My Week of Tweets
By Lester | July 3, 2009
- Got the itch to write?
Get a pen and some paper.
Scratch until you bleed. - We all know that death / is coming / Try to look busy / #haiku #micropoetry #
- My personal site (www.lestersmith.com) has been getting an overhaul. Last weekend was graphic makeover. A navigation update is underway. #
- armadillo husk / abandoned on the roadside / like a piece of tire / #haiku #micropoetry #
- New blog entry: Next Up: Soji http://bit.ly/dIk5J #
- deleting voicemail /
save the one /
from the friend who drowned / - The most famous models are "supermodels." The most famous stars are "superstars." Why isn't a Poet Laureate "superpoet"? #
- "Using the Right Word: already, all ready" http://bit.ly/YYGXV #business #writing #
- moon on black water / and headlights / along the highway / #haiku #micropoetry #
- My Facebook sidebar keeps showing photo ads of hot young girls searching for me online. Really? I'm not tough to locate. (Just ask my wife.) #
- Joined the Captain Jinks & Salty Sam club on Facebook (http://is.gd/1hbhq). Used to watch Space Angel (http://is.gd/1hbnD) on their show. #
- Retweeting @mwcreations: RIP Billy Mays Dead at 50 http://bit.ly/12H8Dm #
- WPWebHost is giving away Thesis WordPress Theme. Just follow @WPWebHost and retweet http://tinyurl.com/n4ez3c. #
- New blog entry: My Week of Tweets http://bit.ly/OwLfc #
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Next Up: Soji
By Lester | June 30, 2009
While Twitter is often lampooned as empty chatter, I’m finding it an increasingly rich source of news and information. (Just look at what it has done in terms of revealing the aftermath of Iran’s election.) Read the rest of this entry »
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My Week of Tweets
By Lester | June 26, 2009
- Hahaha! RT @LouProsperi: The "Fun" in Fundamentals http://bit.ly/2FpGY6 – Good stuff. Will you follow up with 'The "Mental in Fundamentals'? #
- Fox News argues – and wins – right to lie in Florida. http://bit.ly/UruhT #
- I just commented "Wow…" on http://bit.ly/HRT98 #
- New blog entry: The "Fun" in Fundamentals http://bit.ly/2FpGY6 #
- RT @TipsForWriters Writer's Trick #1: There are no tricks, just work. #
- Been listening to Esperato lessons on the way back & forth to work. Lots of fun. Free from http://en.lernu.net/ #
- RT @timoreilly: Statistical analysis suggests fraud in #iranelection http://bit.ly/63MKl #
- RT @michellesheiman: His wife has left him. //He doesn’t really miss her. //Anyone will do. //#senryu #haiku #
- Thanks @elyathorn, @Abashima, @rileymagnus, & everyone else for the well wishes. I'm happy to be back & posting in Twitter/Facebook-land. in reply to elyathorn #
- "The truth about writers" http://bit.ly/F0vSg #
- Post-weekend report: My poet friend's recovering well from her Fri. surgery; K8 & I are back from a wonderfully bittersweet trip to QuinCon. #
- New blog entry: My Week of Tweets http://bit.ly/mzwer #
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The “Fun” in Fundamentals
By Lester | June 26, 2009
Earlier this week, The Writing Teacher published an essay I wrote entitled, “Learning, Frivolity, and ‘Leeroy Jenkins!’” I invite you to give it a read and perhaps post a comment there.
Thanks!
—Les
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My Week of Tweets
By Lester | June 19, 2009
- at the hospital, waiting for my friend to get out of surgery, feeling a little blue #
- stunned with fatigue / this is when the universe / looks less cohesive / #haiku #micropoetry. Good night, all. #
- In prep for the drive, bought "Conversational Klingon" audiobook for K8 & me to practice on the way down, & Esperanto lessons for trip back. #
- Stunned w/ fatigue. In the a.m. gotta drive a friend to the hospital & wait thru surgery, then it's off to QuinCon with K8. Gotta pack 1st. #
- New blog entry: Zombie Poetry Anthology http://bit.ly/dNnS5 #
- New blog entry: Attending Quincon http://bit.ly/O4laU #
- Finally the dr. arrives, 55 minutes late. But then, he sees me for less than 5 mins., so I'm out only 1hr. of PTO, right? (plus travel) #
- so many haiku / chopped like bait / the smell of dead fish / #haiku #micropoetry (p.s. often guilty myself) #
- so many haiku / chopped like bait / the smell of dead fish / #haiku #micropoetry (p.s. often) #
- Still waiting for the dr. to show. At least there's public wireless here so's I can Tweet & read O'Reilly's posts. #
- Waiting @ dr's office. 9a.m. appointment, for which I had to come early for sign in 9:22 & his ass isn't here yet. grrrr. #
- Every time my iTunes DJ plays the Buffy/Angel theme I get misty eyed. Six years later, I'm still mourning the show's end. #
- New blog entry: You Are the Elite! http://lestersmith.com/2009/06/17/you-are-the-elite/ #
- Chap. 2: She's watching him sleep, his naked arm a pillow, hot beneath her cheek. #haiku #micropoetry #flash_fiction #
- New blog entry: What Could Be Verse? http://bit.ly/ybTGd #
- For his eightieth, she cut back on her morphine, sat up in a chair. #haiku #micropoetry #flash_fiction #
- RT @motsjustes: 10 literary terms and devices: http://bit.ly/3wpMIw #writing #
- For his eightieth, she cut back on her morphine, to be there with him. #haiku #micropoetry #flash_fiction #
- New blog entry: My Week of Tweets http://bit.ly/OOyHI #
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