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Transhuman
Strip me from my body.I am sick with its soft decay.Skin erodes to acid etching.I polish, and blood seeps away. Where is my shine,my steel endurance? I want titanium bonessheathed in alloy,not a body of tissue ridden by ancestors. I will bethe beginning of unborn life.
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What a Neanderthal!
New research shows the well-dressed Neanderthal wore make-up and jewellery. Kind of changes that old cave man insult 🙂
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Checking the Mail
Waiting for the Oxford Book of Short Poems
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Deadtown by Nancy Holzner
My heart sank when I read the first few pages of Deadtown. I don’t like dream scenes, not even demon infested ones. Fortunately, the action quickly moves to the “real” world–a paranormally enriched Boston–and things become interesting. The heroine, Vicky, is a neat balance between tough competence and vulnerability. There is romantic tension, political tension…
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Blogger Tags
I was just cleaning up my profile, making sure I put commas where necessary to separate links, etc when it suddenly struck me how weird it was to tag my life. Interests, movies, music, books–click on a tag and see other people’s matching self-description. Instant connection or white noise? What a strange idea, finding kinship…