I’m on deadline at Colorado Central Magazine. I’ll see you on Monday.
Coyote Gulch outage
Day: November 19, 2016
Fishing Nots — Greg Hobbs (On being plagiarized)
Fishing Nots
A fishing knot
my fishing father never
asked me tie,
the liar knot,
hooks the biggest fish
you’ve been hooking for,
“deep within a liar knot
a piece of line has crossed over
another piece,”
this line you’re using,
slipped from my
tackle box,
without attribution,
though buried in your reel,
bears my name,
“This will act like a scythe
when the knot is
jerked tight,”
when the pressure’s most on you
the biggest fish of all
does not resist,
truth will out the slacker’s knot,
back it lays and plays with you,
(to the Master Poet’s credit)
“saliva allows the twists and
turns to slide over themselves
as the knot is tightened,”
spitting on your friend
the double not a true fisherman
will never engage.
(On being plagiarized)
(quotes from http://www.bishfish.co.nz/articles/general/notknot.htm
Justice Greg Hobbs, Into The Grand at 78 (Colorado Legal Education in Colorado, Inc. 2012)
#Science: GOES-R Launch today at 2:40 PM or so. Big leap forward in forecasting
Today is #WorldToiletDay, “The eighth wonder of the world,” according to @UN_Water
From @UN_Water:
Human beings are now largely an urban species: for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in towns, cities and megacities.
Worldwide, it is estimated that almost one-fifth of all urbanites – over 700 million people – live without a decent toilet. To put that into context, the queue for people waiting for toilets in our cities and towns would stretch around the world 29 times.
In WaterAid’s new report, Overflowing cities: The State of the World’s Toilets 2016, they look at some of the world’s worst countries for urban sanitation, and some of the jobs that are created when the challenge is addressed head-on.
Interview: Bonnie Pane — Elephant Revival
I am so psyched to see Elephant Revival with the Colorado Symphony next Saturday. Here’s an interview with Bonnie Paine from LiveForLiveMusic.com. Here’s an excerpt:
L4LM: Another thing that seems to connect a majority of the songs you write is the element water. Is that on purpose as well?
BP: Yeah, absolutely. I look for water places everywhere we go if I have time. Those are the easiest places, when I am writing, to let it flow, so to speak. I listen for melodies in the water. Whether it’s the way streams bubble, or the river rushes or the ocean ebbs and falls or rain falls…there are patterns that you can hear that can repeat themselves.
It can become a melody that is ingrained in your surroundings, and it is something a lot of people can relate to. I want to draw from those places when I am writing because it is something everyone can relate to. And water is life.
Water is the main ingredient for any type of creativity, the creation of life.