Five Star Friday's Edition #89

A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that it lets you stop and take a breath but if you want to take a breath you ought to know yourself that you want to take a breath.

   — Gertrude Stein excerpted from the 1935 “Poetry and Grammar.”

This Five Star Friday roundup is brought to you by Rent, media mistreatment of rape, detail delinquency, absent fathers, book banning, fear, fledgling sobriety, a gardener, a newborn, death anxiety, fast food, words of wisdom, an annual physical exam, moving, an open letter, making out with Jon Gosselin, a deceptively cute baby, hockey, a push for equality, healing, a cooking mishap, a book, being a girls' guy, a weenis, and suicide.

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"Is This Calcutta?" from ThreeSeven

"Obsessive Coverage of 'Cry Rape' Cases and Public Perception" from We Mixed Our Drinks

"Confessions of a Double D" from Ivy League Insecurities

"There's No Map and a Compass Wouldn't Help at All" from I, Asshole

"Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?" from Great Big Nerd

"Blogging Through Fear" from Loralee's Looney Tunes

"Nine Days Sober" from Okay, Fine, Dammit

"The Gardener" from The Eleventh

"Annabel Violet" from The Newborn Identity

"Nothing Is But What Is Not" from Slouching Past 40

"Taco Belled" from This Quarter Life

"Friday's Final Word" from Red Clover Literary Studio

"Breaking Up Is (Surprising, Not That) Hard to Do" from Praying to Darwin

"Here" from Zipbag of Bones

"Proposition H8: An Open Letter to Andy Pugno" by The Redhead at Toy With Me

"What a Nightmare" from My Jewcy Bits

"Moose on the Loose" from Mommy Melee

"Hockey Heals" by Jason at Draft Day Suit

"NoH8" from The Stiletto Mom

"Hallelujah" from Singing with My Heart

"A Tragedy of Poultry. In Three Parts." from Out of Character

"Right Back Atchya, Little Buddy." from Not Undecided

"One of the Girls" from And Triplets Make Six

"Nice Work... If You Can Get It" by Ken at LustMongers

"Suicide Is Never the Answer. Even to Word Problems" from The Bloggess

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Five Star Friday's Edition #88

The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.

   — Larry Niven

This Five Star Friday roundup is brought to you by a lawyer, a writer, poetry, a birthday, a muse, alcoholism, the end of a marriage, a disordered child, literacy, love, bad habits, a roller coaster, the Underground Railroad, rocks in pockets, oversharing, thankless work, difference, HIV, and world-weariness.

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"Solid Ground" from words... thoughts... nonsense

"My Words" from The Word Cellar

"Mustachioed Ninja" from djkirkbride.com

"Eli" from These Are Days

"Meet My Muse" from Ubi es Caelum

"Hi, My Name Is Heather" from The Extraordinary Ordinary

"And Then There Were Four" from Issa's Crazy World

"Filed Under Things They Never Tell You When You Become a Mother" from From the Cheap Seats

"Also, My Dad Can Beat Up Their Dad" from Sarah and the Goon Squad

"Fire and Rain" from OrdinaryArt

"7 Habits of Highly Ineffective, Unhappy People" from Jurgen Nation

"The Gulf of Grief" from The Eleventh

"The War of the Roses" from Whiskey in My Sippy Cup

"Cold Blasts and Heavy Rocks" from Boy Crazy

"The Corruption of Authenticity" from Modite

"I Could, Perhaps, Have Been a Contender" from Irretrievably Broken

"Advocacy and the Elevator Ride" from Praying for Parker

"January 21, 2010: David Phillips" from the3six5's posterous

"I'm Fifty-Five Years Old and I Just Don't Know" from Bless Our Hearts

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Five Star Friday's Edition #87

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

   — Henry David Thoreau

This Five Star Friday roundup is brought to you by breast cancer, clicking the wrong link, food, a sense of home, menstruation, gratitude, Delurker Day, the earthquake in Haiti, Haitian orphans, the need of an airplane, unsatisfying employment, living intentionally, art and imprisonment, a challenged past, bank robberies, a housecat, and the education system.

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"In the Name of Awareness" from Toddler Planet

"What the...?" from The S.L.C. Blog

"Nil by Mouth" from Roger Ebert's Journal

"Home" from seeohel

"I Think This Makes Me a Member of the Obama Administration?" from Barefoot Foodie

"Guilt and Gratitude" from The State of Discontent

"And Super Heroes Come to Feast; to Taste the Flesh Not Yet Deceased. And All I Know Is Still the Beast Is Feeding." from Whiskey in My Sippy Cup

"Earthquake Day in Port au Prince" from Rollings in Haiti

Two from That's Church:
"It's Getting Real Bad
and
"Urgent Need of a Plane"

"Fallen Star (On the Rise)" from Me and the Bee

"Living Intentionally" from The {Geeky} Wife

"Raging Life" from I'm Not Emilio Estevez

"Scars, Shame, Disconnection and Texas" from Finding My America

"Perfection. Which Is Funny, Because I Have No Ending." from Miss Britt

"Men Don't Understand Science." from The Bloggess

"All Schools Have Asperger's" from Raising Complicated Kids

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