Work by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

  1. Pancakes as a Side

    Posted in Gossip!, September 2009

    You know what makes a great brunch even bet­ter? If every­one at the table just splits a big plate of pan­cakes. Eating a whole plate of pan­cakes as your own break­fast is some­thing eight-year-olds do. But bat­tling your boyfriend for the most buttery-syrupy fork­ful of side order pan­cakes? That’s bril­liant at any age.

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  2. Performance Poetry Podcast at Indiefeed

    Posted in Gossip!, September 2009

    3 years and 500+ shows later, Indiefeed Performance Poetry Podcast host Wess “Mongo” Jolley is still show­cas­ing incred­i­ble work from all over the world. The poetry selec­tion is diverse, deep and eclec­tic, but Mongo gilds the lily with detailed com­men­tary and bio­graph­i­cal notes on each poet.

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  3. Dachshunds

    Posted in Gossip!, September 2009

    These noble, sausage-shaped war­riors were orig­i­nally bred to hunt and kill bad­gers. To humans, they are the VW Bugs of the dog world, but to bad­gers they are unre­lent­ing Genghis Khans!

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  4. Not As Smart As I Think I Am

    Posted in Poetry, August 2009

    I know that the “57” in Heinz 57 refers to the num­ber of pick­les that the com­pany used to sell, and that gra­ham crack­ers and corn flakes were orig­i­nally cre­ated to pre­vent mas­tur­ba­tion, but I can’t tell you the dif­fer­ence between a seal and sea lion. Or the dif­fer­ence between an alli­ga­tor and a crocodile, [...]

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