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Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)


How did it come to this? The Santa we know is a Coco-Cola logo.
December 6 is Saint Nicholas of Bari's holiday. He is the patron
Saint of Russia and was born toward the end of the third century.
Saint Nicholas was an Archbishop of Myria in Lycia. He heard that
a man had fallen into poverty was intending to sell his daughters
into prostitution. The Saint went out by night and flung three gold
balls into the daughters window. Saint Nicholas is often depicted
in his red winter coat with his Bishops' Crotia(shepards staff).
He died 342. His relics are on display in Bari, Italy.

I remember the Christmas dad told me Santa was dead.
I got socks and a plaid shirt.

Ho-Ho!
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Review of Never Again  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)


The North American Bubble Bee is becoming extinct.
Insecticides are killing the hives. The domino effect is
devastating to agriculture and wild life. It's sad but true.
We don't want to believe this; we find it uncomfortable,
but people are toxic. We force ourselves to believe that
our own extinction is impossible. Somehow, science or
government will find an answer.
As I was reading your story of Noah. I thought about the
first Noah and his mission to save all life. We live in a
world on the edge of annihilation. I wonder if suicide is our
nature? In effect our industry is driven by war and
death. We feed on the dead. This precious blue planet will
become a cinder. Only Noah knows the truth.+


Peace

(Y)
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Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E | (5.0)



"The machine must die or it ill kill us all."
(Harry S. Truman; The Industrial War Machine.)

"The beast is alive in my soul."
( Angel Passage; RE: Alan Moore, Tim Perkins.)

I like the primal scream in your tome.
I think you can still get a CD of Angel Passage.

"Praise the Lord from the earth,
You sea monsters and all deeps,
fire and hail, snow and frost,
Stormy wind fulling his commands!"
(Psalms 148:1-14)

Leviathan, Tiamat, the serpent that God created
to live with Adam in Genesis 3:1 all commanded
to sing "Hallelujah." For God wills good to come from
evil; so says the prophet Amos.

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Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E | (4.0)


Most American Presidents are at the mercy of the Federal Reserve.
This is not a dictatorship, but the value of the currency is managed by the
Federal Reserve. It is the one bank that cannot be audited. This is where
your poll is flawed. Personally, I think the biggest threat to the American
Presidency is the loss of manufacturing jobs in foreign trade.
How can an American President lead a country if he owes trillions of
dollars to China? If you want to know whose in charge follow the money.
I voted for Michael Dukakis. Oh, well.

:)
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Review of A KISS FROM ALEX  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)


There's nothing to criticize.
You have staged this ghost story perfectly.
Ghost are never easy to pin down.
I think it has to do with magnetic fields.
Think of the electromagnetic pulses of the brain
and how that can be effect by the magnetic field
around the Earth. That's a natural explanation for
paranormal events. Ghost are all around us and
within us in the electric air.
I really like the way this story builds up to an anticlimax.
That's a fun twist.

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Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ | (5.0)


The undiscovered unconscious. I see writing as therapeutic.
There is a danger of loosing your grip on reality. And many people
confuse art with confession. Glenda is good and Snow White is not?
I recommend Lars Von Trier ANTICHRIST. It's on DVD now.
It's a bloody exploration of feminism.

I sense a struggle in this revised fairy tale, between motherhood
and independence. In a dream we know nothing at all, just what
occurs to us: not moral or immoral. I keep a dream journal.
You should too. My dream journal is effected by my waking problems.
When I was visiting Ireland; I stood before a mountain and thought
is this God? I felt small and insignificant. I thought is this my world?
Can I own a mountain? Climbing the mountain was humbling.
I couldn't keep up with the rams and their path was less than a foot
wide. I gave up and my legs trembled as I descended. I dreamt
about falling down the mountain and sea gulls pecking out my eyes.

Clearly,

Do you want to be Snow White? I think we all do. But, nature is Satan's
church. She will humble us with blood and tears and death.
Of course this is not the direction your story is taking. But, it is what
I read.+


A story doesn't have to have a resolution. It can just stop.

I like that about this slice of Snow White.


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Review of THE LAST SWALLOW  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E | (5.0)


This is a gem. The whole in mordern man is his disconection from nature.
We are monsters. The story of the sparow is very true.
But, you can't put the geni back in the bottle.
I have seen a tornado in Lorance, MA tear up a block of row houses.
That is a humbling event.

I've never been to South Africa.
Basil Rathbone, the actor rembered for his performance of
Sherlock Holmes, was raised in South Africa.
He said his first love was the land and then his black nanny, Ethal.
He was a South African and a British citizen.

You have sweet story here.

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Review of Wheat penny  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E | (4.5)


This is a very appropriate tome.
Take all your coins and lay them face up.
You will see that Lincoln is looking to the right
and all the other Presidents are looking to the left.
That's because he was assassinated.
H.D.R. did away with the silver back dollar and
Nixon took away gold standard. What a dollar is now
is just a promissory note. If the Federal Reserve calls in
its notes, the economy will collapse.
I like how your stanzas line up like an actuary chart.
Was that intentional?
Collect your wheat pennies. They are prized amongst coin
collectors and will increase in value.
"When Lincoln speaks from copper lips" you wrote.
You can read his memoirs. He was a very prolific writer
and a great man.+


Thought provoking thread!

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Review of What is Erotica?  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ | (3.5)



I think you know what is erotica, unless your asexual.
I have yet to meet anyone, who did not have sexual fantasies.
What confuses people is how to express their true desires..
There are rules, even in fantasy. Pornography, is written or
pictorial erotica.. I do like the LEGS issue. I think legs are
very erotic.
Your survey is too short. I'd like to read your opions.
Concider the erotic entertainment avaible, what are they
selling? Dreams are liberating and if you don't dream you
will go mad. But, if you can't seperate dreams from exceptable
behavior; you are clinically insane.
Isn't it ironic that the Goddess Wisdom is the mother of Eros?
Those Greeks are mad!

Keep a dream journal.

Bob
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Rated: E | (4.5)


It sounds like English is a second language for you; Ivycheang.
"Lindsay Lohan had an excellent career, but fall quickly after that."
you wrote; "but fell quickly after that." is the correct declension.
"She got used to paparazzi now, according to a recent interview."
you wrote. Is a little choppy. "She's not bothered by the paparazzi
anymore." could help the syntax.
Do you listen the English speaking talk shows on the radio?
Sometimes, just listening to how people speak can help your writing.
I was impressed with your research on Lindsay Lohan. I didn't know
she had produced albums. I like the tittle, "Spirit In The Dark."
I think I'll buy that CD.

What can be said about Lindsay Lohan; that hasn't been said about
other child stars? Garry Coleman is a sad story. I guess all that glitters
is not gold.+

I enjoyed your article very much.

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Review of Temperament Test  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E | (4.0)


I think temperament has a lot to do with how you perceive respect.
At Walmart there is the policy of "Respect for the individual." This is a
good idea. But, the work day can have many ups and downs. Sometimes,
things are said that aren't respectful. People get tired and cranky.
And, sadly a fist might punch someone in the face. I guess I'm melancholy.
I just can't forget the fist that punched me in the face.

:)

Maybe I'm hypnotized.
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Rated: E | (5.0)



You can see God;
the twisted trunk of weathered trees.
The tree that snaps:
when it can bend no lower.

(Familiar Form)

A fallen tree
has water inside and outside.
It blossoms weeds
and moans in a hollow trunk.

(Familiar Form)
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Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E | (5.0)


Yonder is the valley where yonder rose grows.

There is an innocent narcissism to your poem.
You see the beginning and the end of all paths.
A friend of my mine was studying to be a mechanic.
He hit a rock on the highway, while racing his motorcycle.
He was killed.

According to the law, his death was ruled accidental.
According to the laws of the spirit world he met his destiny.
I try not to judge a book by its cover.
But, Andy was a good man.+
He is survived by a wife and a twenty year old son.

Shalom
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Review of Paper World.  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E | (5.0)


Were you aware the north american bumble bee is becoming extinct?
Pestacides mixed into the pollen on are carried back to the hive.
Bee farmers are suffering ..
Soon the only thing we can farm will be wheat.

Why does God allow it?
To teach us humility?

Zen knows no God.
It is the everlasting Sun
and the seasons in harmony.

Shalom+
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)


Prophet Mohamed married a Roman Catholic after his first wife died.
He was trying to cement a union with the Vatican. It failed.
Prophet Mohamed sent envoys to the Sanhedrin to inquire for a mosque in
Jerusalem. The Jews rejected it.
History is a cruel teacher. There can be no negotiation on faith.
Israel today cannot be a democracy. The majority, who are Muslim
living in Israel, would vote the Jewish state out of existence.
Your argument is flawed. Prophet Mohamed did not bring peace.
Prophet Jesus said, "I come with a sword to turn brother against brother."
Maybe, if the standard of living was improved for .... probably wouldn't change
the religious hatred... were doomed.

Shalom.+
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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)



Now, this is a well written Vamp story.
Why I even feel happy for the little suckah.
I like stories that incorporate the daily humdrum.
And there's room for new chapters.
Oh, I can see a Fangora flick from this bloody tail.

Well, good luck
and keep writing.
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Review of Who???  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E | (4.5)


This sounds a little winy.
But, then, I've never been married.
In nature there is the drive to be prolific.
And, then, the need to build a nest.
All, of which, leads to fledgling outburst.
A never ending circle.
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There are a lot of declarative sentences.
You might want to have some transition.
But, that's just a personal preference.

"No way she was going to marry the man they had chosen."
sounds like slang; which breaks with the rhythm of the classic proses.

A poem has merit in it's intent:

Glory be to God for dappled things
For skies of couple color as branded cows;
For roses on mole hills along stipple stream trout swim;
Fresh firecoal cooks chestnuts under flying finches wings;
Lanscape plotted and pierced fold, fallow and plow;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled(who knows how?)
With swift, slow, sweet , sour, adazzle, dim;
He farthers forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
Shall not live in vain.

Amen.

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Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ | (5.0)


No one is certain where water came from.
There's a theory that it fell to Earth on meteorites.
The water we have now has been recycling for eons.
In water is cells. The cells we are borne with are replaced
so that by the time we die we are an entirely different person.
You may believe you are in control of your body, but who are you?
Each drop of your blood can hold every detail of your body.
And 90% of our bodies is water.
Is water God? Does water connect us to all living creatures?
I have no empirical evidence.

Very thought provoking thread.
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Review of What happened???  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)



Seven is the mystical number for women.
It the division of the moon cycle into for parts
and the half, full and waning menstruation.
In such a state of solitude it is a miracle that
women have anything to do with men other than
mating.

You have relayed the conflict well.
I would put aside the spacing.
But, that's just my preference.

Totally, unrelated I have had an image of
an eye composed of words.
A window to the soul?

~~~
<^>
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I kept hearing Woody Allen, "Paranoia is knowing your going to die and blaming yourself."
It's O.K. to be nervous about rigor mortis. I know a little fellah in a hardware store, whose
transplanted pancreas has shut down. He is experiencing blindness and fainting.
But, he keeps fighting for his job and hoping for a new pancreas. His faith in God is
not optimistic.


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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)




Sounds like a treasure hunt.
You've really done your research.
I like the history lesson.
Adolf Hitler had no sibblingz.
But, it is possible he might have a few bastards.

The N.A.Z.I's liked to F a lot.
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Review of IN THE MIST  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E | (5.0)


"each year on the anniversary of her husband's suicide, there was dead silence from the family.
.. Eventually she began to avoid other days of commemoration: anniversaries and birthdays,
including her own. " Battle Scars p413; WOMEN WHO RUN WITH WOLVES: Clarissa Pinkola.

The ghosts haunt us,
but we are the living.

Very nice poem.
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Review of Raven: Chapter 1  Open in new Window.
Review by bob county Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)


Werewolf story? You should read Black Elk Speaks.
It's about a Shaman. He has a vision of running with a wolf pack
and flying like a hawk. He sees the Great Hoop of the world and
the end of his people.
I liked the beginning of this narrative, but then it slips off into
fantasy. My dad read Celtic lore to me in my childhood.
The opportunity here is to explore Raven's adolescence.
Can she love men?

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Right on! There ought to be rules. Why should we pay for other peoples bastards?
Let's have Planned Parenthood in the grammar schools. Abortion should be a constitutional
right. Think of all the money waisted on welfare moms. Let's sterilize orphans! And legalize
prostitution, for Christ's sake! Jesus loved Mary Magdalen, very, very, much.
You want to teach these brats some discipline? Mandatory enlistment!
Put the little buggers in the front line! And for God's sake let's remember what Jesus taught;
"If you believe in me you can go to Heaven. If you don't then go to Hell!"

Damn straight!
Thank you so very much LOUDERMILK!
I going to salute my flag and shoot an illegal immigrant!
This is country is for Americans!

Bob Country
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