PrivateTim

My best friend's father was murdered yesterday. Murdered and then the perp tried to burn the body and it took 50 firefighters an hour to put the fire out. The news kept calling David's dad "charred remains" and "the body". Mr. Klein is David, Mike and Kari's dad, not charred remains and a body. Until a disgruntled employee, fired two days earlier, walked into his office yesterday morning and shot Mr. Klein and Storm, Mr. Klein's German Sheppard. They interviewed the fire captain, he called the fire suspicious.... no sh*t Sherlock.... and he looked bored. The interviewed the police detective.... they found the ex-employee outside covered in blood and smelling of gasoline and smoke and the detective called him "a person of interest'.... no sh*t Sherlock.... and he looked bored too. The reporter couldn't have cared less..... Monica Alvarez signing off.... she looked bored. I remember going to David's house when we were kids and Mr. Klein who was a caterer and restaurateur at the time fixing us these elaborate lunches, no PB & J, we had duck confit and poached salmon. Even when David screwed up in high school, which was a lot, Mr. Klein just had a big deep laugh and shrug and told David to do better next time. I can't believe how the "system", media, police and fire have already treated this and it is just the beginning of the nightmare, the estate lawyers, the trial, everything. David is just numb right now dealing with the details of what needs to be now. He has felt the callousness already, but I think he has no idea how much more is in store for him and his family.

I would cook a nice spaghetti with marinara sauce for them and substitute hemlock for the oregano...... I'm just saying.....

Oh. And what gym do you go to? What time do you get there usually???

Oh Jackie..... I think you are off by a few decades..... the bikini was 'invented' in 1946.

I've bailed on a lot of online stories I was reading because they were so badly written or they moved way too fast. In fact I probably bail on a lot more than I read online. I don't usually bail on books and don't recall doing that, but I did tear a book up once after I finished it I was so upset by the ending. It was That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton and I read it because I loved the Outsiders. I don't even remember what upset me so much because I think I've blocked from my mind the story.

Before junior high school when I was doing Y Camp (ages 9-12) I learned from older boys who dropped everything to change from field clothes to swimming suits that nudity was no big deal, so it wasn't to me. Starting when I was in junior high (7th grade) showering was mandatory after P.E., it was considered part of good health education and so in high school no one was bothered by showering. But at some point I've noticed guys (teens) getting shyer and shyer all the time, not changing or showering at the gym. How you can lift, do aerobics or basketball and then climb into your car to go home sweating like a pig is beyond my comprehension. From friends who teach, I know they have dropped mandatory showering in middle schools and high schools, mostly due to lawsuits, and seem to be creating this new prudishness or shyness in young guys that I don't get. But then again, I've never been able to relate to all the gay stories where the gay character can't shower because he'd 'pop a bone' in the showers if he did. I knew from early on that I liked looking at naked guys and knew I was curious about doing stuff with guys, but never even came close to an erection even in the midst of my hormonal years. It wasn't that hard to control Mr. Happy.

Exactly..... Da Vinci, Angels & Demons....

Ogden Nash. Oh wait.... I didn't see the quiz. I did four different stories and two were Stephen King, one James Joyce and one Dan Brown. I'd love to think I write like James Joyce.

Concerts, opera, ballet, live theater, shopping, dining, museums, libraries, top medical care, universities, amusements, first run movies, art house movies, places to go after 9PM, professional sports, gblt centers.......

Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember. The greatest of all time.

My two favorite authors are Mark Arbour and Dom Luka. Dom tends to be a bit more subtle, but there is nothing subtle about Mark, at least in the Bridgemont series. I think the lusty passion of the characters in Mark's stories add to the story, not subtract from it. I think it depends on the skill of the author to make the steamy parts integral and not gratuitous.

Real men play water polo.

Pipikaula, reheating the kalua pig, chicken terriyaki and lau lau. Lomi lomi and poke as side dishes, with two scoops white rice and aunties macaroni salad.

How did you even hear about this? I think ignoring is the way to go.....

I only want you to have a good day if you are diligently writing new Chapters of Max & Josh and Indiana Summer.... otherwise naw... okay.... i guess you can have a happy birthday even if ya ain't writin' them new chapters.

It has to be winter because sometimes in winter it plunges to 52 degrees in southern California

Wow, that explosion was so powerful it blew the lights back on...... hmmmmmm.

I didn't vote because my answer isn't there. The answer is no, it isn't wrong to hit a woman any more than it is wrong to hit a man, it all depends on the circumstances. I was taught as a child not to let anyone get away with hitting me, boy or girl, but I was also taught not to give worse than I was getting, so I think Matt was right in reacting to the girl who scratched him, but maybe not a punch, just a slap. A small guy, who for whatever reason decided he wanted to hit me, wouldn't get beat up by me, he'd get neutralized, the same goes for a woman. Now touch a family member and all bets are off, I am much better at controlling my emotions if I am attacked than a loved one.

To me this is a no-brainer. American cartoons are definitely superior. ha ha I think American cartoons are much more diverse, Anime seems all alike and rather angsty. They also seem to be drawn alike as opposed to the many different styles of American cartoons. You had the realism of a Johnny Quest and the caricatures like the Flintstones. People didn't even scratch the surface of American cartoons, besides classics like Johnny Quest, the Flintstones, the Jetsons what about Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi the Bear, Huckleberry Hound, top Cat, Tom and Jerry and modern classics like Dexter's Lab... and that is just Hanna Barbera. Warner Brothers gave us Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Bugs, Tweety & Sylvester, Pepe Le Pew, Speedy Gonzalez and every one knows those were not just for kids, the undertones kept adults smiling too. Modern WB gave us Pinky & the Brain and the Animaniacs. Jay Ward was brilliant with Crusader Rabbit and his follow on, Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends. Every body gets that R&B, Dudley Do-right, Mr. Peabody's Improbable History, Fractured Fairy Tales & Aesop's Tales were geared towards adults and kids laughed because they were silly. And that is with out even mentioning the Walt Disney Studios and all they did and continue to do with cartoons as an art form. Even Disney Channel has entertaining cartoons like Phineas & Ferb, American Dragon and Kim Possible. Others have mentioned the modern creations of South Park, the Simpsons, Family Guy and King of the Hill. What would the holidays be without A Charlie Brown Christmas and the Grinch? Did I also mention the incarnations of Superman, Batman, Fantastic Four, Green Hornet, etc. that have appeared over the years? So yeah, I'll take American cartoons.

Lacey is slender but his feet look big Did her feet get wet in the Nashville flooding??

It was a pale imitation of Brother Iz. I loved the guest stars though, ONJ was perfect.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQRWeZy-S8Q

I double dog dare you!

For those of you who don't go to The Soapbox. The translation according to Google is, "You need not be so tough" (du trenger ikke vaere so toff)

Hmmmm still not sold. Here is a pink tie from Pink of Jermyn Street