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Poetry Friday

TO AUTUMN

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayst rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

“The [...]

Poetry Friday

EQUINOX

I must keep from breaking into the story by force for if I do I will find myself with a war club in my hand and the smoke of grief staggering toward the sun, your nation dead beside you.

I keep walking away though it has been an eternity and from each drop of [...]

Poetry Friday

AUTUMN

Both lying on our sides, making love in spoon position when she’s startled, What’s that? She means the enormous ship passing before you— maybe not that large, is it a freighter

or a passenger ship? But it seems huge in the dark and it’s so close. That’s a poem you say, D. H. Lawrence—Have [...]

Armstrong’s blood (an American article)

This is what I wanted to see … some sort of coverage from the American press regarding the recent allegations about Lance Armstrong’s blood samples.

As Rasmus Damsgaard indicates in his response, and even as Mørkebjerg indicated in his original “interpretation” the numbers are hardly conclusive of anything, are really nothing more than speculation, [...]

Armstrong’s blood values “suspicious”

According to DR, the leading Danish media conglomerate, Armstrong’s blood values at this year’s Tour de France are suspicious, and could be indicative of blood doping.

Paraphrasing Google’s translation of the DR article:

Evidence suggests that Lance Armstrong used blood doping during the Tour de France, says one of Denmark’s leading blood researchers, Jakob Mørkebjerg [...]

It never ends, does it?

Di Luca suspended after positive doping test – Cycling – Yahoo! Sports

AIGLE, Switzerland (AP)—Cycling’s governing body suspended former Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca on Wednesday after he tested positive for the banned blood-booster CERA.

The International Cycling Union told the Italian rider he was provisionally banned until his national federation can have a [...]

Let the doping stories begin!

Doping-Tour de France riders face intensive testing – Cycling – Yahoo Sports

PARIS, June 10 Reuters – This year’s Tour de France will be the most scrutinised sports event ever by anti-doping authorities, International Cycling Union UCI president Pat McQuaid said on Wednesday.

More than 500 tests will be carried out during the world’s greatest [...]

Video Poetry (Expected Edition)

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM – GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Mary, this station is playing every sad song. I remember like we were alive. I heard it Sunday morn’ from inside of these walls. In a prison cell, where we spent those nights. And they burnt up the diner where I always used to find her. Licking young [...]

Armstrong parts with Catlin

Armstrong parts with Catlin

Lance Armstrong has decided to part company with Don Catlin, the doctor intended to conduct an individual anti-doping programme with him during 2009. Consequently, the proposed comprehensive, individual programme will proceed under the guidance of Ramsus Damsgaard, the man responsible for Astana’s internal anti-doping efforts.

Bill Stapleton, Armstrong’s long-time agent and [...]

Rider down

VeloNews | Rider found dead in Qatar hotel

Belgian cyclist, Frederiek Nolf, competing in the Tour of Qatar, was found dead in his hotel room Thursday morning prior to the start of the race’s fifth stage, race official Eddy Merckx announced.

Nolf, a member of Topsport Vlaanderen, was found dead by teammate Kristof Goddaert in [...]