From the Desk of Devin Jeanel January 19, 2008: There are so many new and exciting things happening at The Starlite Cafe that is hard to know where to start. So let me begin by catching you up. First, thanks to you, we are growing. In the last three weeks, we have gained 200+ new members. This is all due to you. You have reached out to new members whose poems have appeared on the front page. You have asked to be their friends. You have given them comments and encouraged them. It is all YOU. Thank you very much. The more members we have, the more we can accomplish our goals. In Feburary, I'm going to be kicking off a big initiative. It is something that we could not have dreamed of doing without the membership that we have. It is going to be quite exciting.

Celebration!!! has been launched this month. Ingrid is doing a fantastic job with that feature. This is a place for us to celebrate together by allowing Starliters the ability to post messages and/or poems in honor of some event. So if you have a special event that you would like to share with your fellow Starliters, contact Ingrid and give her the details. Whenever a celebration is built for you, an email from Starlite is mailed out to your friend's list so they can come and celebrate with you. Here are the first celebrations.
Celebration of return to good health!
Nate has turned 75!!
The Cheese Maker is turning 65
Marvin Goldfarb is turning 21, again
Everett DeValle is having a Birthday
First Anniversary
Tess is a grandmother

A follow up project to the Celebrations!!! is The Birthday Club. We recognize that a birthday is one of the most important celebration points in a person's life. Starting in February, we will build an celebration for anyone in the birthday club automatically. If you want to have a celebration for your birthday go to your profile (Admin link under your picture). You will see a new field on your profile for Birthday Club and add your birthday in the exact format of MM/DD (for May 12th, it would be 05/12). Remember it will be a program reading this information. They are quite dumb. They have to have it in the exact format.

Featured Book of the Day. Myrna D. is investigating the interest level of this possible new feature. We are looking to see if there are enough published authors interested in promoting their books on the front page of Starlite for FREE. If you are interested, then contact Myrna.

Changes in the Management Team: Raivenne has resigned as Moderator of the Starlite Writing Challenges. For those that know her, you know that Raivenne is one of the hardest working ladies that you will ever meet. She has been incredible in helping the challenges through this transition. She has my upmost respect. At the same time, I fully understand the pulls and demands on ones life while balancing so many different areas. I love Raivenne's writings and look forward to more of it. For now, all challenges will be reporting to me directly. We will be doing a deep dive into how these challenges are working. If you have any thoughts about this area, this is the time to let me know. Contact Devin Jeanel

Additional URL to access our home: The Starlite Cafe is our home. However, it is easy for people to misunderstand and end up going to http://StarliteCafe.com (a fake poetry site with nothing but advertising). For this reason, we have purchased a new url called http://StarlitePoetry.com It will take the user to our same website. The url will even be converted to http://thestarlitecafe.com/. However it is much easier to tell someone and much easier to remember. If they happen to misunderstand you and go to http://StarlightPoetry.com no fears, we have that covered as well. In fact, if they go to http://StarlitePoems or http://StarlightPoems, they will still find us. You will be seeing more and more of our outward facing names using the http://StarlitePoetry url. It should help our new users find us better.

Music: Bonnie ( or TinyTeddy) has been aggressively updating the music area. The new music is now appearing for both your homepages and backgrounds for your poems. Note: the music preview does not contain these songs yet. If you would like to have a special song, Bonnie does take requests. Let Bonnie know what you want to hear. If you think she has not been busy, check out this list of music she has added.

3 AM A Hard Days Night All That She Wants Amazed Dont Let The Sun Go Down On Me I'll Stand By You Iris I Was Made For Loving You Another Day In Paradise Aubrey Bad Moon Rising Betty Davis Eyes Black Velvet Born In The Usa Boys Are Back In Town Bridge Over Troubled Waters Broken Wing Brown Eyed Girl Cant Get Enough Of Your Love Baby Cats In The Cradle Come As You Are Crimson And Clover Died In Your Arms Does Anybody Really Know Dont Let The Sun Go Down On Me Dream Weaver Edward Scissorhands(theme song) End Of The Innocence Eye Of The Tiger First Time I Ever Saw Your Face Footloose Georgia On My Mind Goodbye My Lover Have You Ever Seen The Rain Heart Of Rock And Roll Hello Help Me Make It Through The Night Hungry Heart I Can See Clearly I Need You

I Think Were Alone Now I Was Made For Loving You I'll Stand By You If Tomorrow Never comes Iris Its Still Rock And Roll To Me Killing Me Softly Listen Lost That Lovin Feeling Mama Told Me Not To Come Man On The Moon Moon Dancs Moon Light Sanata Mr Postman My Immortal Nobody Does It Better Nothing Else Matters Now And Forever Only The Good Die Young Open Arms Samba Save The Last Dance For Me Seduces Me Something To Talk About Soul Man Stand By Me Surfin USA Suspicious Minds Tears Of A Clown Teddy Bear Through The Years Total Eclipse Of The Heart Turn The Page We Will Rock You When You Say Nothing At All Your My First My Last My Everything

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I love you Starliters !!!

Devin Jeanel
The Starlite Cafe


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