Under Construction Still

I'm still working on what I want to put on the blog site. Besides 'Today's Word' and 'Food For Thought', I will add a biography, an essay, and commentary. The bio will be a once a week event. I will add more reading and writing venues as I get them or depending on the level of interest.

I will let you know in the next blog when I'll start posting again on a regular basis.

NOTHING NEW TODAY

I have nothing to post today. I'm trying to get more creative with this site. I have been pretty busy this past month. I'm looking for poetry, essays, commentaries, places to go and other things. There will still be 'food for thought' and 'today's word'. I will be adding some other things too. I'm still very positive about this blog because I believe there is an interest in literature and the written word. Keep looking for updates.

-Mocha

PLACES TO GO

FRIDAY

PINK PONY WEST Open mike
@Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street bet. Bleeker and West 4th 6pm
$7. Sign up before 6PM

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Know first who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly.

-Epictetus

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

ALWAYS STAY POSITIVE!

TODAY'S WORD

ETHOS

One's basic beliefs and guiding principles.

TODAY'S WORD

EXPROPRIATE

1. Deprive of possession or rights.

2. take (property belonging to another) into one's own possession or use.

TODAY'S WORD

EUPHEMISM

Substitution of a pleasnat expression for an unpleasant or offensive one.

TODAY'S WORD

-ISM

Dinstinctive doctrine, cause, or theory

ex. racism, classism, ageism

TODAY'S WORD

LIBERATION

1: the act of liberating: the state of being liberated

2: a movement seeking wqual rights and status for a group ; women's liberation

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Look at the dry times as a time of reflection, refreshment and renewal.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton, American Soldier (1885-1945)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein, German Physicist (1879-1955)

TODAY'S WORD

SIC

Intentionally so written-used after a printed word or passage to indicate that it is intended exactly as printed or to indicate that it exactly reproduces as original.

TODAY'S WORD

ANDROCENTRIC

Dominated by or emphasizing masculine interests or a masculine point of view

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

We consume our tomorrow fretting about our yesterdays.

-Aulus Persius Flaccus, Italian poet (34-62 AD)

TODAY'S WORD

PURPORT

1:to have the often specious apperance of being, intending,
or claiming (something implied or inferred).

2: INTEND, PURPOSE

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

A MIGHTY FLAME FOLLOWETH A TINY SPARK

-Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (1265-1321)


TODAY'S WORD

POST- prefix

1a: after: subsequent: later b: behind: posterior: following after


POETRY ON WEDNESDAY

Grad Poet Series
@ Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St. bet. Bleeker and West 4th. $6.


PLG ARTS POETRY NIGHT
Amy King, Todd Colby and Ray Pospisil
& open mike (6pm sign-up)
@ K-Dog and Dunebuggy
43 Lincoln Road, Brooklyn
718-282-7139 FREE Q train to Prospect Park

TODAY'S WORD

FIFE

A small transverse flute with six to eight finger holes and usually no keys

FAVORITE AUTHOR

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR?