Blogmatic decision

If you read the previous post, you got the message that this blog would be silent until Feb. 26 the day after the Salukis' final home basketball game, during which time I would read a novel, publish the "On the Square" newsletter for the historic town square district, work on my blook, and attend (or listen to) the remaining Saluki men's basketball games at The Arena.

But last night, the Salukis lost vs. Northern Iowa in Cedar Rapids in double overtime and fans mobbed the floor, and this morning's DE has a story about Prof. Joan Friedenberg settling her lawsuit vs. the university and how the mob was floored, and my mind became crowded with thoughts of flourishing mobocracy, and the importance of daily posting for the success of my blook, since it's hybrid paper/digital format makes it ineligible for the Blooker Prize, which rules out digital media. The organizers at LuLu Press seem to be missing what the "L" in BLOOK stands for: Links. As in . . .

Ploetry in Motion

Another local blogger wants to organize a contest for poems with links.

Linked words in poetry creates a 'ploem'
With hypertext embedded like a bone:
A bit of food for thought -- like a Zen scone,
Conveying clicking readers far from home.

The contest still needs judges and prize consideration. On a local level, winning ploets could get a free cup of coffee at one of the local coffee shops, such as NewCilans, which now has wireless internet. Very Blohemian.