Tag: Port Writers Alliance

Regular Features-

• Late Night Karaoke by mishima
• Muse in the Morning by Robyn
• Six In The Morning by mishima

Featured Essays for February 13, 2011-

• Egypt: A Revolution Co-opted By The Regime It Opposes by Edger
• Republicans out to Kill Canaries in the Coal Mines by A Siegel
• An Interview with Adlai Stevenson III, Part One: Government Transparency by cabaretic
• Injustice at Every Turn — Part IV: Family Life by Robyn
• Call me Ishmael by ek hornbeck
• Under The Radar: Open Thread by TheMomCat

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Regular Daily Features:

• News at Six in the Morning from mishima
• Firefall is in the spotlight at Late Night Karaoke, mishima DJs

Essays Featured Sunday, February 13^th:

• Sunday Open Thoughts has Alma discussing ignorance and ways to combat it.
• Waterbug  hosts the first WYFP at firefly-dreaming: WYFP: Esprit d’Escalier
• Xanthe offers poetry for the season in Two Valentine’s Poems
• Sunday Bread has  madeBill Egnor a man after my heart… today he shares how to make Chocolate Covered Cherries!
• Firefly Memories 1.0 is where Alma takes a look back at some of the most Brilliant essays of our first years posts, highlighting those which exemplify our firefly-dreaming spirit and mission.  Today:Earthships

come firefly-dreaming with me….

Regular Features-

• Late Night Karaoke by mishima
• Muse in the Morning by Robyn
• Six In The Morning by mishima

Featured Essays for February 12, 2011-

• While you were sleeping by ek hornbeck
• Lessons from the long-term unemployed by gjohnsit
• Born in Coon Rapids, Died in Helmand Province by Jacob Freeze

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Regular Daily Features:

• News at Six in the Morning from mishima
• Psycho is in the spotlight in Fridays Late Night Karaoke
• Journey is in the spotlight in Saturdays Late Night Karaoke, mishima DJs both nights

Essays Featured Friday, February 11^th:

• Friday Open Thoughts, Digitus Impudicus~ where slksfca says Pluck Yew
• Firefly Memories 1.0 is where Alma takes a look back at some of the Brilliant essays of our first years posts, highlighting those which exemplify our firefly-dreaming spirit and mission.  Today:Need vs. Want  

Essays Featured Saturday, February 12^th:

• Alma hosts Saturday Open Thoughts with a photo essay showing happy people.
• Brand New Saturday Art! from mishima!!
• Photography: Contrast from new member stevej
• Firefly Memories 1.0 is where Alma takes a look back at some of the Brilliant essays of our first years posts, highlighting those which exemplify our firefly-dreaming spirit and mission.  Today:out of whack  

**NOTE**

firefly-dreaming is hosting WYFP tonight at 8PM as dkos is down.

please come by whether WYFP is one of your regular stops

or you always wanted to stop by…

NOW is a good chance to join in!

come firefly-dreaming with me….

Unlike Stupid Bowl 2010, an occasion on which your bloguero’s use of various intoxicating liquids led to an uncharacteristically  spectacular flame out and a gigantic, public crash, in which the biggest injury was self-inflicted embarrassment that would persist unabated for a full calendar year, Stupid Bowl 2011 was mild.  It ended in relative quiet and probity, and was quickly eclipsed by the excitement of AOL’s buying Hufflepuffle and, much more important, Egypt’s Televised Revolution.

As usual, your bloguero had no idea what the week would bring.  Self absorbed, he was thrilled that he would not spend the year until Stupid Bowl 2012 in penance and vain attempts to apologize for his unfathomable folly and excuse his bad behavior.  No.  He would be able to move on.  What a relief.  But he admits it: his having committed to writing this Digest did cause him some slight concern.  What, he asked, would happen if he couldn’t bring himself to write anything this week?  What if the writing muse were on vacation and the story warehouse were padlocked? Maybe he could avoid this potential problem be being abducted to someplace in the Caribbean  with coco palms and warm beaches and, best of all, lacking all Internet and/or electricity.  Alas and alack.  No such luck.  No space ships.  No armed kidnappers.  Not even an invitation to escape. Nada.

If you look at the last week in The Dream Antilles you will find:

A Haiku about snow.  Because of ice and sleet, my dog friend was finally able to walk on top of our deep snow cover.  A brief reflection on the canine world.

Huffpo Bought By AOL. The news that the beleaguered, dinosaur of dial up, AOL, bought Huffington Post and made the doyenne of coy self promotion, Ariana, even richer.  A $315,000,000 deal built at least in part on the backs of those who blogged and wrote for free, who were, of course, screwed in the deal.

Sorry, Ariana and Markos, No More Free Content For You.  I didn’t write anything at Hufflepuffle, but I was sure that when dailyKos was eventually sold to a group of investment bankers and venture capitalists-I think this is now likely– I wouldn’t be paid for all of the writing I posted there, that Markos would argue that I got the “exposure” I deserved and that nothing further not even a propina piquena was required.  So, though I think the GBCW genre has fallen on bad times since ErrinF penned her immortal screed, I waved my middle digit in the rear view mirror and rode away on a cloud indignation.  This was surprisingly easy.

Skewering Spiderman.  How often can you find a review that says this?  “Spider-Man” is not only the most expensive musical ever to hit Broadway; it may also rank among the worst.”  Ouch.

Brian Jacques, RIP.  A children’s author I really loved to read to my kids passed on.  In his stories good always triumphed.  He will be sorely missed, though I’m sure that for generations to come parents will enjoy reading his works to their kids.

Mubarak To The World: I Fart In Your General Direction.  No Nixonian adieu for the perennial tyrant.  No.  Instead, defiance and indignation even as he was secretly packing his bags and moving his money around getting ready to do the Mobutu.  

A Haiku about a subzero night sky.

A Haiku about Haiku.

And Now Algeria? wonders whether the demonstrations we saw on Saturday in Algiers and elsewhere are the starting bell for events like Tunisia and Egypt.

A Piece Of Internet History marks the end of dKos as we know it, and the transformation into what I think amouts to “Left Coast Facebook^TM.”  

This essay about what is on The Dream Antilles. It’s supposed to be a  weekly Sunday morning very early digest for the Writers Port Alliance. As you can see, today is Saturday.  I’m putting this up now, because I won’t be able to on Sunday. See you next week, if the creek don’t rise.  On Sunday early.

   

Regular Features-

• Late Night Karaoke by mishima
• Muse in the Morning by Robyn
• Six In The Morning by mishima

Featured Essays for February 11, 2011-

• Our Global Elites by ek hornbeck
• Business: The Rising Price of Groceries and Twitter by TheMomCat
• Reporting the Revolution: Day 18 by TheMomCat
• UPDATED: Mubarak Resigns and Flees Cairo? by Edger
• Limiting Caregiver Benefits – VA’s Fault? by jimstaro
• Injustice at Every Turn — Part III: Health Care by Robyn
• Typical Products of Afghanistan and the USA by Jacob Freeze
• Original v. Cover — #65 in a Series by curmudgeon

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Regular Features-

• Late Night Karaoke by mishima
• Muse in the Morning by Robyn
• Six In The Morning by mishima

Featured Essays for February 9, 2011-

• How to drop the unemployment rate to zero by gjohnsit
• Reporting the Revolution: Day 17 Up Date 2030hrs EST by TheMomCat
• The snowman: Obama to cut home-heating assistance to the poor. by Compound F
• UN: Sources – Mubarak Could Step Down Tonight by Edger
• Mubarak To World: I Fart In Your General Direction by davidseth

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Regular Daily Features:

• News at Six in the Morning from mishima
• Gang of Four is in the spotlight at Late Night Karaoke, mishima DJs

Essays Featured Thursday, February 10^th:

• mplo gives a review of The Town in Thursday Open Thoughts
• Ed Tracey delights with news items outside the headlines, in the arts and sciences; foreign news that generates little notice and ….well, just plain whimsy! Check it out: Cornucopia Thursday
• Toward Utopia from slksfca
• kathleen throws a party because it’s Knucklehead’s Birthday TODAY!!
• Firefly Memories 1.0 is where Alma takes a look back at some of the Brilliant essays of our first years posts, highlighting those which exemplify our firefly-dreaming spirit and mission.  Today:What It’s Like to be Different

come firefly-dreaming with me….

Regular Features-

• Late Night Karaoke by mishima
• Muse in the Morning by Robyn

Featured Essays for February 9, 2011-

• Health and Fitness News by TheMomCat
• Neglected Tropical Diseases by TheMomCat
• The Ultimate Spiritual Way by Edger
• Tip of the Iceberg by ek hornbeck
• Injustice at Every Turn — Part II: Employment by Robyn
• Want a Taste of the 112th Congress, i.e. House by jimstaro
• Oklahoma Shari’a Law Controversy: The Secret Plot Is Finally Uncovered by fake consultant

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Regular Daily Features:

• News at Six in the Morning from mishima
• Grey Seal is in the spotlight in mishima‘s Late Night Karaoke

Essays Featured Wednesday, February :

• Youffraita does Pasta with Four Cheeses in Wednesday Open Thoughts
• Health & Fitness News in a re-peat performance, from TheMomCat
• Oklahoma Shari’a Law Controversy: The Secret Plot Is Finally Uncovered from fake consultant
• Firefly Memories 1.0 is where Alma takes a look back at some of the Brilliant essays of our first years posts, highlighting those which exemplify our firefly-dreaming spirit and mission.  Today:Cheap, Easy and Kind of Healthy

come firefly-dreaming with me….