1016 by Jeff Hess
Back in November of 2004 I started Have Coffee Will Write with no real purpose other than to try out this fledgling medium. A couple of month later I attended my first Cleveland Blogger MeetUp and as a way of introducing ourselves, George Nemeth asked each of us to describe what our blogs were.
I was somewhere in the middle of the group and had a couple of moments to consider George’s question. When my turn came I said:
Have Coffee Will Write is dinner time conversation with a few friends.
I didn’t realize how prophetic I was.
Dr. John M. Grohol writes:
The researchers found support for deeper self-disclosure from bloggers resulting in a range of better social connections. These included things such as a sense of greater social integration, which is how connected we feel to society and our own community of friends and others; an increase in social bonding (our tightly knit, intimate relationships); and social bridging – increasing our connectedness with people who might be from outside of our typical social network.
But then there’s Moliere’s view, which I think holds well for bloggers too, that:
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
The money hasn’t started flowing yet.
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0230 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
From Talking Dirty To the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa.
…I don’t know how I feel
Or need. Entangled in so many
What-ifs. Neither north nor south.
I wish I knew how to stop women
From crying when I open my mouth.
From Castrato, p 55
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0230 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
From Talking Dirty To the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa.
A shadow limps off among the trees.
Already sentenced into wilderness,
As if born wounded, he must stand
Between men & what shines.
From Scapegoat, p 16
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1303 by Jeff Hess
Ta-Nehisi Coates writes:
Still, it’s amazing that the Post is standing behind Will. One reason blogs are starting to eclipse edit pages is that there is an independent mechanism to hold bloggers accountable. I can say all the stupid things I want, but I know that there is an industry out there waiting to take me to the woodshed. This is a good thing.
How cheaply did George Will sell his soul?
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0756 by Jeff Hess
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0230 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
From Talking Dirty To the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa.
No decree or creed can outlaw you
As you take every living thing apart. Little
Master of earth, no one gets to heaven
Without going through you first.
From Ode to the Maggot, p 10
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0230 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
From Talking Dirty To the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa.
… One half tortures
The other for the romantic songs
Crooned at sunset. Unholy
Need & desire divide the season,
As you eat sugar from a nymph’s palm,
Before she mounts & rides you into a man.
From The Centaur, p 6.
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0810 by Jeff Hess
Want to be healthy? Eat your veggies, avoid poisons (sugar, salt, fat, etc.), eat less (or no) meat and get off your butt and move further than the kitchen. There are no quick and easy fixes, specially those that come in pill form.
From The New York Times:
“I”m puzzled why the public in general ignores the results of well-done trials,” said Dr. Eric Klein, national study coordinator for the prostate cancer trial and chairman of the Cleveland Clinic”s Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute. “The public”s belief in the benefits of vitamins and nutrients is not supported by the available scientific data.”
Everyone needs vitamins, which are essential nutrients that the body can”t produce on its own. Inadequate vitamin C leads to scurvy, for instance, and a lack of vitamin D can cause rickets.
But a balanced diet typically provides an adequate level of these nutrients, and today many popular foods are fortified with extra vitamins and minerals. As a result, diseases caused by nutrient deficiency are rare in the United States.
Forget the lawyers, kill the marketers.
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0731 by Jeff Hess
Thanks to Comprehensive Computing my DC jack is repaired and I’m back to laptopping. If I’d known about this company earlier, I might have saved both my Gateway and my Toshiba laptops. The company was efficient, professional and (courtesy of Dreema in shipping) a pleasure to do business with.
Comprehensive Computing is everything that local company A To Z Computing on Mayfield Road — which took $25 and a week of my time to tell me that there was nothing wrong with my computer (and managed to disconnect my internal speakers while fiddling around under the hood), plus cost me an additional $25 for a new power cord they swore I needed) was not. I’d get the speaker issue taken care of but I don’t want to be without my computer for another week and risk even more damage.
Please patronize Comprehensive Computing.
I don’t think I have to tell you what to do with A To Z.
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