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    Bailing Bucket is the creative blog of Rhett Soveran.

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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Economic disparity

By Rhett Soveran | Published: February 25, 2009
I don’t want to push these hard-times on you, but this is a song you really need to hear. (Thanks Sam)
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Economic Downturn Baldness

By Rhett Soveran | Published: February 24, 2009
LOOK! I made another pretty collage. Well, I buzzed my head again. But I found a surprise. I FRACKING BALDSPOT! (The brilliant people who watch BSG (and no, I won’t be explaining what that stands for) know where fracking comes from.) There’s no way I am going bald. If anything, I have [...]
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Retaining Dylan Thomas

By Rhett Soveran | Published: February 24, 2009
me: whats that poem like dont go… _ into that good? night. think its a dylan Brendan: Rage rage against the dying of the light. me: dylan… thomas? do not go gentle Brendan: Yup. me: it just popped into my head. it’s like I retain water, but they are poems Brendan: I know it from the movie Dangerous Minds. My [...]
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In the Edmonton Journal

By Rhett Soveran | Published: February 21, 2009
Long story short, a friend on Twitter asked if anyone was a regular Craigslist reader and I told him I was. He put me in touch with a friend who is a reporter for the Edmonton Journal and he asked me about Craigslist. Well, as it turns out, I made it into the [...]
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Death becomes us

By Rhett Soveran | Published: February 13, 2009
I am sorry I pulled a disappearing act this week. Just when you thought I was coming back in full-force *poof* I vanish again. Well, I am going to vanish again. We found out on Wednesday that Leah’s Grandfather passed away. We will be leaving this evening and traveling to Minnesota [...]
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One of Us

By Rhett Soveran | Published: February 3, 2009
I’ve been thinking about a couple of things lately, but the most prominent is that I am getting older. And I am changing. Emily turned 22 yesterday and I was thinking about what I could tell her about being 22. The only thing I could think of is that it is a [...]
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