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Hurricane Celia
Perfectly circular, powerful Hurricane Celia spaned hundreds of miles over the Pacific Ocean in this image from June 24, 2010. Rough-textured clouds surround the storm?s distinct eye. Farther from the center of the storm, spiral arms appear thinner and smoother. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, on NASA?s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of Hurricane Celia at 1:55 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on June 24, 2010. Just five minutes later, the U.S. National Hurricane Center classified Celia as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 135 miles per hour. Image Credit: NASA...
StarPoet Newsletter Vol. XI, No. XXX Print E-mail
Letters - Newsletters
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Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:00
The StarPoet Newsletter
Vol. XI, No. XXX (July 25, 2010 C.E.)
StarPoet Newsletter by Lisa Jain Thompson

The last of July, if I've done my math.  I shall have a birthday soon come August.

My birthday approaches
Over my body's objections
I would still be a young woman
If only inside these words
Time laughs at us
And our brief fleeting moment
We hold so dear

Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2010 C.E. 

Last Updated on Monday, 19 July 2010 12:40
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StarPoet Newsletter Vol. XI, No. XXIX Print E-mail
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Saturday, 17 July 2010 23:00
The StarPoet Newsletter
Vol. XI, No. XXIX (July 18, 2010 C.E.)
StarPoet Newsletter by Lisa Jain Thompson

There you go and baby here am I, writing poetry and throwing it up on the web

The rain
The sun
The ugly July air
If the summer had its way
We both would be without breath
But we are here
And my songs appear
In fine voice
Accompanied by the Lyre

Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2010 C.E. 

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:42
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Marriage Among the Forbidden Class Print E-mail
Prose - Global Warning
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:00

Marriage Among the Forbidden Class

Fairfax, VA, USA. Sharon and I are married. Not in the eyes of the Commonwealth of Virginia, not in the eyes of the Government of the United States, and certainly not in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service or various religious sects.

If some god is above us, some divine creator without which none of this would be, I am certain he would bless us. Would a god deny our love just so he or she could angrily exercise some godly reasoned distinction originally intended to encourage the human pair bond and discourage the male of the species from raping the female every time some passing male desired sex?

In any event, no god has smote us over the years we have been pair bonded. Perhaps we get a free ride because of the eight children we have between us. Perhaps the prohibitions are man’s and not god’s.

It matters not. Sharon and I are married, pair bonded, ‘til death do us part and all that.

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 July 2010 20:27
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Adam Lambert and the Angry Television Set Print E-mail
Prose - Reviews
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 16:00

Adam Lambert

Fairfax, VA, USA. I find it comforting to know that Rock and Roll can still be threatening enough to have a performer banned from a television show.

Adam Lambert is neither the first or the last rock singer ever to be placed on the forbidden list by the powers that be. We can debate whether the ban was the result of Adam being out and gay or the result of a typical knee jerk reaction by the suits.

The facts are this: on the same television broadcast Janet Jackson grabbed a guy’s crouch without any particular uproar; Adam kissed a guy and he’s out of here. I will let you do the math.

I’m not particularly interested in Adam’s sex life. I’m not into gay guys, nor are they into me. He is, however, an attractive male, good looking with an undeniable stage presence.

What he does off stage is none of my concern but I find his music interesting and have spent some time thinking about his roots. What follows may not be entirely correct, but I think it a good platform for discussion. Start with the music on his first CD.

Last Updated on Sunday, 03 January 2010 12:39
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The Bitch Goddess Print E-mail
Prose - Global Warning
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Saturday, 12 December 2009 10:00

The Bitch Goddess

Fairfax, VA, USA. We Americans, you and I, spring from some Platonic conception of ourselves, forever remodeling our past even as we reconceive our multiple futures. The possibility of success, tempered by the memories our well accomplished failures, bedevils us until our dying days.

We worship a dual headed bitch goddess, pursuing fame, thinking it is success. [N1] In this, the early decades of a new millennium, we confuse our good intentions with actual accomplishment as if the act of aiming at a target is sufficient. [N2] We no longer actually have to hit the target to become famous. Being famous is enough, a well laurelled goal, in and of itself.

Success? Everyone wants success but no one admits to wanting it. If we achieve success, we are half apologetic that we climbed our own personal Mount Everest. The ideal American archetype is a Tin Star who, having just rid the world of the bad guys, responds to praise from the townspeople by casting his eyes down and mumbling semi-audibly Aw shucks, I was just doing my job.

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:59
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A Wop Bop A Loo Mop A Lop Bam Boom Print E-mail
Prose - Global Warning
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Friday, 11 December 2009 10:00

Is The Third Way The Right Way

Fairfax, VA, USA. Howdy-Doody, Crusader Rabbit, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and Ding Dong School with Miss Frances: my roots begin here.

I am older than Rock and Roll but not as old as Dick Clark.

The Woody Woodpecker Song was at the top of the charts the day I was born. Little Richard was not yet 16, Elvis was 13, Jerry Lee Lewis only 12.

It would be four years until Bill Haley and His Comets would be formed, six until Rock Around The Clock would begin climbing the charts.

I am not as old as Little League Baseball but am still older than many of the nations on this planet and yet, I am little more than half way through all the things I intend to do with my life. The future lies wide open before me.

But it all starts in the past. I’m a child of the bastard marriage of coast to coast network television and the devil’s music - rock and roll. I would not be who I am without them.

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:58
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StarPoet Newsletter Vol. X, No. XLI Print E-mail
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Saturday, 10 October 2009 23:00
The StarPoet Newsletter
Vol. X, No. XLI (October 11, 2009 C.E.)
StarPoet Newsletter by Lisa Jain Thompson
The year is all downhill from here, isn't it now?   How are the seasons like Obama's First Term.   Discuss.

The god of indeterminate causes,
The ruler of multiple universes,
Made his choices in this one in particular
Then disappeared evermore into another.

Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2009 CE 

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 October 2009 23:24
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Windshift Print E-mail
Fiction - XenErotica
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Sunday, 10 May 2009 11:30
 
 
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Windshift
 
By Lisa Jain Thompson
 
© 1998 & 2009
 

 
The wind shifted and the campfire smoke drifted out to the trees where the Warrior Princess was strung. Her lungs convulsed her tired naked body into wakefulness. As the dark fumes burned her half-opened eyes, she struggled to a rasp:
Last Updated on Sunday, 10 May 2009 14:12
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