Hi folks-A recent subscriber to this site (April) and like it a lot. I'm also a singer-songwriter and this site reminds me of Garage Band which is a peer to peer music review site among other things. Visit my site there or at MySpace if you should be in the mood for some alternative folk/country/rock sort of stuff. Great to know so many of us are trying to keep the faith with the promotion and enjoyment of good writing. I also work with the New York State Talking Book and Braille Library doing all sorts of stuff including voice-overs.
I've had some articles published in "Defenestration" and "Polar Priorities" which is indeed an odd combination. Finished a novel a year or so ago but have held off doing much with it as it is cross-genre/off-beat in too big  a way for the current marketplace. I'm happy with it though.  
Cheers and happy writing.-Mike

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music, writing, tennis, skiing

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myself

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addiction

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Reading "The Thirteenth Tale" (great), try to catch Bill Maher on HBO, currently listening to Richard Thompson, Lucinda Williams and James McMurtry

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Packing up and shipping out packages at a department store with the awful name of Mungers-Genungs. They went out of busness

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Leaving Mungers-Genungs

Food & Drink > Cooking with Spices & Herbs The wonderful world of herbs

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"Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme." So goes the traditional folk song made popular by Simon and Garfunkle years ago. And indeed these four herbs are among the most popular, used primarily for flavoring food but also purported by some to provide relief from-or prevention of-various ailments. They also share the same geographic origins, all four being linked to the Mediterranean countries and used extensively in both Greek and Roman cultures. If you bring in just a handful more, perhaps ginger, basil, and mint, you have a solid foundation to become more cr...

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