Tag: music
member name: Susan Budig
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November 14, 2009 03:02 AM EST --
This freewrite is one that I thought about while driving my car so it's not as pure a freewrite as I prefer. Also, I had to look at the map while *not* driving in order to write this piece. . . .
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April 03, 2008 05:30 PM EDT --
Nothing could stop carcinoma cells from multiplying as they sought to dominate her healthy cells. She lay in her hospice . . .
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May 11, 2009 02:17 AM EDT --
How do you complete your list of to-do's without feeling drained out? Why not create the perfect playlist to motivate you?
Copy all of the text in this post and create a . . .
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December 31, 2008 12:07 PM EST --
Missy Higgins strength rests on her broad appeal. I was drawn to her simplicity, her take on life from a Generation Y viewpoint and an Aussie no less. My teen aged daughter . . .
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September 06, 2007 01:17 AM EDT --
Times have changed since Fiddlin’John Sayler of Magoffin County in Kentucky played old-time music in the early 1900s. Sayler was . . .
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November 18, 2007 02:42 AM EST --
Parts of this article first appeared in Mshale newspaper .
Andy Palacio is on a mission to save himself. Or rather, to save his culture, the Garifuna, from trailing off into extinction. Palacio . . .
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October 19, 2007 11:49 AM EDT --
I’m sitting on a barstool sipping lemon water. Before me on an oversized screen, bigger than a pair of king-sized beds, a Tom & Jerry cartoon plays. We are waiting for the warm-up musicians to . . .
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October 19, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
I've just learned that Lucky Dube, international reggae musician, the "jewel of South Africa," was murdered Thursday evening, October 18th by gunshot in front of his son and daughter. . . .
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August 24, 2009 03:31 PM EDT --
Nothing could stop carcinoma cells from multiplying as they sought to dominate her healthy cells. She lay in her hospice bed, lungs gurgling, oxygen elusive. . . .
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June 05, 2009 05:01 PM EDT --
I didn't follow my prompts exactly. I didn't even remember the time suggestion. I had a poem that I'd written about five years ago, but it never satisfied me. I decided to . . .
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December 11, 2007 01:57 PM EST --
Even their name, The Carolina Chocolate Drops , could be seen as a recycled relic of the past. Back in the 1930s there was an African-American string band, the Tennessee Chocolate Drops, that . . .
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October 29, 2006 02:07 AM EST --
How high are the ceilings in your home? Could you attach a trapeze swing to the highest point and sail over your family as they stand, . . .
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September 28, 2007 01:15 PM EDT --
I'm sitting here listening to music that doesn't make me wanna dance. I just finished dancing to KFAI's Louisiana Rhythms, in fact. Kitchen dancing every Friday morning. But . . .
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June 19, 2009 11:41 AM EDT --
BeauSoleil’s Alligator Purse holds more than the usual loose change, comb, and tissues. When you open this handbag you’ll do a double-take wondering how you acquired all . . .
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February 09, 2009 03:03 AM EST --
The band stood on stage, poised to begin. The first notes from the fiddler's strings sang out immediately followed by the running clack of a metal frottoir and staccato wheeze of a squeezebox. . . .
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October 25, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
On stage, Nigerian Femi Kuti plays dual roles of serious artist and demanding coach. His most recent show at the Minnesota Zoo on August 2nd gave a crowd filling 2/3rds of the 1,500 capacity . . .
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May 18, 2006 06:00 PM EDT --
(I'm re-publishing this to some new Cajun groups I've just joined. This piece was written over a year ago.)
by Susan Budig
It must be the air of Louisiana that . . .
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December 09, 2007 01:23 AM EST --
Zhalman: African hip hop with an African message
The scars surely run deep into his psyche. As a young child, he watched his homeland of Liberia torn apart . . .
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September 29, 2009 03:26 PM EDT --
2:09 PM
Come Saturday morning, I'm going away with my friend, we'll Saturday spend 'til the end of time....
Music is on my mind. Almost always on my mind. I'm singing Willie Nelson's . . .
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October 12, 2009 05:06 PM EDT --
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Today my husband had the day off work--Columbus Day, ya know--and we watched, careful guys, we watched the *movie* Full Monty. We also picked up some Thai from Tup Rum Thai on Lake Street. . . .
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