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Steve Blevins

Steve Blevins
Location
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Birthday
November 05
Bio
Steve Blevins teaches medicine at the University of Oklahoma. He enjoys reading, music, and travel. He is interested in American and European history, French literature and culture, and music for piano and chamber ensemble.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009 2:15PM

Red: The Color of the Tomato I'm Gonna Throw...

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 tomato

...at the next person who puts up a colo(u)r post.

I love Cat. Her idea is brilliant! It elicited some marvelous poems, essays, and pictures. I've had a blast reading them. Plus, it's great to see so many writers participating in a wonderfully creative project. The first two hundred posts were especially riveting. Then I began to notice some duplication in colo(u)r. At four hundred posts, I began to crave numbers. Now at six hundred, I'm ready to gouge my eyes out. 

So here's an idea for an Open Call: I want to challenge everyone to delete a post with colo(u)r in the title. It's simple. All you have to do is press the delete key -- and poof -- the post will disappear. I'll set an example by deleting this post in an hour.

Good luck! And thanks in advance. 

 

P.S. (6:00 pm): After reading the comments below, I've decided to leave this post up. It's no worse than my other crap. Have a joyous and colorful Christmas!

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Pffffffffffffft! No one did Auburn except me!
C.K. Dexter Haven
December 24, 2009 02:17 PM
I'm seeing lots of white as I just got in from shoveling. More to come, so the weatherman says. Don't delete color posts because some of us need more color about now!
Merry Christmas, Steve.
mginmn
December 24, 2009 02:21 PM
Hey, I'm not deleting anything!
Chicago Guy and I did orange, and it's staying.

{throws tomato}
{keeps orange}
spotted_mind
December 24, 2009 02:23 PM
I'll catch the tomato and use it in a salad . . .
Owl_Says_Who
December 24, 2009 02:28 PM
toss that tomato here, I need one for the soup I'm making.
fyi, I did virescent, more than just a color.
- ttfn
December 24, 2009 02:28 PM
Awww, you're not fun at all, Steve! In Boston, we'd say "pahty poopah" (not me, mind you, just the natives). Happy Hawlidays!
Deborah Sosin
December 24, 2009 02:31 PM
Brava! I only just added colour to my tag because I reference an artist I adore. The title does not include any color, but the post does. I do not like assignments. I adore Cat, but I've never been much of a joiner. This challenge, however, got me to thinking about 'drinking the kool-aid', and I'd been looking at his work again, so I put something down. He is officially the only person on the planet I would go back and tag a post for. xox
Robin Sneed
December 24, 2009 02:35 PM
Are you really such a cranky old man :)
I think not!
Lunchlady 2
December 24, 2009 02:38 PM
At least its not a rotten tomato
trilogy
December 24, 2009 02:40 PM
That is a mighty fine picture of a tomato.

I was going to write about the massive snowstorm when I was three and we had to walk five miles in it to chop our own wood... and then I thought better of it. My brown post stays, though, dude.

:) Are you back in the states? Are you getting ice on your house, too?
Fishing Fool
December 24, 2009 02:44 PM
Oh, go ahead and throw the tomato. I have a wonderful and easy tomato/cucumber recipe.
Fishing Fool
December 24, 2009 02:45 PM
That tomato has Palin's name all over it...
Leepin Larry
December 24, 2009 02:46 PM
I'm with you, baby. I wrote my post on that awful infomercial, remembered the green gas emmenating from some guy's ass, and voila! my colo(u)r entry. End of story.
Sally Swift
December 24, 2009 02:55 PM
Tomato-y sheeple. Happy holidays to you and yours.
Kathy Riordan
December 24, 2009 03:00 PM
I smell a Scrooge, and he smells like tomatoes!
sweetfeet
December 24, 2009 03:02 PM
You might need that red tomato to see your way through the blizzard that's coming your way. Merry Christmas to you and your mom! xoxo
cartouche
December 24, 2009 03:19 PM
Great, now I am seeing Red and it doesn't look good on my satin gown! Suffer my friend...you're probably color blind anyway!

Merry Christmas Steve!
BuffyW
December 24, 2009 03:27 PM
Hey, thanks Steve. You just gave us an idea for new posts, -- let's all do vegetables! You already took tomato. Let's see ...eggplants, no. Sugar snap peas. Nah. Maybe pattypan squash ... or brussel sprouts ... or....
Lea Lane
December 24, 2009 03:29 PM
Why do you think I picked Plaid?
scanner
December 24, 2009 03:39 PM
If I blow a raspberry at you, does that count as a colour?
Will Someone Feed The Cat?
December 24, 2009 03:47 PM
Ah, go spend the holidays with Floyd! Pfffttt!
NoisyNora
December 24, 2009 03:49 PM
What a brilliant idea. I like it so much I may create an open call for Disappearing Fiction Friday. That is, Friday Fiction that is listed in the am and will be gone at the stroke of midnight.

Read it and/or weep.
Nick Carraway
December 24, 2009 04:10 PM
Ah, your Grinch is showing. I think I love you.


Merry, merry.
iamsurly
December 24, 2009 04:20 PM
Relax dude. Try some Roma therapy or something. Sounds like you'll be posting as Blind Tomato Blevins from now on. The colour blizzard of '09 - it's worse than Katrina.
Stacey Youdin
December 24, 2009 04:27 PM
Shouldn't you be watching "A Christmas Story"?
Michael Rodgers
December 24, 2009 04:30 PM
so damned funny...merry Christmas, merry man
Nikki Stern
December 24, 2009 04:57 PM
Do you know how much tomato(u)es cost these days?
ocularnervosa
December 24, 2009 05:06 PM
My "black" was just awful and I've been meaning to delete it but now you can count it as a done deal.
Merry Christmas Steve... this is my gift to you.
trig palin
December 24, 2009 05:21 PM
What a sorehead! You must go and read my color post immediately.
Hells Bells
December 24, 2009 05:34 PM
but i cannot delete the crimson tide :)
merry christmas!
Don Rich
December 24, 2009 05:40 PM
I tried to delete your post but the editors won't allow me to do it !!!
alsoknownas
December 24, 2009 05:58 PM
I've been seeing all kinds of colors lately . . . .has anyone ever died from orgasms? :)
LadyMiko
December 24, 2009 06:20 PM
Four hours and counting. Your delete key must be broken.
Lonnie Lazar
December 24, 2009 06:21 PM
Happy Holidays, my friend.
Rated.
Thoth
December 24, 2009 06:38 PM
Saffron and Rainbow are not colors, technically. So mine stay. And you get added to my fave's list, 'cause I don't mind a crank once in a while among all the nice people here. Glad to have caught the tomato. Care for a bloody Mary? Cheers!
FusunA
December 24, 2009 06:53 PM
Oh Tomato, lest ye be yet again generalized. I credit ye specific reds, pinks, oranges, yellows, whites, greens, purples, blacks, and motley mixes in between.
Better Boy, Early Girl, Beefsteak and Beefmaster , Thai Pinks, Caspian Pink, Pink Bradywine,Hawaiian Pineapple, Kellogg’s Breakfast,Persimmon,Azoychka, Yellow Stuffer, Garden Peach,White Beauty, Ghost Cherry,White Queen,Greman Green Stripe, Green Moldovan, Green Zebra, Cherokee Purple, Black Ethiopian, and Paul Robeson
scupper
December 24, 2009 07:13 PM
Awwwww....I'm loving the color! :)

Merry Christmas Steve! I love your sense of humour!
Sparking
December 24, 2009 08:12 PM
Glad you left this up, Steve. Had it disintigrated, I'd have missed it ... just like I missed my last assignment (which I failed to accept) at Mission Impossible which got me in BIGGGGG Trouble! you are right on .... color me colorless. (((R)))
Rod Emmons
December 24, 2009 08:57 PM
Just for this, Cat should delegate to you the job of putting up a post listing everyone's colo(u)r contribution with links. It would be interesting to see which colo(u)r was the most inspirational.

Seriously, I appreciate assignments. Otherwise, I never get off my fat derriere and write anything. Well, puddin' fites excepted.

And Michael Rodgers: you're hilarious.
Cindy Ross
December 24, 2009 09:01 PM
Dr. Blevins? Is that you? I'm here for my examination.
Ablonde
December 24, 2009 09:35 PM
Bitch, bitch bitch! Snnnnarrrrllll. (shows remaining teeth.)
SnippytheGrammarDog
December 24, 2009 09:51 PM
Did someone else write about blue?
Maria Stuart
December 24, 2009 10:40 PM
Black is the color of my true love's post
Tom Cordle
December 25, 2009 01:06 AM
*ducks* Hmmm... guess I could change the color. Red just seemed appropriate with all the decapitation. Maybe crimson?
Lacey Driggars
December 25, 2009 01:19 AM
Tom, that just sounds wrong somehow.
Cindy Ross
December 25, 2009 01:56 AM
if you don't mind, i'm gonna steal 'it's no worse than my other crap' for my daily use. thanks!

merry grimace!
the squirrel
December 25, 2009 07:15 AM
Steve, Steve, Steve.

You rock.

A good day to you.
wakingupslowly
December 25, 2009 08:27 AM
Oh, Steve Blevins. It's exactly on par with all your other crap. Happy Whatsmas!
Frank Indiana
December 25, 2009 09:53 AM
That tomato looks yummy!
Merry Christmas, dear Steve.
Kisses
Marcela (with a slight hangover...)
Marcela in English
December 25, 2009 10:44 AM
You get Festivus and a Merry Christmas!
xenonlit xl
December 25, 2009 11:58 AM
What if I said.........."Caribbean Blue"...........would that change your mind?????

Hugs!
Outside Myself
December 25, 2009 04:47 PM
Well, tomatoes this time of year are only good for throwing.
Stellaa
December 26, 2009 03:52 AM
Ah, the color red. Red must stay!
Harvey Gardner
December 26, 2009 07:34 AM
mine wasn't really about colour (i used two 'cuz i'm just so avante garde), it was about sex, so i'm off the hook, right?

aaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh to you, you scrooge.
femme forte
December 26, 2009 11:54 AM