<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:01:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>poem</category><category>rhyming ramble</category><category>MiSC. horseshit</category><category>nonsense</category><category>the nature of cupcakes</category><category>girl</category><category>autobiographical</category><category>toronto</category><category>short story</category><category>PSA</category><category>inspiration</category><category>random sentences</category><category>introspective</category><category>angst</category><category>list</category><category>on blogs</category><category>thank you</category><category>insults</category><category>urgent request</category><category>pelican man</category><category>everybody hurts</category><category>ms. rhythm</category><category>calm</category><category>burnout</category><category>marilyn and john</category><category>cycling</category><category>social media</category><category>Pun Gents</category><category>kim jong-il</category><category>email archives</category><category>FIAC team bios</category><category>brunch</category><category>cd review</category><category>italy</category><category>rambungling</category><category>ayn rand</category><category>books</category><category>canada</category><category>cupcake for mayor</category><category>essay</category><category>fabrizio</category><category>the economy</category><category>travel</category><category>I am the phoenix</category><category>NaNoWriMo</category><category>daily affirmation</category><category>first FIAC post ever</category><category>freedom is a cupcake</category><category>frickin</category><category>google</category><category>hockey</category><category>in defense of god</category><category>jerry fischmaker</category><category>life in hell</category><category>lyrics</category><category>nostradamus</category><category>photos</category><category>politics</category><category>promise</category><category>quotes</category><category>regret</category><category>reverse-autobiographical</category><category>rob ford</category><category>sarcasm</category><category>simon cowell</category><category>sweet nothingness</category><category>tragically hip</category><category>twitter</category><category>waltzing matilda</category><category>world cup</category><title>Freedom is a Cupcake</title><description>Grab. Ingest. Release. It&#39;s free. (To be read ALOUD.) &lt;a title=&quot;Subscribe to FIAC while RSS is still cool&quot; alt=&quot;Subscribe to FIAC while RSS is still cool&quot; href=&quot;feeds.feedburner.com/FreedomIsACupcake&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>855</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-283109897522023462</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-06-21T20:03:28.822-04:00</atom:updated><title>I turned my blog into a song</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://suno.com/@pattanzola&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;FIAC songs&lt;/a&gt; on Suno.com.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&#39;allowfullscreen&#39; webkitallowfullscreen=&#39;webkitallowfullscreen&#39; mozallowfullscreen=&#39;mozallowfullscreen&#39; width=&#39;320&#39; height=&#39;266&#39; src=&#39;https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz-cTutc7U88NkPOoPMMJp_wwE20VNPf00mtvrqDtRISdP35A5qQErkw8ISxohxS069RtgP_MysFVY&#39; class=&#39;b-hbp-video b-uploaded&#39; frameborder=&#39;0&#39;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2024/06/i-turned-my-blog-into-song.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-1496655788241110250</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2015 03:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-12-22T22:09:28.179-05:00</atom:updated><title>Back in practise</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Left to rattle off lists, I&#39;m here to thicken wrists and wrestle demons I did kill years ago back into the dirt, out off the coffee and ripping off my skirt.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sweaty men slap me silly, I&#39;m drunk off caboose breakneck liquor and happy&lt;br /&gt;
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My Mr. Marvin walked wildly into a wet shower, snapped his torso back and struck out swinging. Clasping and clinging, grasping and humming, rang up riddles on this Samsung Experia, like lab assistants casually handling vials of diphtheria.&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#39;m salty. I&#39;m sweet. I&#39;ve been nervous on the street.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-life-and-times-of-jerry-fischmaker.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisjbxayGlsmjODKSecdH06yqSK0vtsIak3IzrqZJGsiimYelJ9xPn-Q5MQYBOa7p_qRjSmm5kn3KOs2plAjC1Faq-c9ob82dy5qB57bCZnxsy4dQeJ9pZJW3YZ-4CQfd6kPREL/s72-c/Screen+Shot+2014-04-24+at+5.01.37+PM.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-1146875909059113598</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 02:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-04-15T22:53:21.079-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">introspective</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MiSC. horseshit</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social media</category><title>Observer alters the outcome</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;When I read something on social media, I also think about all the things I didn&#39;t read on social media because of all the things that are written on social media which causes many things I wish I could be reading to go unwritten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2014/04/observer-alters-outcome.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-4092159950691062075</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2024-06-21T19:20:06.397-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MiSC. horseshit</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rhyming ramble</category><title>Sweat roll</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://suno.com/song/d27e6ee5-7f17-4add-9c92-5eac1259c22e&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Listen to Sweat Roll, the song on Suno.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&#39;allowfullscreen&#39; webkitallowfullscreen=&#39;webkitallowfullscreen&#39; mozallowfullscreen=&#39;mozallowfullscreen&#39; width=&#39;320&#39; height=&#39;266&#39; src=&#39;https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyWlIiUZJOCoJ1CZeGB9utWmoMrC28lDj2TsR0-DhgJy7GBaC8xmpTW29-pwm3gA1VqxZX7ycflz_A&#39; class=&#39;b-hbp-video b-uploaded&#39; frameborder=&#39;0&#39;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
I could control this expression or I could dance on the keyboard. I could batter this tendency, I could confront the mental enemy. We walk hours, we wake years, live lives loved and wives and sons. I am a man who&#39;s full of gas. I parse relentless at the pass.&lt;br /&gt;
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Never divide, only add. The last 15 years were pretty much a fad.&lt;br /&gt;
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Include yourself in this argument, take it all personal, everything here was meant for you. That&#39;s why the author is anonymous too.&lt;br /&gt;
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Quiet yourself. There is silence somewhere on the shelf. He never even tried to shut his mouth. It takes amazing willpower and that has been thrown out.&lt;br /&gt;
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Look through the dust in drawers: Rubber bands and paper clips and all of your awards. &lt;br /&gt;
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Amaze yourself, unphased, loaded up like a room service tray, dedicate the games to the gays and the sun to the rays, the only day (today) to the one deity, the gaze, your gaze, her gaze, all paid up and ready, all taut and unsteady, straddling dynamite to take a side bet on the afterlife. I didn&#39;t finish that thought, you did, they did, they do it a lot. I was passed out on the cot.&lt;br /&gt;
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It takes a certain sameness and everpresent drain to sharpen a knife edge nose and lead us to suppose there is magic in the fluff, that a wink is not a trick, that the end has an ending and our logic isn&#39;t sick.&lt;br /&gt;
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I can&#39;t end on this note. I&#39;m 35 and on my bucket list: Spain in May in a 32-foot sailboat.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2014/02/sweat-roll.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-182113109557487749</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2013 02:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-10-31T22:59:00.551-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">insults</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nonsense</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">poem</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rob ford</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">toronto</category><title>Crackstarter</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Own up and feel better, bobby, nothing like dead letters and past philanderings with the truth to unsheathe you as truly ruthlessly delusional, uncouth, rude and blinkered, boinked and buzzed on purple juice. Crow not that dogood nazis and driveways nuts did you in. Your sin was in not singing. Your win is winding down anyhow, loud as you are, fond as you are wagging fingers at foes, trusting no one cept those Etobicoke hos. Dial me and I&#39;ll return your call: you must resign, that is all.&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2013/10/crackstarter.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-4834077699885712000</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-07-18T15:13:34.036-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">calm</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nonsense</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rhyming ramble</category><title>Too hot</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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Can I contribute a gift? You and me were tied to a tree. We don&#39;t know the chainsaw schedule. I was often afoul of the police. She dragged the fox tail hammock out to the woods and sang a piper&#39;s ballad. Milady of malady, dreading humid Saturdays.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Mention most men. They are jelly until 10. A sweater song, come undone at the dangling string of root a gun.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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O, Electro chemical benzene molecule moist meatpacker backpack-flag-attacker! You sultrify the snark dens with leather pants and obsidian earrings. Twist your dope face into something good. Look around - there are 500 sq km of forestable wood.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Never even met him. Saw reflections on a screen. Every day you have the same dream.&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2013/07/too-hot.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-3089942052366565247</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-28T19:31:44.155-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nonsense</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">random sentences</category><title>I See a Darkness</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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We are worn out and wondering why. I love you in the movie with the big blue African sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh, the little we love and can do. Unfortunately that music doesn&#39;t sustain a two hour spurt. You can&#39;t keep rhythm on the screen, you describe your day, like an insect colony production schedule determined to shovel as much dirt into the readers&#39; eyes to make them grit and wince.&lt;br /&gt;
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There is something you oughta know about the grocer down the block, where people in a hurry get 1L milk for $4.59: He has a room full of heat lamps in the back where his kids teach Vietnamese to strange truckers who have a thing for small-waisted cashiers.&lt;br /&gt;
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You have to lay it all out there and hope, knowing of course that someone suddenly can&#39;t stand your guts and everything you keep bubbles up in the way you post photos, leave witty comments and even by the speed you answer your phone. I can&#39;t believe I haven&#39;t sat you down in years and told you all about those songs that brought me tears. I think there must have been a hundred.&lt;br /&gt;
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That way that you were, I remember&amp;nbsp; it well, I think you are the same in my mind as the day at the airport, I have always just wanted to be near, to stay and not leave. I say prayers in the morning when you go to work and when I turn my first thought is &#39;did she drink her coffee&#39;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh great people I see you on the street, I see you on the sidewalk, my soundtrack in the car; you are a necessary part of the scenery, each wading through your tiny dreams, your big lungs and loud wails your pissing children your glorious christmas mornings when everything is even steven.&lt;br /&gt;
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It&#39;s me, Andy, I haven&#39;t seen you in a while. Like he said you&#39;re going to wish you talked to me more when we were alive. I have the recording you made when we were kids, I remember I just laughed in the background; I think I remember everything you ever said. I don&#39;t know if it&#39;s a photographic memory but I&#39;m certain it&#39;s a curse. You can&#39;t ever doubt my heart. I am still trying to start.&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-see-darkness.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-3230390615846412025</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 01:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-09T20:20:29.737-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">girl</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">poem</category><title>Pink socks</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Pink socks in my nose&lt;br /&gt;
on the brown couch, in a row&lt;br /&gt;
are somewhat better than sweaty toes&lt;br /&gt;
but above both of those, is-not ironed clothes, not your feet decorated in red rows&lt;br /&gt;
-the warm winky weirdo I chose.&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2013/03/pink-socks.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-7894333487317517073</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-02-27T17:47:08.304-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">on blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the nature of cupcakes</category><title>Kickstarting dead blog part 346</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Kickstarting this dead blog is like trying to light a fire when you haven&#39;t lit a fire in a year and-most excruciating-you haven&#39;t cleaned out the ashes in like 15 years.&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2013/02/kickstarting-dead-blog-part-346.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-8634833479821585148</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-02-18T10:00:30.000-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">introspective</category><title>XFactor</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Have you heard Carly Rose yet? You will. If you don&#39;t you ain&#39;t got ears.&lt;br /&gt;
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If we are the end, then the machines, so beautiful more beautiful than us - what of them?&lt;br /&gt;
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An old man beaten who fought for freedom, this is unbelievable unconditionally unforgivable! Let&#39;s trump hope with grit. Men who speak well can&#39;t govern. Elections are a sham. I&#39;d rather have us pick them like Celebrity Apprentice.&amp;nbsp;Judge who is worthy, America, as if you have a choice. Too many handlers between the people and the man.&lt;br /&gt;
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Unfinished thoughts are welcome; you can finish them how you like. We don&#39;t need another writer, flaming out futilility. I as an outsider have the ability to think. Stuck here in the clink. Driven to drink. Too drunk to drive. Too alive to survive. Too true to open mouth. Too blue to let it out. True blue, you are the glue. What is why? Where is the how? When will be Forever.&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2012/12/xfactor.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-3457038957732778656</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-10-02T15:48:05.305-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cd review</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MiSC. horseshit</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tragically hip</category><title>Ludicrous Canadiana Interpretation of Now For Plan A by The Tragically Hip</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
[Go &lt;a href=&quot;http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/id566049544&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;buy it now&lt;/a&gt;!]&lt;br /&gt;
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My song by song analysis shows some overlooked connections between the meaning of the Tragically Hip&#39;s latest album, &lt;i&gt;Now For Plan A, &lt;/i&gt;and this great land we call North of America.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;At Transformation:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;This is a rock-hard stage-melter that will put clicks on iPhones, but undulating deeper this an opaque stab at the Western Canadian shale gas fracking industry, which transforms water into money via bad-smelling gas by-products.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Man Machine Poem:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;How did Margaret Atwood&#39;s long-distance book-signing quill change literature and the Internet as we know it? Listen to this multi-vocalic screamer and absorb.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lookahead: &lt;/b&gt;The fact Sarah Harmer sings on this one means it&#39;s about the Niagara Escarpment, a large landmass one can&#39;t easily look-ahead of, lest it escarp&#39; your eyes out!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;We Want to Be It: &lt;/b&gt;The Hip have won many Juno awards, yet have never hosted the Junos. A blood-hearted romp that teases political scion Ben Mulroney about his amazing hair, as Ben &#39;dripped&#39; with promise but never achieve gubernatorial transcendence.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Streets Ahead:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;A song about love, not between a man and a woman, but a man and his dogsled team. The dog team - can he keep it together? Iditarod-know that!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Now for Plan A:&lt;/b&gt; Since the Avro Arrow was scrapped, there have been many plans, including the current F-35 debacle, to harness the future of our skies via superior aerial war machines. Sarah Harmer returns us to our pre-Diefenbaker roots with an ode to the Arrow. Nothing short of everything will be enough to revive this long-dead Icon of aerospace. If this song were McDonald&#39;s it wouldn&#39;t be an &#39;all beef patty&#39;, it would be an &#39;All-Dief Plan A&#39;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Modern Spirit:&lt;/b&gt; A sinuous ear-trip along Halifax&#39;s Blowers Street, this song reminds us that the full-bodied nourishment of the stately Donair sandwich can only be appreciated with more &#39;modern&#39; condiments, including the &#39;spirits&#39; or harsh liqueurs once imported by the 1700s&#39; rum trade into Dartmouth harbour. An apoplectic tromp l&#39;oreille.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;About The Map:&lt;/b&gt; As the eruption of Nunavut&#39;s existence redrew the Canadian mapscape, a cartographer reminds his curious child about what lies &#39;beyond the maps&#39; of the frozen north: a lush canticle that gets to the truth about pemmican, Northern values, and the pernicious igloo stereotypes that retard progress among our north folk. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Take Forever:&lt;/b&gt; As singer Gord Downie flies among the skies to tour the West, he has a nervous breakdown and realizes that only Calgary&#39;s mayor, Naheed Nenshi, will grant him clearance to land. A song about a province turned away from its &#39;forever&#39; values of Ralph Klein-conservatism to a swaggering stage-strut driven by good loud music that only Eastern boys like the Hip can hustle up. &#39;Take&#39; that to your Stampede and lasso it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Done and Done: &lt;/b&gt;Inspired by the Vancouver Stanley Cup riots, this is also a song about the Hip&#39;s quest to secure better digital copyright laws for us all, as well as a stab in the face of Tony Clement&#39;s gazebo-building megalomania masked in the soft strains of a 50-year-old Bill Derlago fan&#39;s plea to finally get his way on the hockey rink.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Goodnight Attawapiskat: &lt;/b&gt;The Hip go to Northern Ontario and build a canoe out of birch, just as Tom Thomson did. What erupted was an amazing outdoor all-night BBQ perfectly described in this emotive palette-cleanser.&lt;/li&gt;
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</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2012/10/ludicrous-canadiana-interpretation-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-5131319256449901719</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-09-18T21:32:08.434-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">insults</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MiSC. horseshit</category><title>Esoteric Insults Revisited</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
You masticating Marmaduke, fraught with impotent friction-making malarkey, all sparks and spithammers, lacking any lust for levity! You drink the pigeon&#39;s gall and call it a tasty grilled-cheese sandwich. Lend me a time machine so I can smite your ancestors; meanwhile I&#39;ll blacken your every nanonotion across the wide Web&#39;s comment boards. O crabcake-eating micelicker, lighten your dungarees from their present shade of brown, O bepampered poopulouse! Scram from my boardwalk, you lurching orangutan, lest I unleash a quiver of quartz-quilled moronocide to shatter every non-sense in your ululating husk. O big flamboyant monk in a monastery of Melvins, I shudder at your puissant horsebuggery and general lack of concern for what even a dying vulture has the basic sense to blush at. I could calculate the sum total of your ignorance but my abacus is spent for zeros, you null-set and non-existent irrational number! Leave this wasted realm and surrender your sideways scupperheadedness!&lt;br /&gt;
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(See original &lt;a href=&quot;http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.ca/2006/04/mucus-poem-highfalootin-insults.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Highfalootin&#39; Insults&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2012/09/esoteric-insults-revisited.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-6308183384570183696</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-08-30T23:10:42.185-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">random sentences</category><title>A neat little almost sentence</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Ever dwelled, we wooden walkers, we warm bell men, we loud tent men, we proud pigpen ten, then sent to Sendlak with no sendbacks, mac truck and bent backs, lent to scrap, sold as a mat in a maze with a rat in a cage buying all the bars back.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-neat-little-almost-sentence.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-4735072628620615633</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-28T19:14:27.903-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MiSC. horseshit</category><title>Better alive!</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Oh my grandma said something strange to me a in dream. She said, &#39;Do not knot the donut hole.&#39; Which thing, a string cannot make, what is round and baked. Ever we sit and stare and wonder why those sitting and staring do not care. Where is the first man to crack? He is there sitting quietly at the back. Have some sympathy for the soldiers in Syria. Firing rounds into the sky out of spite, proving all the great thing about a society run by men, for the sanctity of the state, a conspiracy across international lines, you know one country won&#39;t mess with another&#39;s mojo rising. Right and wrong has ceded to power and vacuum -- which I guess becomes the more urgent paradigm faced with your own annihilation and the disappearance of your birthright which used to be the afterlife?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2012/08/better-alive.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-4947975843416002986</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-21T14:41:12.900-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MiSC. horseshit</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nonsense</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">random sentences</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rhyming ramble</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">toronto</category><title>Second Floor Ryerson Library</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Potent pizza is a perfect pestilence possibility. I was screwing a large caboose into an onion bun and it occurred to me, shall I shallot a scarecrow? Shall I shimmy with slimy murk into a bodum of unfair frothery? Things are piglet-worthy and mucusmaking.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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If ever a cylindrical cullulent pigeon did unman a masked mysterioso then surely sixteen succubi could collect an unemployment cheque from a red-faced postman. If a college degree meant anarchy then the streets of Quebec would be swept with sweaty pit stains and colander-cudgelling jesuvants. If a jesuit, I mean, did quaggle and fleck then surely his hysteria about the biscuit was just another knottleneck? Poor pissed pachyderms, prancing without the ability to jump, large elephantine fairy queens dusting rhythm guitars like so many Ron Wood replacements uttering magic passwords in the basement of the Rivoli, lacking hot heat, lacking fresh feet, drying wet wit with looks of loathing and curled lips, eating too many tofu tacos in an underwear commercial&#39;s catering van restroom.&lt;br /&gt;
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Can I quell a Cosbyfest? Could Theo ever drive a bus? We waste what we waver, we waive all rights to disenslavement that is emancipation if we neglect the ballot box out of jade frustration. I was warm to the world but cooked like a log, blackened charcoal in my nether zones and soggy from the bog. If a klepto took my tethering hooks--how will I climb a mountain? I shake like Evgeni Malkin, he of fame, of mispronounceable name. Twagger your digits like a disapproving simpleton sloshing about in tens and twenties from hours vending Bingo cards at the bingo place on St. Clair, where chain smokers don&#39;t care and lives wind down like the west wind, and a win is a win and a loss means it&#39;s time for a smokebreak.&lt;br /&gt;
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Have a cup of ice-cold gelato. It&#39;s after 1pm; I&#39;m drowning on my tip toes in Arizona heat, killing strangers with stares and oozing blackheads from my feet. We ooze proud, we yodel ever loud, we will publish or perish or perhaps both at once, going on vacation for 72 months. Can I call you in the morrow? I need a ride to the Scarborough Zoo, my driver has the flu. He was not reliable like you.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hamish Macbain trolled for hours in the wild, eating dried skins from the tree whose name no one has written, taken tidbits of misfits and missed facts and complaints and loaded them all onto a server in a closet in a hallway of an office in the suburbs of the capital city of a minor province in a confederacy of future lands locked down under empire struggling for solvency due to solar flares interfering with economic growth models fashioned by 19th century professors amid the dust of a chalkboard.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2012/06/second-floor-ryerson-library.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-3134451648307321397</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-19T17:48:26.129-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">PSA</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social media</category><title>On Twitter</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Can we cross media? An experiment: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twitter.com/cupcakemanto&quot;&gt;www.twitter.com/cupcakemanto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2012/06/on-twitter.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-5977847756342347482</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-21T14:35:55.803-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">list</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MiSC. horseshit</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rhyming ramble</category><title>Palm Beach Calisthenics</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
&lt;ol style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Why not smucker your pucks and drop your digits? It&#39;s a little after ten and I&#39;m slewshing anew. Big Bill Boggins bought a racecar. Left out to throw out music from the ashtray, slapped on plastic and masked Michaelmas mournings. Ovid drew a nice noose from a sluice caboose, yelling half an hour an hour near the suburbs of Toulouse, &quot;Crack my gills, smack windowsills - I&#39;m yellow and fed on fear, I&#39;ve eleven of your twelve-year-olds, they&#39;re German and they&#39;re kind.&quot; I don&#39;t swear like I used to but otherwise I&#39;m fine.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gob left the Earth and tried to jump, I never knew he didn&#39;t have an elephant and I was killing peanuts to the potions to the best of the rest, the leftout cassocks, the rousted mass monks, the fifty-four five-fruit trays filled with kiwis, the wired rests the diacritical extrapolations and the Federation of the Jest.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Oh Meg, you could drum! So easy to hum. I don&#39;t know what love is. In Piazza Grande lies the bum.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We worked too hard. We were tired. I lived too long, didn&#39;t leave myself to future generations, I consumed all I had, I was afraid of leaving, stretched out the living, didn&#39;t invest in centuries of infrastructure, took civilization-building as someone else&#39;s problem, couldn&#39;t make the connection between watching reality tv and ignoring reality.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Left to devices, the bridge ices, smoker vices, rice dries, pies fly, sighs cry, eyes die.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Clogged to the cuffs, I considered all the stuff I had. I let out the hallway. Filled with dust. I must mop, I can&#39;t stop. Sheer smiles are worth the admission, left out on sidewalk with a hat and poor nutrition. Contrite and bleeding, walking up and around all about with yellow, moments of mild meanness mixed with patience, stayed up all night working on your science project, the baking soda volcano, year of the ash, Anno domino, pompeii exploded in seventy-nine, trapped in time 20000 loose living Romans coughing on their rapidly crashing property values, priceless tourism snapshots to be vandalized and voyeured like Snooki&#39;s blog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2012/05/palm-beach-calisthenics.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-3120786527251217388</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-03T22:53:10.927-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">introspective</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rhyming ramble</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the nature of cupcakes</category><title>What we&#39;ve been doing</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Remember when words mattered, image matter of factly worldwide, mouths open wide at a picture, yesterday&#39;s news could get ditched and forgotten, and feelings and fantasies weren&#39;t verboten. Mugged as I was, drawn to black arts, loaded onto slaveships, that cruel heart of dartboards, overboard with big lungs so your brain survive 4 minutes without air, the longer I live without you, the more I guess I care. Silence is an investment, see? 75 days with no coronary artery. No, it&#39;s serious, business school, not a party.&lt;br /&gt;
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We get what&#39;s given in - that&#39;s 1-to-1, win-win, just timelines, giggling frauleins, make sure you make mine, bring a tray of cherry pie; if my boss thanked me with a two-person screening of&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Casablanca&lt;/i&gt; I guess I&#39;d also cry. There&#39;s no point of view, just a field of vision, and in the ocean, there&#39;s you. She waved her wand, outpoured a tall blonde, short roast, if you smile they sit and empty wallets: it happens on both coasts. Sit for a day, measure magic - it&#39;s tough to sell tickets; vinegar, whine, so tragic.&lt;br /&gt;
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Melt goals, make a saint. Wash facepaint, lead as marshmallow man, nice guy, big fan. &#39;Thanks for being you&#39; said he on his stool - give so much, tough to love that much - the whole school he built from scratch and such. And we wait, procrastinate. We bronze our heroes far too late. But sorry, gotta run, got a mani-pedi-facial date.&lt;br /&gt;
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Load up on likes! I got an app that let&#39;s me bike in my pyjamas; I can play a game where I samurai bananas, that&#39;s why I&#39;m under the stairs - hide me from the red bandanas. We&#39;re releasing 4 new genders next month, no wonder we get a trillion dollar valuation, all that love from the S&amp;amp;P, we&#39;re the most heavily weighted factor in the ethersphere, all it took was a flat screen separating us, connecting us, proving there&#39;s a market niche out there for the unedited burps of sub-humanoid xx312322-ab-489-cupafree.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-weve-been-doing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-6030564059714133526</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-19T19:39:49.023-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MiSC. horseshit</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rhyming ramble</category><title>Paste this into your search bar</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Stop wondering why you&#39;re not number one. Start feeling the bottom of the sun. The things you think you deserve, you didn&#39;t create the earth, you didn&#39;t build your car from scratch, you couldn&#39;t start a fire without a match, so many generations came and went so you could own a couch, I didn&#39;t know it was an evolutionary trait, you know, the adaptability of the slouch.&lt;br /&gt;
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Make me more like screen-mediated teen idols, make my mind like guinea pigs tossed into a snakepit of marketing gurus, make my taste portable like a digital tongue, sell my preferences to Google and say it&#39;s good right in front of the UN. &lt;br /&gt;
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Kim Jong Il&#39;s son is set to be number one, nepotism yet again, mediocrity throughout the &#39;Stans, leave your country to a kid who thinks a thermonuclear toy is his birthright. What can the North Koreans do for you? They can put away their blackmail, they can turn tales through their brainwashed wailing, they can dig themselves an economy, they can resign themselves to the worst part of the Old Testament -- you know, all the circumcision and concubine stuff in the less quotable parts of Deuteronomy.&lt;br /&gt;
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We don&#39;t ask what we don&#39;t know anymore. Siri doesn&#39;t have an answer to the question you don&#39;t ask. I could have hired a secretary instead, she&#39;d have worked hard, you know, like everyone else in Saskatchewan. Now she&#39;s stuck in Moose Jaw, ll&#39;never know the joy of working for the man, for me, she might have an extra three kids out there, all that space out on the plain.&lt;br /&gt;
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Have you ever sealed out the air, with a plastic sheet, against a glass wall, on a Monday evening, just to save a few bucks, because YouTube showed you how? That&#39;s the kind of universe that&#39;s happening right now.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2011/12/paste-this-into-your-search-bar.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-4308813653129275178</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-12T21:56:21.726-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">list</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">MiSC. horseshit</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">toronto</category><title>15 lacklustre scintillating pronouncements</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cardigans are totally unnecessary.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Warm winter wetnaps are useful for three w-words in a row.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When we think about the piling on of popular opinion, we may as well soak our heads in a tile bath. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Would it not be strange to unlock a locket and see that it was full of shark teeth. That means you were actually in love a shark, or you were a shark dentist (that is, a dentist for sharks). Or your lover got eaten by a shark, and you decided to avenge her. That is the full set of solutions.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I was sitting in a restaurant and the waitress came up to me and asked for fifty cents. I said &#39;are you really a waitress&#39; and she said &#39;please sir, get into the movie theatre.&#39; I forgot to add, this took place in a movie theatre, and the first part is made up.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Nothing exists that does not exist.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;That is: Nothing is that isn&#39;t&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Existence exists&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Farmers farm&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;And yet, words don&#39;t always mean what they say?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ok back on track: if you are ever in Toronto I can recommend an excellent sandwich.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When I get like this, and I&#39;m NOT in front of a keyboard, there&#39;s a lot of lousy dancing.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;My problem is I can remember almost everything I&#39;ve ever said. Repetition is the enemy. And yet, the underlying form is not to be touched. Form over content. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I could have a niche covering all the people who kill bats for a living, who need cheap Rx pills mailed in five business days or less, who polish saxophones for military marching bands; these are important segments.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ever get frustrated by the keyboard or the mouse? I mean, have we ever blamed QWERTY? What would literature be like if we had the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#Alternatives_to_QWERTY&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Dvorak keyboard&lt;/a&gt;? I know I would probably be a Romanian count.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2011/11/15-lacklustre-pronouncements.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-35788399113168535</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-01T23:53:32.261-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">introspective</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">toronto</category><title>Jumping jacks</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
I was wondering: will you let me stay. I have a couple things to say. Can I offer you raisins? They come from northern California. I&#39;ve never been to California. Can I call you tomorrow? Call me anytime. I&#39;ll sign you up for favours if you speak a word my way.&lt;br /&gt;
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No time.&amp;nbsp; Sir you are sliding away. I read in his book that he struggled every way, became himself each day. Take pain as part of the package. Don&#39;t let the 21st century trick you into numbness. We traded technology for profound dumbness.&lt;br /&gt;
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I walked with an exchange student, wondering what she saw in my country. From a land of crushing humanity, I&#39;d pay my leg to breathe free. The most honourable people. The devils slip among them. It&#39;s a numbers game. We are orders of magnitude&amp;nbsp; from an agreement. You see the forest, they see a dream. You see empty land, they see a promise. You have a loaf of bread, while they will work for the crumbs. You haven&#39;t got a chance against their suffering and their love.&lt;br /&gt;
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I dare myself to show. I have no need to control this; no desire to know. Every time you sit that same fountain showers cold; I have never checked the plumbing; you were born on a mountain of gold. You have treasures in your toetips. You are young yet to be sold. The day you count backwards from the price you named to frame your game in blameless numbing riskfree bliss is the day your scent went cold.&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2011/11/jumping-jacks.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-7911274488478950176</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-25T22:54:11.816-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">angst</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">simon cowell</category><title>Competitive advantage</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
I can only do what I do better than what I shouldn&#39;t do because I don&#39;t do it as well. &lt;br /&gt;
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She&#39;s only nineteen. Away from me. She&#39;s a screamer, a scheme dreamer, talked all kinds of Mr Clean, she had that teenage sheen. I don&#39;t mean to be mean. He claps and he claps, made lean by private trainers and the 1% VIP scene.&lt;br /&gt;
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Television makes me dumb. I don&#39;t need a bottle of rum. You&#39;re so special - I&#39;m so honoured, I&#39;m so grateful&amp;nbsp; you&#39;re on the show. The only opportunity, you were great, now the hardest decision I&#39;ve ever made. You won&#39;t last long enough to get paid.&lt;br /&gt;
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I admire your big lungs. I envy your big leaps. There&#39;s a certain kind of people who were meant to drive a Jeep. You are young. So bungee jump. I am grey, a withered grump. You need me. I mean, without people like me, who would drink your precious calorie-free Pepsi?&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://freedomisacupcake.blogspot.com/2011/10/competitive-advantage.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Cupcake Man)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6552724.post-510798155202554260</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-01T23:58:23.568-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fabrizio</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">random sentences</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">thank you</category><title>Sulla sua cattiva strada</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
I was working on the railroad, I was toasted by the fire, like a marshmallow man, sitting on a toothpick. Out and out we shouted, we wanted more motions, less thought. We need another round of whiskey to numb last night&#39;s gut rot. Why not sit and swig with us? Why not crash and stay? I know, you could never act that way.&lt;br /&gt;
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Overboard I fell, overlong we dwelled. I was lifted up in the arms of that strong one, lifted up into his cape, too tired to thank the man, I spent a month harvesting his grapes.  When he let me play with his children, when he let me sit at his table, I gained a position, small bit of dignity in the household a go to child when a salesperson dropped in from town. &quot;Please sir sit down and let me pour you green tea.&quot; Please sir, I would think to myself, can you tell me what happens in town? I was thirteen and heard of the glass fountains in the main square, covered with lights in spring evenings.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;There are people out there who have written entire books about lactic acid. And molybdenum. I bet they wish people had more than two eyeballs. Especially now that attention spans are directed centrally by Evan and Biz from Twitter. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Baseball players get to work in pajamas. Before you boo me off this blog for a non-innovative thought, remember - this is a sign they find baseball as sleepy as you do.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;All this technological innovation, and we still have HR recruiters out there who hire based on &#39;handshake quality&#39;. Glad I went to university but too bad I failed the course on &#39;handshake confidence&#39; that is a mark of preparedness for the digital workforce.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I eat a lot of refreshing yogurt products and still I don&#39;t get silky-smooth skin. What gives, lifestyle ads?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Also, I have an appetite for dried figs, but I have never eaten a dried pineapple. Dried citrus doesn&#39;t seem to work. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When things are going bad, consider the Kurds. They haven&#39;t given up. Although, maybe they should.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Someone told me I wrote dark humour. I said, &quot;That would strain your eyes,&quot; and I apologized. He said &quot;don&#39;t take it literally&quot; and I chided him for littering in an alley. He said &quot;no pun intended&quot; and I told him that ignorance of the law is no excuse.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sing after me: &quot;Turn around, bright eyes&quot;. Great song. But now stop and consider how creepy EYES TURNING AROUND IN THEIR SOCKETS would actually be. Clearly Bonny Tyler wrote this song for the undead. It&#39;s disgusting.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When I look at Google Earth and consider the vast expanses of undeveloped land in the New World, I feel that my bid to conquer the Antarctic still has a chance. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Weird expression, &quot;drowning in tears.&quot; You can&#39;t drown in your own tears. Unless you save them for later, and compile a reservoir of tears. But you are more likely to suffocate in your own hair, or fall down a hole while being chased by your dandruff.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;With amazing advances in prosthesis, an amputee may get an artificial limb and live a mostly normal life. But when my favourite wallet gets stolen, why can&#39;t I get an artificial wallet? Hey, that wallet was one of a kind.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt; Public drunkenness is far more tolerable if you are the drunk. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t be angry if your bus is late. Be angry that the bus has a lousy farebox recovery ratio, and future taxpayers will have to pay a subsidy. Remember that Ayn Rand never took a bus, and built a flying contraption not unlike a helicopter, fashioned out of old bookshelves and a shard from her cold iron heart, all powered by an invisible hand.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It&#39;s weird that young people think that adding powdered cheese to a bag of baked corn chips is &#39;the new normal&#39;. Not to mention, if cheese can achieve a form so powdery fine that I could just inhale it, then let&#39;s skip the corn chip step, and just charge me monthly per cubic foot of powdered cheese.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Calling someone you dislike &#39;crabby&#39; does almost nothing to improve the odds that they will get tossed alive into a pot of boiling water. You may as well call them &#39;lobstery&#39;. &#39;Hey, there&#39;s Lobstery Joe!&#39; You could even call them that to their face, and they would be none the wiser. There&#39;s an upside to everything.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We expect people to cover their mouths when they yawn. We expect people to cover their nose when they sneeze. Can you see where I&#39;m going with this? Why should I be ridiculed for selling a new line of vomit-suppression scarves. Also, why don&#39;t people cover their hands when they tickle? &lt;/li&gt;
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