Hello and ahoy and other such words of greeting to you!
Today's journal is all about this journal of my good friend where he tells that he'll be offering commissions from now on. And dirty cheap too. I'd recommend you to go there and grab a slot before they get filled up. Great art for affordable prices, and he's just about the best person there is to do business with. His art makes great gifts! You can stuff it in your coat to make yourself warm! Eat it! Drink it! Put it on toast! Did I mention he plays the accordion?

This could be yours for how much did you say? A thousand dollars? One hundred dollars? NO! Just fourty dollars! Isn't that just increadible?!! Don't hesitate! Get your artwork now wile stock lasts!


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Don't miss participating in =bekkias down with the clichés poetry contest! News article here [link]



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In personal news: I'm trying to be a good student and study so if you think I'm not reading you poems or looking at your art you may very well be right. I'll try to catch up with you great great guys soon.
Friday is meeting my wife at the docks day!
Next Friday is meeting my wife at the docks day due to the embassy holding on to her passport without telling her in time. One extra week of waiting due to them. But what difference does that make on three months? Enough to go mad occationally!
But now she's coming for sure.

Just wanted to tell everyone that's interested that the migration board finally has granted my dear residency permit, so my days as a virtual widower are over! Now all that's left is to plan the trip. If all goes as planned she'll be back home before the end of the month.


Expect some new things from me in the future. I can't be more specific than that.

I got featured here [link] ! My thanks go out to the lovely :lkirkland: who suggested me.
Otherwise I would like to apologise to all the people waiting for an answer, just so much right now with school starting tomorrow (I still need to get my books!) and as if that was not enough my brother went and applied me to the choir he's a part of and the song test is on monday and I'm so nervous I'm afraid I'll just melt instead of sing...

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Hello everybody! Today we have a lot to go through so let's start with the most important and most fun part: Features!

As you might know the haiku club ended it's second competition some time ago (there's a new now) and the winners would get featured here and in other deviants journals. First place even got a one month subscription from the generous =rlkirkland The catch this time was that the haiku must be written in one line, just like it is traditionally in Japanese.

So here we go. *drumroll*


In first place: with the scenic Picking Time. Not hindered by the restrictions but instead using them to enhance the imagery she is clearly a worthy winner.

Georgia cotton field blossoms with snow


Now this might come as a surprise to you, but haiku is only a newcomer in this woman's repertoire. Just take a look in her gallery [link] and you'll see what I mean. I would personally like to recommend
Steven as well as her writing guides.



In second place: with the ridiculous Bath-time one-liner. I honestly have a hard time believing that this amateur could have won by any fair means. Just look at it:

sound of rain... my legs too long for the bathtub


Ridiculous I say! But what else could you expect from a man that dresses like this? I rest my case. Lets move on.



In third place: with the celestial Aldebaran. Read it and if you don't get it, read the comments for a quick lesson in astronomy. It really helps you to appreciate the depth of this haiku all the more.

Aldebaran shining above a torero


So many nice things to find in this deviants gallery that it's hard to know where to start. But I suggest you take a look at his very ambitious July Haikuthon 2009. He wrote no less than one haiku and a tanka a day!


These were the three finalists, but let's not forget the two honorable mentions:

with oneliner

whole moon pushes through broken leaves below


with plaintive hum

plaintive hum, the season's last cicada



Now I hope you really will take your time and take a look in these talented deviants galleries. Add some faves, add some watches, leave some comments, write some critiques.
In short: give them some , not just



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I announced in my last journal that I would be giving something to whomever could give me a screenshot of my front screen when the page view counter ticked over to 10000. Since this caused close to no reaction whatsoever I guess it's only fair that the one who ended up winning (without competition) was the long time DA lurker and wife of yours truly: ~Lawofreflection The price has been agreed on and we hope you will be able to see it here some day later.
Congrats to you darling!


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I've more or less settled in in the new apartment in Uppsala now. As much as I can settle in without ~Lawofreflection I'll be starting my studies in little more than a week and there's still things to be done before that. Need to get the books, look for a part time job and choose new wallpaper for the living room. I'll be doing some writing in between of course. I always want to write more when I've got more "important" things to do.
I've moved Cygirl WIP preview to my scraps since it's not a finished poem. I would still like pointers on it though, all manners of critique is welcome. I've added 7 new verses, and there's more to come I'm sure.