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Old 09-27-2010, 09:34 PM   #1
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Ode to my iPad
I used it for the first time to write on a plane... *much* better than before... anyway, it's all in good fun:

http://matthewcplourde.wordpress.com...de-to-my-ipad/
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Old 09-27-2010, 10:35 PM   #2
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It is a rare poem indeed that manages to both effectively use the term "douchebag" and find a rhyme for "rat-dick-meats." Ginsberg never managed it. Nor did Keats.

Next up, Owed on my iPad, where your morn your credit card statement?
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Old 09-28-2010, 01:53 AM   #3
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I used it for the first time to write on a plane... *much* better than before... anyway, it's all in good fun:

http://matthewcplourde.wordpress.com...de-to-my-ipad/

You made my morning, thanks!
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Old 09-28-2010, 03:04 AM   #4
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Old 09-30-2010, 02:21 PM   #6
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love the poem. love the iPad. Most of my blog was written using an iPhone and more recently an iPad, Brilliant device for both authors and readers alike.
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Old 10-01-2010, 12:08 AM   #7
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Old 10-01-2010, 02:05 AM   #8
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you got Italians in this work so to be fair you should work "Surrender Monkeys" and their affection for stinky cheese in your next work.
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Old 10-01-2010, 07:42 AM   #9
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"surrender monkeys" - I like that!
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Old 10-01-2010, 08:01 AM   #10
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It is a rare poem indeed that manages to both effectively use the term "douchebag" and find a rhyme for "rat-dick-meats." Ginsberg never managed it. Nor did Keats.

Next up, Owed on my iPad, where your morn your credit card statement?


Love the poem btw Michael!
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Old 10-02-2010, 06:02 PM   #11
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The first comment at your blog made me chuckle, channeling the Emperor ("Strike me down...").
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"surrender monkeys" - I like that!
hahaha....wish I could take credit for it but the first time I ran across the phrase was from Anthony Bourdain. I am not certain if it was in his first book about the restaurant industry, Kitchen Confidential, or his second, Medium Raw but I kinda laughed because of the unashamed and endearing fashion he wields the phrase.

BTW, if you enjoy his No Reservations show, and I really like it because it's about embracing different cultures but via food and not fancy stuff but humble & simple food all over the globe. He has a way about him which brings out the significance of something as simple as a street vendor selling tacos in Mexico or the open food streets in Asia, just anywhere.

I highly recommend both book, perhaps the first over the second he seems to be a kinder gentler version of himself. But there is still the quick wit...and I think what really and truly changed how he sees the world was when doing an episode of the show he and his staff were caught in an attack on Beirut...funny how watching innocent people get bomb back into the stone age from the roof top of a luxury hotel can open your eyes to the hypocrisy of the world as well as it's arbitrary nature.

Of course in other epsiodes he almost killed himself on an ATV in, as I recall, New Zealand and then there was the epsiode in, heck I forget somewhere in the souther part of Africa, but he was granted the honor of being given the anus of a freshly killed boar that had been squzzed "empty" then cooked in the ashy coals...one of the few times he really threw up on the show. But he earned my respect because he understood the honor these people were giving him...or maybe these bushmen were just screwing with this crazy white guy!! hahahaha...

I love his writing style, his mystery novels are a lot of fun and many are out in ebook format on Amazon for sure other places I dunno. Bone in the Throat is a kick, nothing fancy but fun. I even went ahead and used some of my Audible credits to get the audiobook versions of the two food books (he does have others but these were my favs) Kitchen Confidential and Medium Raw.

Anyway, glad you took what could be considered a slam against a people in the fun spirit it was intended...if we can't laugh at each other we sure as hell aren't gonna laugh at yourself because, well that would just be rude!!

But after reading the term Surrender Monkey I almost wanted to be one...oh, my WWII D-Day vet neighbor did confirm this was indeed a term used at the time, and apparently was one of the more benign terms....yikes!!

Love your humor please keep sharing it!!
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I'm a big fan of A. Bourdain... my wife was watching his shows before we went to Vietnam to adopt our son, and we tried to find some of the places where he visited.

He is a freakin' wordsmith and I hold his work in high regard
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