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Christopher Countryman

About Me

On the street we smile.
We go
in different directions
down the imperturbable street.

-Gwendolyn Brooks

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations, the pure gold baby.

My Blog

Kenneth Koch -- To My Twenties

How lucky that I ran into youWhen everything was possibleFor my legs and arms, and with hope in my heartAnd so happy to see any woman-O woman! O my twentieth year!Basking in you, youOasis from both gr...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:26:00 GMT

ehhhh

i feel like no one actually likes obama or mccain. i don't like politicians in general. no one does anything proactive, it's all reactive. we let gas prices and oil prices get out of control THEN we t...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:24:00 GMT

Cream of Wheat (With Regard to Mr. Barlow)

   In the early morning when I wake, &c, My limbs are stiff and my tummy aches, &c. What to do about these hunger pangs? What can I exercise these starving fangs? I go downstairs ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 22:37:00 GMT

NHL 2006-2007- THE WESTERN CONFERENCE EDITION!

here's my predictions for the west:  (the first eight teams, of course, are the ones i see as being playoff bound).          ;  &nbs...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:04:00 GMT

Clarification

I have finally gotten around to posting some pictures of Egypt. Let me start by saying these are hardy the flecks of ice on the tip of an iceberg in terms of the pictures I took. Between two...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:56:00 GMT

Where Should We Begin

You go through life. You go through life, you meet so many people, you do so many things; so many things that you don't even realize what you're doing. You're too busy to really think about it. So wha...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:53:00 GMT

YEA OR NAY?

I know what I want to be when I'm older. And that is a U.S. SENATOR. I mean think about it! Of all the parts of the government, what does the Senate actually do? Who do they represent? The House of Re...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:26:00 GMT

4-4

To steal a well known sentiment, the Eagles lost more than just the game tonight against the Redskins. I really think they've also lost this season. Maybe they'll pull out with a decent record, maybe ...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:21:00 GMT

GARY EFFIN GLITTER

Yooooo. a) I bought AL FRANKEN'S new book, The Truth (With Jokes). So far it's good. It fuels my fire! It bakes my muffins! It grows my shrubbery! It, it, MAKES ME WANT TO ACTUALLY REGISTER TO VO...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:12:00 GMT