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Archive for May, 2007

ready, set. . . .

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Your dream’s in a suitcase…face to the windThat moment is over…and so it beginsYou’ve got a long way to goSuch a long way to go-the rembrandts
Well, I’m just about packed. Tomorrow at around 4:30 am I’ll head out to the interstate and head south to Chicago for the Windy City Symposium. You know, [...]

shaft

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Who’s the black private dick
That’s a sex machine to all the chicks?
SHAFT!
Ya damn right!
-isaac hayes
Well I got my replacement Lendal shafts. Of course working at Rutabaga, they trust my story LOL! Yet I can see how hard it could be for someone to go into a shop and say, “they just broke” and [...]

and then there is the eraser. . .

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Summer! Yarg! Always somewhere to run too. Which means you get a short, unimportant post (usually they are just unimportant!!. . ) This one to remind you that the Windy City Symposium is this weekend. I just got my class assignments for the symposium, “rolling, rolling, rolling” Guess my Acuta’s going [...]

Wow dude, all the colors of the bow!

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Sunshine, lolly pops ,and rainbowseverything thats wonderful is what i feel when were togetherBrighter then a lucky pennywhen ur near the rainbows disapear here and i feel so fine…just to know that you are mine.- brand new

Now before I go off on my daily mushroom induced voyage, I wanted to make sure to [...]

A response

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Ok guys. I know. I’ve received multiple emails from around the country, well, the world actually, telling me “Derrick, I know that this is not true.” To each person that has emailed me, I have responded personally. I have also explained why I just feel it is not right to get into [...]

Wars & Memories

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Well, take me back down where cool water flows, yeah.Let me remember things I love,Stoppin at the log where catfish bite,Walkin along the river road at night,Barefoot girls dancin in the moonlight.-ccr
I am against war as a solution. But I’m not stupid either. Man will always wage war. Humans are funny that [...]

gray escapes

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

I have my booksAnd my poetry to protect me;I am shielded in my armor,Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.I touch no one and no one touches me.I am a rock,I am an island.- paul simon
Paddlers all have their reasons. Fitness, fishing, exploring, floating, you name it. Some I’m sure, even [...]