The Featured Post Blog

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

by: gongli

Just got back from doing my act at the comedy club. Yowza, I was gooood! My stand-up comedy teacher told me my act was one of the best he's seen. I don't know if meant one the best open mike acts or one of the best student acts, or one of the best acts period. It doesn't matter, it was fun. The MC also came up to me and told me that the material about my white girl friend was dynamite and that I should expand on it. B who came with me was pleased and touched about being in my act.

People laughed at almost every place I wanted them to laugh. Just one joke bombed (the one about having trouble making small talk at speed dating).
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posted by: howard at 10:35 | link | comments |

by: Islena (on Women)

I'm a 24 year old "single" mother who lives with her boyfriend, and, consequently, father of our son.  We live in a small town full of narrow-minded folks.  I'm outspoken, liberal, and a "guy's girl."  I like my hockey bloody and my beer from Canada.  I'm an unrespected "Front Office Manager" at a major hotel chain.  My job is not a career.  It was a wrong turn at the fork in the parenting road.  I chose to take a responsible route and get promoted to support my new family.
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posted by: howard at 15:59 | link | comments |

by: JoeSchmuck

the living the dead they meld they come together they tear apart they tear us apart we tear them apart we the living they the dead we the dead they the living we're the same connected through the ether connected through souls touching touched to be touched

ashes to ashes dust to dust light to light

i don't know i don't know we're all headed that way two of us have headed that way we're here to look over the wall to look through the window to glance through the doorway two of our own walking in that world
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posted by: howard at 10:18 | link | comments |

by: jordanclary

It took two people to man the suicide buses. One was the driver, usually male, often with teeth stained brown from chewing beetle nuts. Some drivers ground their teeth. Others rocked manically back and forth. They all drove fast. One late night bus ride home I watched the speedometer climb to 75 mph. That night we also ran two red lights and took a quick detour down the bike lane. It’s not surprising that most of these buses had dents or bent fenders. The suicide buses never seemed to heed traffic laws, but then neither do most of Haikou’s vehicular traffic.
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posted by: howard at 08:44 | link | comments (3) |

by: monsoon

but, my room is clean, and i did it without wearing a mask.  thank you very much.  ironic, that i was cleaning because of an ocd attack, and then almost killed myself with the disinfectant spray.  i took the bus to buy supplies and i sat and listened to david crowder.  i love the way people all sway together on the bus.  they pretend as if no one else exists, but it's made clear by the way we all move together like the hair of some organism, floating along together, rubbing arms and tapping each other to get past.
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posted by: howard at 09:52 | link | comments (3) |

by: joshuakatcher

Meteorites freckle the ground, dry like a desolate psoriasis on the face of California. The air cracks my sinuses until they bleed. Sand blows for miles in every direction. Mountains crumble to pieces in the distance.
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posted by: howard at 10:30 | link | comments (2) |

by: louisamae (on the group blog Women)

something from the distant past, a bit from the diary I kept when I was pregnant

'Nine and a half weeks -I feel very far away from everything. Mostly I feel far away from myself. Ideas in my head just out of reach...
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posted by: howard at 13:24 | link | comments (1) |

by: 120pages

we watched television for the first time last night. we finally let the pictures into our sweet little victorian on the hill we turned on the television and tried to eat our organically grown free range chicken salad nice pinot grigio dinner.

we watched television for the first time last night and there it was in color black and white america.
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posted by: howard at 23:48 | link | comments (1) |