On a Lighter Note (Fun Socks!)...

On a lighter, funner, more scrumptious note than my last post here about my Stroke last year and my Divorce on the same date this year, I have now created a new little Associated Content piece featuring 15 yummie photos of my Socks. Yay!

As some of my friends and family know, I am indeed a big fan of unique, lovely, sexy, and comfy knee high and thigh high socks. Ooh la la, do I adore them! After a very challenging year for me, it was especially delicious to receive an exciting plethora of unique socks this Christmas (and before and after). You can read about my challenging year by scrolling down to my blog entry below this one and/or you may simply partake of my socks.

I'll admit that Ive been told before I'm too old to be wearing fun socks, but I strongly disagree! I think people should surely feel free to wear what they wish to wear and hold on to their own style until they're 80 or 90 or 100 if they're lucky enough to live that long. So there.

And so below is a link to 15 Sock photos.

(P.S. When I first tried to link to this on my facebook page, I got a note that it contained content that was either 'abusive' or' 'scammy'. Well I know it isn't scammy 'cuz I created it. And since when are sock photos considered abusive? They're not nude sock photos. Does the word 'thigh high' sound abusive or some other word I used? I don't think so, but maybe I don't know. I suddenly started feeling a tidbit worried... Anyway, see for yourself below.)

http://www.associatedcontent.com/slideshow/73584/fun_knee_high_and_thigh_high_sock_extravaganza.html

Juliet’s Christmas Articles

I’ve decided to post a few links to articles I wrote last year related to various Xmas doodads and notes and notations and goodies, ranging from nontraditional celebration ideas to arty handmade gift ideas and more. Feel free to partake of the first three articles linked below.

Five Delightful Nontraditional Xmas Celebration Ideas
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2294595/five_delightful_nontraditional_xmas.html?cat=74

Poetic Holiday Gift Ideas for $10 or Less
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2333864/_poetic_holiday_gift_ideas_for_10_or.html?cat=46

Envy-Inducing Stocking Stuffers for the Special Lady in Your Life
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2260513/envyinducing_stocking_stuffers_for.html?cat=46

Poetry & Death & Strawberry Shortcake

A new issue of online poetry mag. Arsenic Lobster is now up and includes two FALL (post-stroke) poems by me, plus many more. Read some for yourself; partake of editor Susan Yount's yummy notes and then click below:

"SUMMER/Fall ARSENIC LOBSTER an epicurean free-for-all!"

“May gorgeous crustaceans fall from the sky and onto your laps!”

& Susan Yount's little description of my poems -

"Garnish with the eerie, arsenic herbs of Juliet Cook’s Fall (I) and Fall (II) and you will find a tiny dried apple for a ghost horse. Add a glass of rosewater to satiate all your senses."

http://arseniclobster.magere.com/1content.html

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Then if interested in reading a short non-poetry piece of writing by me, about kids and death and strawberry shortcake, feel free to partake of my latest Associated Content piece here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5725268/death_trumps_ruined_jogging_suit.html?cat=70

Poetry Book Review Notes & Linkage

I am mentioning this here because I sometimes post links to my various Associated Content articles on Facebook and Twitter and recently I posted a link to a poetry book review I wrote a while back whereupon a woman mentioned to me that she really liked reading my book reviews, but was not crazy about reading them on Associated Content because of all the ads appearing on that site. I understood where she was coming from and did not disagree, but the main reason that I post them on Associated Content (even if they were published elsewhere first) and then link to that site is because the more page views I receive on that site, the more teeny tiny tidbits of money I will make. That said, though, I am also very pleased that some of my poetry book reviews in particular were first published within a variety of unique literary oriented sources, so for interested parties, here are a few links to those original creative sources:

- Strange Blue Dresses, FEIN by Kristy Bowen, reviewed by me / originally published by Galatea Resurrects - http://galatearesurrection9.blogspot.com/2008/03/feign-by-kristy-bowen.html


- Human Dark with Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy, reviewed by me / originally published by Gently Read Literature - http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/human-dark-with-sugar-by-brenda-shaughnessy-reviewed-by-juliet-cook/

-The Revolting Body of Lara Glenum’s Maxiumum Gaga / originally published by Gently Read Literature -http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/the-revolting-body-of-lara-glenum%E2%80%99s-maximum-gaga-reviewed-by-juliet-cook/

-Panty Flowers Rising: on Karyna McGlynn’s I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl' / originally published by Gently Read Literature– http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/panty-flowers-rising-juliet-cook-on-karyna-mcglynn%E2%80%99s-i-have-to-go-back-to-1994-and-kill-a-girl/

- 'for it to work she has to look like a girl”: Michelle Detorie’s Ode to Industry, reviewed by me / originally published by Tarpaulin Sky Review' - http://tsky-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/10/michelle-detories-ode-to-industry.html

- 'The Future is Happy by Sarah Sarai, reviewed by me / originally published by Prick of the Spindle - http://www.prickofthespindle.com/reviews/3.4/small_presses/sarai/the_future_is_happy.htm

And below is the link to my Associated Content site, for those who might be interested in reading my book reviews there and/or partaking of my various other articles. Thank ye poodles!

Your questions and comments are always welcome.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/363475/juliet_cook.html

Poetry Delight in Tuscaloosa Alabama, April 23-24!

I will be reading a few of my poems as one part of many other fun-filled poetry readers participating in the Slash Pine Press Poetry Festival during the evening of Friday April 23 & pretty much all day and night on Saturday April 24. Wheee!

Several different poetry reading spots in Alabama take place throughout this event (Slash Pine Press lives at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa). The reading I am part of takes place on Saturday between 3 PM - 5:30 PM within a local bar called Little Willies. Find out more about this location, plus details about all the readings and readers on the Slash Pine Press website here: http://www.slashpinepress.com/festival/

I am involved in this reading because Slash Pine Press published my poetry chapbook called FONDANT PIG ANGST. More information about that book is also available in the above website where you may even purchase a copy for yourself AND/OR you may also purchase a copy from me via my etsy shop at http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/

If you live in or near Tusaloosa Alabama, maybe I'll see you at this yummy poetry festival! Yay!

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New-My Poetry Related Associated Content article:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2848798/my_creative_writing_college_degree.html?image=804630&cat=4