Kitt

Arbourloaded is a good thing tho!

But no less tasty

I'm in a similar boat with Rndmrunner, in that things have changed considerably since I was in high school. Being a straight old lady perhaps I look at things very differently than most of you do. From my POV things will not really be right till everyone gets that a persons choice in sexual partners is no one else's business. Some day the terms gay and straight will be obsolete. Hopefully my grandchildren will know that time, but in the meantime it is up to us "straight and accepting" people to help institute change. The bottom line is that it really is not an issue a gay person can change - it's the bigoted straight community that needs the help. When I was in high school, a friend got up the nerve to tell me he was gay in our senior year. I had known since we were freshmen at least, probably even earlier. I think I just didn't understand enough about sexuality in general before that to connect the dots. He was so shocked when I shrugged and asked him if he thought that he was any different than he was yesterday. He had not changed in the 24 hours, why should I? I know Cele was speaking tongue in cheek, but that sort of separatism DOES exist, and it is not helping the GLBT cause. Reverse discrimination does not help the issue. I have seen instances where gay rights were defended so vehemently that it created a problem that did not exist. When I introduced myself to one woman at the stable where I work part time she assumed I was there to tell her to stay away from the riding students because of her sexuality and proceeded to lay into me about how wrong that was. Had she kept her damn mouth shut she would have found I was simply going to ask her to comply with a request not to mix grain mashes in the restrooms as the grains clog the drains. No one, including me, would ever have known she was a lesbian if she hadn't started lecturing me on how "not different" she was! The openly gay guy that stables with us was laughing his ass off at her since - in his words - i am the most easy going straight old lady he knows!

a bag full of crabs is much less stupid when i can turn it into crab salad and/or crabmeat stuffing. Can't think of a damn thing i could do with starbucks coffee - certainly not drink the shit!

Yep! Your turn TLM

Absorbs odors so the whole fridge and all the food doesn't end up smelling and tasting of last nights fish.

Thanks for another great chapter! I found it interesting that several readers saw fit to comment on Zach being very focused and ruthless in pursuit of his goals. Some seem to think that a bad thing in Zach, but it does not seem to bother them in Brad. No one seems to have registered that Zach insisted on going to Tribeca with Will, something Will did not expect from him. Somehow I can't help but think Tribeca is going to be a huge issue. I can hear the tic tic tic of that roller coaster climbing.

Here's hoping 2014 is a much better year for you Dustin! Come hang out with us when you can. We can be a pretty supportive bunch!

"I'm made of wax Larry. What are you made of?"

LMAO! Exit 6 should continue to serve the mixed beers in question but call it "the F word"!

Not to mention the fact that all he really wanted to do was find an easier way to the east indies!

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - the dude who played the sgt under John Wayne

Well the cleanout is done - and yes the baking soda was the oldest thing in there. Now its the newest. There was one bottle of salad dressing that expired "last year" but only at the end of December.

LOL I think its the box of baking soda put in to absorb odors, but I haven't done my new years cleanout yet. Let you know tomorrow afternoon - its how i plan on spending the "stuck inside" time of this coming snowstorm.

Admittedly it has been much longer since I was in college compared with you, but if i remember correctly I would have been still drunk on waking at 10 am. Welcome to the world of the "older" generation where we pay much more dearly for our previous evenings consumption!

Or write it into your stories the way Mark Arbour does!

I think if you have lived so comfortably that seeing opinions like those was a shock to you - you should consider yourself very lucky. Most people, both gay and straight, will run up against some form of blatant discriminatory BS sometime in their lives. Best can be done with opinions like those is identify them as BS and not let them bother us.

Since Mickey seems to be off celebrating the new year - why don't you toss a clue Sly?

lol that skeleton could have been in any of an hundred westerns.

The world would be an awful boring place if we all thought and acted the same now wouldn't it?

was the horse skeleton supposed to be a clue Zombie? I think everyone went off to celebrate the new year!

I think all of our participating authors should get a round of applause. It takes a lot to put yourselves out there in the first place, and even more to write a story more or less "on demand" based on someone else's suggestion. Well done everyone! And congrats Joann!

Cheater! Hehehe I can't blame you.

Not gonna say it - gonna be a good girl - gonna stay outta trouble! And no - I can't see Kurt sharing at all.

Pssst - you should post a link here on the story page!