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Monday, December 29, 2008

Bluzy


PRONUNCIATION: blĭ

ADJECTIVE: Inflected forms: blu·zi·er, blu·zi·est

1. Resistant to work or exertion even while needing to complete it under (usually) deadline pressure; disposed to procrastination. 2. Quick-moving yet without evident progress or accomplishment of goals: The blizy writer's features never came in under deadline. 3. Conducive to inadvisable indolence: a blizy winter afternoon on the Internet.

ETYMOLOGY: Of Bluzy Poet origin. A blending of busy of Middle English bisi, busi, from Old English bysig, with lazy of Low German origin.

Postus interruptus


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2009


The year of Unsubscribing.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Maxim(um)


It's pointless to argue rules with players engaged in an entirely different game.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Monday, December 15, 2008

Wanted:


Looking to hire 1-3 developer(s) to write screensaver program for poet's brain.

Hours interminable. Pay negligible.

Frivolous inquiries only.

Reply to insomniahangover@notreallyaworkingaddress.com.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Advent(ures)





A curated cabinet of treasures for the month of December here.