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NOVEMBER '02 NOTE: PROTOTYPE CONTENT BELOW IS NOT CURRENTLY BEING UPDATED NEWS 11/06/02 U.S. ELECTION LANDSLIDE: Huge (2/3rds?) majority chose NOT to participate. SELECTED TV RATINGS (week 10/23-11/3/02) 89.4% of potential U.S. viewers did NOT watch C.S.I. 91.1% did NOT watch Friends 94.5% did NOT watch The Bachelor 99.0% did NOT watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer (re-run) BEST QUOTES from COURAGE...DOG (Cartoon Network) (1) "Stupid TV!" (2) "Stupid electoral college!" READ REVIEW of "Courage the Cowardly Dog" "Courage the Cowardly Dog is a cartoon for kids, but really freaky kids. Village of the Damned kids. It's Lassie on mescaline, The X-Files with fewer flashlights, or in other words, terrific for adults." CLICK for magnificent Closing Theme (requires Real Player) The above theme is hereby retitled: "Democracy In America." [ewg] NOTE: If you are using evil Microsoft's new XP operating system, you will not be able to hear this theme, nor will you be informed there's anything you can do (i.e., install the appropriate plug-in). THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW MICROSOFT CONTINUES TO ABUSE ITS MONOPOLY POWER -- quietly making alternatives fail.

NOT A SONNET [smile] THE CHORUS So let's keep an eye on the future, folks, and honor true poets, honor the innovators, honor the artisans of visionary jokes, the authentic voices, the impassioned creators. Store their words with fresh lemons in the cedar chest, savor their music, treasure their wit, that their song might last all year at its best, and keep your clothes from smelling like shit. ARISTOPHANES, The Wasps RECOMMENDED TRANSLATION/FORMATTING: Penn Greek Drama Series: Aristophanes, 2

"If I'm in a high school in the ghetto right now, and I ask, 'Who writes poetry?' or 'How many of you have a book of rhymes?,' 80 percent of the class raises their hands." Russell Simmons IN: "A NEW PLATFORM FOR NEW POETS" JON PARELES NEW YORK TIMES 11/10/02

[NOT A SONNET, TOO] RAP THIS, (8 MILE) ROAD KILL: [ewg] Yo Eminem, you pussy, when it comes to rhyme it takes a fuckin' sonnet to achieve sublime. I'm sorry that yo' momma made you feel so low, but, silly Rabbit, you don't have a clue, you know, of what it feels like when a racist cop debates your right to dignity, when he humiliates you just because you've got the nerve to walk the street as if you were a human, no he must defeat your spirit, 'cause your skin screams "you can torture me." Yo Eminem, go crawl back on yo' momma's knee. BIG BAD BOKE (TALKIN' BABY SHIT TO KILL TIME) [ewg]

warning: sonnets

forensic poetry rhetorical verse Why 'Speak' in Sonnets? (a sonnetized argument/case) LINK to some single-sonnet EXAMPLES ("Post-Traumatic Election Sonnets 2000") Buffy fan? Buffy-Verse Commentary (short sonnet sequence EXAMPLES) RHETORICAL VERSE NOTES: TeaTimeSunday SONNETS (Shakespearean form) are written and coded within the 24 hours before TeaTimeSunday by the COUNTDOWN CLOCK (and posted 2 hours before). Shakespeare wrote 154, and so our new "postmodern" NARRATIVE sonnet sequence pudding-girl has "episodes" 154 sonnets long. pudding-girl EPISODE {0} ACT I (08/04/02) pudding-girl {0} 01 (08/11/02) pudding-girl {0} 02 (08/18/02) pudding-girl {0} 03 (08/25/02) pudding-girl {0} 04 (09/01/02) pudding-girl {0} 05 (09/08/02) pudding-girl {0} 06 ACT II (09/22/02) pudding-girl {0} 07 (09/29/02) pudding-girl {0} 08 (10/06/02) pudding-girl {0} 09 (10/13/02) pudding-girl {0} 10 (10/20/02) pudding-girl {0} 11 ACT III (11/03/02) pudding-girl {0} 12 (11/10/02) pudding-girl {0} 13 (11/17/02) pudding-girl {0} 14 THE END (OF EPISODE {0}) NOTE: NO CLICKABLE LINKS IN THIS COLUMN BELOW THIS POINT

PRESENTS SONNETS APPEAR 2-HOURS BEFORE TeaTimeSunday (SEE TeaTimeSunday COUNTDOWN CLOCK) SUNDAY 16 MARCH '03 HIATUS: No TeaTimeSunday SONNETS this wk (REMINDER: EPISODE {0} of pudding-girl concluded 11/17.) BUT TRY THE VERSCHIP 3000 DEMO (Scroll up and click on The Pudding Machine) during SonnetSaturday COUNTDOWN CLOCK -24 to -12 (access for twelve hours only). SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 02 TeaTimeSunday (23) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 14) episode {0} (concludes) SEGMENT TITLE: "10, 9, 8, 7 ..." (a 10-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 10 NOVEMBER 02 TeaTimeSunday (22) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 13) episode {0} (continued) (ACT III CONT.) NOTE: EPISODE {0} CONCLUDES NEXT WEEK SEGMENT TITLE: "The Week Before Next" (a 10-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER 02 TeaTimeSunday (21) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 12) episode {0} (continued) (ACT III BEGINS) SEGMENT TITLE: "Boke in LaLa-LaLa Land" (a 14-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER 02 NOTICE: No TeaTimeSunday this week TeaTimeSunday Sonnets RESUME 11/03 ... pudding-girl {0} - Act III begins. SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER 02 TeaTimeSunday (20) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 11) episode {0} (continued) (END OF ACT II) SEGMENT TITLE: "Lost in LouLou Land" (a 6-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER 02 TeaTimeSunday (19) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 10) episode {0} (continued) (ACT II CONT) SEGMENT TITLE: "5 Score and 300 Years Ago" (a 10-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 02 TeaTimeSunday (18) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 9) episode {0} (continued) (ACT II CONT) SEGMENT TITLE: "Me, The People" (A/K/A DEMOCRACY) (a 14-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 02 TeaTimeSunday (17) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 8) episode {0} (continued) (ACT II CONT) SEGMENT TITLE: "STUPIDITY" (a 10-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 02 TeaTimeSunday (16) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 7) episode {0} (continued) (ACT II BEGINS) SEGMENT TITLE: "The BLOG" (a 14-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 02 NOTICE: No TeaTimeSunday this week TeaTimeSunday RESUMES 9/22 ... pudding-girl {0} - Act II begins. SUNDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 02 TeaTimeSunday (15) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 6) episode {0} (continued) (a 14-sonnet sequence) NOTE: END OF ACT I SUNDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 02 TeaTimeSunday (14) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 5) episode {0} (continued) (a 14-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 02 TeaTimeSunday (13) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) pudding-girl (week 4) episode {0} (continued) (a 10-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 18 AUGUST 02 TeaTimeSunday (12) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) SUNDAY SONNETS: pudding-girl (week 3) episode {0} (continued) (a 10-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 11 AUGUST 02 TeaTimeSunday (11) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS cont.) SUNDAY SONNETS: pudding-girl (week 2) episode {0} [zero](continued) (an 8-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 02 TeaTimeSunday (10) THEME: (new narrative trajectory for TTS) SUNDAY SONNETS: pudding-girl (week 1) uni_matrix zero: when narratives attack ... and vice versa (OR, attempting to bend rhetorical verse to the purposes of TV narrative while staying postmodern OH MY!) i.e., episode #1?, yes and no (a 10-sonnet sequence) SUNDAY 28 JULY 02 TeaTimeSunday (9) THEME: (TeaTimeSunday itself) SUNDAY SONNETS: a one-sonnet notice of a shift to narrative PAGE {-1} PREVIOUS WEEKS / SITE HISTORY