don't think it's the AIs we have to worry about…

the things you look at;  change.

Why Do You have unfinished projects?

That's the first thing to come to mind when the concept is addressed.

If it's because you don't like the way something looks that you have indeed completed? Why?

Is it because there are pieces missing which are beyond your own control?

Is it because you fear how it will be received?

Is it because you had an idea and your…

I've used this trick for ants. Turns out it works for squirrels,…