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We love reading stories about people who initially disliked blogging, and then like so many of us, eventually join the dark side. Who among us doesn’t have a similar tale? First, you may have wondered: What’s a blog? Second: Why should I care? Third: OK, OK, OK, I get it, blogs are pretty interesting. Fourth (the assimilation complete):  You start a blog.

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Living With a Diabetic Cat
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Smoky Talks... Those of you who are following me on Facebook are aware that, a couple of weeks ago, one of my cats, Beetlejuice, was diagnosed with diabetes. It’s been a challenge, to say the least, learning to care for a diabetic cat. Bee is one of three cats, cats who have been, up to this time, used to being able to graze on kibble throughout the day. Challenge #1: Diabetic cats cannot be allowed to graze; therefore, cats living in the same house with a diabetic cat cannot be allowed to graze. Sounds easy enough—just don’t leave the food dishes out. But do you have any idea how much of a ruckus one cat who thinks he’s hungry (even if he isn’t) can make? Now, multiply that by three. You’d think we were stringing them up and pulling out their toenails one by one, judging from the noise coming from the house. Good thing we don’t live in town and/or have neighbors who live too close by. Po, in a bagPhoto by Smoky Zeidel That aforementioned kibble is another problem. Challenge #2: Diabetic cats should

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Dogs are boys, Cats are girls
40 is the new 13

Every child knows that dogs are boys. Cats are girls. You thought that, too… right? They’re felines. They’re dainty and prissy and turn up their noses at many different kinds of food. Because kids lack experience, their theories require leaps of logic that could span entire continents. Like in the 1970s… when my parents trapped me in the back of their Dodge Coronet pleasantly drove the family to synagogue? I thought the congregation’s responsive readings during the worship service were actually hypnotic group chants that Jewish adults were forced to memorize during years of agonizing brainwashing education by religious elders. I mean… that’s what Hebrew school is for, right? Also, I believed grown-ups used brain waves to control their car turn signals. They simply thought about going right or left and the correct side would start to flash. Oh… and blondes are shiny, brunettes are short, and falling down is very important if you want Mr. a

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Lana Del Mazing.
Invisible By Nature

So I went to see Lana Del Rey in concert last night. Needless to say she was perfect, beautiful, amazing, inspiring… basically any positive adjective there is she was. Although I was encased in a massive group of sweat soaked people (the beautiful advantages of standing at a concert) and being 5ft 2 didn’t have the best height advantage, I would still say it’d be up there with a few of the best nights ever. Seeing my idol in the flesh singing how her pussy tastes like pepsi cola is indeed a plus. Moral of the post: Make sure you wear a lot of deodorant when you go to a concert.  

The Bear Keeper
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This was the 4th blog post I ever wrote.  I am taking a break from writing for the summer, but thought many of my followers would enjoy this post honoring Memorial Day: Today’s 4th installment is made possible by the research and interviews obtained from Rebel Kreklow and Elaine Wagner while researching my family tree for genealogy purposes. The best stories to me are about the ordinary.  It is refreshing to see and take note of my typical family members living in the context of extraordinary times. Painting a truthful picture without the jargon is ultimately the writer’s goal. Yet at times its easy to be taken away in your imagination wondering and indulging a bit about what it must have been like living during a certain time frame. Rebel’s dad  was Edwin Kreklow from German ancestry. In the picture provided below, Edwin’s dad was the second man standing on the right. This man was Albert Kreklow. Our family line is Louis Kreklow, Albert’s older brother, who is the second man standing

Friendship, History and Howling At The Moon
theinnerwildkat

Probably my first friend when I joined WordPress was the awesome Mae Clair. We “met” early on when I stumbled on her blog. After I commented, she was kind enough to respond and visit my blog in return. Back then I was pretty green, but she must have seen something in me because she kept coming back (and I kept stopping by hers). Through these little visits we forged a bit of a friendship. I didn’t know much about her except that she was a writer and had recently gotten her manuscript accepted by Lyrical Press and was looking forward to being published for the first time. While I enjoyed her blog posts, especially her Mythical Mondays, I was a bit nervous about her book. You see, I wanted so badly to support her, but I wasn’t sure that her book was going to be my cup of tea. Don’t get me wrong… I’m a life long fan of romance. I adore supernatural stories (yes, that includes werewolves, vampires, Valkyries, demons and most of the other shifter/go

What a Horrible Place to Work (Part ii)
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NO SOAP NO RADIO
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Admiring: Food Photographer, Luisa Brimble
The Bahamian Rhapsody
The Sound Evil Makes
Good2begone
I am back!
My happy blog
Nostalgia for Nostalgia’s Sake
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How Will Tumblr Earn Its Price Tag?
Thought Catalog

The day after news of Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr broke, I was sitting in a cafe in Greenwich Village. At the table next to me was a gallery owner conducting interviews with recent NYU graduates for a social media intern position at his gallery (the position, it goes without saying, was going to be unpaid). While talking one candidate’s ear off for 45 minutes about his “vision” for his gallery’s nascent tumblr, the gallery owner said something like this: “So think of Tumblr as the hub of everything that you’re doing. Now you have to keep it short, because on Tumblr, you only have a certain amount of time, maybe three or four lines, to grab people’s attention, and then you have to get off. So it’s about capturing, you know, the viewpoint of the gallery as you see it.” Three or four lines? As annoying as this guy was, he’s probably right. Tumblr is a visually-minded community. It’s not that long-form pieces can

Day 266 HAERTS – All The Days
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Way back on Day 43 of this blogging adventure (wow that was ages ago!), I posted Wings, the debut single from a mysterious American outfit called HAERTS. In my top three tracks of 2012, Wings after months and months of waiting now has a partner in the shape of the bands second release, All The Days, a glorious, dramatic statement of intent from this Brooklyn five-piece. With dream-pop the order of the day, All The Days is a dizzyingly grand track that soars triumphantly under vocalist Nini Fabi’s stunning vocals. With commanding synths, huge drums and a striking melody that I can’t keep out of my head, HAERTS have delivered impeccably on their return. This was well worth waiting 223 days for!   Download Artist – Amazon Itunes

Three or more Methods of Far more No-cost traffic to improve Your web business
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Goodbye Bolton – Hello Birmingham
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Play Nicely, Kids… Please.
Diane Henders

I’m climbing up on my soapbox today, so if you’re looking for funnies you’ll probably want to skip back to Sometimes Words Fail Me.  I’ll return to my regularly scheduled silliness on the 29th.   I just finished reading a blogger’s vitriolic review of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight. I don’t know Ms. Meyer and I’m not a Twilight fan, but… The blogger eviscerated Twilight with razor-like precision. And then she got out her chainsaw and her hobnailed boots and waded into the remains, leaving a bloodbath in her wake. It was brutal and ugly. It made me sad. I believe negative reviews are valuable. They help create realistic expectations for our potential readers while steering away the people who aren’t likely to enjoy our work. We learn from criticism and become better writers because of it. That said, even an objectively-stated negative review rips out little pieces of an author’s guts and cauterizes the wounds with a small, fierce flame. We accept that as the price of admission. We put

Building A Better Blogger: Blog Awards
Speaking Out on Blogging

Chain Letter? Acknowledgment? Community Building? Something to Display? Follow the Rules? What exactly are blogging awards?  Simply put, a blogging award is an award passed on from one blogger to another.  At some point just about every blogger on WordPress will see another blogger getting a blogging award.  If they are fortunate they will get a blogging award or two themselves.  Some people love awards and some people hate awards. When I got my first blogging award, the BILF, I had no idea what to do with the nomination.  None at all.  I read that there were rules, but what baffled me most was that I was nominated, not awarded, not given, but nominated.  Which to me meant that at some point there would be an actual awarding of the award to one of the nominees.  When would that happen?  Follow along. There are dozens of blogging awards, each with their own set of badges, and rules.  You could be awarded a Liebster Award which is supposed to be for bloggers with less than 200 followers,

The Bayonets’ Smartphone enters the Classic Rock Radio charts
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Despite only been released a week ago via their official website and iTunes, Smartphone, the brand new single from The Bayonets, has broken into the Classic Rock Radio charts, entering at #18. In only a short space of time Smartphone has already caused a big buzz among music lovers far and wide. Unsure whether they could live up to the high standards set by their debut single Sucker For Love, fans were more than a little surprised when the second single turned out to be a infectious galloping guitar-fest. You can read more about the amazing fan reaction here! And it is obvious the buzz about The Bayonets is spreading, as their Smartphone broke into the Classic Rock Radio charts without a sweat, entering at #18. Sucker For Love also found its way into the Classic Rock Radio charts after it was released in February, entering at #19 and peaking at #9. This monumental achievement from the brand new Indie band followed a massive promotional campaign to get their name on the musical map, and

A Super Sweet Blogging Award, and Tag! I’m It!
Eye-Dancers

It continually amazes me and fills me with gratitude that The Eye-Dancers site has been nominated for so many blogging awards.  It’s been such an enjoyable ride, and I can’t thank you all enough.  WordPress is a wonderful place to be, and I am honored by your award nominations.  It really does mean a lot.  You are the reasons why blogging is so rewarding and so much fun. I have been nominated for two new awards–The Super Sweet Blogging Award, and the Tag!  You’re It Award. But first, I did want to thank several great bloggers for nominating The Eye-Dancers for the following awards, as well . . . Thanks to Reshu at Reshu Malhotra.com for a Best Moment nomination.   Thank you to Kathmandu at lmoktan for a Sunshine Award nomination!  Thanks to Janice at Jems Books for a Shine On Award nomination.  And thank you very much to Mary at Oil Pastels by Mary,  The Clumsy Fool, and D-Anna at Style Salvation for a Versatile Blogger Award nomination!  The Eye-Dancers has bee

Wordage & Windage (or vice versa)
the planet harris blog

Sod off windy breath Frick-anory it’s been blowy and coldface out there today. And cold hands. Cold, cold, cold. Stupid Harris man, take your gloves. But it’s nearly June. Stupid Harris man, this is England. Oh yeah. We don’t got climate, we got weather. Four seasons in one hour, sometimes. On other occasions, just Frankie Valli. Even the hardy busker boys and girls of Spin2 were wrapped up against the bleeding wind today. Must have been breezytrousers and cold, cold, cold. Told you it was. These are just sort of random sentences, faintly connected by the wind. Parp! Not that sort. Er… Did I mention it was cold and windy? Windy, windy, woo. So cold and windy that the centre of my forehead went all brain freeze as though I’d just eaten a ton of ice cream. I hadn’t just eaten a ton of ice cream. My stomach couldn’t accommodate a ton. Plus it was TOO COLD AND TOO WINDY for ice cream. I am not certain I am conveying just how windycold coldwindy brr