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Calliope

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About Me

cal·li·ope
Pronunciation: ..kə-ˈlī-ə-(ˌ)pē, in sense 2 and 3 also ˈka-lē-ˌōp..
Etymology: Latin, from Greek Kalliopē
Date: 14th century
1: capitalized : the Greek Muse of heroic poetry
2: a keyboard musical instrument resembling an organ and consisting of a series of whistles sounded by steam or compressed air
3: a street in New Orleans Lower Garden District

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My Blog

George Carlin

When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? If lawyers are disbarred and cle...
Posted by Calliope on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:58:00 PST

Memory

So it's Memorial Day.  A day to remember.  A day based around memory.  A subject that seems to have a certain timeliness to it this year, for whatever reason.I have been reminded, remem...
Posted by Calliope on Mon, 26 May 2008 10:56:00 PST

Tattoos

So, I have long resisted getting one, which is probably a good thing, certainly it's in that short list of things you really need to be SURE of before you do.  But I am thinking about it all of a...
Posted by Calliope on Fri, 02 May 2008 06:52:00 PST

Happy Birthday

I think it would have been your 40th.But it's not, and I wish I could think of some happier songs when I think of you, but I guess that isn't happening, at least not today.  But at least I rememb...
Posted by Calliope on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:18:00 PST

to my city, with love... 2008

I am thankful every day that I don't yet know what it means to miss New Orleans.....Do you see what I see? Despite fools and idiots, things are looking up Tuesday, January 01, 2008Chris Rose On the...
Posted by Calliope on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:51:00 PST

Tomorrows Dragsville

This is the best thing ever.  It belongs in my 'About Me', but it's a bit long so I'll keep it here.High School Drag: Phillipa Fallon [1958]My old man was a bread stasher all his life. He never g...
Posted by Calliope on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:12:00 PST

I Love Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop says it's not as easy to feel good as it once was. "To feel good when I was 21, all I had to do was to smoke a joint," the 59-year-old rock dinosaur tells the March issue of Spin. "Now I have...
Posted by Calliope on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:24:00 PST

for the ladies...

I just have to say.... I have met some seriously great women through this site.  I have also gotten back in touch, or simply managed to keep in better touch with some amazing female friends thank...
Posted by Calliope on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:34:00 PST

musings and menageries

So, once upon a time I used to write alot, even get paid to do it.  Then, I realized that it just wasn't fun having a DEADLINE and having to come up with 800 words to say about Creole tomatoes.&n...
Posted by Calliope on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:48:00 PST

lucky

I wish that I had been using this blog thing as kind of a diary of the past month and a half....it would be really interesting, to me at least, to read my observations and moods in retrospect, now tha...
Posted by Calliope on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:47:00 PST