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Play Day

Posted by PrttyBrd on September 19, 2008 at 7:00pm
Blowing breezesRip leaves from branches prematurelyThe air is cooledBy the brush of a stormThe world seems so perfectBlue skies and soft cloudsThe breeze calms the sunNice to be outsideIt feels like a play dayA day to sit and feel the breeze on your faceTo watch in awe at the glorious world around youThe many hues of green and brown and blueThe amazing complexity of a flower, any flowerToday God is happy
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Accidental Injury

Posted by PrttyBrd on September 19, 2008 at 6:30pm
Heavy hearts weigh you down. Long fingers of regret reach far and wide touching all who love you, changing you forever in their eyes. Like a child that holds a chick too tightly, he may never know the “sleep” he induced was eternal, but that doesn’t change the fact that its death was at his hand.
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A Quiet Night Alone

Posted by PrttyBrd on September 19, 2008 at 6:30pm
A colorless sunset disappearsMelancholy underlies a quiet night aloneItchy feet and restless thoughtsNo sleep for the wearyWhite noise fills the space reserved for real emotionCrippled mind and clogged heartRegurgitating memories trying to feel myselfComfort in the absence of painA vapid existenceA quiet night alone
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Grizzly Bears on the Rebound

Posted by Marcia Divack on September 17, 2008 at 11:30pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The majestic grizzly bear, once king of the Western wilderness but threatened with extinction for a third of a century, has roared back in Montana.The finding, from a $4.8 million, five-year study of grizzly bear DNA criticized by Republican presidential candidate John McCain as pork barrel spending, could help ease restrictions on oil and gas drilling, logging and other development.Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey announced Tuesday that there are approximately 765 bears in northwestern Montana. That's the largest population of grizzly bears documented there in more than 30 years, and a sign that the species could be at long last rebounding.The first-ever scientific census shattered earlier estimates that said there were at least 250-350 bears roaming the area. More recent data placed the minimum population at around 563 bears."There has never been any baseline information on population size," said Katherine Kendall, the lead researcher, who said the results speak for themselves. "There has been huge investments of time and money to recover (the grizzly bear) but they don't know whether their actions have been successful."McCain, in stump speeches and in an advertisement earlier this year, erroneously said the study cost $3 million, adding "I don't know if it was a paternity issue or criminal, but it was a waste of money."The study was backed by Montana ranchers, farmers and Republican leaders as a step toward taking the species off the endangered species list. Since 1975, the bear has been threatened in the lower 48 states, a status that bars hunting and restricts any kind of development that could diminish the bear's population."If it is going to remove it from the list, it is money well spent," said former Montana Gov. Judy Martz, a Republican, McCain supporter, and backer of the research. When asked about McCain's stance, Martz said "unless you live among these issues it is pretty hard to understand what is going on."Former Sen. Conrad Burns, the chairman of McCain's campaign in Montana, helped secure the funding. It was paid in part through add-ons to the U.S. Geological Survey budget, and a $1.1 million earmark for the Forest Service in 2004.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is in charge of regulating endangered species, is currently reviewing the bears' status in Montana as part of a five-year review required by the Endangered Species Act. The study's results will help biologists determine whether the bear still needs federal protection, a conclusion due out early next year.Chris Servheen, the Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator for the service said the study "was an investment in the recovery of an icon of the American West, which is the grizzly bear.""All the things people have been doing are making a difference," he said of the findings. "This gives us some feedback that the bears are doing really well."The second paragraph concerns me. I find it astounding that after all the years of work to restore the bears and ensure their well-being, we'll rush right out and set about destroying their habitat all over again. It is both very sad and extremely ludicrous.
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My pages on the net

Posted by Huntingbear85 on September 15, 2008 at 6:11pm
Hi to all the radiohead fans on wastecentral...!!!If anyone wants to know me better, I am also here...on last.fm :http://www.lastfm.it/user/huntingbear85...and here...on anobii :http://www.anobii.com/huntingbear85/books
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Mélange-colis

Posted by Rachel on September 15, 2008 at 3:53pm

Les enceintes grésillent sur Four Tet - Unspoken, un son suave, pour s'éveiller.Le nez dans le café fumant, le regard perdu dans les profondeurs des vibrations du café, je rêve à un tas de choses.Je rêve, je respire, je rêve, je meurs.Un coeur bien trop fragile, quelques morceaux dispersés, un gros bout de coeur dans la tête, en danger. Le coeur de paille. Une chaleur étouffante, des rayons nocifs, et puis, une chaleur réconfortante parfois. Le soleil de plomb.Pas vraiment besoin de faire un dessin.La fumée de cigarette s'évapore de ma bouche, et je crois me débarasser naïvement d'un flux important d'émotion.Envolée de tabac, effacer toutes ces petites voix. Après tout, pourquoi pas ?Le bonheur éphémère laisse alors place à la mélancolie, la douloureuse, celle qui fait couler les larmes bien trop vite et si facilement.
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my mind works at a slow pace

Posted by sll on September 15, 2008 at 4:00am
I realize how slow and how abstract my thoughts are. But that doesn't mean that they are unimportant or less worthy than well-reasoned intellect. Just because I have these vague thoughts, that everything in my eyes is just a different shade of color, I am not less creative. Because this is what defines me, the ambiguous, the floating air. I am this empty, sure, but I am filled with emptiness. Do you understand?Let me explain. I am my living emotions, and my background is white. I think in colors and have a limited fourth grade vocabulary. I don't believe in this physical reality. Life is happening to me and I'm not letting it, thus indirectly defending the opposing side of apathetic death. But there are more gaps to this opposition, more sides to see. I am air.
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mismatched woods

Posted by sll on September 15, 2008 at 3:30am

There exists an incomplete owl,making a nest,living in my fucked up consciousness,And its telling me:stop playing cat and mouse.this is not life or how its supposed to be."but I'm that fragile,simply an old soul out to dry," I sigh.but it keeps telling me:stop picking bones, stop pissing stones,start erasing the messes you're drowning in"I have a purpose down here. Though.""Something is pulling my pinky. Though.""There has to be beauty in the deep."but the owl keeps repeating:stop playing cat and mouse.start erasing the messes you're covered in"But there has to be beauty in the deep.""Though. Though. Though. Though.""I can see the edge of the universe, here in the deep.""And sure enough, a force will take me,like that of wind, like that of ocean waves,like that of sand and stone, green blue and grey.""It's drawing me in, like a tornado, and I'm dust.With it, I can shrivel into irregular rust.""This is though. This is though.""There is a life down here, in the deep.Its hidden beneath all this darkness,so let me sleep, let me sleep."and the owl starts to disappear,whispering into my ear:you've gone off the edge of sanityyou've erased yourself completely.you're suffering for your suffering.But I close my eyes and get back to my dream,lost between the sounds and sights of the deep, of the deep.
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after years of waiting

Posted by Paulina Magos on September 14, 2008 at 7:20pm
finally, the days arrived :)3 days of radiohead!the first HWB date, i listened the soundcheck pretty good, at time and comfy under the shadow of the trees, i meet 2 nicest people on the USA, Raul and Carmen, we had this plascent chat about music, life and of course the band, 5:30 and we got in to the bowl, i got my sit just after the box section, nice view, and after crying of happiness, and enjoy those 25 songs and be amazed with the lights show, i got the chance to be at the after party, almost at the end of it i got this horrible lomography with Phil, yet with my face full of joy ; on the second night i was at the POOL SECTION! *_* there are no words to described it, so near! pff! AMAZING! i didn't care about my friend talking shit with her boyfriend, gosh if you go to a concert please do not talk! as if you were in a bar or something like that! i try to block that part and really enjoy the band playing my favourite songs :) Faust Arp with the Tell me why after was so pretty! and PLANET TELEX! THE BENDS! i still have those tunes on my head, at the end i was like full ot emotions that i didnt talk that much with my friend, i try to get in again to the after but there were no chance, too hard this time and actually they change the venue. so i went to my cousin's house to get some happy sleep.for the Sta. Barbara show, well, it wasn't as good as my first two time at the bowl, i enjoyed of course, but i was too far, the sound at that high it wasn't good, but well i was with one of my best friends :)so 3 it was totally worth it, travel to the United States, now lets hope that Mexico appears on the tour list soon! and hear all those new songs that the banda are talking about! :)
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I Will Cover

Posted by _cHA/D on September 11, 2008 at 11:30pm
So today I was bored and have always enjoyed singing a duet version of 'I Will' with my old roomate so I decided to make my own version (duet with myself... weird i know... its called overdub in the music community). SOOO if you get REALLY bored and want to check it out its at myspace.com/polstraproject . Note that it is merely a demo and my friend mike is actually working on guitar for it (as it only contains a baseline drums and some synthetic effects). be sure to let me know how bad it sucked!
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