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Kiril Kundurazieff
Houston, TX.
Writer, blogger, cat person. Online, since 1998! Blogging Since 2002!
Interests: bicycling, books, cats, creative writing, genealogy, hiking, journalism, news, photography, poetry, walking
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Where to begin? Daddy Kiril, here, Feline News Network roving correspondent, with the first report from my trip to the Blog Paws Conference. Don't worry, Nikita and Elvira Mistress of Felinity will have plenty to share, themselves, as the story... Continue reading
Posted 1 hour ago at The Opinionated Pussycat
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For us Cat Bloggers the Carnival is a chance to discover blogs we might never have heard of, on subjects of all kinds! Submissions can be sent to: carnivalofthecats(at)gmail.com The Carnival Home Page, with an archive of past Carnivals, the... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at The Opinionated Pussycat
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A lot has been going on around here lately, most of it over at The Opinionated Pussycat My health is doing fine, follow-up eye checks have made the docs happy and while there are 2 laser treatments to come, I... Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
I've been dealing with a thousand to 3000 spam a day for a long time. Most get caught and not posted before I can delete, but I just got tired of it and went to the capcha. That has apparently ended both problems....for now
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Today is day 13 of a challenging creative journey; the Story a Day Challenge made by Marian Allen on her blog . (Marian's new story) My month long series begins here: My prompt, today, comes from this classic cartoon. I... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2013 at The Opinionated Pussycat
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April 15, 2013: A day that will live in infamy, for Boston, and America, began on a wonderful, exciting, note and while my friend and I were later as riveted and horrified by the images we saw when we got... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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May 7, 2013 - A day that will live in Houston history! Wi-fi, oh what fun! My very first connection has been done. Going live, I felt no dread. I found logging online easy, let it be said. The Blogs... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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At 16.70 miles I reached State Highway 6 and the large West Oak Mall. The next 3 miles found me on a busy 3 lane road with residential on my left and nothing but what was, at the time, nothing... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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There is another time, along this stretch, where things are difficult for the cyclist; where street parking is allowed cars take up most of the lane and, to avoid being doored, the cyclist must carefully take the outside lane as... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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I have lived in Houston since September, but it was only in March that I took to the streets on my trust steed, Cleopatra, in any serious way. A few months back I rode my bike alongside the Pasadena freeway,... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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There is a statue of a girl in front of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, here in Houston. Her hand is out-stretched and there is a hummingbird resting on her finger (Photo taken the day before the first of my two... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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The surgeries are complete and I’ve been home since the evening of the 24th I wish to thank all those who have stopped by all 3 of my blogs to read and comment on scheduled posts, posted on my FB,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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Prompting Yourself To Write 45: Frame yourself! 2013 (An updated version of a post from July 2012) An April 2012 blog post of mine so deeply affected my friend in writing, Amanda Socci (The Creative Idea Gal), that she strongly... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
Recording the poetry of randomly overheard snippets of conversation written down as they catch my attention. As usual, the results can be quite interesting. (AP 1 was in 2011) Appearances I look lovely today! Go see the post-op in 6.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
Recording the poetry of randomly overheard snippets of conversation written down as they catch my attention. As usual, the results can be quite interesting. (AP 1 was in 2011) Coping She's not happy with it. I know, it's BIG. You... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
Recording the poetry of randomly overheard snippets of conversation written down as they catch my attention. As usual, the results can be quite interesting. (AP 1 was in 2011) This getting in shape stuff sucks. Don't worry about it. I'm... Continue reading
Posted Apr 21, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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On the morning of April 18th I headed off to my Brachy Eye Cancer plaque insertion surgery, at MD Anderson, with a postive attitude my creative muses (in "Flat Cat" form) and these words, from Your Best Life Begins Each... Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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In my last post I introduced you to a remarkable collection of presidential sculptures. Here are the rest of the sculptures that hang out with them in the yard outside the Adickes SculpturWorx, near downtown Houston: The Beatles And, finally,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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Last month I shared my visit to a collection of Presidential heads perched in a park alongside highway 288 near downtown Houston: Ex-Ca. Writer Finds Houston Poetry Lovers Tough to Impress http://www.madmacedonian.com/2013/03/-ex-ca-writer-finds-houston-poetry-lovers-tough-to-impress-.html Recently, I found their friends, and a few... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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Early Monday Morning, April 15, 2012: Here I sit, reasonably close to the highest spot in all of Houston, near Willowbrook Mall, waiting for the bus to take me on the next stage of my journey to Old Town Spring... Continue reading
Posted Apr 18, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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You have no idea how hard it was to get this picture! Elvira and I had to be very, very quiet as we set up the camera and I got into position, so as not to awaken Daddy, Saturday night.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2013 at The Opinionated Pussycat
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Back in February I reported about the city of Houston searching for its first poet laureate. http://www.madmacedonian.com/2013/02/houston-looking-for-1st-poet-laureate.html A few days ago they announced that one had been found. There were 21 applicants and the person chosen was described as someone... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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Dear Houston: My name is the Cycling Dude. I also fancy myself The Mad Houstonian. I have bicycled all my life and, up until last September, that was all in southern California. In 2003 I began one of the earliest... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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Recently Anthony Lauriello, graduating senior at Rice University, here in Houston, wrote about coming here from out-of-state expecting to find a “grimy, uncultured place”, a huge mega-city sprawl where burritos didn’t come splashed with green chili. During the 4 yrs.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Mad Macedonian
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Metrophobia? Having moved here to Houston and experienced 6 months of a transit system that is nothing at all like what I was used to in southern California, is it any wonder some folks might think the term related to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Mad Macedonian