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Perhaps An Introduction Is In Order...

  Greetings to all you artsy folk.  Perhaps you've seen me about NV decry the foulest of foulness or telling the foulest of foul puns.  But my place is truly in the artistic parts of the Vine and I am very glad to see this group.

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Hearths Afire

The fireman in red said with soot on his face, A house is not a home, you see. There's nothing here that can't be replaced, And he offered this wisdom to me:   Don't hang your tinsel too close to the fire, Or it will all come burning down. The tree is glowing and the embers  …

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Term Limits? No, Thank You.

I keep hearing the hue and cry for term limits.  It is one of the most intellectually dishonest political arguments that can be made.  And if you think "term limits" is a good idea, then I am talking to you.

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Halloween, a Love Poem

There was I, young, supple, firm to the touch, And, oh, how I longed for the warm caress of your hand. You took me in, yet, you have wounded me, my love. The anguished and distorted smile I wear is the one you put on my face. You pierced me and removed my very inner being. And t …

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As Autumn Approaches, A Last Look At Spring

These are a few photos I took of a tree in Latta, SC, back in the spring. I was trying to improve my shooting on this horrid Sony digital camera that I absolutely loathed. These were some of the better shots and I'm not exactly sure what type of tree it is.

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Look Out, Mitt!

Here we see, courtesy of Jim Cole from the Associated Press, an elderly woman seeking to plant a wet, sloppy one on Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  However, upon closer examination, we see she wanted to make his visit a bit more memorable.

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The Lupine Hornpipe

The forest dark, The moon is high. Run and flee, The feral cry. Don't stop, don't turn around. You've trespassed on troubled ground. Cry out! Let your fear escape. Slow down, hot breath on your nape. Cursed man, catch you if he can.

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Hotdogs on the Menu at the Mogadishu Diner?

  Somalia has a lot of problems...a lot of problems -- problems that we, as the American people, can't solve.  It's been this way for quite a while, but war and civil unrest tends to do that.

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Photoshop's A Beautiful Thing...

You know, with all the fuss that went on with Michele Bachmann and her Newsweek cover photo, I thought I should look into just what happened.

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But will it play in Iowa...

  Fade in on a wooden stage in an old, darkened theatre.  A single spotlight illuminates the heavy red curtain and a hush falls over the murmuring audience.  The curtain parts in the middle and a single marionette makes his way to center stage with tapping footste …

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The Problem with the Wikis

I got an e-mail from my younger brother that this woman, Karen Hill, was the wife of Henry Hill, played by Lorainne Bracco in Goodfellas. In actuality, this is Karen Hill, but I went to elementary and high school with her and she was not the wife of Henry Hill.

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Just Something I'm working on...

  I would publish this to an art group, but somebody seems to be asleep at the wheel with admissions.

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What Genetics Teaches Us...

  Coming from a family of scientists and teachers, I observed with a curious eye during the constant bombardment of the Casey Anthony trial that something was familiar in her appearance and, yet, alien.

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All Aboard!!

  Yeah, so I was taking a break from my usual artistic pursuits and decided to have a little fun and satirize the Waterloo, Iowa, nonsense that has been filling some television programming gaps.

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Is a Warhol really worth 38.4 million dollars?

I read the article on Andy Warhol's "Self-Portrait" sale at Christie's, but I didn't really have to.  I've seen these types of articles before and will, without doubt, see them again.  What I found amusing was the commentary that followed the article.

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