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  • I was getting my hooves on to Odelay, only be struck by déjà vu on "Ramshackle" -- didn't Bobby Dylan do that?

    oatcake Diary Entry oatcake 2003

  • Then that Ramshackle Empire came clattering for me a penal code institutions for troubled women

    42 Mirrors Lucien Quincy Senna 2012

  • Ramshackle” is probably as good a term as any to describe the Dean of our day.

    Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011

  • Ramshackle” is probably as good a term as any to describe the Dean of our day.

    Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011

  • Ramshackle” is probably as good a term as any to describe the Dean of our day.

    Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011

  • In 2009 he self-published from his basement his own hand-illustrated ode to tiny dwellings: Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts.

    Kirsten Dirksen: WATCH: A Man With 5 Tiny Homes in His Backyard: Micro-Architecture as Punk Rock Kirsten Dirksen 2011

  • Some of these poems have previously appeared in the following, to whose editors grateful acknowledgment is made:Metazen,Smash Cake Magazine forthcoming,Like Birds Lit,Ramshackle Review,52/250 A Year of Flash,Prick of the Spindle,Blue Five Notebook,and Istanbul Lierary Review.

    Safety First (Twenty Poems) Darryl Price 2011

  • My knowledge of the beautiful, troubled icon draws from a few, scattered and wistful remarks by older men over the intervening years, her movies and, mainly, her fame -- kindled with time by cultural references: Andy Warhol's silk-screens and songs like Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" the Clash's late Joe Strummer alludes to her death in his melodic "Ramshackle Day Parade," a personal favorite.

    Dr. Elaine Schattner: The X-Rays of Others 2010

  • My pals Eric and Julia of Ramshackle Solid made acorn flour this year, and in their blog they showed how they did it.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • “I will never, ever get tired of being Princess Jess of Ramshackle farm,” I tell him, my voice quivering with emotion.

    Much Ado About Anne Heather Vogel Frederick 2008

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