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Pentagon to review report blaming JBER F-22 pilot for crash
Completed imaging project lets Web browsers 'soar' over Alaska coast
Video: NOAA puts Pribilof Islands documentary online
New encyclopedia of Tlingit language baffles Sitka elders
UAF student boycott kills popular intramural sport for semester
Published: August 19th, 2009 09:27 AM
Last Modified: August 19th, 2009 09:49 AM
Link: 49 Writers blog This blog for and about Alaska writers received entries from around the world for its first Ode to a Dead Salmon contest -- organizers were hoping for "bad" prose and poetry in the style of entries in the infamous Bulwer-Lytton bad-fiction contest. The blog is asking readers to vote for the winner from among the finalists: "Oh Dear Deceased Chum," "Why as a Mighty Salmon I Will Not Leave" and "Ode to Stinkin'." Here are the opening lines from the latter: O Humpy! An eagle dropped you in the park, / a cyclist ran over you in the dark. / O beautiful salmon! Putrefied and parched / atop you a hundred tourists marched.
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