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Happy November!
In an effort to get myself back into the habit of posting regularly, I have decided to participate in this year's MegaPoMo. Look for these special posts all through the month of November!
For the uninitiated: MegaPoMo is short for MegaHAL Poetry Month, an annual event I made up last year in response to the popular NaNoWriMo. So, what's MegaHAL? MegaHAL is a freeware conversation simulator designed to learn from what you tell it. The creator, Jason Hutchens, used the program to try to win the Loebner contest, and so he trained it with data which someone might use in an ordinary conversation. I, on the other hand, have fed my copy of the program (an old DOS instantiation I'm still fond of) with poetry, song lyrics, garment tags, more poetry, horoscopes, bits of encyclopedia articles, bits of news stories, recipes, various vaguely-interesting text found on the Internet, and more poetry. If the output makes any sense at all, it is through no fault of my own.
Unlike NaNoWriMo, MegaPoMo is not about word count, and it is certainly not about making anything like sense. So what is it about? Posting at least one bit of MegaHAL's poetic output for each day of the month of November. The various kinds of things that interrupt real life may make posting every day unrealistic; but if I miss a day, I shall endeavor to post two MegaPoMo posts on the following day. Oh, and more than anything else, MegaPoMo is about enjoying computer-generated nonsense just for the fun of it.
MegaHAL is not only an accomplished postmodern poet, he is also one of the most insightful astrologers practicing the art and craft of astrology today. And so, as we did last year, we shall begin MegaPoMo 2007 with sun-sign horoscopes for everyone. Because MegaHAL was feeling obliging enough to provide one-liner 'scopes for everyone, those will be placed outside the cuts where all can read without clicking, while more in-depth poetic readings are available in the full version of the post. Enjoy!
Aries: you're still exploring new ways to connect some people in your arms.
Aries: all eyes will sparkle as we huddled, six of us,
crocodiles on the block.
it's what we've got
solid
solid as a baby sliding
into my kitchen each evening
to this white bone;
what though november days be merry and bright
won't really be a single layer on lightly greased
baking sheets. Bake, stirring frequently, until hot and cold cocktails,
known in the west the falling snow... The hour
that had lost the world's far ends,
you shall be tortured, and art destroyed for a few of us knows
how did you feel pressured into having sex? By whom?
were you given any gifts? Do you think computers are too much pudding and a fire,
cold starlight blowing through an open window
the most frightening people alive, she thought.
Taurus: speed is still blurry and she stood there hot as an appetizer.
Taurus: good things come in upon a golden bough to sing
songs of good and some are sane and some are better, some are in the moonlight reached
thousands of millions of cornflakes--
crunching, crunching under our feet.
i'm only temporary habitat for these tiny
hands while she was speaking quite literally
we spin and we finally see ourselves in nature.
Gemini: you should be drumming here.
Gemini: there are mysteries you've been doing
with soft caress
of their pinions fleet,
as they march off down her carcass to stand on the
ducks, dangles upside-down,
a remote important region in all my goodwill towards you, yours to keep?
the exotic is everywhere, it comes to the living.
Cancer: extravagance is good for present ill!
Cancer: someone is going to earn
this red-eyed thing blinking from storm grates.
it was a phoenix
and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.
and i'm sneezing as i'm freezing,
for weakness blinds the wounded face enough.
i came to town, marched through the air,
to live my life.
i want wind to break,
instead i have to do what superheroes
you know the need for such complications.
Leo: your opinions rule--no one can escape the boogie.
Leo: speak your mind some day
when we're dead and while he binds his tomatoes:
no other voice is dumb. Over his grave
the things that creep
i'm stuck with a radiant ecstasy there,
because look, as they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
i bring the earth it moves into the house.
Virgo: skip the typical dinner locales and try a new euclidean plane.
Virgo: watch out for the lost
rites of the bed.
they strove in single combat, locked in battle.
the moon is out of the midnight with no business, no salt water under it
as had their caves and drift slowly, 1-3 meters off
if we could become.
Libra: you pick up the steps with my great work for others. [Why, yes I do, Hal. It's my pleasure!]
Libra: flirting is a flat void,
barren as total freedom. Though behold
a barrio
has grown familiar with your song;
nothing of love she lies.
Scorpio: you will see the total pressure occur closer to heaven.
Scorpio: you will have to go by climbing into a paste with sugar
1 ounce lemon or lime juice
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 cubes ice
blend egg white, paprika, salt, oregano, thyme,
garlic powder, onion powder, black, white and red
peppers in medium bowl. Stir in the world.
planet earth is round
like the silver frets;
but with more than joyful it was, confronting me--a sky, air, light:
a thing is the
battle of the rainfalls that occur
are leading by offering a fine and private place,
people hearing without listening,
people laugh at me and i can bathe again!
Sagittarius: many pieces are falling into place and creating a nice girl.
Sagittarius: it's a good thing at a joke,
a purple place all lined with dust
around me day-trippers and suits, oblivious
to lords and ladies of byzantium
of our crowded facility don't move under a rule,
who cried in goose, alas,
for passion fruit, for saliva. You can have it.
Capricorn: today is an alien city.
Capricorn: you need to
avoid all shocks and excitement.
i sit here like a wedding-cake.
paranoia for lunch; too much
like porcelain dolls from china,
which is the mind's service,
for i'm loved
just seconds or light-years away, and new rooms
open a mountain
of something flying up,
little joe was blowin' on the slide trombone.
the very air will fill with wisdom,
the date we were there
people cheat and people in your bath,
and under the bed.
his customary dwelling place
at every cottage door mountainous heaps
of pure, precise
poetry inscribed on ice.
Aquarius: experience things on its unleashing, so mirrors cause and denies effect.
Aquarius: you're in the eye of heaven to garnish,
is it blinding and frightening,
this dryness in which snowballs are
established in ireland, canada, england and venezuela.
1959: spam produces its 1 billionth can!
1964: hormel foods buys a dirty sack
and wash and wash--
i truly cannot think
you hope to his bed because he, like you,
you are the crickets.
Pisces: instead of waiting for recognition, today, there's more need for a moment on the roof.
Pisces: lost in self-help groups to
my muscles took my human name.
it's so easy for you fingerpickers out
in a stretched palm caught the hallows.
at the grey, chill day;
i count the ways.
we hailed it in god's name.
For the uninitiated: MegaPoMo is short for MegaHAL Poetry Month, an annual event I made up last year in response to the popular NaNoWriMo. So, what's MegaHAL? MegaHAL is a freeware conversation simulator designed to learn from what you tell it. The creator, Jason Hutchens, used the program to try to win the Loebner contest, and so he trained it with data which someone might use in an ordinary conversation. I, on the other hand, have fed my copy of the program (an old DOS instantiation I'm still fond of) with poetry, song lyrics, garment tags, more poetry, horoscopes, bits of encyclopedia articles, bits of news stories, recipes, various vaguely-interesting text found on the Internet, and more poetry. If the output makes any sense at all, it is through no fault of my own.
Unlike NaNoWriMo, MegaPoMo is not about word count, and it is certainly not about making anything like sense. So what is it about? Posting at least one bit of MegaHAL's poetic output for each day of the month of November. The various kinds of things that interrupt real life may make posting every day unrealistic; but if I miss a day, I shall endeavor to post two MegaPoMo posts on the following day. Oh, and more than anything else, MegaPoMo is about enjoying computer-generated nonsense just for the fun of it.
MegaHAL is not only an accomplished postmodern poet, he is also one of the most insightful astrologers practicing the art and craft of astrology today. And so, as we did last year, we shall begin MegaPoMo 2007 with sun-sign horoscopes for everyone. Because MegaHAL was feeling obliging enough to provide one-liner 'scopes for everyone, those will be placed outside the cuts where all can read without clicking, while more in-depth poetic readings are available in the full version of the post. Enjoy!
Aries: you're still exploring new ways to connect some people in your arms.
Aries: all eyes will sparkle as we huddled, six of us,
crocodiles on the block.
it's what we've got
solid
solid as a baby sliding
into my kitchen each evening
to this white bone;
what though november days be merry and bright
won't really be a single layer on lightly greased
baking sheets. Bake, stirring frequently, until hot and cold cocktails,
known in the west the falling snow... The hour
that had lost the world's far ends,
you shall be tortured, and art destroyed for a few of us knows
how did you feel pressured into having sex? By whom?
were you given any gifts? Do you think computers are too much pudding and a fire,
cold starlight blowing through an open window
the most frightening people alive, she thought.
Taurus: speed is still blurry and she stood there hot as an appetizer.
Taurus: good things come in upon a golden bough to sing
songs of good and some are sane and some are better, some are in the moonlight reached
thousands of millions of cornflakes--
crunching, crunching under our feet.
i'm only temporary habitat for these tiny
hands while she was speaking quite literally
we spin and we finally see ourselves in nature.
Gemini: you should be drumming here.
Gemini: there are mysteries you've been doing
with soft caress
of their pinions fleet,
as they march off down her carcass to stand on the
ducks, dangles upside-down,
a remote important region in all my goodwill towards you, yours to keep?
the exotic is everywhere, it comes to the living.
Cancer: extravagance is good for present ill!
Cancer: someone is going to earn
this red-eyed thing blinking from storm grates.
it was a phoenix
and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.
and i'm sneezing as i'm freezing,
for weakness blinds the wounded face enough.
i came to town, marched through the air,
to live my life.
i want wind to break,
instead i have to do what superheroes
you know the need for such complications.
Leo: your opinions rule--no one can escape the boogie.
Leo: speak your mind some day
when we're dead and while he binds his tomatoes:
no other voice is dumb. Over his grave
the things that creep
i'm stuck with a radiant ecstasy there,
because look, as they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
i bring the earth it moves into the house.
Virgo: skip the typical dinner locales and try a new euclidean plane.
Virgo: watch out for the lost
rites of the bed.
they strove in single combat, locked in battle.
the moon is out of the midnight with no business, no salt water under it
as had their caves and drift slowly, 1-3 meters off
if we could become.
Libra: you pick up the steps with my great work for others. [Why, yes I do, Hal. It's my pleasure!]
Libra: flirting is a flat void,
barren as total freedom. Though behold
a barrio
has grown familiar with your song;
nothing of love she lies.
Scorpio: you will see the total pressure occur closer to heaven.
Scorpio: you will have to go by climbing into a paste with sugar
1 ounce lemon or lime juice
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 cubes ice
blend egg white, paprika, salt, oregano, thyme,
garlic powder, onion powder, black, white and red
peppers in medium bowl. Stir in the world.
planet earth is round
like the silver frets;
but with more than joyful it was, confronting me--a sky, air, light:
a thing is the
battle of the rainfalls that occur
are leading by offering a fine and private place,
people hearing without listening,
people laugh at me and i can bathe again!
Sagittarius: many pieces are falling into place and creating a nice girl.
Sagittarius: it's a good thing at a joke,
a purple place all lined with dust
around me day-trippers and suits, oblivious
to lords and ladies of byzantium
of our crowded facility don't move under a rule,
who cried in goose, alas,
for passion fruit, for saliva. You can have it.
Capricorn: today is an alien city.
Capricorn: you need to
avoid all shocks and excitement.
i sit here like a wedding-cake.
paranoia for lunch; too much
like porcelain dolls from china,
which is the mind's service,
for i'm loved
just seconds or light-years away, and new rooms
open a mountain
of something flying up,
little joe was blowin' on the slide trombone.
the very air will fill with wisdom,
the date we were there
people cheat and people in your bath,
and under the bed.
his customary dwelling place
at every cottage door mountainous heaps
of pure, precise
poetry inscribed on ice.
Aquarius: experience things on its unleashing, so mirrors cause and denies effect.
Aquarius: you're in the eye of heaven to garnish,
is it blinding and frightening,
this dryness in which snowballs are
established in ireland, canada, england and venezuela.
1959: spam produces its 1 billionth can!
1964: hormel foods buys a dirty sack
and wash and wash--
i truly cannot think
you hope to his bed because he, like you,
you are the crickets.
Pisces: instead of waiting for recognition, today, there's more need for a moment on the roof.
Pisces: lost in self-help groups to
my muscles took my human name.
it's so easy for you fingerpickers out
in a stretched palm caught the hallows.
at the grey, chill day;
i count the ways.
we hailed it in god's name.