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Guests look on from the terrace of Operations Support Building II as space shuttle Endeavour launches on the shuttle program's last planned night launch. Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A to begin the STS-130 mission early Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Mission STS-130 will deliver a third connecting module, the Italian-built Tranquility node and a seven-windowed cupola, which will be used as a control room for robotics, to the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers...
StarPoet Newsletter Vol. XI, No. VI Print E-mail
Letters - Newsletters
Lisa Jain Thompson   
Saturday, 06 February 2010 23:00
The StarPoet Newsletter
Vol. XI, No. VI (February 7, 2010 C.E.)
StarPoet Newsletter by Lisa Jain Thompson

february, a week before valentine's day.  halfway between winter and spring.

The Pleiades have chased
The fleeing moon
Below the western horizon

Halfway between dawn and dusk
I watch the seconds pass,
Time after time,
Alone in my bed
Without you

Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2010 C.E. 

Last Updated on Saturday, 06 February 2010 23:54
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Adam Lambert and the Angry Television Set Print E-mail
Prose - Reviews
Lisa Jain Thompson   
Wednesday, 06 January 2010 15:00

Adam Lambert

Fairfax, VA, USA. I find it comforting to know that Rock and Roll can still be threatening enough to have a performer banned from a television show.

Adam Lambert is neither the first or the last rock singer ever to be placed on the forbidden list by the powers that be. We can debate whether the ban was the result of Adam being out and gay or the result of a typical knee jerk reaction by the suits.

The facts are this: on the same television broadcast Janet Jackson grabbed a guy’s crouch without any particular uproar; Adam kissed a guy and he’s out of here. I will let you do the math.

I’m not particularly interested in Adam’s sex life. I’m not into gay guys, nor are they into me. He is, however, an attractive male, good looking with an undeniable stage presence.

What he does off stage is none of my concern but I find his music interesting and have spent some time thinking about his roots. What follows may not be entirely correct, but I think it a good platform for discussion. Start with the music on his first CD.

Last Updated on Sunday, 03 January 2010 11:39
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The Bitch Goddess Print E-mail
Prose - Global Warning
Lisa Jain Thompson   
Saturday, 12 December 2009 09:00

The Bitch Goddess

Fairfax, VA, USA. We Americans, you and I, spring from some Platonic conception of ourselves, forever remodeling our past even as we reconceive our multiple futures. The possibility of success, tempered by the memories our well accomplished failures, bedevils us until our dying days.

We worship a dual headed bitch goddess, pursuing fame, thinking it is success. [N1] In this, the early decades of a new millennium, we confuse our good intentions with actual accomplishment as if the act of aiming at a target is sufficient. [N2] We no longer actually have to hit the target to become famous. Being famous is enough, a well laurelled goal, in and of itself.

Success? Everyone wants success but no one admits to wanting it. If we achieve success, we are half apologetic that we climbed our own personal Mount Everest. The ideal American archetype is a Tin Star who, having just rid the world of the bad guys, responds to praise from the townspeople by casting his eyes down and mumbling semi-audibly Aw shucks, I was just doing my job.

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:59
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A Wop Bop A Loo Mop A Lop Bam Boom Print E-mail
Prose - Global Warning
Lisa Jain Thompson   
Friday, 11 December 2009 09:00

Is The Third Way The Right Way

Fairfax, VA, USA. Howdy-Doody, Crusader Rabbit, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and Ding Dong School with Miss Frances: my roots begin here.

I am older than Rock and Roll but not as old as Dick Clark.

The Woody Woodpecker Song was at the top of the charts the day I was born. Little Richard was not yet 16, Elvis was 13, Jerry Lee Lewis only 12.

It would be four years until Bill Haley and His Comets would be formed, six until Rock Around The Clock would begin climbing the charts.

I am not as old as Little League Baseball but am still older than many of the nations on this planet and yet, I am little more than half way through all the things I intend to do with my life. The future lies wide open before me.

But it all starts in the past. I’m a child of the bastard marriage of coast to coast network television and the devil’s music - rock and roll. I would not be who I am without them.

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:58
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StarPoet Newsletter Vol. X, No. XLI Print E-mail
Letters - Newsletters
Lisa Jain Thompson   
Saturday, 10 October 2009 22:00
The StarPoet Newsletter
Vol. X, No. XLI (October 11, 2009 C.E.)
StarPoet Newsletter by Lisa Jain Thompson
The year is all downhill from here, isn't it now?   How are the seasons like Obama's First Term.   Discuss.

The god of indeterminate causes,
The ruler of multiple universes,
Made his choices in this one in particular
Then disappeared evermore into another.

Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2009 CE 

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 October 2009 22:24
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Windshift Print E-mail
Fiction - XenErotica
Lisa Jain Thompson   
Sunday, 10 May 2009 10:30
 
 
under 18 not admitted 
proceed at your own risk
 
 
 
Windshift
 
By Lisa Jain Thompson
 
© 1998 & 2009
 

 
The wind shifted and the campfire smoke drifted out to the trees where the Warrior Princess was strung. Her lungs convulsed her tired naked body into wakefulness. As the dark fumes burned her half-opened eyes, she struggled to a rasp:
Last Updated on Sunday, 10 May 2009 13:12
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An American on Planet Earth Print E-mail
Prose - Global Warning
Lisa Jain Thompson   
Thursday, 19 March 2009 09:08
US Flag (Betsey Ross)Fairfax, VA, USA. I am not a Republican or a Democrat, a Liberal or a Conservative, a Believer or a Non-Believer, nor am I White, Brown, Black, Red, Yellow, Pink or Green. I am an American, a bipedal primate living on the Northern Continent in the Western Hemisphere of a small blue planet we have named Earth [N1]: all other classifications pale before this fact.
 
I am the product of the 230 year old American Revolution and the six to seven million years of primate evolution that separate Homo Sapiens from our closest living relatives the chimpanzees. [N2] An American, one among many equals, born with the inalienable right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. [N3]
Last Updated on Thursday, 19 March 2009 09:18
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