<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393</id><updated>2012-01-17T16:32:41.710-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Idiot of Duck Pond Island</title><subtitle type='html'>Every Island has one...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>202</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-2554723819442219483</id><published>2011-08-28T21:56:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-06T21:51:09.227-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://videosift.com/widget.js?video=205327&amp;width=500&amp;comments=15&amp;minimized=1"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-2554723819442219483?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2554723819442219483/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=2554723819442219483' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2554723819442219483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2554723819442219483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-post_28.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-9107668478088388586</id><published>2011-08-23T23:27:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-28T09:45:20.430-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Politicians speak to the mainstream. Musicians speak to the bloodstream&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-9107668478088388586?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/9107668478088388586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=9107668478088388586' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/9107668478088388586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/9107668478088388586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/08/politicians-speak-to-mainstream.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-793925942189525495</id><published>2011-08-16T20:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-16T20:43:27.182-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pXy4N7pW750/TksctyL8t-I/AAAAAAAAF44/o0_TPap1qrM/s1600/tumblr_lq0wf0SctA1qcs23xo1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pXy4N7pW750/TksctyL8t-I/AAAAAAAAF44/o0_TPap1qrM/s400/tumblr_lq0wf0SctA1qcs23xo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641634531103258594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-793925942189525495?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/793925942189525495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=793925942189525495' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/793925942189525495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/793925942189525495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-post_16.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pXy4N7pW750/TksctyL8t-I/AAAAAAAAF44/o0_TPap1qrM/s72-c/tumblr_lq0wf0SctA1qcs23xo1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-7199941400721228783</id><published>2011-08-16T20:37:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-16T20:39:31.760-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>To all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. 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I make them&lt;br /&gt;Look like pigs."&lt;br /&gt;~Louise Gluck, Circe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-2557986460500811618?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2557986460500811618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=2557986460500811618' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2557986460500811618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2557986460500811618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-never-turned-anyone-into-pig.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-3255649543340899101</id><published>2011-08-11T18:37:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-11T18:37:52.401-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt; Music can also trigger memories by activating the medial prefrontal cortex, which sits in the brain just behind the forehead. This region is one of the last areas of the brain to atrophy during Alzheimer's, explaining why many Alzheimer's patients can recall songs from the distant past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-3255649543340899101?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3255649543340899101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=3255649543340899101' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3255649543340899101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3255649543340899101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/08/music-can-also-trigger-memories-by.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-4795861643340683904</id><published>2011-08-08T10:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-08T10:49:12.383-05:00</updated><title type='text'>from "Life's Little Mysteries"</title><content type='html'>When lost in the desert or a thick forest — terrains devoid of landmarks — people tend to walk in circles. Blindfolded people show the same tendency; lacking external reference points, they curve around in loops as tight as 66 feet (20 meters) in diameter, all the while believing they are walking in straight lines. (…)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The researchers believe that loopy paths follow from a walker’s changing sense of “straight ahead.” With every step, a small deviation is likely added to a person’s cognitive sense of what’s straight, and these deviations accumulate to send that individual veering around in ever tighter circles as time goes on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4795861643340683904?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4795861643340683904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4795861643340683904' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-1921072746770608763?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1921072746770608763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=1921072746770608763' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1921072746770608763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1921072746770608763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/6858780788132779155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=6858780788132779155' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/6858780788132779155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/6858780788132779155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/08/walker-your-footsteps-are-road-and.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-4758468838448393310</id><published>2011-08-02T21:03:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-02T21:07:34.012-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;‘We favor the simple expression of the complex thought.’ –Rothko&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4758468838448393310?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4758468838448393310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4758468838448393310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4758468838448393310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4758468838448393310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/08/truth-will-set-you-free-but-first-it.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-3488533296033764599</id><published>2011-07-25T13:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-25T13:59:14.747-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.’ –Kafka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-3488533296033764599?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3488533296033764599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=3488533296033764599' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3488533296033764599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3488533296033764599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/by-believing-passionately-in-something.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-3334454015727943687</id><published>2011-07-25T11:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-25T11:49:02.991-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;‘There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.’ –Edward Abbey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-3334454015727943687?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3334454015727943687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=3334454015727943687' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3334454015727943687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3334454015727943687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/there-is-science-logic-reason-there-is.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-7261917261944160242</id><published>2011-07-22T19:34:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-22T19:34:40.215-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To sing is to begin a sentence&lt;br /&gt;like “I want to get well. &lt;br /&gt;I am not born for nothing&lt;br /&gt;and neither are you:&lt;br /&gt;Heaven never wept&lt;br /&gt;over nothing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ Thomas Merton&lt;br /&gt;from an untitled poem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-7261917261944160242?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7261917261944160242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=7261917261944160242' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7261917261944160242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7261917261944160242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-sing-is-to-begin-sentence-like-i.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-4909568658543146826</id><published>2011-07-20T22:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-20T22:32:34.647-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;    “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edgar Allan Poe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4909568658543146826?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4909568658543146826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4909568658543146826' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4909568658543146826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4909568658543146826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/sometimes-im-terrified-of-my-heart-of.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-1437741750972514804</id><published>2011-07-14T02:13:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-14T02:13:42.933-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;— Aleksandar Hemon&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-1437741750972514804?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1437741750972514804/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=1437741750972514804' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1437741750972514804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1437741750972514804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-spotted-can-in-corner-whose-red-label.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-7618385927088174088</id><published>2011-07-13T22:30:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-13T22:30:30.348-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Plato’s Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-7618385927088174088?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7618385927088174088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=7618385927088174088' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7618385927088174088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7618385927088174088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/platos-symposium-people-were.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-4749141415883895697</id><published>2011-07-11T20:04:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-11T20:04:29.271-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gumble song, Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance' Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world, That ain't been there before.&lt;br /&gt;— Shel Silverstein&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4749141415883895697?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4749141415883895697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4749141415883895697' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4749141415883895697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4749141415883895697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/draw-crazy-picture-write-nutty-poem.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-1194360011118723015</id><published>2011-07-11T19:48:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-11T19:48:51.812-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” Federico Fellini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-1194360011118723015?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1194360011118723015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=1194360011118723015' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1194360011118723015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1194360011118723015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/all-art-is-autobiographical.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-8059294797500668010</id><published>2011-07-09T22:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-09T23:35:05.570-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth."&lt;br /&gt;– Frank Zappa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-8059294797500668010?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8059294797500668010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=8059294797500668010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8059294797500668010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8059294797500668010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/information-is-not-knowledge.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-8112201399416561137</id><published>2011-07-04T22:24:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-04T23:57:46.682-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9Yf8P1ek7c/ThKE-reiCmI/AAAAAAAAFyU/1iHClWgnn8M/s1600/tumblr_lnrodq7An91qazxt8o1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9Yf8P1ek7c/ThKE-reiCmI/AAAAAAAAFyU/1iHClWgnn8M/s400/tumblr_lnrodq7An91qazxt8o1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625705096896711266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose."&lt;br /&gt;– Guillermo Maldonado (via endormirse)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have always been fascinated with the idea of hidden passageways and hidden stairways, and I believe I'm probably searching for one out of this plane of existence into the next. Alcohol is probably one, and so is religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them."&lt;br /&gt;– Anaïs Nin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness."&lt;br /&gt;– Richard Carlson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky."&lt;br /&gt;– Barbara Kingsolver&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."&lt;br /&gt;– Franz Kafka &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened."&lt;br /&gt;– Douglas Coupland &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"for we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell."&lt;br /&gt;– Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero &lt;br /&gt;"The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back."&lt;br /&gt;– Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I believe holy is what you do when there is nothing between your actions and the truth."&lt;br /&gt;– Stacyann Chin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing"&lt;br /&gt;– William S. Burroughs &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A donkey with a load of holy books is still a donkey."&lt;br /&gt;– Sufi proverb&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-8112201399416561137?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8112201399416561137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=8112201399416561137' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8112201399416561137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8112201399416561137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/loneliness-is-not-lack-of-company.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9Yf8P1ek7c/ThKE-reiCmI/AAAAAAAAFyU/1iHClWgnn8M/s72-c/tumblr_lnrodq7An91qazxt8o1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-4370744808450917219</id><published>2011-07-01T18:41:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-07-01T18:41:55.579-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>‘The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.’ –Samuel Beckett&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4370744808450917219?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4370744808450917219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4370744808450917219' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4370744808450917219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4370744808450917219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/07/tears-of-world-are-constant-quantity.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-2875871028237747351</id><published>2011-06-28T19:20:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-28T19:25:10.779-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L1XShMlWmc0/Tgpw3pu2uvI/AAAAAAAAFxM/sDlqThPgQkg/s1600/tumblr_lizhnrYElA1qah2gqo1_400.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L1XShMlWmc0/Tgpw3pu2uvI/AAAAAAAAFxM/sDlqThPgQkg/s400/tumblr_lizhnrYElA1qah2gqo1_400.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623431186122980082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ezra Pound (American, 1885–1972)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-2875871028237747351?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2875871028237747351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=2875871028237747351' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2875871028237747351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2875871028237747351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/06/it-is-difficult-to-write-paradiso-when.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L1XShMlWmc0/Tgpw3pu2uvI/AAAAAAAAFxM/sDlqThPgQkg/s72-c/tumblr_lizhnrYElA1qah2gqo1_400.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-950132181793084152</id><published>2011-06-16T20:39:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-16T20:39:27.007-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.&lt;br /&gt;William Faulkner &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-950132181793084152?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/950132181793084152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=950132181793084152' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/950132181793084152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/950132181793084152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-feel-like-wet-seed-wild-in-hot-blind.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-4166226145737590636</id><published>2011-06-05T22:15:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T22:15:38.269-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Accept loss forever.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of life is a foreign country.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My witness is the empty sky.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4166226145737590636?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4166226145737590636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4166226145737590636' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4166226145737590636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4166226145737590636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/06/pain-stabbed-my-heart-as-it-did-every.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-173225594450376551</id><published>2011-06-01T22:27:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-01T22:27:41.983-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;‘Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.’ –Arthur Rimbaud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-173225594450376551?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/173225594450376551/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=173225594450376551' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/173225594450376551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/173225594450376551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/06/genius-is-recovery-of-childhood-at-will.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-4902891463959278026</id><published>2011-05-30T21:18:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T21:18:09.752-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>John Dryden - Happy The Man&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy the man, and happy he alone,&lt;br /&gt;He who can call today his own:&lt;br /&gt;He who, secure within, can say,&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.&lt;br /&gt;Be fair or foul or rain or shine&lt;br /&gt;The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.&lt;br /&gt;Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,&lt;br /&gt;But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4902891463959278026?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4902891463959278026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4902891463959278026' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4902891463959278026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4902891463959278026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/05/john-dryden-happy-man-happy-man-and.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-5115292596146264648</id><published>2011-05-30T14:24:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T14:24:55.407-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>…and your retreat becomes your exile, your shelter becomes your prison, your solitude becomes your silent hell. What you gonna do? Where you gonna go? You carry your own hell under your chest, hoping that one day someone will force the way into the darkest halls of your soul, and free you from your own curse, after fighting your demons. But it doesn’t work that way. What do you think a soul is? A sum of everything you are. So beautiful in its complexity and yet so lonely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never hope another soul to free you from your own curse. Its your part to fight your demons, no one will free you from the fears and darkness you had in you all this time, most people are not willing to do it, and the rest are not capable of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You fight your own battle alone, who ever may join you is just a companion, a companion that may or may not leave at any given stage,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You cannot rely on others in a world where everyone is fighting for their own promised land…”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-5115292596146264648?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5115292596146264648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=5115292596146264648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/5115292596146264648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/5115292596146264648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/05/and-your-retreat-becomes-your-exile.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-4525208766614857367</id><published>2011-05-30T14:22:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T14:22:49.491-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>“Never mourn those who left you, existence in this universe is far more complicated than such attachments. You exist as a source that gives and receives all sorts of energies, don’t limit yourself to those negative in nature. Everything changes, nothing remains the same, everything evolves and moves towards every direction, open your eyes and seek new ways, new paths, new energies, new people. Open your mind, open your soul. Don’t stuck within a state of being, evolve, like the universe itself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4525208766614857367?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4525208766614857367/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4525208766614857367' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4525208766614857367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4525208766614857367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/05/never-mourn-those-who-left-you.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-3812225627366690285</id><published>2011-05-22T22:56:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-22T22:56:57.053-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~~ D. H Lawrence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-3812225627366690285?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3812225627366690285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=3812225627366690285' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3812225627366690285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3812225627366690285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/05/be-still-when-you-have-nothing-to-say.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-1858929696491420007</id><published>2011-05-06T23:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-06T23:52:23.653-05:00</updated><title type='text'>William Burroughs</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-1858929696491420007?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1858929696491420007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=1858929696491420007' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1858929696491420007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1858929696491420007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/05/william-burroughs.html' title='William Burroughs'/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-3543596560529545316</id><published>2011-05-06T22:56:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-06T22:58:51.894-05:00</updated><title type='text'>William Wordsworth</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I wandered lonely as a cloud&lt;br /&gt;That floats on high o'er vales and hills,&lt;br /&gt;When all at once I saw a crowd,&lt;br /&gt;A host, of golden daffodils,&lt;br /&gt;Beside the lake, beneath the trees&lt;br /&gt;Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continuous as the stars that shine&lt;br /&gt;And twinkle on the Milky Way,&lt;br /&gt;They stretched in never-ending line&lt;br /&gt;Along the margin of a bay:&lt;br /&gt;Ten thousand saw I at a glance&lt;br /&gt;Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The waves beside them danced, but they&lt;br /&gt;Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: -&lt;br /&gt;A poet could not but be gay&lt;br /&gt;In such a jocund company:&lt;br /&gt;I gazed -and gazed -but little thought&lt;br /&gt;What wealth the show to me had brought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For oft, when on my couch I lie&lt;br /&gt;In vacant or in pensive mood,&lt;br /&gt;They flash upon that inward eye&lt;br /&gt;Which is the bliss of solitude;&lt;br /&gt;And then my heart with pleasure fills&lt;br /&gt;And dances with the daffodils&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-3543596560529545316?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3543596560529545316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=3543596560529545316' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3543596560529545316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3543596560529545316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/05/william-wordsworth.html' title='William Wordsworth'/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-4981825057336830078</id><published>2011-04-24T20:55:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T20:55:48.624-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with&lt;br /&gt;our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our&lt;br /&gt;actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.&lt;br /&gt;~~Herman Melville&lt;br /&gt;US novelist &amp; sailor (1819 - 1891)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4981825057336830078?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4981825057336830078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4981825057336830078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4981825057336830078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4981825057336830078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/04/we-cannot-live-only-for-ourselves.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-7866508727507030551</id><published>2011-04-09T14:12:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T14:12:51.812-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Nine Words Women Use&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            1. Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut-up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            2. Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half-hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            3. Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with ‘Nothing’usually end in ‘Fine’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            4. Go Ahead: This is a dare. Not permission. Don’t do it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            5. Loud Sigh: This is actually not a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time and standing here and arguing with you about nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            6. That’s Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a woman can make to a man. ‘That’s okay’ means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            7. Thanks: A woman is thanking you. Do not question or faint. Just say you’re welcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            8. Whatever: Is a woman’s way of saying ‘To hell with you!’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            9. Don’t worry about it, I’ve got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it hersef. This will later result in a man asking ‘What’s wrong?’ For a woman’s response, refer to #3.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-7866508727507030551?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7866508727507030551/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=7866508727507030551' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7866508727507030551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7866508727507030551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/04/nine-words-women-use-1.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-1285791943868316638</id><published>2011-03-30T22:29:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-30T22:29:42.333-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Paul Newman Quote</title><content type='html'>"I’m a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being… by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-1285791943868316638?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1285791943868316638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=1285791943868316638' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1285791943868316638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-9154195299694418112?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/9154195299694418112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=9154195299694418112' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/9154195299694418112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/9154195299694418112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2011/03/interesting-songwriter.html' title='Interesting Songwriter'/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/8v_4O44sfjM/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-2482869961551864161</id><published>2011-03-22T18:35:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T18:37:33.151-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HrQ6xTaennw/TYkyn3ua_-I/AAAAAAAAFnI/WqgrfUjXa-o/s1600/tumblr_lifz8pea8E1qah2gqo1_500.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 382px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HrQ6xTaennw/TYkyn3ua_-I/AAAAAAAAFnI/WqgrfUjXa-o/s400/tumblr_lifz8pea8E1qah2gqo1_500.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587052473284755426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jack Kerouac (Canadian-American, 1922–1969)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-2482869961551864161?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2482869961551864161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=2482869961551864161' title='0 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-7646468073721670184</id><published>2011-02-21T19:33:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T19:33:46.072-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Water, is taught by thirst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Land — by the Oceans passed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Transport — by throe —&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peace — by its battles told —&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love, by Memorial Mold —&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Birds, by the Snow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ Emily Dickinson &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-7646468073721670184?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-8248764166452059080</id><published>2011-02-21T19:03:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T19:04:35.353-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The white girls lift their heads like trees,&lt;br /&gt;The black girls go&lt;br /&gt;Reflected like flamingoes in the street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The white girls sing as shrill as water,&lt;br /&gt;The black girls talk as quiet as clay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The white girls open their arms like clouds,&lt;br /&gt;The black girls close their eyes like wings:&lt;br /&gt;Angels bow down like bells,&lt;br /&gt;Angels look up like toys,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because the heavenly stars&lt;br /&gt;Stand in a ring:&lt;br /&gt;And all the pieces of the mosaic, earth,&lt;br /&gt;Get up and fly away like birds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ Thomas Merton&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-8248764166452059080?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8248764166452059080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=8248764166452059080' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8248764166452059080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8248764166452059080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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takes to pout and wrote some blues.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Duke Ellington&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-871396950356999611?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/871396950356999611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=871396950356999611' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/871396950356999611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/871396950356999611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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/&gt;Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:&lt;br /&gt;Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me&lt;br /&gt;But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit;&lt;br /&gt;For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,&lt;br /&gt;And, thou away, the very birds are mute;&lt;br /&gt;   Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer&lt;br /&gt;   That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-3862329239802236519?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3862329239802236519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=3862329239802236519' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.”&lt;/span&gt; Phil Ochs&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-3667724443869355457?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3667724443869355457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=3667724443869355457' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3667724443869355457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3667724443869355457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512906636009115346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/TIHHXxWQ_lI/AAAAAAAAFdk/RHCeRKhmQ58/s1600/Keyser-Soze.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/TIHHXxWQ_lI/AAAAAAAAFdk/RHCeRKhmQ58/s400/Keyser-Soze.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512906630075842130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-8310940110169913465?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8310940110169913465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=8310940110169913465' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8310940110169913465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8310940110169913465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/09/who-is-keyser-soze-he-is-supposed-to-be.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/TIHHYHc3jtI/AAAAAAAAFds/2B9Rz0HgPWg/s72-c/brassed-off2-9722.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-4882318999905439934</id><published>2010-08-25T00:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T00:27:33.168-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Because It's My Blog, and She's One of the Best!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dp4339EbVn8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dp4339EbVn8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4882318999905439934?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4882318999905439934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4882318999905439934' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4882318999905439934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4882318999905439934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/08/because-its-my-blog-and-shes-one-of.html' title='Because It&apos;s My Blog, and She&apos;s One of the Best!'/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-6758573532274670036</id><published>2010-08-03T23:01:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-03T23:01:58.273-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>William Faulkner - “Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-6758573532274670036?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/6758573532274670036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=6758573532274670036' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/6758573532274670036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/6758573532274670036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/08/william-faulkner-be-scared.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-1087274581585895615</id><published>2010-07-17T22:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T22:43:49.240-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/TEJ4YEI47PI/AAAAAAAAFcc/te9RJZhB_5o/s1600/2464-girl-on-a-bike-600-409.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/TEJ4YEI47PI/AAAAAAAAFcc/te9RJZhB_5o/s320/2464-girl-on-a-bike-600-409.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495086850168646898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-1087274581585895615?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1087274581585895615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=1087274581585895615' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1087274581585895615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1087274581585895615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/TEJ4YEI47PI/AAAAAAAAFcc/te9RJZhB_5o/s72-c/2464-girl-on-a-bike-600-409.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-8412819601461497867</id><published>2010-07-12T22:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-12T22:40:44.882-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Nina Simone sings Bob Dylan</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dk52XqyL6c4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dk52XqyL6c4&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-8412819601461497867?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8412819601461497867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=8412819601461497867' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8412819601461497867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8412819601461497867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/07/nina-simone-sings-bob-dylan.html' title='Nina Simone sings Bob Dylan'/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-459113390756061314</id><published>2010-07-12T20:55:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-12T20:55:39.661-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;All unnecessary weight is eliminated. . . . Even the brain cells needed for song are lost and replaced seasonally in some birds.&lt;br /&gt;—All the Birds of North America, p. 63&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-459113390756061314?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/459113390756061314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=459113390756061314' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/459113390756061314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/459113390756061314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/07/all-unnecessary-weight-is-eliminated.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-7997498487688266573</id><published>2010-07-12T19:25:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-12T19:25:44.117-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.&lt;br /&gt;- Matt Groening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-7997498487688266573?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7997498487688266573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=7997498487688266573' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7997498487688266573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7997498487688266573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/07/love-is-snowmobile-racing-across-tundra.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-3655118184699682980</id><published>2010-06-30T19:39:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-30T19:43:41.716-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/TCvkqZ4vc5I/AAAAAAAAFbU/nfn5nskk0UY/s1600/1290922832323117461.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/TCvkqZ4vc5I/AAAAAAAAFbU/nfn5nskk0UY/s400/1290922832323117461.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488731988035597202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-3655118184699682980?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3655118184699682980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=3655118184699682980' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3655118184699682980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3655118184699682980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/TCvkqZ4vc5I/AAAAAAAAFbU/nfn5nskk0UY/s72-c/1290922832323117461.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-8419002239231172547</id><published>2010-05-24T00:17:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-24T00:17:39.238-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I live by the truth that "No" is a complete sentence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-8419002239231172547?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8419002239231172547/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=8419002239231172547' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8419002239231172547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8419002239231172547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-live-by-truth-that-no-is-complete.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-626408140659111680</id><published>2010-04-06T20:16:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-06T20:16:48.521-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;If when you die you get a choice between&lt;br /&gt;going to regular heaven or pie heaven,&lt;br /&gt;choose pie heaven.&lt;br /&gt;It might be a trick but if not. mmmmmmm, boy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                        ~Jack Handey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-626408140659111680?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/626408140659111680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=626408140659111680' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/626408140659111680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/626408140659111680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/04/if-when-you-die-you-get-choice-between.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-1301388718430555973</id><published>2010-03-19T22:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-19T22:43:12.758-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”&lt;br /&gt;— ~ Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-1301388718430555973?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1301388718430555973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=1301388718430555973' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1301388718430555973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1301388718430555973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/03/some-people-turn-sad-awfully-young.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-8749537953196764806</id><published>2010-03-06T00:06:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-06T14:45:26.170-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/S5K-yQtE4HI/AAAAAAAAFSM/TutBaf1YAeQ/s1600-h/DonnieDarkoDonnieDarkoopenswithaBunny-_imagelarge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/S5K-yQtE4HI/AAAAAAAAFSM/TutBaf1YAeQ/s320/DonnieDarkoDonnieDarkoopenswithaBunny-_imagelarge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445624670131118194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;br /&gt;Donnie:  Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?&lt;br /&gt;Frank:  Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-8749537953196764806?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8749537953196764806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=8749537953196764806' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8749537953196764806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8749537953196764806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2010/03/donnie-darko-donnie-why-do-you-wear.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/S5K-yQtE4HI/AAAAAAAAFSM/TutBaf1YAeQ/s72-c/DonnieDarkoDonnieDarkoopenswithaBunny-_imagelarge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-5947136990413967222</id><published>2010-03-05T23:42:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-03-05T23:42:56.658-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;"In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;— Yevgeny Yevtushenko &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-5947136990413967222?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/5947136990413967222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=5947136990413967222' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/5947136990413967222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/5947136990413967222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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I said to him, 'Someday when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me'." - Lady Gaga, speaking to Cosmopolitan&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-322844198633886755?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/322844198633886755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=322844198633886755' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/322844198633886755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/322844198633886755'/><link 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width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A critic once said Blossom's voice range wouldn't reach to the second floor of a dollhouse, but Oh, what she could do with a song lyric.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-7588234662616215581?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7588234662616215581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=7588234662616215581' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7588234662616215581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/S1e73U9jRiI/AAAAAAAAFOU/m75mdfh0G_s/s400/motlitba.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429014435012494882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~G. K. 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/&gt;Somebody has to go polish the stars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~Shel Silverstein~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~Virginia Woolf~ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-1144143018259162246?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1144143018259162246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=1144143018259162246' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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not rush,&lt;br /&gt;    He maketh me to layout in tasteful places,&lt;br /&gt;    He leadeth me beside cool meter changes,&lt;br /&gt;    He restoreth my “one.”&lt;br /&gt;    Yeah, man, though I read through the trickiest of charts,&lt;br /&gt;    I will fear no train wrecks,&lt;br /&gt;    For You are with it.&lt;br /&gt;    Your ride and Your snare they comfort me,&lt;br /&gt;    You setteth up a solo for me&lt;br /&gt;    In the presence of mine guitarists,&lt;br /&gt;    You anointeth my lines with drive,&lt;br /&gt;    My groove overfloweth.&lt;br /&gt;    Surely good feel and swing will follow me&lt;br /&gt;    through all the tunes of each set,&lt;br /&gt;    And I will dwell in the pocket the whole gig long.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-7293982929757926729?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-2564577408048004152</id><published>2009-09-21T14:14:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-22T22:19:44.393-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jennifer LOVE Hewitt</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4gifs.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4gifs.com/gallery/d/130250-1/Jennifer_Love_Hewitt_dress.gif?" alt="4gifs.com" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-2564577408048004152?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2564577408048004152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381894251680366546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilson: "Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth."&lt;br /&gt;House: "And triteness kicks us in the nads."&lt;br /&gt;Wilson: "So true..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cameron: "Sex could kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you're lifting three times your body weight. It's violent, it's ugly and it's messy, and if God hadn't made it unbelievably fun, the human race would have died out eons ago."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cameron: "Men should grow up."&lt;br /&gt;House: "Yeah, and dogs should stop licking themselves. It's not going to happen."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-1766952883129694497?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1766952883129694497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=1766952883129694497' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1766952883129694497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1766952883129694497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/09/house.html' title='House'/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/SrBUTrIf_9I/AAAAAAAAFE8/z-SYaHh4Oe4/s72-c/1230182725170Small.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-7392692867405083046</id><published>2009-09-15T15:37:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-15T15:38:15.606-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>"A fool may throw into a well a stone which a hundred wise men cannot pull out."&lt;br /&gt;------Russian Proverb&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-7392692867405083046?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7392692867405083046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=7392692867405083046' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7392692867405083046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7392692867405083046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/09/fool-may-throw-into-well-stone-which.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-8627357569313730461</id><published>2009-09-12T14:53:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T14:55:19.949-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/Sqv8lnGB2bI/AAAAAAAAFEc/P3G5E-GyS9o/s1600-h/buroughs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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Did knife tricks.’ –Hemingway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-1385141475835645171?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/1385141475835645171/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=1385141475835645171' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1385141475835645171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/1385141475835645171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/09/got-tight-last-night-on-absinthe.html' 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beatles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/Hanvak"&gt;Hanvak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-4615612522440689748?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/4615612522440689748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=4615612522440689748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4615612522440689748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/4615612522440689748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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It is a success just to be one.&lt;br /&gt;- Charles Horton Cooley from en.wikipedia.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-8634797950944912333?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8634797950944912333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=8634797950944912333' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8634797950944912333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8634797950944912333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/08/artist-cannot-fail.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-2874414591619225992</id><published>2009-08-04T20:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T20:50:58.644-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Latest Interview With Leonard Cohen</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ugh8Xe6hX7U&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ugh8Xe6hX7U&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-2874414591619225992?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2874414591619225992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=2874414591619225992' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2874414591619225992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2874414591619225992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/08/latest-interview-with-leonard-cohen.html' title='Latest Interview With Leonard Cohen'/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-2463123283608244587</id><published>2009-08-04T19:59:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T23:32:53.371-05:00</updated><title type='text'>HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED?</title><content type='html'>SPOILER ALERT (if you're into Tolstoy)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the last line of the short story:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; His servant picked up the spade and dug a grave long enough for Pahóm to he in, and buried him in it. Six feet from his head to his heels was all he needed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-2463123283608244587?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2463123283608244587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=2463123283608244587' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2463123283608244587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2463123283608244587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-much-land-does-man-need.html' title='HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED?'/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-2185032566401701791</id><published>2009-07-28T22:49:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T23:35:35.129-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/SnkMDamt0HI/AAAAAAAAFBc/9PMBPvfS0dc/s1600-h/d12a0448f01b4d7464e53426f2a67ff3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/SnkMDamt0HI/AAAAAAAAFBc/9PMBPvfS0dc/s400/d12a0448f01b4d7464e53426f2a67ff3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366333683809505394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;"I'll go along with the charade&lt;br /&gt;Until I can think my way out&lt;br /&gt;I know it was all a big joke&lt;br /&gt;Whatever it was all about"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      - Bob Dylan, "Tight Connection To My Heart" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-2185032566401701791?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2185032566401701791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=2185032566401701791' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2185032566401701791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2185032566401701791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/07/ill-go-along-with-charade-until-i-can.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/SnkMDamt0HI/AAAAAAAAFBc/9PMBPvfS0dc/s72-c/d12a0448f01b4d7464e53426f2a67ff3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-7474281058107992872</id><published>2009-07-27T23:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-07-27T23:08:05.068-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fxQcBKUPm8o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fxQcBKUPm8o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-7474281058107992872?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7474281058107992872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=7474281058107992872' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7474281058107992872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7474281058107992872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_27.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-7913570044407552477</id><published>2009-07-22T19:02:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T19:05:04.127-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;It's not courage if you're not terrified." - D. Blagdan &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Nietzsche&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Piracy, like romance, is never dead. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-7913570044407552477?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/7913570044407552477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=7913570044407552477' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7913570044407552477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/7913570044407552477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-not-courage-if-youre-not-terrified.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-8908722070059249960</id><published>2009-07-21T22:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-21T22:36:30.096-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;‘I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.’ –Edgar Allan Poe&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-8908722070059249960?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/8908722070059249960/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=8908722070059249960' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8908722070059249960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/8908722070059249960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-became-insane-with-long-intervals-of.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-921426415693520187</id><published>2009-07-09T17:30:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-07-09T17:38:38.505-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/SlZxYxBGHrI/AAAAAAAAE-Y/9Li2h5Zj298/s1600-h/zt044.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 179px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/SlZxYxBGHrI/AAAAAAAAE-Y/9Li2h5Zj298/s400/zt044.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356593477092515506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Did you know... The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-921426415693520187?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/921426415693520187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=921426415693520187' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/921426415693520187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/921426415693520187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/07/did-you-know.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/SlZxYxBGHrI/AAAAAAAAE-Y/9Li2h5Zj298/s72-c/zt044.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-2023338303287612979</id><published>2009-07-07T15:51:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-07-07T16:00:03.915-05:00</updated><title type='text'>excerpt from "Juniper Tree Burning"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/SlO2B39DPuI/AAAAAAAAE-A/PJ9NZW0VpBY/s1600-h/2753591889_d403618eaa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/SlO2B39DPuI/AAAAAAAAE-A/PJ9NZW0VpBY/s400/2753591889_d403618eaa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355824525189791458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It’s easier to find sympathy for a child, isn’t it? Teenagers are harder to pity. I hate the little shits myself, can’t stand them, with their hormonal poisoning, their know-it-all struts giving them a blind man’s road map, their clumsy bullheaded charge through the china-shop rooms of a heart. Underneath that oily, acne-treatment veneer lurks their desperate need, their whining, oozing, helpless sniveling: Tell me who I am, love me love me do, like the chorus to a bad song playing over and over until, singing it helplessly, you’d shoot yourself in the head just to get it out of your mind. True, some of them are slick, strutting their newest fashions and newer slang, but it’s an oil slick, a sebum-clogged skin-deep slick, and if you’re lucky, they put on a good act because worst of all is the kid whose case is so bad, whose oil so black and sludgy, that you take one look and get sucked into the tar pit of their desperation. These belly-slithering outcasts—they’re the worst, and if you see one, don’t walk. Run. Run as fast as you can, because they’ll get you. They are not harmless. They’ll lie; they’ll cheat and steal and scam their way into a little love, and then they’ll slide off into the dark, leaving you covered in their slime. Don’t pity them. Hold them completely responsible. Children, they know not what they do, but any kid old enough to get her period, to poke his willy into girls, to leave home, do drugs or any of a thousand decisions teenagers make, any kid that old should be held responsible for the damage done along the way. You can’t have it both ways, you teenage monsters. You don’t get to act like you know everything, and then cry,&lt;em&gt; But I didn’t know!"&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;–Goldberry Long, Juniper Tree Burning&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-2023338303287612979?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/2023338303287612979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=2023338303287612979' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2023338303287612979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/2023338303287612979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-easier-to-find-sympathy-for-child.html' title='excerpt from &quot;Juniper Tree Burning&quot;'/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/SlO2B39DPuI/AAAAAAAAE-A/PJ9NZW0VpBY/s72-c/2753591889_d403618eaa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-3270344626433612440</id><published>2009-07-03T21:32:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-07-03T21:32:12.835-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. Mark Twain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4820845423095616393-3270344626433612440?l=duckpondisland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/feeds/3270344626433612440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4820845423095616393&amp;postID=3270344626433612440' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3270344626433612440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4820845423095616393/posts/default/3270344626433612440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://duckpondisland.blogspot.com/2009/07/sometimes-i-wonder-whether-world-is.html' title=''/><author><name>TPM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02711464306359589490</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4820845423095616393.post-16371060595624850</id><published>2009-07-03T21:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-07-03T21:22:23.904-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6lmN3dRYZjY/Sk6813n0GmI/AAAAAAAAE8M/iz5IqLpEO2o/s1600-h/100_0168.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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