The Featured Post Blog

A collection of the featured posts as they appeared on mo'time

by: limine

'where did that come from?

so many influences. written heard watched viewed. who said what in what context where did i get that from when why how?

i am a plagiarist.

well my ego is, that's for sure.

as a kid, growing up, so many times i lifted bits and pieces, good turns of phrase, song lyrics, always absorbing everything like a sponge. sometimes it was conscious and deliberate. often it wasn't. often it just seemed natural. couldn't tell cliché from saying from quote from song.'
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by: ChefNeal

'No farmer I, no poetic soul. Philosopher yes, writer and lover of dogs. I missed the mark though, and overshot I have fallen back to the ground. You can like cats, and barnyards.'
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by: BanzaiDescent

'Cross your fingers and toes. By late March or April I’ll be shooting my own film again.'
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by: kenjprice

"[where greeting cards come from] Are you sitting comfortably? Not wriggling? Ok I shall begin. Once upon a time..."
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by: icedish

"Oh, and I'm at McMurdo this winter too. The Pole is 700 miles south (of course) from here. I have a few friends down there, so I'll be able to keep up with the gossip."
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by: SvelteSue

"I've often wondered if the world of the internet differed from the real world. So far, it hasn't. Perhaps I need to post more, more often, but as my days are filled with intense physical action and motivating others, the irony is my own sometime lack of motivation."
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by: obgyn2b

"We then followed him---he's quite small and reminded me of a teenaged boy playing soccer, as he ran between the sleeping bodies and slumped over forms--around the place as he did what he considers his job there: search for the medical oddities."
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by: gongli

"But when I read the entries today, I find that the only interesting parts are mundane facts: what I had for breakfast, what classes I was taking. The thoughts were almost always trite or pretentious, but the facts bring back memories of my youth."
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by: papmeister

"We were five people with disparate interests but just so you know what kind of people I surround myself with, I will tell you that the included the world's most heavily tattooed bird-watcher and, and this is key for the purpose of this story, an industrial archaeologist."
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by: Yoshick

"They were going to blow our tiny minds. Our proof was in the popularity: the line for the show was out the door and more than fifty people in the street. In fact, when the Anomaly and I arrived with no Math Man in sight, we realized that we could scalp the spare ticket from its five dollar price to ten, perhaps even fifteen dollars to the sold out crowd."
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