<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461</id><updated>2012-02-01T01:29:59.864-08:00</updated><category term='Reviews'/><category term='Arise Ye Captions'/><category term='Yurisa Naidoo'/><category term='Shaggy (Book)'/><category term='Romancing the Dead'/><category term='Leon Moodley'/><category term='Beards'/><category term='Tiny Mungwe'/><category term='Pravasan Pillay'/><category term='Music'/><category term='Germaine Kitchen'/><category term='Dye Hard Press'/><category term='Gary Cummiskey'/><category term='Quote and Analysis'/><category term='Sif Ous'/><category term='Haidee Kruger'/><category term='Ana Drahotusky Bruketa'/><category term='Juni Järvi'/><category term='Max Moodley'/><category term='Chatsworth (Durban)'/><category term='Victoria Williams'/><category term='Arja Salafranca'/><category term='Shaggy'/><category term='Glumlazi'/><category term='Ashley Jewnarain'/><category term='Internet Sentences'/><category term='Deepak Mistrey'/><category term='Knock Knock Jokes Pertaining To Common Human Ailments'/><category term='Tearoom Books'/><category term='Jenny Kellerman'/><category term='Anton Krueger'/><category term='Short Film'/><category term='Poetry'/><category term='The Litchis'/><category term='Junk Culture'/><category term='Aryan Kaganof'/><category term='Posters'/><category term='Guest Contributors'/><category term='Reader Digest'/><category term='Michelle Nair'/><title type='text'>TEAROOM BOOKS</title><subtitle type='html'>We're here instead of there</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>688</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-915160237225877875</id><published>2012-02-01T01:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T01:29:59.874-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ana Drahotusky Bruketa'/><title type='text'>Ana Drahotusky Bruketa: 0001</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Shu-JArCdFM/TykFc6qffUI/AAAAAAAABWY/S4jINuVlgYo/s1600/adb1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Shu-JArCdFM/TykFc6qffUI/AAAAAAAABWY/S4jINuVlgYo/s400/adb1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-915160237225877875?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/915160237225877875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/915160237225877875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/02/ana-drahotusky-bruketa-0001.html' title='Ana Drahotusky Bruketa: 0001'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Shu-JArCdFM/TykFc6qffUI/AAAAAAAABWY/S4jINuVlgYo/s72-c/adb1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6221626340896993237</id><published>2012-01-31T00:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T00:52:27.274-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0136</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Following the coffin through thechurchyard was the woman’s granddaughter, 16 years old at thattime, and too long in the limbs. Head drooping from a curved back andlegs wheeling through the snow, hands holding a scarf to her mouth.Like a magician she starts to extract a wet ball of silk from hermouth, and it extends, a long tail, more and more of it. Finally sheburies her face in it, a peculiar grimace, shoulders shaking. Thisfigure, ungainly though it was, was still lost among the crowd ofmourners, except to one pair of eyes watching from the sidelines whocould see the strange light in her eyes. Yes she was laughing, notcrying. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-6221626340896993237?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6221626340896993237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6221626340896993237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/victoria-williams-0136.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0136'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-1438840900978602205</id><published>2012-01-29T06:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T06:23:45.127-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0022</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7qE4n9F3A-A/TyVWVUaa60I/AAAAAAAABWQ/Dy1MhiEHg8A/s1600/Beard-22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7qE4n9F3A-A/TyVWVUaa60I/AAAAAAAABWQ/Dy1MhiEHg8A/s400/Beard-22.jpg" width="350" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-1438840900978602205?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1438840900978602205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1438840900978602205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/beards-0022.html' title='Beards: 0022'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7qE4n9F3A-A/TyVWVUaa60I/AAAAAAAABWQ/Dy1MhiEHg8A/s72-c/Beard-22.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-5618338617134270358</id><published>2012-01-27T00:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T00:24:05.424-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Welcome! by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n370iQminnc/TyJe7xgMovI/AAAAAAAABWI/hFXUKoIO1DU/s1600/welcome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n370iQminnc/TyJe7xgMovI/AAAAAAAABWI/hFXUKoIO1DU/s400/welcome.jpg" width="273" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-5618338617134270358?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/5618338617134270358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/5618338617134270358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/welcome-by-gary-cummiskey.html' title='Welcome! by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n370iQminnc/TyJe7xgMovI/AAAAAAAABWI/hFXUKoIO1DU/s72-c/welcome.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-3615091226794616933</id><published>2012-01-26T02:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T02:33:07.174-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leon Moodley'/><title type='text'>Brief Notes On A Photograph Depicting Levitation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zmWCYLWitnE/TyEqYgIxDuI/AAAAAAAABV8/CFRQEFjDnkg/s1600/levitation_durban.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zmWCYLWitnE/TyEqYgIxDuI/AAAAAAAABV8/CFRQEFjDnkg/s400/levitation_durban.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been curious since my teens about the history and development of levitation and the techniques various magicians have used to achieve it. The picture above is one of my favourite levitation images. Although I've encountered it on different websites, I've never found, until recently, any relevant information about its origins.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suppose the most immediate thing that grabs you about the photograph is that its staged on a beach. This, arguably, disproves the commonly held belief that the trick behind levitation is the use of wires attached to the roof of the stage. Apart from this, the picture is just generally visually pleasing. I like the way that the magician's arms - raised in the iconic sorcerer's pose - syncs with the breaking wave in the background. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, the entire photo consists of sets of horizontal parallel lines: the waves; the water's edge; the line of wet sand; the magicians arms; the woman's body; concluding with the neat pair of shadows that their bodies cast on the sand. The idea of parallel lines (one line 'floating' above another) ties up nicely with the subject of photograph. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one disrupting element in the composition is the woman's legs. If you look carefully, you can see that one foot crosses over the other and 'hovers' over it, breaking the sequence of lines. The more you study it, the stranger the crossing seems, and one begins to suspect that it is part of the mechanics of the illusion. Another odd thing is that the wind seems to be blowing in two directions. Look at the woman's flapping dress and then at the magicians hair. It looks as if they're being blown in different directions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The photo would have remained in my pictures folder had it not been for the fact that I recently accidentally discovered that the man pictured was an Indian magician called Yusultini and that the woman, named Faeeza, was his wife. It dates from 1962, and, incredibly, was taken on a beach near Durban, South Africa - which is where I now live. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~Leon Moodley&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-3615091226794616933?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3615091226794616933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3615091226794616933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/brief-notes-on-photograph-depicting.html' title='Brief Notes On A Photograph Depicting Levitation'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zmWCYLWitnE/TyEqYgIxDuI/AAAAAAAABV8/CFRQEFjDnkg/s72-c/levitation_durban.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-2425161002781555253</id><published>2012-01-25T00:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T00:45:16.378-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chatsworth (Durban)'/><title type='text'>Chatsworth: 0003</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WaMN1dtzv6c/Tx_A--pwkGI/AAAAAAAABV0/-1_PhsF3kl0/s1600/highway_view.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WaMN1dtzv6c/Tx_A--pwkGI/AAAAAAAABV0/-1_PhsF3kl0/s400/highway_view.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-2425161002781555253?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2425161002781555253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2425161002781555253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/chatsworth-0003.html' title='Chatsworth: 0003'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WaMN1dtzv6c/Tx_A--pwkGI/AAAAAAAABV0/-1_PhsF3kl0/s72-c/highway_view.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6217885712141854807</id><published>2012-01-24T00:32:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T00:33:01.660-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0135</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;What do you think makes you a goodwriter?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;I have a lot of character flaws (thatmake it impossible to lead a normal life).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;What job interview does this work in?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-6217885712141854807?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6217885712141854807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6217885712141854807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/victoria-williams-0135.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0135'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4004747626251101060</id><published>2012-01-22T04:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T04:06:08.009-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0021</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BHt9VgmH0-w/Txv7Z5u7ksI/AAAAAAAABVo/Mkn9ZJTdUUc/s1600/Beard-21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BHt9VgmH0-w/Txv7Z5u7ksI/AAAAAAAABVo/Mkn9ZJTdUUc/s400/Beard-21.jpg" width="342" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4004747626251101060?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4004747626251101060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4004747626251101060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/beards-0021.html' title='Beards: 0021'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BHt9VgmH0-w/Txv7Z5u7ksI/AAAAAAAABVo/Mkn9ZJTdUUc/s72-c/Beard-21.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4973922068813138765</id><published>2012-01-20T06:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T06:11:06.718-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Through The Naked Eye (Blind Bird) by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9UbWv7vLDA/Txl101U5pII/AAAAAAAABVg/EDw84d810uw/s1600/thruthenakedeyeblindbird.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9UbWv7vLDA/Txl101U5pII/AAAAAAAABVg/EDw84d810uw/s400/thruthenakedeyeblindbird.jpg" width="267" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4973922068813138765?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4973922068813138765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4973922068813138765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/through-naked-eye-blind-bird-by-gary.html' title='Through The Naked Eye (Blind Bird) by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9UbWv7vLDA/Txl101U5pII/AAAAAAAABVg/EDw84d810uw/s72-c/thruthenakedeyeblindbird.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-8021873557614258834</id><published>2012-01-20T06:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T06:08:26.359-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Litchis'/><title type='text'>The Litchis</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LHlqqqrcPws/Txl1Jj0-MTI/AAAAAAAABVY/ejguxjFvXEE/s1600/boxset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LHlqqqrcPws/Txl1Jj0-MTI/AAAAAAAABVY/ejguxjFvXEE/s400/boxset.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-8021873557614258834?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8021873557614258834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8021873557614258834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/litchis.html' title='The Litchis'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LHlqqqrcPws/Txl1Jj0-MTI/AAAAAAAABVY/ejguxjFvXEE/s72-c/boxset.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-9210747365545984235</id><published>2012-01-18T05:08:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T05:10:39.110-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chatsworth (Durban)'/><title type='text'>Chatsworth: 0002</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VGEyrC-IQi0/TxbEThRDQcI/AAAAAAAABVQ/2uPRE5qthB4/s1600/montford2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VGEyrC-IQi0/TxbEThRDQcI/AAAAAAAABVQ/2uPRE5qthB4/s400/montford2.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-9210747365545984235?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9210747365545984235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9210747365545984235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/chatsworth-0002.html' title='Chatsworth: 0002'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VGEyrC-IQi0/TxbEThRDQcI/AAAAAAAABVQ/2uPRE5qthB4/s72-c/montford2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-7056414959298042630</id><published>2012-01-17T04:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T04:29:06.286-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0134</title><content type='html'>Unpacking poem&lt;br /&gt;How sad it seems now&lt;br /&gt;That I stacked the books so neatly&lt;br /&gt;And left.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-7056414959298042630?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7056414959298042630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7056414959298042630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/victoria-williams-0134.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0134'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-9219463304799097276</id><published>2012-01-15T07:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T07:34:45.800-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0020</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-apMhdirsTsQ/TxLx9jiUoHI/AAAAAAAABVE/Sqm739Xy6y4/s1600/Beard-20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="371" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-apMhdirsTsQ/TxLx9jiUoHI/AAAAAAAABVE/Sqm739Xy6y4/s400/Beard-20.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-9219463304799097276?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9219463304799097276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9219463304799097276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/beards-0020.html' title='Beards: 0020'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-apMhdirsTsQ/TxLx9jiUoHI/AAAAAAAABVE/Sqm739Xy6y4/s72-c/Beard-20.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6582763031791483465</id><published>2012-01-13T00:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T00:07:58.983-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Letter To A Dead Man by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8dR6D0JghI4/Tw_mPVE7eHI/AAAAAAAABU0/mMiXQiwNRFQ/s1600/lettertoadeadman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="277" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8dR6D0JghI4/Tw_mPVE7eHI/AAAAAAAABU0/mMiXQiwNRFQ/s400/lettertoadeadman.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-6582763031791483465?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6582763031791483465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6582763031791483465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/letter-to-dead-man-by-gary-cummiskey.html' title='Letter To A Dead Man by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8dR6D0JghI4/Tw_mPVE7eHI/AAAAAAAABU0/mMiXQiwNRFQ/s72-c/lettertoadeadman.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-7373089301050382287</id><published>2012-01-11T23:04:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T23:04:54.029-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Max Moodley'/><title type='text'>Max Moodley: 0066</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MHfEMOS8wB0/Tw6GAS1KBvI/AAAAAAAABUo/6ALtqPE5S8I/s1600/teabag1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="279" width="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MHfEMOS8wB0/Tw6GAS1KBvI/AAAAAAAABUo/6ALtqPE5S8I/s400/teabag1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-7373089301050382287?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7373089301050382287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7373089301050382287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/max-moodley-0066.html' title='Max Moodley: 0066'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MHfEMOS8wB0/Tw6GAS1KBvI/AAAAAAAABUo/6ALtqPE5S8I/s72-c/teabag1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-1848698360227534472</id><published>2012-01-10T23:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T23:44:45.525-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Gary Cummiskey Interviews Mxolisi Nyezwa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://dyehardinterviews.blogspot.com/2012/01/mxolisi-nyezwa-new-dawn-for-poetry.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mxolisi Nyezwa: a new dawn for poetry. Gary Cummiskey interviews Mxolisi Nyezwa over at The Dye Hard Interviews.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-1848698360227534472?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1848698360227534472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1848698360227534472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/gary-cummiskey-interviews-mxolisi.html' title='Gary Cummiskey Interviews Mxolisi Nyezwa'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4231298203438229553</id><published>2012-01-10T04:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T04:40:52.564-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0133</title><content type='html'>I don’t want to look through the photo album. Your decrepitude is alarming me... He awoke to find the bouquet in the toilet bowl. She had left a note: the most alarming thing has been watching you decay.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4231298203438229553?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4231298203438229553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4231298203438229553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/victoria-williams-0133.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0133'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-3369168446030475503</id><published>2012-01-08T12:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T12:22:30.611-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>If Shakespeare Was A Cow</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Moochant of Venice&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Diary Wives of Windsor&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A Midsummer Night's Cream&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Much Udders About Nothing&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Comoody of Errors&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-3369168446030475503?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3369168446030475503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3369168446030475503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/if-shakespeare-was-cow.html' title='If Shakespeare Was A Cow'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-980749241320315230</id><published>2012-01-06T12:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-06T12:45:30.733-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Gepetta</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2oRXHNbhFQM/TwddNJ8PT5I/AAAAAAAABUc/1wTPnIp0IY8/s1600/boat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="190" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2oRXHNbhFQM/TwddNJ8PT5I/AAAAAAAABUc/1wTPnIp0IY8/s400/boat.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-980749241320315230?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/980749241320315230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/980749241320315230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/gepetta.html' title='Gepetta'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2oRXHNbhFQM/TwddNJ8PT5I/AAAAAAAABUc/1wTPnIp0IY8/s72-c/boat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-2673473752951501521</id><published>2012-01-05T12:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T05:06:51.927-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chatsworth (Durban)'/><title type='text'>Chatsworth: 0001</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZNNklqie_Kg/TwYICaqzyLI/AAAAAAAABUU/__hZbXNElQE/s1600/Montford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZNNklqie_Kg/TwYICaqzyLI/AAAAAAAABUU/__hZbXNElQE/s400/Montford.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-2673473752951501521?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2673473752951501521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2673473752951501521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/chatsworth.html' title='Chatsworth: 0001'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZNNklqie_Kg/TwYICaqzyLI/AAAAAAAABUU/__hZbXNElQE/s72-c/Montford.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-208133436882169810</id><published>2012-01-04T12:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T12:24:50.200-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>Shakespeare The Alcoholic</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;i&gt;King Beer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Two Gentlemen of Corona&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="zj"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Taming of the Brew&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Merry Wines of Windsor&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Winter's Ale&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-208133436882169810?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/208133436882169810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/208133436882169810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/shakespeare-alcoholic.html' title='Shakespeare The Alcoholic'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-3596019200488321552</id><published>2012-01-02T12:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T12:35:09.287-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quote and Analysis'/><title type='text'>Quote and Analysis</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;"Make it a way of life to expel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Envy from your heart."&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvalluvar" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tiruvalluvar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Kural&lt;/i&gt;: 161&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish I'd said that first.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-3596019200488321552?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3596019200488321552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3596019200488321552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/quote-and-analysis.html' title='Quote and Analysis'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-2343385465246876107</id><published>2012-01-01T09:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-01T09:47:17.586-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>Right Click, Open</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mie9h0hF588/TwCbmP49O7I/AAAAAAAABUE/5KEW9Wj4xtE/s1600/2012a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="206" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mie9h0hF588/TwCbmP49O7I/AAAAAAAABUE/5KEW9Wj4xtE/s400/2012a.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-2343385465246876107?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2343385465246876107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2343385465246876107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/right-click-open.html' title='Right Click, Open'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mie9h0hF588/TwCbmP49O7I/AAAAAAAABUE/5KEW9Wj4xtE/s72-c/2012a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-7096212245563729087</id><published>2011-12-11T03:12:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T03:16:33.767-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Max Moodley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Michelle Nair'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Back In 2012</title><content type='html'>We'll be back in January 2012. Thank you to all of this year's guest contributors and, of course, to the regulars: Gary Cummiskey, Jenny Kellerman Pillay, Max Moodley, Michelle Nair and Victoria Williams.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-7096212245563729087?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7096212245563729087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7096212245563729087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/12/back-in-2012.html' title='Back In 2012'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-7559464556002251705</id><published>2011-12-09T00:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T00:36:29.718-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>The Spirit Goes To The Fire by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PJ3eirdh6E4/TuHIN0ZpBwI/AAAAAAAABTw/PtYbFyC-fto/s1600/thespiritgoestothefire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PJ3eirdh6E4/TuHIN0ZpBwI/AAAAAAAABTw/PtYbFyC-fto/s400/thespiritgoestothefire.jpg" width="291" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-7559464556002251705?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7559464556002251705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7559464556002251705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/12/spirit-goes-to-fire-by-gary-cummiskey.html' title='The Spirit Goes To The Fire by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PJ3eirdh6E4/TuHIN0ZpBwI/AAAAAAAABTw/PtYbFyC-fto/s72-c/thespiritgoestothefire.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-2189469586359460261</id><published>2011-12-08T00:18:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-08T00:24:07.285-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Contributors'/><title type='text'>Wikipedia's Role In Euclid's Role by Pseudonymous</title><content type='html'>Plato was a regular solid&lt;br /&gt;Tesselating Euclid's space.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-2189469586359460261?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2189469586359460261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2189469586359460261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/12/wikipedias-role-in-euclids-role-by.html' title='Wikipedia&apos;s Role In Euclid&apos;s Role by Pseudonymous'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-3938068974546527301</id><published>2011-12-07T00:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T00:27:56.037-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><title type='text'>Bob Dylan, Stockholm, 4 November 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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How about with no milk?"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-1595314668324195804?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1595314668324195804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1595314668324195804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/12/no-milk.html' title='No Milk'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' 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height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-8427521831049027209</id><published>2011-11-24T00:42:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T00:49:53.312-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sif Ous'/><title type='text'>Certified Sif: New Video From Sif Ous</title><content type='html'>If you're thinking of fucking with them, best not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There's low-budget, there's no-budget, and then there's my son and his friends." - Point Five's Mom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="320" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UQLj5-2NZTg" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-8427521831049027209?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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term='Ana Drahotusky Bruketa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pravasan Pillay'/><title type='text'>Animal Romantic Comedies</title><content type='html'>The 40-Year-Old Sturgeon&lt;br /&gt;Dove Actually&lt;br /&gt;You've Got Tail&lt;br /&gt;You've Got Quail&lt;br /&gt;You've Got Whale&lt;br /&gt;You've Got Snail&lt;br /&gt;Boar Weddings and a Funeral&lt;br /&gt;There's Something about Mare&lt;br /&gt;Along Came Pony&lt;br /&gt;My Big Fat Beak Wedding&lt;br /&gt;My Big Fat Geese Wedding&lt;br /&gt;50 First Drakes&lt;br /&gt;Foals Rush In&lt;br /&gt;While You Were Sheeping&lt;br /&gt;Sheepless in Seattle&lt;br /&gt;When Hare Met Sally&lt;br /&gt;Sex and the Kitty&lt;br /&gt;Sex and the Kitty 2&lt;br /&gt;How to Lose a Fly in 10 Days&lt;br /&gt;As Good As It Goats&lt;br /&gt;Ass Good As It Gets&lt;br /&gt;My Best Friend's Shedding&lt;br /&gt;Notting Eel&lt;br /&gt;10 Things I Hate About Ewe&lt;br /&gt;Moose Congeniality&lt;br /&gt;Pretty Wombat&lt;br /&gt;Scent of the Wombat&lt;br /&gt;My Bear Lady&lt;br /&gt;Sweet Home Alligator&lt;br /&gt;Mammal Mia!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-2482554103922921035?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2482554103922921035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2482554103922921035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/animal-romantic-comedies.html' title='Animal Romantic Comedies'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6884948903789574426</id><published>2011-11-22T00:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T00:51:57.097-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0130</title><content type='html'>In the morning, either we are leaving, or I am leaving. It’s up to you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-6884948903789574426?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6884948903789574426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6884948903789574426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/victoria-williams-0130.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0130'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4735919251135894368</id><published>2011-11-20T03:10:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T03:11:55.266-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0017</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yz6oFaqAIMc/Tp_J3CKUmVI/AAAAAAAABPo/TCzYZMBS-zw/s1600/thedgea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yz6oFaqAIMc/Tp_J3CKUmVI/AAAAAAAABPo/TCzYZMBS-zw/s320/thedgea.jpg" width="207" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;An edge is the most exhilarating&amp;nbsp;point for a story to place itself. Ask&amp;nbsp;any reader. We don’t need cliff-scrabbling&amp;nbsp;above a literal precipice;&amp;nbsp;masters (and mistresses) of the form&amp;nbsp;can hollow out spaces of mystery&amp;nbsp;and risk beneath the most prosaic&amp;nbsp;inner or outer landscape. But what&amp;nbsp;we do ask, as readers, is that the&amp;nbsp;threshold matter somehow and that&amp;nbsp;we are surprised and, perhaps, even&amp;nbsp;changed when the story crosses it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Edge of Things&lt;/i&gt;, then, is an&amp;nbsp;enticing title and a flexible one&amp;nbsp;too, stretching to cover all manner&amp;nbsp;of brinks. Characters cross the&amp;nbsp;endlessly fascinating boundary&amp;nbsp;between innocence and experience,&amp;nbsp;naivety and self-knowledge, one&amp;nbsp;sharing his first kiss at the company&amp;nbsp;picnic, another beheading her first&amp;nbsp;chicken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would infidelity look&amp;nbsp;like? one story wonders, while&amp;nbsp;another shows us what looks like&amp;nbsp;cheating but turns out, in the flick&amp;nbsp;of a needle, to be bridal branding&amp;nbsp;instead. Worlds collide: matter-of-fact&amp;nbsp;house renovations clang against&amp;nbsp;soul-exchanges in one story while&amp;nbsp;in another an empty house invites&amp;nbsp;a range of intruders, from teenage&amp;nbsp;lovers to lowering-the-tone buyers&amp;nbsp;to symbolic creatures, recalling&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;District 9&lt;/i&gt;, that challenge notions of&amp;nbsp;inside and out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liesl Jobson’s “tips for super&amp;nbsp;pics” apply with wit and pain to&amp;nbsp;parent-child relationships, tracing&amp;nbsp;shifts that the photographer&amp;nbsp;protagonist catches out of the&amp;nbsp;corner of her eye while her lens&amp;nbsp;is trained elsewhere. Beatrice Lamwaka writes about a schoolgirl&amp;nbsp;who wants to win a race on sports&amp;nbsp;day. She has, after all, trained hard, fleeing rebel soldiers who abducted&amp;nbsp;her. “I outran them so that’s an&amp;nbsp;A+ for me. If anyone needs more practice in athletics, I’m sure it’s not&amp;nbsp;me.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, an edge is sharp&amp;nbsp;enough to draw blood. Then there’s&amp;nbsp;literary edginess, fun with texts, intertextuality. Iconoclasm (“I&amp;nbsp;don’t like Coetzee”) meets homage,&amp;nbsp;for example, in Jeanne Hromnik’s exploration of new-South-African&amp;nbsp;father figures both lecherous and&amp;nbsp;pathetic. Perd Booysen amuses himself, and us too, with the&amp;nbsp;device of the discovered journal,&amp;nbsp;inadmissible as historical evidence because of its fictional finesse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In David wa Maahlamela’s&amp;nbsp;playful bus ride across the fiction/non-fiction frontier, we meet both&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Wordsetc&lt;/i&gt; and its editor, Phakama&amp;nbsp;Mbonambi. In the optimistic&amp;nbsp;view of the narrator, also called&amp;nbsp;David, writers who describe lived&amp;nbsp;experience “know exactly the&amp;nbsp;impression they are intending&amp;nbsp;to give their readers”. But this&amp;nbsp;is perilous terrain for less adept&amp;nbsp;scribes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An event that bit your heart for&amp;nbsp;real needs just as much construction&amp;nbsp;on the page as a situation you make up from scratch. You can’t refer&amp;nbsp;to that day, you must weave it, as&amp;nbsp;Bernard Levinson does in “Tokai”. We have no idea whether the story&amp;nbsp;draws on his life or his imagination&amp;nbsp;or some alchemical meld of the two. What matters is that he shapes&amp;nbsp;place, time and action so fully, so&amp;nbsp;deftly that, like the narrator, we are moved by the mysterious intensity&amp;nbsp;of the last scene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Edge of Things&lt;/i&gt; is in every&amp;nbsp;sense a mixed bag. Alongside&amp;nbsp;Levinson’s story, gems include&amp;nbsp;Salafranca’s unforgettable image&amp;nbsp;of a mother in an iron lung and&amp;nbsp;Pravasan Pillay’s characters,&amp;nbsp;dialogue and spicy small-canvas&amp;nbsp;family drama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Silke Heiss’s “Don’t Take Me&amp;nbsp;for Free”, arguably Best in Show,&amp;nbsp;nimbly outstrips our expectations.&amp;nbsp;Like its trucker-clown narrator,&amp;nbsp;Vonny, the story “was built  to&amp;nbsp;change”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Vonny’s extended appeal to&amp;nbsp;her lover, “All-I-Have, Azar”, the&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;language is as elating as the ride&amp;nbsp;across ostrich and canola country in&amp;nbsp;a bright-eyed van “with its massive,&amp;nbsp;roaring heart and load continuing&amp;nbsp;to doer ’n gone”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collection’s subtitle – South&amp;nbsp;African short fiction – proposes&amp;nbsp;that we read the stories as a kind&amp;nbsp;of national sampler. (In a one-off&amp;nbsp;slip, the introduction makes an&amp;nbsp;unwarranted claim to be presenting&amp;nbsp;writing “on our continent”.) Clearly,&amp;nbsp;South African fiction has moved&amp;nbsp;beyond the imperative to be earnest,&amp;nbsp;political or even particularly South&amp;nbsp;African. Mischief is now acceptable story territory, while Fred de&amp;nbsp;Vries’s chilling tale could take&amp;nbsp;place in almost any big city and&amp;nbsp;Aryan Kaganof’s junkies claim that&amp;nbsp;Amsterdam may as well be Durban, “there’s no fucking difference. Bars&amp;nbsp;are the same everywhere. Drugs are&amp;nbsp;the same everywhere.” But it is also true that, as per Hromnik, “the past&amp;nbsp;is hungry”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several stories tackle a mix of&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;race and privilege, either head-on&amp;nbsp;or obliquely. In “Telephoning the&amp;nbsp;Enemy”, for instance, Hans Pienaar&amp;nbsp;crosses the “what if ?” line for an&amp;nbsp;intriguing revisit of apartheid-era&amp;nbsp;violence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solitude, as Salafranca notes in&amp;nbsp;the introduction, features in many&amp;nbsp;of the stories. We glimpse various&amp;nbsp;anxious, closed, self-referential&amp;nbsp;worlds. A man sits at a café table&amp;nbsp;in the last story, telling himself&amp;nbsp;consoling untruths and inking&amp;nbsp;“NARCISSIST” into his crossword&amp;nbsp;puzzle as he fends off contact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What feels like a limitation, though,&amp;nbsp;looking back over the collection, is&amp;nbsp;neither inner landscapes nor low spirits (excellent fiction fodder)&amp;nbsp;but rather a sense of stasis in some&amp;nbsp;of the stories, a single note struck and held, Act 1 from curtain up to&amp;nbsp;curtain down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For these writers and for all&amp;nbsp;the rest of us, Jenna Mervis’s story&amp;nbsp;offers advice. Her protagonist&amp;nbsp;“mentions nothing of … the&amp;nbsp;fingernails of trees that have begun&amp;nbsp;to tear at her corrugated roof in the&amp;nbsp;night”. She looks for “a sign that&amp;nbsp;… that the dangers outside have&amp;nbsp;become manifest”. But by the end&amp;nbsp;(and this won’t spoil it for you), she&amp;nbsp;steps off the edge of the deck and&amp;nbsp;plunges into the veld. Why  not,&amp;nbsp;writers? Instead of tamping down tension, why not let it explode?&amp;nbsp;Approach the edge. Plunge. Leap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;REVIEWER: A Zimbabwean filmmaker and writer, &amp;nbsp;Annie Holmes has published short stories in the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;US and Zimbabwe and a short memoir, &lt;i&gt;Good Red&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;in Canada. She co-edited, with Peter Orner, &lt;i&gt;Hope&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(Published in &lt;i&gt;Wordsetc, &lt;/i&gt;Third Quarter 2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4322841705470678092?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4322841705470678092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4322841705470678092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-of-edge-of-things-in-wordsetc.html' title='Review of The Edge of Things, in Wordsetc'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yz6oFaqAIMc/Tp_J3CKUmVI/AAAAAAAABPo/TCzYZMBS-zw/s72-c/thedgea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-2136101852600992096</id><published>2011-11-16T00:19:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-16T00:20:52.884-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>He-Man</title><content type='html'>He-Man's a dude right?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-2136101852600992096?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2136101852600992096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2136101852600992096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/he-man.html' title='He-Man'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4681455236729692413</id><published>2011-11-15T00:31:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T00:36:34.157-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0129</title><content type='html'>He’s the second most important – wait, let me rephrase that – one of the most important...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4681455236729692413?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4681455236729692413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4681455236729692413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/victoria-williams-0129.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0129'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-1305687932096911515</id><published>2011-11-13T06:59:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T07:00:08.124-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0016</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xPdeCYViP1s/Tr_bVLUtO2I/AAAAAAAABSI/4VYltGjnejE/s1600/Beard-16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xPdeCYViP1s/Tr_bVLUtO2I/AAAAAAAABSI/4VYltGjnejE/s400/Beard-16.jpg" width="280" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-1305687932096911515?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1305687932096911515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1305687932096911515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/beards-0016.html' title='Beards: 0016'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xPdeCYViP1s/Tr_bVLUtO2I/AAAAAAAABSI/4VYltGjnejE/s72-c/Beard-16.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-5862156567308901419</id><published>2011-11-11T00:20:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T00:21:14.784-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>But The Snake Poised Like A Sword Watches Me by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n2xOl4bjYyQ/Trzazmo0IRI/AAAAAAAABR8/wN4vPlE9QZc/s1600/butthesnakepoised.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n2xOl4bjYyQ/Trzazmo0IRI/AAAAAAAABR8/wN4vPlE9QZc/s400/butthesnakepoised.jpg" width="280" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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stuff makes it seem like I'm more enthusiastic than I am.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4522371869248504485?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4522371869248504485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4522371869248504485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/double-clicking.html' title='Double Clicking'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-3466733625502373841</id><published>2011-11-08T01:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-08T01:47:21.159-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0128</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Those who lead lives that aren’tabout hiding from things.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-3466733625502373841?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3466733625502373841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hK3IGvkJbo0/TraKd8u7dGI/AAAAAAAABQQ/_rVPLLXm30U/s72-c/Beard-15.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-7672067937770885399</id><published>2011-11-04T01:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T01:24:38.144-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Against The Tide by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2RWS5dp5r3Q/TrOhFuhOFyI/AAAAAAAABQI/inbExVbyx4Q/s1600/againsthetide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2RWS5dp5r3Q/TrOhFuhOFyI/AAAAAAAABQI/inbExVbyx4Q/s400/againsthetide.jpg" width="277" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-7672067937770885399?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7672067937770885399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7672067937770885399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/against-tide-by-gary-cummiskey.html' title='Against The Tide by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2RWS5dp5r3Q/TrOhFuhOFyI/AAAAAAAABQI/inbExVbyx4Q/s72-c/againsthetide.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-9056661442351946295</id><published>2011-11-03T01:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T02:04:39.017-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shaggy (Book)'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anton Krueger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pravasan Pillay'/><title type='text'>Acerbic, merciless and funny</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blog_content"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5MekUr61H7M/Tqe0pKZ05GI/AAAAAAAABOk/83RrImseS-4/s1600/Shaggy+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5MekUr61H7M/Tqe0pKZ05GI/AAAAAAAABOk/83RrImseS-4/s320/Shaggy+Cover.jpg" width="216" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Playwright, poet and dramaturge Dr Anton Krueger has been exceedingly prolific of late. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rhodes Drama lecturer has written three books recently: &lt;i&gt;Experiments in Freedom- issues of identity in new South African Drama&lt;/i&gt;, for which he was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Book Award 2011; a poetry anthology called &lt;i&gt;Everyday Anomalies&lt;/i&gt;; and &lt;i&gt;Shaggy&lt;/i&gt;, a collection of ramblings/monologues he co-wrote with Pravasan Pillay. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The latter was launched at NELM’s Eastern Star Gallery recently, producing chuckles and a fair amount of squirming as Krueger’s deliberately banal brand of humour was shared with the gathering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prominent local poet, Harry Owen, who introduced the book, revealed how it was written in a remarkable way after Pillay and Krueger struck up an online friendship a few years ago. Finding that their shared a subversive brand of black humour, they decided to co-write what they call “fourteen stories written by creeps, losers and an idiot”.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The two have only met face to face on a few occasions yet their writing seamlessly melds into a distinctive and indistinguishable style. As Owen noted, one doesn’t know who wrote what. One of these ramblings, 'The Actress', came about when Krueger sent Pillay an article about a vacuous actress expressing her regret that her twin babies couldn’t share in her elation for an award she has yet to receive. Pillay is currently based in Sweden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Shaggy&lt;/i&gt; was launched in Pretoria and Cape Town earlier this year, where some of the pieces were performed by professional actors. Owen describes the effect of reading it as “hilarious but uncomfortable; you squirm in your seat, asking yourself, could I be that one?” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deliciously subversive and filled with bathos, almost everyone and everything is raked over the coals; from self-important academics to delusional community leaders; parodying the many idiocies of South African life. “He puts a pin into pomposity, ego and ignorance... deflates self-delusions, but does it lightly, with a smile” says Owen. He likened the seemingly pointless humour to Monty Python, Alan Bennet (Adding: “now that’s a compliment!”) and Ken Kesey’s &lt;i&gt;One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest&lt;/i&gt; .“Biting, cutting commentary, acerbic, merciless but above all, funny,” he concluded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Krueger then read 'The Activist'. It is told from the rather warped perspective of the ‘leader’ of the Margate University Communist Society, who chastises fellow members for not forgoing their cell phones and continually updating their Facebook statuses. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It soon becomes a jumbled ride into the mind of a down-and-out, power hungry, washed-out student, who puts his foot into it by inadvertently revealing his own admiration for high status jobs and fat salaries, coupled with an (un)healthy penchant for Grand Theft Auto. Packed with gems such as: “Suggestions for lectures entitled ‘Revolutionising 24-hour clock time’ and ‘Why poor people have less money,’” Krueger had the audience guffawing with laughter, concluding the banal and absurd diatribe with the immensely ironic “...now that’s enough laissez-faire discussion for one meeting!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;by Anna-Karien Otto &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;20 September 2011&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;First published on the Rhodes University website.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-9056661442351946295?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9056661442351946295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9056661442351946295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/acerbic-merciless-and-funny.html' title='Acerbic, merciless and funny'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5MekUr61H7M/Tqe0pKZ05GI/AAAAAAAABOk/83RrImseS-4/s72-c/Shaggy+Cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-845749944289778748</id><published>2011-11-02T01:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-02T01:27:50.861-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>Casual Friday</title><content type='html'>I'm guessing Casual Friday isn't big in Thailand.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-845749944289778748?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/845749944289778748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/845749944289778748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/casual-friday.html' title='Casual Friday'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-8313474219580871903</id><published>2011-11-01T01:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T01:23:35.054-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0127</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Everyone could guess what washappening. When they met at parties, he would first slap her facethen kiss her cheek.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-8313474219580871903?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8313474219580871903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8313474219580871903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/victoria-williams-0127.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0127'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6853668963322685179</id><published>2011-10-30T08:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T08:07:28.795-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0014</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GjeUaomOHnQ/Tq1n2i4uJpI/AAAAAAAABPs/FwjBNdeKqsI/s1600/Beard-14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="397" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GjeUaomOHnQ/Tq1n2i4uJpI/AAAAAAAABPs/FwjBNdeKqsI/s400/Beard-14.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-6853668963322685179?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6853668963322685179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6853668963322685179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/beards-0014.html' title='Beards: 0014'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GjeUaomOHnQ/Tq1n2i4uJpI/AAAAAAAABPs/FwjBNdeKqsI/s72-c/Beard-14.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6273871920942731799</id><published>2011-10-28T00:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T00:26:52.997-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Gary Cummiskey Reading At The 2011 Melville Poetry Festival</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pTuHip0eycw/TqpY0M4A6tI/AAAAAAAABPM/XFBH62HVq80/s1600/poetryfestgary1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pTuHip0eycw/TqpY0M4A6tI/AAAAAAAABPM/XFBH62HVq80/s400/poetryfestgary1.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-6273871920942731799?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6273871920942731799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6273871920942731799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/gary-cummiskey-reading-at-2011-melville.html' title='Gary Cummiskey Reading At The 2011 Melville Poetry Festival'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pTuHip0eycw/TqpY0M4A6tI/AAAAAAAABPM/XFBH62HVq80/s72-c/poetryfestgary1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-8449132865391519961</id><published>2011-10-27T01:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-27T01:23:23.219-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>Gingerbread</title><content type='html'>Whoever built the gingerbread mansion on my street sure has a lot of dough.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-8449132865391519961?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8449132865391519961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8449132865391519961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/gingerbread.html' title='Gingerbread'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6864184485799621092</id><published>2011-10-26T05:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T05:48:56.578-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Contributors'/><title type='text'>Happy Diwali!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kgsOaY2yBSU/TqbW_x0zHpI/AAAAAAAABN4/LPWTFl2N_M4/s1600/diwali.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="261" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kgsOaY2yBSU/TqbW_x0zHpI/AAAAAAAABN4/LPWTFl2N_M4/s400/diwali.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-6864184485799621092?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6864184485799621092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6864184485799621092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-diwali.html' title='Happy Diwali!'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kgsOaY2yBSU/TqbW_x0zHpI/AAAAAAAABN4/LPWTFl2N_M4/s72-c/diwali.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-8224400410922291081</id><published>2011-10-26T00:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T00:28:25.890-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shaggy (Book)'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anton Krueger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pravasan Pillay'/><title type='text'>Linda Stenman on Shaggy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a0A-O8a-PD0/TkOLR0oGCCI/AAAAAAAAA6s/dXYnRuyrTvo/s1600/Shaggy+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a0A-O8a-PD0/TkOLR0oGCCI/AAAAAAAAA6s/dXYnRuyrTvo/s320/Shaggy+Cover.jpg" width="216" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Shaggy &lt;/i&gt;(BK Publishing, 2011) is a collection of amusing monologues from South African writers Anton Krueger and Pravasan Pillay. In each text, a - how shall I say this - not so successful individual speaks to co-workers, audiences and comrades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reading a couple of texts, you notice that you begin every new chapter with thinking, "no, not another one!". Loser, that is. Let's face it - the characters in this book impress no one but themselves. But it makes a funny book. My favourites are "The Actress" and "The Foreword" (I'm a huge fan of footnotes). My rating is four stars for some of the stories, and three for others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say: ***(**)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First published on &lt;a href="http://lindalovesbooks.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Linda Loves Books&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-8224400410922291081?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8224400410922291081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8224400410922291081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/linda-stenman-on-shaggy.html' title='Linda Stenman on Shaggy'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a0A-O8a-PD0/TkOLR0oGCCI/AAAAAAAAA6s/dXYnRuyrTvo/s72-c/Shaggy+Cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-1518368880056146559</id><published>2011-10-25T00:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-25T00:28:40.025-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0126</title><content type='html'>You tried to sober me up by taking me to funerals. But then I started lighting cigarettes for the choir boys, from the altar candles.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-1518368880056146559?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1518368880056146559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1518368880056146559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/victoria-williams-0126.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0126'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-391634332432055566</id><published>2011-10-23T00:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-23T00:53:03.020-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0013</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wpZN4jxNO5Y/TqPHdP3VePI/AAAAAAAABMo/yTs9yPvTFVE/s1600/Beard-13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wpZN4jxNO5Y/TqPHdP3VePI/AAAAAAAABMo/yTs9yPvTFVE/s400/Beard-13.jpg" width="277" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-391634332432055566?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/391634332432055566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/391634332432055566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/beards-0013.html' title='Beards: 0013'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wpZN4jxNO5Y/TqPHdP3VePI/AAAAAAAABMo/yTs9yPvTFVE/s72-c/Beard-13.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4976924583595425745</id><published>2011-10-21T00:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-21T00:20:45.057-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Which Way Is The Summer? by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w3knWfWC7wM/TqEdI8enlXI/AAAAAAAABMc/CF_HLQ1gsNY/s1600/whichwaysummer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w3knWfWC7wM/TqEdI8enlXI/AAAAAAAABMc/CF_HLQ1gsNY/s400/whichwaysummer.jpg" width="280" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1018185990"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1018185991"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4976924583595425745?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4976924583595425745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4976924583595425745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/which-way-is-summer-by-gary-cummiskey.html' title='Which Way Is The Summer? by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w3knWfWC7wM/TqEdI8enlXI/AAAAAAAABMc/CF_HLQ1gsNY/s72-c/whichwaysummer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-369239442152225327</id><published>2011-10-20T00:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-20T00:16:12.781-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arja Salafranca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aryan Kaganof'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anton Krueger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dye Hard Press'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pravasan Pillay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Eclectic mix of local short stories, by Janet van Eeden</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yz6oFaqAIMc/Tp_J3CKUmVI/AAAAAAAABMU/unaTA8zsBy4/s1600/thedgea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yz6oFaqAIMc/Tp_J3CKUmVI/AAAAAAAABMU/unaTA8zsBy4/s320/thedgea.jpg" width="207" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Book of the Week: The Cream of South African Writers&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The editor of this eclectic collection of short stories, Arja Salafranca, sifted through over 100 submissions before she chose stories from the cream of South African writers. There was no theme as such, but it seems as if the stories chosen examine people who are in extreme situations,emotionally or physically. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, Arja Salafranca’s moving story about a woman forced to live in a restrictive apparatus in “Iron Lung” is a million miles away stylistically from Aryan Kaganof’s tale of decadence and debauchery on a night out in Durban in “Same Difference.” What is similar, though, is both stories deal with &amp;nbsp;someone in extremis. The narrator of Kaganof's story is the edge of the emotional abyss. The young woman watching her mother in "Iron Lung" is too. There is no easy way to contemplate a happy future when someone you love is crippled in this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many gems in this sparkling collection. The enjoyment comes not only from the juxtaposition of many different writers, but also from reading stories with such a variety of subjects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, Liesl Jobson’s “You Pay for The View: Twenty Tips for Super Pics” is a series of verbal snapshots of pivotal moments of a mother trying to find a connection with her children. It is written with poignancy and deep longing.&amp;nbsp;“Doubt” by Gillian Schutte is a study of how passion can seep out of a marriage once the chase is over and when feelings of irrelevance grow due to being part of a couple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jenna Mervis’s “The Edge of Things” explores paranormal paranoia in a tangible way and examines the valid fear women feel on a daily basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The eternal clash with “the other” is explored in Gail Dendy’s “The Intruders”. &amp;nbsp;Perd Booysen’s “Sinners and Sinkholes” is a delightful modern-day Hermann Charles Bosmanesque tale of ghost towns and gullibility in the arid wasteland of the Karoo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are too many stories to mention individually, and some lend themselves to rereading many times. This is the beauty of the colection: there is something to appeal to all astes.&amp;nbsp;And, fortunately, the real star of &lt;i&gt;The Edge of Things&lt;/i&gt; is the genre of the short story itself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(Published in &lt;i&gt;The Witness,&lt;/i&gt; October 12, 2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-369239442152225327?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/369239442152225327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/369239442152225327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/eclectic-mix-of-local-short-stories-by.html' title='Eclectic mix of local short stories, by Janet van Eeden'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yz6oFaqAIMc/Tp_J3CKUmVI/AAAAAAAABMU/unaTA8zsBy4/s72-c/thedgea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4537001628141417746</id><published>2011-10-19T00:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-19T00:17:07.872-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>Woolly</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qGYsBkZOIvs/Tp543QqcCZI/AAAAAAAABLw/sZMX91zpawc/s1600/woolly%2Bmammoth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="231" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qGYsBkZOIvs/Tp543QqcCZI/AAAAAAAABLw/sZMX91zpawc/s400/woolly%2Bmammoth.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Wanna make a woolly mammoth?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4537001628141417746?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4537001628141417746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4537001628141417746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/woolly.html' title='Woolly'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qGYsBkZOIvs/Tp543QqcCZI/AAAAAAAABLw/sZMX91zpawc/s72-c/woolly%2Bmammoth.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-8709079586571007130</id><published>2011-10-18T00:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-18T00:13:42.272-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0125</title><content type='html'>He took the cigarette from her lips and said, “I don’t want you to smoke anymore, until I’ve decided what I’m going to do.”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-8709079586571007130?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8709079586571007130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8709079586571007130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/victoria-williams-0125.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0125'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-9099164316210147901</id><published>2011-10-16T06:40:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T06:40:03.685-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0012</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpgCmUSP26c/TprepNMva5I/AAAAAAAABLk/TfAtDWYvI0Q/s1600/Beard-12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="373" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpgCmUSP26c/TprepNMva5I/AAAAAAAABLk/TfAtDWYvI0Q/s400/Beard-12.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-9099164316210147901?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9099164316210147901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9099164316210147901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/beards-0012.html' title='Beards: 0012'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YpgCmUSP26c/TprepNMva5I/AAAAAAAABLk/TfAtDWYvI0Q/s72-c/Beard-12.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-7526964293622465028</id><published>2011-10-14T00:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-14T00:23:52.426-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Run Through The Sun by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oNFn1LJNIlY/TpfjXFCsdDI/AAAAAAAABLY/0a7s-sTQdo8/s1600/runrunrun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oNFn1LJNIlY/TpfjXFCsdDI/AAAAAAAABLY/0a7s-sTQdo8/s400/runrunrun.jpg" width="293" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-7526964293622465028?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7526964293622465028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7526964293622465028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/run-through-sun-by-gary-cummiskey.html' title='Run Through The Sun by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oNFn1LJNIlY/TpfjXFCsdDI/AAAAAAAABLY/0a7s-sTQdo8/s72-c/runrunrun.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6565976446587098107</id><published>2011-10-13T07:56:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T07:56:20.012-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>Folders</title><content type='html'>Porn Folder - OK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porn Sub-Folders - Not OK&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-6565976446587098107?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6565976446587098107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6565976446587098107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/folders.html' title='Folders'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-9142200017486132012</id><published>2011-10-12T00:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T00:10:33.498-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pravasan Pillay'/><title type='text'>Lap</title><content type='html'>My buddy has just won a round the world yacht race. Victory lap's gonna be a bitch.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-9142200017486132012?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9142200017486132012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9142200017486132012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/lap.html' title='Lap'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-2886275863924336279</id><published>2011-10-11T00:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T00:34:42.333-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0124</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Love Letters, written aged 17&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Those dark furry lines, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;As on pages, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;As between legs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Such lines as these loves are wovenfrom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-2886275863924336279?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2886275863924336279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2886275863924336279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/victoria-williams-0124.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0124'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6856807010640029754</id><published>2011-10-09T12:41:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-09T12:41:47.366-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0011</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6voo63TtmNU/To6urzROFzI/AAAAAAAABLM/nzQV8gnMzAM/s1600/bluemythology.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6voo63TtmNU/To6urzROFzI/AAAAAAAABLM/nzQV8gnMzAM/s400/bluemythology.jpg" width="270" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-3024975684488099841?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3024975684488099841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3024975684488099841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/in-mythology-of-blue-by-gary-cummiskey.html' title='In The Mythology Of Blue by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6voo63TtmNU/To6urzROFzI/AAAAAAAABLM/nzQV8gnMzAM/s72-c/bluemythology.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4592488111622802961</id><published>2011-10-06T00:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T00:34:11.150-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Contributors'/><title type='text'>On My Poems II - Something For The Ladies by Trevor Munster</title><content type='html'>Imagine, if you will&lt;br /&gt;A will&lt;br /&gt;If you can&lt;br /&gt;A can&lt;br /&gt;If you have&lt;br /&gt;A have and a have-not and a&lt;br /&gt;What have you?&lt;br /&gt;Nothing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4592488111622802961?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4592488111622802961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4592488111622802961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/on-my-poems-ii-something-for-ladies-by.html' title='On My Poems II - Something For The Ladies by Trevor Munster'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-582947193998463282</id><published>2011-10-05T00:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T00:47:02.412-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pravasan Pillay'/><title type='text'>Insecure</title><content type='html'>Just been told that I have an insecure email password. Thinking about giving it a pep talk.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-582947193998463282?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/582947193998463282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/582947193998463282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/insecure.html' title='Insecure'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4762262594389817566</id><published>2011-10-04T00:22:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T00:22:47.727-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0123</title><content type='html'>Shut that huge, gaping hole you call a … mouth.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4762262594389817566?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4762262594389817566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4762262594389817566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/victoria-williams-0123.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0123'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4855481749083256887</id><published>2011-10-03T00:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-03T00:17:41.331-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5_h9xhuX1_4/ToV28gc2nfI/AAAAAAAABK0/pXFlQFrI-qs/s1600/whatifthesun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="259" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5_h9xhuX1_4/ToV28gc2nfI/AAAAAAAABK0/pXFlQFrI-qs/s400/whatifthesun.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-6648221924337088699?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6648221924337088699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6648221924337088699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/pick-up-all-flowers-demolish-forest-by.html' title='Pick Up All The Flowers (Demolish The Forest) by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5_h9xhuX1_4/ToV28gc2nfI/AAAAAAAABK0/pXFlQFrI-qs/s72-c/whatifthesun.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-3151202945235513364</id><published>2011-09-29T00:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T00:34:53.852-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Contributors'/><title type='text'>On My Poems I by Trevor Munster</title><content type='html'>The metaphors are random&lt;br /&gt;The blade is muddy&lt;br /&gt;The form instinctual&lt;br /&gt;like a baby fighting a lion it&lt;br /&gt;don't need to beat&lt;br /&gt;The starker the article&lt;br /&gt;the bigger the capital&lt;br /&gt;You've made a keen enemy, and can never be king&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-3151202945235513364?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3151202945235513364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3151202945235513364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-my-poetry-i-by-trevor-munster.html' title='On My Poems I by Trevor Munster'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-3639572345397031337</id><published>2011-09-28T00:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T00:34:51.174-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>Pun Indented</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jt81utDeww0/ToLN_qLxc8I/AAAAAAAABKo/7dja5oPgoM0/s1600/pun_indented.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="114" width="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jt81utDeww0/ToLN_qLxc8I/AAAAAAAABKo/7dja5oPgoM0/s320/pun_indented.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-3639572345397031337?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3639572345397031337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3639572345397031337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/pun-indented.html' title='Pun Indented'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jt81utDeww0/ToLN_qLxc8I/AAAAAAAABKo/7dja5oPgoM0/s72-c/pun_indented.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-3110097357603079963</id><published>2011-09-27T00:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-27T00:44:23.616-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0122</title><content type='html'>You are a cut above nothing. Or something.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-3110097357603079963?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3110097357603079963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3110097357603079963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/victoria-williams-0122.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0122'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4164215018086119100</id><published>2011-09-26T02:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T02:13:04.912-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0009</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dCE85ySb9QU/ToBB1aBnLGI/AAAAAAAABKg/d9BjcwIqJB0/s1600/Beard-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="343" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dCE85ySb9QU/ToBB1aBnLGI/AAAAAAAABKg/d9BjcwIqJB0/s400/Beard-9.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4164215018086119100?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4164215018086119100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4164215018086119100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/beards-0009.html' title='Beards: 0009'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dCE85ySb9QU/ToBB1aBnLGI/AAAAAAAABKg/d9BjcwIqJB0/s72-c/Beard-9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-9130877084933565552</id><published>2011-09-23T01:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-23T01:23:58.126-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Still On The Road by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9jS8erXf4yI/TnxB76pp00I/AAAAAAAABIg/sxKlpz0tm38/s1600/stillroad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="286" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9jS8erXf4yI/TnxB76pp00I/AAAAAAAABIg/sxKlpz0tm38/s400/stillroad.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-9130877084933565552?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9130877084933565552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/9130877084933565552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/still-on-road-by-gary-cummiskey.html' title='Still On The Road by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9jS8erXf4yI/TnxB76pp00I/AAAAAAAABIg/sxKlpz0tm38/s72-c/stillroad.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-1225643353446455905</id><published>2011-09-22T00:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-22T00:46:42.122-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shaggy (Book)'/><title type='text'>Shaggy Launch In Grahamstown</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wMteRc1jNFI/TnrnyYGhxHI/AAAAAAAABHk/Is8l-6Yi-aU/s1600/Shaggy_Lauch_Grahamstown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wMteRc1jNFI/TnrnyYGhxHI/AAAAAAAABHk/Is8l-6Yi-aU/s400/Shaggy_Lauch_Grahamstown.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-1225643353446455905?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1225643353446455905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1225643353446455905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/shaggy-launch-in-grahamstown.html' title='Shaggy Launch In Grahamstown'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wMteRc1jNFI/TnrnyYGhxHI/AAAAAAAABHk/Is8l-6Yi-aU/s72-c/Shaggy_Lauch_Grahamstown.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-3563444817150336816</id><published>2011-09-21T00:39:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T00:40:08.883-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>Internet Prick</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8v1d_IkHetM/TnmUz5V4x9I/AAAAAAAABHY/YnUkgx7lK8Q/s1600/INTERNET_PRICK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8v1d_IkHetM/TnmUz5V4x9I/AAAAAAAABHY/YnUkgx7lK8Q/s400/INTERNET_PRICK.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-3563444817150336816?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3563444817150336816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3563444817150336816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/internet-prick.html' title='Internet Prick'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8v1d_IkHetM/TnmUz5V4x9I/AAAAAAAABHY/YnUkgx7lK8Q/s72-c/INTERNET_PRICK.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-2282405572248031562</id><published>2011-09-20T01:26:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-20T01:26:38.882-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0121</title><content type='html'>How could that have woken you? It always sends me to sleep.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-2282405572248031562?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2282405572248031562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/2282405572248031562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/victoria-williams-0121.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0121'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6701342629751977989</id><published>2011-09-18T00:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-18T00:47:15.770-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0008</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YEx66ndQy5U/TnWh5dyRhkI/AAAAAAAABD0/ZaFysVoV-Ro/s1600/Beard-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="348" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YEx66ndQy5U/TnWh5dyRhkI/AAAAAAAABD0/ZaFysVoV-Ro/s400/Beard-8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-6701342629751977989?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6701342629751977989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/6701342629751977989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/beards-0008.html' title='Beards: 0008'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YEx66ndQy5U/TnWh5dyRhkI/AAAAAAAABD0/ZaFysVoV-Ro/s72-c/Beard-8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-8008202678196105821</id><published>2011-09-16T00:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-16T00:30:08.769-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>They Fish by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OQopmgmM4lk/TnL6yVy8NqI/AAAAAAAABDs/oVkZhmIUKSo/s1600/theyfish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="283" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OQopmgmM4lk/TnL6yVy8NqI/AAAAAAAABDs/oVkZhmIUKSo/s400/theyfish.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-8008202678196105821?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8008202678196105821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/8008202678196105821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/they-fish-by-gary-cummiskey.html' title='They Fish by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OQopmgmM4lk/TnL6yVy8NqI/AAAAAAAABDs/oVkZhmIUKSo/s72-c/theyfish.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-1597316660142501956</id><published>2011-09-15T00:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-15T00:38:13.599-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>Gary Cummiskey Interviews Gail Dendy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://dyehardinterviews.blogspot.com/2011/08/gail-dendy-dancing-in-verse.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gail Dendy: dancing in verse. Gary Cummiskey interviews Gail Dendy, the author of seven poetry collections, the latest being &lt;i&gt;Closer Than That&lt;/i&gt;, published by Dye Hard Press.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-1597316660142501956?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1597316660142501956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/1597316660142501956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/gary-cummiskey-interviews-gail-dendy.html' title='Gary Cummiskey Interviews Gail Dendy'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-4372922630248927361</id><published>2011-09-14T01:40:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-14T01:48:16.507-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Posters'/><title type='text'>Posters: 0002</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Janis Joplin (1943 – 1970)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r7B6OkHcTIU/TnBpfxakajI/AAAAAAAABDk/G_BQxXpMnvk/s1600/Piece_Of_My_Heart.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r7B6OkHcTIU/TnBpfxakajI/AAAAAAAABDk/G_BQxXpMnvk/s400/Piece_Of_My_Heart.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-4372922630248927361?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4372922630248927361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/4372922630248927361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/posters-0002_14.html' title='Posters: 0002'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r7B6OkHcTIU/TnBpfxakajI/AAAAAAAABDk/G_BQxXpMnvk/s72-c/Piece_Of_My_Heart.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-84270732042185452</id><published>2011-09-13T01:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-13T01:14:53.067-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0120</title><content type='html'>A: You selfish, stupid whore!&lt;br /&gt;B: Don’t quote me back to myself!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-84270732042185452?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/84270732042185452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/84270732042185452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/victoria-williams-0120.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0120'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-7265219304825518515</id><published>2011-09-11T02:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-11T02:51:53.861-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0007</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nUlPq5Nnkx0/TmyEovHPo6I/AAAAAAAABCM/V9TKOF699Mw/s1600/Beard-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="327" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nUlPq5Nnkx0/TmyEovHPo6I/AAAAAAAABCM/V9TKOF699Mw/s400/Beard-7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-7265219304825518515?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7265219304825518515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7265219304825518515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/beards-0007.html' title='Beards: 0007'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nUlPq5Nnkx0/TmyEovHPo6I/AAAAAAAABCM/V9TKOF699Mw/s72-c/Beard-7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-5143094949407840940</id><published>2011-09-09T00:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-09T00:50:48.834-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>CBLQ (R80) by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qpO5HblR6Hk/TmnEOON9V3I/AAAAAAAABCE/4vXn4pHA0A0/s1600/cblq_r80.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="281" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qpO5HblR6Hk/TmnEOON9V3I/AAAAAAAABCE/4vXn4pHA0A0/s400/cblq_r80.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-5143094949407840940?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/5143094949407840940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/5143094949407840940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/cblq-r80-by-gary-cummiskey.html' title='CBLQ (R80) by Gary Cummiskey'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qpO5HblR6Hk/TmnEOON9V3I/AAAAAAAABCE/4vXn4pHA0A0/s72-c/cblq_r80.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-524076265510683259</id><published>2011-09-08T01:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T00:34:51.306-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sif Ous'/><title type='text'>Sif Ous</title><content type='html'>The Durban rap group Sif Ous are smart, playful and funny. The immediate impulse is to file them under "joke rap" but this would be both inaccurate and unfair. Behind the bawdy lyrics and the scatological humour is a remarkable intelligence. It's clear that the trio have an excellent understanding of hip-hop tropes and while they subvert them, they do so in an affectionate way. Much like Das Racist one gets the impression that Sif Ous are, first and foremost, fans of rap music. Hopefully there are more music videos on the way. ~ Pravasan Pillay &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="330" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3_d_2HV_58g" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="330" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7FXx45H6IkE" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More tracks on their &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/sifous"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MySpace page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interview at &lt;a href="http://www.mahala.co.za/music/the-sif-ous/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mahala&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-524076265510683259?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/524076265510683259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/524076265510683259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/sif-ous.html' title='Sif Ous'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/3_d_2HV_58g/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-7867575968522210272</id><published>2011-09-07T02:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T02:13:57.756-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Junk Culture'/><title type='text'>If Web Then Porn</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x78bCM0r2Hk/TmcyRYVZDlI/AAAAAAAABA8/6DSC6q73C2Y/s1600/if_web_then_porn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="267" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x78bCM0r2Hk/TmcyRYVZDlI/AAAAAAAABA8/6DSC6q73C2Y/s400/if_web_then_porn.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-7867575968522210272?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7867575968522210272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7867575968522210272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/if-web-then-porn.html' title='If Web Then Porn'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x78bCM0r2Hk/TmcyRYVZDlI/AAAAAAAABA8/6DSC6q73C2Y/s72-c/if_web_then_porn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-7837519530681687920</id><published>2011-09-06T01:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T02:12:59.876-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victoria Williams'/><title type='text'>Victoria Williams: 0119</title><content type='html'>Sometimes I feel sorry for people who aren’t your friend.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-7837519530681687920?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7837519530681687920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/7837519530681687920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/victoria-williams-0119.html' title='Victoria Williams: 0119'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-3437015475320285781</id><published>2011-09-04T11:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-04T11:31:42.267-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jenny Kellerman'/><title type='text'>Beards: 0006</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SCgYRI0aauw/TmPD-48N1SI/AAAAAAAABAI/PHRy8plUlJ8/s1600/Beard-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="367" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SCgYRI0aauw/TmPD-48N1SI/AAAAAAAABAI/PHRy8plUlJ8/s400/Beard-6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3546937065257455461-3437015475320285781?l=tearoombooks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3437015475320285781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3546937065257455461/posts/default/3437015475320285781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tearoombooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/beards-0006.html' title='Beards: 0006'/><author><name>Ms. Tea Eyed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SCgYRI0aauw/TmPD-48N1SI/AAAAAAAABAI/PHRy8plUlJ8/s72-c/Beard-6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546937065257455461.post-6850685428832966291</id><published>2011-09-02T01:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-02T01:08:48.837-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gary Cummiskey'/><title type='text'>In Flight by Gary Cummiskey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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