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Thanks for the Review GPs, Anonymous!
The editors responsible for web content for two news sources need to have a serious chat with their programming / coding people. YouTube clips currently on my YouTube Home page proudly announce -

Forbes Breaking News: "BREAKING NEWS: VP Kamala Harris Speaks Publically For The First Time Since Biden Dropped 2024 Bid." Publically? Seriously?

11ALive (a TV news outlet in Atlanta, Georgia): Kamala Harris speaks after Biden drops out of presidential race | Full speach.
I certainly hope she utilized her power of speach while giving her speech. *FacePalm*
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Hey, at least we can be somewhat sure it wasn't AI-generated.
I can get paid for my typos? LOL
Jayne - It's probably just an incentive bonus. *Laugh*
My muse gets inspired by the strangest things (remember the Best Buy thing?). I'm on my way home with some strawberry / banana smoothies from Mickey D's - Maccies or Macca's for our friends across The Pond or Down Under - and as I turn into my street, I see a neighbor sitting on one of the largish rocks they've scattered around part of their yard. Before I can complete the turn into my driveway, the waves are crashing and the acoustic guitars are strumming...

"Wishin' for some mornin' sun
I'll be wishin' when the evenin' comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah

I'm sittin' on the Rock in the Bay*
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh
I'm just sittin' on the Rock in the Bay
An' doin' time

I left my home in Georgia**
Headed for the Frisco Bay
'Cause I've had nothin' to live for
It look like nothin's gonna come my way

So I'm just gon' sittin' on the Rock in the Bay
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh
I'm sittin' on the Rock in the Bay, an' doin' time

* Alcatraz Prison, of course
** The U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, most likely.

(with apologies to Otis Redding)
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My Muse is often amused by anything that comes its way. So... I find myself writing about most anything.
Ned  
Writing parodies of popular songs was always a favorite game since I was a kid. I remember the year I wrote the David Bowie Christmas Songbook.
*Music1* Ziggy was a snowman ...*Music2*
cool poem I like it keep it up
A huge THANK YOU to the Anonymous gifter who left a refurbished Mr. Fusion and a small supply of partially decayed plutonium on my front porch! Now I'll be able to go back and get caught up on all the 'Thank you!'-type messages I owe for all the GPs, Awardicons, Reviews, etc. that have piled up these last couple of weeks. *Blush*
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you should lick the plutonium to make sure its still good. kind of like a 9v battery.
So, I'm sitting in the Geek Squad [tech support] area of my local Best Buy [consumer electronics Big Box Store, for those of you unfamiliar with them] waiting for them to install a screen protector on my daughter's new iPad, and their reservations screen rolls over to one of their ads:
One app.
Great benefits.

I read the first line... and it unfolded right then and there:

     One App to pool them all, One App to find them,
     One App to bring them all, and in its pixels bind them.
In the land of Best Buy, where the blue shirts lie.

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sounds like an AI-generated Ad poem
JCosmos - Well, if you ever see such an ad online or on TV, just remember: you read it here first!
JCosmos - I tested it, it is 100% human written.
I've added a new entry to my book, "MikeWrites' Blog" :
         "AI ≠ Allen Iverson now, but he would have done better" 
Request for review expires Wednesday noon
Since Kåre Enga in Montana and Brian K Compton: For You, Mike are talkin' genres [see "Note: Still going through old items, editing and making ..."]... Sometime between the date this site become sentient and right this second, someone—a Newsletter editor, perhaps—ran a 3- or 4-part series explaining every last genre available in and generally applicable to WDC. Does anyone remember that? More importantly, can anyone figure out how to find it? I've done the best NL search I can figure out, and came up empty.
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Kåre Enga in Montana - This isn't what I remember seeing, but it's a cool resource! Thank you!
Writer_Mike:

Ask Steven {huser:stevengepp}. He wrote
 Around The World In 10 Genres  (18+)
2 characters, 10 settings. 6700 words. Not for everyone. 4th wall shattered.
#2268844 by s
and listed the ones he used at the end. Also he may have other blog entries on genre.
You're quite right - there is a newsfeed post that deals with this. It wasn't that long ago as I remember. By one of the good and greats, a purple or blue suitcase, and one of those serious males that often bestow their wisdom on us. Can't remember which one, sadly. But it might help to narrow your search.
Saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that says, "Peace, Love, and the Oxford Comma." Just gotta love grammatically correct clothing. *Laugh*
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Grammatically correct clothing is always a joy to behold.
Gotta love it! *Laugh*


         The outhouse comma looks like a quarter moon.
Please help! I can't stop laughing! *Rolling*

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j7SByXWWVzU
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Heck, I think it's brilliant.
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Greetings, all! I've penned "Dreams of love [Week 41 entry]"  for "Promptly Poetry Challenge (2023-2024)"  and while you're welcome to read and review my poem, reviews are not the point of this post.

Embedded in the text is the title of a song that was released as a single in 1983, and was the first-ever single released in the U.S. by this particular band. It hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, #1 in Canada, #2 on the UK Singles Chart (while spending a total of 6 weeks in the Top 5), and made the top 10 in a number of countries, including Australia.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find the title and ID the band. Do both and email your results to me by 11:59pm WDC Time on 9th June, and you'll win yourself 1000 GPs. Best of luck!

Hint: The song is hinted at in the title.
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Emailed you
Email on the way to you. *Cool*
I KNEW it when I reviewed your poem, LOL
Plaque awarded by the WDC Angel Army.


I am unbelievably humbled and honoured.
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Wow - congratulations! *Smile*
Re my comment on "Note: Where's your May entry for [Link To I...", thank you so much for the loan of the crowbar, Anonymous! My entry plopped out of my brain and onto my keyboard quite literally in the nick of time! I'll return your word-wrenching tool, as soon as I figure out who you are. *BigSmile*
What do you see, when you see an MB? Annette wants to know and is challenging you to tell her!

"Note: Can You Describe it? This is a one-ti..."
This little item

 
POLL
Makin' music your way!  (E)
A poll to drum up info about how in tune WDC'ers are with musical instruments.
#2319163 by Writer_Mike


made its way onto your screens a couple of weeks ago (I'd need about a gram of plutonium for my flux capacitor to get back to the exact date and I'm about a gram short - ah well.). It's back and better than ever, in that there's now a trinket attached (hopefully - I've never tried that before). Got a minute to spare? Drop on by!
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Writer_Mike - Do I have to give the trinket back, now? *Cry* I did reply to your poll. I'm the one that said "other." *Bigsmile*
🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace - Speaking of singing - I am the world's absolute worst singer - True story - At my wife's great grandmother's funeral, to show my respect and honor for the woman my wife absolutely adored, I sang, very softly, along with everyone else. Halfway through the song - pulled from her terrible grief, my wife leaned over to me and said, and I quote, "Stop singing."

I sang so horrendously; I pulled her out of her grief to shut me up.
Thank you for the trinket. *Smile*
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