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The French Resistance has sent you a message: "Did yourMP3s arrive safely ?"
Started by Roman Payne in Music on Tuesday. 0 Replies 1 Love
The French Resistance has sent you a message...: "Did yourMP3s arrive safely ?"I wrote earlier to say that: “I buried the corpse of my poor dead laptop, as well as the German keyboard who killed it. And I bought a beautiful new French Resistance laptop with a French keyboard!! :-) " ... the only problem is the French keyboard is “laid-out” as oddly as the French people are “laid-back”... so I kept hitting “Send” (“Envoyez”) by accident. Excusez-Moi !!a) I need to wait for Lee Crase to…Continue
DISCUSSION: The Furious Poet and A Damned German Keyboard...
Started by Roman Payne in Music. Last reply by Glenda Stryker on Tuesday. 7 Replies 4 Loves
Scheiße !! It's the novelist's nightmare: the keyboard on my laptop broke almost 24 hours ago... it is a keyboard in English, as the novel I am writing is in English... And since I live in Paris, I cannot find a keyboard English very easily. So, in despair, I first bought an external keyboard French (a language I know fluently); but since French keyboards have the letters all in the wrong order. But this proved clumsy to write on, so I then bought a keyboard in German (a language I do not…Continue
Today's Quote
Started by Shaye in Reflections on Life May 16. 0 Replies 0 Loves
Aloha Roman, I was prepared to dislike today's quote (some feminist knee jerk I guess) but instead I loved it and just forwarded it to two other people, one man and one woman, it's an equal opportunity quote. Mahalo!Continue
Just Say No!
Started by Gatzby in CulturalBook the Website. Last reply by Debra S. Edgington May 16. 7 Replies 2 Loves
In my inbox (my reply follows)-Hello, CulturalBook members. In the past week we've acquired about a dozen new members whose profiles promote some kind of wellness product: colon cleanse, weight loss, wrinkle cream, and other similar products that have nothing to do with the theme of CulturalBook. Also, most of their profile photos vs. profile descriptions clearly show that somehow they have done an excellent job of changing genders.Should these "members" be deleted? Please let me know your…Continue
Lice, Rice, Fleas & Cold Eggs. Police Powers & Staff Email Addresses. All this can be yours today!
Started by Roman Payne in Small Talk May 16. 0 Replies 3 Loves
Members have asked: "Why are emails to staff@culturalbook.com being returned unsent?"Answer: This email address was receiving too much spam... so we shut it down. Helpful CB Staff Email Addresses:GABRIEL KIRKLAND - gabriel@culturalbook.com - Gabriel is the one to contact for all things "marketing" ...if you have free paperback books, ebooks, or audio books to offer to members, contact him. If…Continue
Discussion: Calling All Members Who Want to Hear and/or Post Original CB Members' Songs
Started by Roman Payne in Music May 16. 0 Replies 1 Love
Would you like to hear CB Members' songs? Do you have original songs/recordings to contribute? Let me explain:First, here is a song that I wrote for the guitar, ("The Song of the Revolution"), which I sing on this free MP3 recording you can download here: http://www.romanpayne.com/audio/MP3Z_songs-of-roman-payne/song-of-the-revolution.mp3(NOTE: For those of you who know the great poet of…Continue
Dear Entrepreneurs and/or Authors: I am seeking fun promotional products or giveaway copies...
Started by Roman Payne in CulturalBook the Website. Last reply by Lee Crase May 13. 4 Replies 6 Loves
Dear Entrepreneurs and/or Authors,I would like to reward CulturalBook members for posting interesting blog posts, prose, poetry, photos, as well as for taking part in contests, etc...So I am looking to purchase fun promotional products related to culture, literature, gourmet, and such...I am also hoping to get some giveaway copies from published authors...If you want to promote your work, your art, your company; or if you wish to earn a little cash, please write to me at …Continue
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I am reading
Started by Anna L. Walls in Books We’re Reading May 13. 0 Replies 1 Love
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. I'm a little more than half way through at the moment, but I'm really getting a kick out of this author. He's managed to write in the perfect teenage, irreverent attitude. I mean, it must be pretty hard being the son of a God, but one of the big 3? That makes it even harder. As the son of Poseidon, with all the other Gods jealous of his very existence, and therefore actively hunting him, he needs to find a godly artifact before Zeus and Poseidon tear the…Continue
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Don't miss it! Giveaway for The Secret Rescue ends TOMORROW
Posted by Michelle Lancaster on May 24, 2013 at 10:05pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
The book giveaway for The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Cate Lineberry ends TOMORROW, Saturday, May 25. This is a new release, a hardback first edition courtesy of the generous folks over at Little, Brown. Don't miss it!…
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quickening
Posted by Jack Spratt on May 24, 2013 at 12:26am 0 Comments 1 Love
An observation about solitude and creative/artistic endeavors. I have no literary friends with whom to query the good or ill of what/how/why…
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Posted by Jack Spratt on May 23, 2013 at 6:24pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
ain't no jack-in-the-pulpit, pussy-toes, posey, poesy, poet (ry) writer but red poinsettia knocked silly by it: knotweed! Clubbed senseless where I growed!
Poetry that is.
“Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the…
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Posted by Jack Spratt on May 23, 2013 at 3:38pm 0 Comments 0 Loves
Beyond the Beyond, sometime in the latter future, maybe billions of trillions of years, but who’s counting, by what measure, from now: the language and those who speak/hear it may be gone but the experience of joining Creation will remain. Or mainly what tomorrow will be, of equal measure for me—the many years implied—I’ll be for another what I imply Heaven; that is. Or Whatever will be—will be—of us: two people becoming one and then and then and…
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What Do You Think: Is Phoning Better than Texting? Is Snail Mail Better Than Email?
I have friends who hate the concept of texting. Their attitude is: "If you want to talk to me, call me." Personally I feel that texting is less intrusive than phoning. If it's a bad time, the person doesn't feel obligated to talk to you, but can reply when it's more convenient.
I have also heard several friends say that writing and mailing a letter is much more thoughtful than sending off an email. Personally, I love the convenience of email. I still feel that sending a greeting card via mail is better than sending an e-card, but I do send e-cards. I like knowing that email and e-cards will be delivered immediately.
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Williamson on -
I'm all for email, Cindy. It's much more convenient than sending a letter through the postal system.
What I don't like is texting, though. I just never saw the charm, so I'm with some of your friends on this. My thoughts have always been, why bother texting when you can just dial the number and talk? I also don't at all like the way most texts read, such as C U L8TR, GR8, or LOL.
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Permalink Reply by Lucinda Scott on -
Tom, I'm with you on hating "text-eez!" My texts read like an email, with everything spelled out and proper punctuation--Guess it's the English teacher in me!
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Williamson on
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A gal after my own heart! Even in emails, I spell out words and use correct punctuation. Thanks Cindy.
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Permalink Reply by Kim E Sterling on -
Cindy
I feel that texts are just personal comments not communications. Who cares if you chicken picatta was not picatta enough LOL.Texting, however, does have some power in public protest demonstrations and it seems to be helping to change the world.
Email can be communication if the writer take the time. Unfortunately, most people don't. Many times I have had someone answer on one point I have made and ignore the others creating misunderstandings so it may take several emails to confirm anything.
Phone calls, however, have all the elements needed to communicate including voice tone, pauses, humor and emotion. Phone calls allow both parties the chance to work within the subtleties of communication and more fully understand each others ideas in less time.
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Permalink Reply by Lucinda Scott on
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Kim, I agree that phoning captures the nuances of communication more easily. It's interesting that we now think of talking on the telephone as natural communication, yet we consider texting and emailing technological communication. Not so very long ago, the telephone was the new technoligical invention, and people considered letter writing more natural.
I also agree that texting is better for sending a quick message than for 2-way communication. I use it mainly to send or request info, or to ask someone to call me when convenient.
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Permalink Reply by Stefanie Payne on -
Phone and snail mail say "I care"... email and and text say "I want answers!" :)
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Permalink Reply by Johanna Mackey on
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Letter writing (that lost art) beats all technology, because to recieve a letter is to recieve a gift. "Pen-pal-ing" (as often done here on CB) is a beautiful thing -- not so different than letter-writing -- builds intimacy, friendship, trust, education... all things good. Phoning -- at least you recieve the gift of sound -- of voice.
but above telephone and all the rest (what's "snail"-- don't even know!) -- nothing beats face-to-face. nothing at all. That's real warmth.
Texting is cold.
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Permalink Reply by Glenn S Dorfman on -
Lucinda, I would rather talk with someone, face to face, on the phone, through letters or e-mail and, if desperate, texting. I do not like the abreviated language. Things need to be said clearly and that takes language not symbols/jargon.
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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Roshak on -
I tend to write tomes at times in an email, volumes dredged up from the bottom of the cesspool of my mind that I just must share with someone. Don't know what that is all about. Hate handwriting. Just hate it. Too slow. DIrect from the mind to the keyboard - an instant connection, the fingers keep up with the thoughts as fast as they occur. The keyboards on cell phones are too tiny for my fat fingers to do any justice to literacy. I am amazed at how fast the young people can text type without looking, they have the whole key board memorized and do it with their thumbs mostly. But then most things I can't do amaze me! :) I'm beginning to find speaking on the phone an intrusion into my time and space.
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Permalink Reply by Glenn S Dorfman on
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Your mind is not a cesspool. It is a collection place for thoughts and feelings that require time to homogenize. Remember Rilke:
"I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
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I just heard Glenn, in fleeting -- "ask questions of the questions." This is how we grow.
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Permalink Reply by Trish Crew on -
I'm with you about ecards! If I had to go anywhere, even the grocery store and look for a card while I was ther, I would never get the card. Or if I did, it would be mailed lae and I would feel like I was letting the cardee down. This is the story of my life with remembering b-days, etc. So, I send ecards, I feel as if I am at least acknowledging them, and I send pretty cards from Jacquie Lawson.
I use email all the time, but rarely actually write a letter. See above.
I don't text. Don't really want to. If someone wants to speak to me they can call, and so can I!
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