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Please join Michelle Obama for Get Out The Vote Rally in Asheville, where she’ll talk about Barack’s vision for bringing America together and creating the kind of change we can believe in.
GOTV Rally with Michelle Obama
featuring special guest, Gladys Knight
University of North Carolina Asheville
University Quad
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
Friday, May 2nd
Doors Open: 4:30PM
For [...]

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two new local blogs:
chicken inwind & hillfoot adrift
Chummoth’s Hill
be sure to check them out for all your blog and word related needs.
(cross posted at blogasheville)

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I hate Radiohead.  Various people–some with respectable taste– keep telling me how great these guys are.  I don’t get it.
There are probably worse places in the world, but the emergency room of Mission Hospital at 2a.m. on a Sunday morning comes close.  Drunks, sociopaths, and general weirdness mixed with the order of booze and vomit [...]

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*I highly recommend attending this(both the reading and the workshop) if you are free. 
Sunday, October 28, 2007, at 2 p.m., Flood Fine Arts Gallery will host its monthly poetry reading at 2:00p.m., featuring Kathy Godfrey and Selah Saterstrom. In addition, Selah will be teaching a three hour poetry workshop on Saturday, October 27, at the [...]

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There is apparently a whole subculture of people who think it’s their god given right to walk around in public places (esp. businesses) barefoot.  I myself have never given it much thought, really I never considered wearing socks and shoes to be all that oppressive (actually I love putting on a nice wool sock fresh from [...]

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The following is clipped from Carolina Stompers a website that has given me much entertainment, some of it of the horror variety, the past few days.  Stop in and say hi, just don’t tell them you are a Liberal, or you will probably end up on some list for “re-education and containment”:
As I was pondering his [...]

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It has been oppressively hot here in the mountains of Western North Carolina, much too hot to blog and with nothing to do but sit around and sweat, I look forward to a weekend of just that.  Pop open a beer, crack open a good book and veg out….Oh, and I am very much looking [...]

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