Tag: arts
member name: Nippy Katz (not his real name) Patriotic Troll of Gather Freedom
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September 25, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
It's actually a blue toilet seat cover. When he comes into the bathroom to watch me shave or whatever he hops up on the toilet and starts chewing on the toilet seat cover. It's . . .
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September 29, 2006 07:07 PM EDT --
I've been looking at people's profiles. I know it's voyeurism but they're freely available. One thing I've noticed on several is that their favorite authors include, as . . .
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October 04, 2006 06:08 PM EDT --
I'm not much on writing poetry. The muse just doesn't seem to like me very well. Here's one I've had for a long time:
Old Procrustes landlord, schoolman had this sign above . . .
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July 17, 2007 07:31 PM EDT --
In this morning's San Francisco Chronicle there was a great column by Jon Carroll. He doesn't always hit the mark but this column on genre fiction was great. Most of the column is a . . .
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October 19, 2006 03:56 PM EDT --
I recently received a comission from a gather member to write a tune about hedgehogs and dead squirrels. Out of the goodness of my heart I threw in a bonus animal.
I came home last night just before . . .
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October 17, 2006 03:37 PM EDT --
As some of you probably know, Jackie L refused my offer of a place on my No Obligation Future Spouse Waiting list. I don't know why she'd refuse an opportunity like this. . . .
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May 28, 2007 03:28 AM EDT --
Dublin, CA 5/27/07
Opal, Otis, Morty, and Eva have agreed to a truce. Morty has received exclusive use of the early 19th century crib. All have agreed to share the two litter . . .
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April 29, 2007 07:44 PM EDT --
Before we get to the meat of the article, here's a little poem:
On the Sidelines
The game of life is hard.
You have to scratsh and claw
For evry yard
You manage to advance.
The . . .
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May 04, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
Peter Clayton was unusual in the pre-war blues world. He was purely a singer. In the 1940s he was a star in Chicago on the same level as Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy, and Memphis Minnie. . . .
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June 26, 2007 01:55 PM EDT --
Yesterday I cashed in some of my points and started climbing the golden stairs again. Today I've reached a milestone of sorts. I'm pretty proud. You can see why.
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July 25, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
The book's been released. People sat down and didn't get up till they finished it. Astronaut diapers may have been involved. Here on Gather there have been articles about naming . . .
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May 07, 2007 02:58 PM EDT --
Yesterday, Ms. Opal, known to her legion of fans as the Feline Zen Princess, was sitting quietly on top of a basket of freshly laundered towels when the male human seized her. She cried out in anger, . . .
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July 16, 2007 06:34 PM EDT --
Are you tired of games that make you have to think of things that begin with the letter E or name things that you might find somewhere? How about those toughies where you have to list things like . . .
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July 26, 2007 03:04 PM EDT --
I read about Britney Spears' dog and the expensive dress this morning. I felt bad for the assistant who had to do the poop scooping. It got me to thinking about people and their pets. . . .
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October 06, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
This is a Barrelhouse Solly, yetanother avatar of the schizoid personality sometimes known as Nippy Katz, original. (c) 2006
A bald headed man make a young girl drop out of school. (2)
Make her . . .
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April 04, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
Peetie Wheatstraw was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1930s. He accompanied himself on piano and sometimes guitar. He made over eighty records. He influenced Robert Johnson, . . .
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June 29, 2007 03:15 PM EDT --
Louis Armstrong claimed to have been born on July 4, 1900. He wasn't. It made a good story though.
In this game you should supply a celebrity's name and a biography-friendly . . .
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September 13, 2006 03:28 PM EDT --
Here's a little tune I wrote a while back--it's my copyrighted work, as they say, a protected work of authorship. The tune is probably familiar.
The Sensitive Guy
A new age healer told . . .
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October 14, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
There's been a lot of talk about awards recently. To honor the memory of G. Harold Carswell I'm introducing the G. Harold Carswell Awards for Gather content and miscellaneous real world achievements. . . .
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May 15, 2007 05:54 PM EDT --
We all know the apostrophe --- ' ---. It's one of my favorite punctuation marks. It indicates missing letters and sometimes denotes possession, the Saxon Genitive as my HS Latin teacher called . . .
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