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Space, Time, and Poetry
I found the most awesome store ever. On 85th and Greenwood you can find a place to get all the gear you need to make the journey across the galaxy to the Planet Mike. The Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company sells everything from ray guns to bottles of argon (0.93% pure) to black hole starter kits. 
I bought this fantastic binary clock there. I only beat KUOW by minutes when I visited on Monday, the same day they did a story on it.
But wait, it gets better. What may seem like a brilliant enterprise filling a niche market for space travellers turns out to be a cover for the true operation. There's a teleporter in the back of the store. I watched several children enter the chamber and vanish before my eyes! It turns out they were transported to a back room where, for free, kids ages six to eighteen can learn writing skills. The more subtly named, 826 Seattle, offers writing workshops, publishing projects, and one-on-one tutoring on creative and expository writing. It's run by paid staff and many volunteers who fly in from as far as Spica. Don't worry, there's validated rocket parking on the roof. I'm not kidding! (But they may be.)
Speaking of creative writing, I am pleased to report that my poem, Four Notes to Sherlock Holmes, has been accepted to be published this year in Bricolage, the University of Washington's literary magazine! I'll get to read at their annual reading at the University Bookstore in June.
Transmitted by Michael Bowers
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Happy May Day
May Day is one of my very favorite holidays because you get to give flowers to as many girls as you want, and the meaning can be entirely ambiguous if you want. I wish you all the fullest of May Baskets and the slowest of runners.
Transmitted by Michael Bowers
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