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David

Confessions of a Carl Sandburg Wannabe

About Me

David Blaine:Is a practicing poet living in Rural Michigan.Has never traveled to Paris or Pamplona. Has not been nominated for a Pushcartor awarded an MFA degree. He hasn’t been published in eitherThe New Yorker or The Paris Review. David doesn’t get a birthday cardfrom Scribner or Norton. Donald Hall did write to him once. David didn’t send the money.His published work can be viewed at "A. Hello Whiskey"

Now Available

A new chapbook: "The View From Here"



or "A Fine Feathered Faith"


Both contain original poems by David Blaine.
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My Interests

Writing, Outdoors, gardening, computers, photography, art, film, music-especially jazz.

I'd like to meet:

Other writers, particularly poets, who are trying to get their work published. I believe we can help each other. Also people who like to read the work of new/emerging writers. I am interested in receiving constructive critique of my writing, but constructive critique rarely begins with "this sucks..." I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts!

Who I'd Like to Not Meet:
Girls with webcams and Bands

Music:

Pretty eclectic. Jazz ala Miles, Bird, etc, folk, funk, alternative, world, old rock ala Hendrix, Deep Purple and other Brit bands, Beatles, Stones. Really anything except polkas.

Movies:

Art flicks and oddball shit, Oliver Stone, Robert Redford, etc. Faves: U Turn, A River Runs Through It, All the Pretty Horses, American Beauty, Leaving Las Vegas.

Television:

You have to be kidding.

Books:

Angela's Ashes, The Way the Crow Flies, On The Road, In Cold Blood, To Kill A Mockingbird, Catch 22, Junky, Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men.

Heroes:

Writers: Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemmingway, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg. Others: Gahndi, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, Jesus Christ.

My Blog

Investing In These Tough Times (Humor)

From a poet friend:I haven't verified that math yet, but I know you guys will love this:If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago,  you will have $49.00 today.  If...
Posted by David on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:28:00 PST

If youre so smart...

If you're so smart...&why don't you do it?Who hasn't heard that retort before?  And it makes a lot of sense, when someone is taunting his kid's soccer coach from the sidelines, or you're postulat...
Posted by David on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:30:00 PST

Open Letter to NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, CNN, et al

At this critical moment, there is one thing that all television news organizations are doing that really aggravates me.Why do professional journalists routinely ask their interviewees a question if th...
Posted by David on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:46:00 PST

Like band camp, for writers.

I know, there are a lot of writers and poets here on MySpace.  And a lot of stand up comics, bands, child molesters.....Want to join The Guild of Outsider Writers at a community that's just for w...
Posted by David on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:54:00 PST

God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

Let me tell you about a house next to mine.  The people couldn't keep up on the payments and the bank took it back.  Now I don't know which bank.  Not one of the local banks, because I ...
Posted by David on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:08:00 PST

Wait!

Wait!  Really.  Just wait.That's the message we should be sending our congressmen (and women) and senators.I'm sorry, but I do not put it past the Bushco's to play the "Be Very, Very Affraid...
Posted by David on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:38:00 PST

What’s Your Best Idea?

OK, so it seems the U.S. is in a financial mess.  Whodathunkit?But if you're anything like me, if you have a pulse, you are probably leery of any fix proposed by the Bush administration.  Yo...
Posted by David on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:10:00 PST

Cheese & Rice

I swear, if the religious right wing gets their couple in the white house, I'm considering a move overseas.  It makes me nauseous to think the woman who believes we should start wars with Russia ...
Posted by David on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:29:00 PST

Dont Mistake Changing Headlines for Changes

From Tombstone as a Lonely Charm, Part 3by d.a. levyif you want a revolution return to your childhood and kick out the bottom dont mistake changing headlines for changes if you want freedom dont mis...
Posted by David on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:24:00 PST

Innuendo

Someone has had his eyeon my money forever he's seen everyoneI've ever paid off this man's out backhis straightjacket's black but he's the sanest sonofabitch In hereI ask him ...
Posted by David on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:49:00 PST