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Noooooooooo!!! If I'd known this, I woudn't have gotten up today . Steve

Don't worry Bob, I had to give up on my search for CJ. I was rapidly running out of money, and since Shadowgod wasn't willing to take my Volvo off my hands, I had to turn around, back to the Great White North. Notice he said something in the forums about being in Northern Arizona recently? I figured that was just to throw me off his trail. In the future I might have to enlist Bondwriters' hit men to help locate him . So in true CJames fashion, all of those that are part of the "Shear and Tar" committee, it is Shadowgod's fault that he is still his hairy, sunglassed self . Steve

True enough , hence my next post

Dogs take showers? Interesting

"Going Public" My prediction is that Lump will launch a lawsuit against Instinct and the bands assets will be frozen before they can get their legal defence ready. In an act of desperation, the band decides to incorporate themselves and offer IPO's on the NYSE. The Scar, always looking for a quick buck to help offset the costs of evil doings, will buy 49% of the band stock. The remaining 51% will be acquired by the boys' Dad with an agreement that Lump will be the new manager. Hence the band will be "going public". There!!! Can't wait till Tuesday to see if any of the above predictions are true . This post also takes care of my contribution to the weeks silliness . Steve

But you said you had cloven hooves. Shouldn't you be able to get to at least nine????

Look at it this way CJ.... You could sacrifice yourself to ensure the safety of hundreds, maybe thousands of people from Nepal. I noticed that you weren't around when a certain plane blew up off the eastern coast of Russia, how selfish But then, you could always send Bob or Conner to go in your place. Think of it as the sacrifice of the one, for the many. Steve

What a great chapter !! I agree with everything you said Conner, except about the side story. I actually found by having two cut outs to other locals, it kinda had that Tom Clancy feel that someone mentioned before. It seems like two different stories are going on simultaneously now. Keep it up CJ, as that was probably the only thing that I could have critiqued before now. Now, , I couldn't help but laugh at this little part:

Cornelius Eric James :wacko: Okay, that works Steve

No way am I going to fall for this once again!!! By misleading us with The Kiss, I imagine this chapter will be nothing more than a scene with Brandon and Chase holding hands, looking at each other with a side reference of a "noticable lump returning to show in each others pants", then cutting away to a scene with The Scar. Don't worry CJ, we know you can't comment on spoilers for the plot. Steve

Shadowgod, Unfortunately my credit card is just about maxed due to the fact that I'm still driving around Arizona looking for CJ's place to give him a haircut, so I can't bid with money. But, fortunately due to the advice of a GA member, I am now driving around proudly in a 1972 Volvo. It is one of the safest cars that I've ever had the pleasure of driving. I rebuilt the engine, and I will trade it to you for deleted scenes, and I'll even throw in the fuzzy dice. Steve

Okay CJ, I goofed. I took a right when I crossed the Arizona state line instead of a left. My rage was so intense that when I saw what I mistakenly took as a goat, I figured it was you . Unfortunately, I went to the wrong place, and this was the result: BUT CJ, I warn you, now that I'm heading in the right direction again, your haircut won't be too much different!!! :battleaxe: Steve

Dam, how do I change my vote ! I don't know if a clubbing would suffice in this case :axeman: One little point though, after the kiss between The Scar and Dimitri, my reading sped up tenfold. I will probably have to re-read the chapter to get the full enjoyment of the later half. Steve

CJ!!!!!!!!!! I'm coming to arizona with my shears, anyone want to meet me with a bucket of hot tar, and someone else with some feathers??? Steve :mace: Oh, btw, great chapter. I love the way that Chase and Brandon are both thinking the same thing, but will only share with Helen what they are thinking. I wonder how long until she gets tired of the two's antics and blurts something out.

Sixteen votes now up!!! One question, did we ever decide the whole Shadowgod/CJames thingy? Do they/him get one or two votes? Steve

Wow, I have learned so much from CJ's forumns. Who would have thought I'd not only getting entertained, but I would get an education as well. Steve

Well I will submit "The Goatmen" once again after explianing where I got it from. Since CJ won't comment on the possibilty of any such truth, it makes me wonder........ :wacko: . As far as it being not gender neutral, all I can say is that since they have female FBI agents, they are not Gwomen, they are Gmen. Pretty weak, eh? Steve

Oh just great!!!! Hey Bondwriter, got any hitmen in the Mauritius area??? :2hands: Steve

I think CJ is like poor misunderstood Eric of FTL fame. If we leave him alone, he will always end up doing the right thing in the end

Hmmm, a shaved goat that has been tarred and feathered and now has spines sticking out from all over him? Has CJ suffered enough? Steve

Damn, I've heard of people not having sex due to one person having a headache, but after watching that second video I imagine you goats are never in the mood . Steve

Yikes! I can think of 4260 reasons why you might not want to consider doing this :wacko: . Now as far as Chapter 5 goes, I really liked that you brought up the pasts of both Brandon and Chase. I think that by doing so, the final major character development of the two is finally done. I must say I'm not surprised that Bourbon had a bit to do with Brandon's downfall in life at the time . It seems Shadowgod's influence has a much wider swath than what most of us understood. So maybe it is correct to blame him for all the bad in the world . With Betty, oops Helen, I'm really liking her character. It seems Chase has a bit of mischief in him that he likes to direct to towards her. I foresee Brandon being dragged in unsuspecting with Chase for future hi jinx regarding Helen. Poor Helen. I will admit that I still giggle like a little girl every time "The Scar" is brought up in the story. I know it is important to the story, especially after the prologue. Maybe it is the placements of the scene changes that is bugging me. The story is generally a happy go lucky, feel good story so far. With the sudden cut aways to "The Scar", it just doesn't seem to flow for me. I don't know what you could do differently, except maybe putting the side story at the very beginning, or the very end of the chapter. But hey, that is just my opinion. Now that you have revealed the next chapter's name, I may just have to jump on the T and F bandwagon if the kiss is between anyone besides Chase and Brandon. So in order not to make that post into an official tease, I will now start a chant that I learned from a certain anonymous goat....6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, pleeeeeeeeese! If the chapter is more than a week away, the kiss must be only the start of more action between the two in the chapter. If not, get me my shears . Steve

Be forewarned, this is going to be a looooong post.... As I have followed CJames over the past while, I have often wondered about his true origins. I do recall a story that was told to me year after year when we were camping as kids at summer camp, usually on a overnight trip away from the camp proper, usually in nothing more than lean-twos in Kananaskis Country in the Alberta Rockies. It was in the category of a ghost story, that still has me thinking when out camping. It goes something like this: Back in the early nineteen seventies, the Province of Alberta was mapping out the building of more roads and facilities in Kananaskis Provincial Park in the Alberta Rockies. The area was pristine, untouched mountainous area between Banff and Calgary on the eastern slopes of the rugged Rockies. As there were not really even any logging roads at the time, the province enlisted the use of contractors, who were used to fly over the vast area and plan out the future of the park. One such surveyor was a new university grad who after a couple of years of pre med, decided he couldn't stand the blood and guts of medicine and changed over to geology. On his first flight he and a pilot took off from Springbank airport and were going to survey the route for the main highway through the park. As it was spring, there was still plenty of snow cover on the ground and in the mountains. At one point of the flight, they were crossing a valley just above the tree line, a sheer wind probably caused by a Chinook, literally flipped the plane upside down. Being so close to the ground, the pilot did not have a chance to react and the pilot and surveyor crashed quickly. Once on the ground, the surveyor looked over at the pilot who he knew was dead, even without checking for a pulse. Suddenly the pain in his leg told him that he better worry about himself first. As he looked down at his left leg, where most of the pain was coming from, he realized that the console had broken from the frame and was pinning his leg against the floor. Quickly realizing that he was bleeding profusely from the leg, he tied a tourniquet just above the knee. This seemed to slow the bleeding, and gave the man a chance to look around the plane for something that he could reach to pry the console off his leg. Realizing that there was nothing to help him, he remembered from back in med school a film they had watched on amputation. Realizing that there was no radio, as it was smashed apart, he decided that he only had one option to survive. After several hours of excruciating pain, he had managed to cut through his entire left leg just above the knee, he had also put on a couple of more tourniquets to stem the bleeding. When he was done, he wrapped the pilots coat around the stub, and secured the whole thing with the pilots' and his belt. He was able to pull himself from the plane, with nothing more than the clothes he wore and a first aid kit and survival kit from the plane. As he dragged his body slowly across the snow, he began to realize that he would soon die from either exposure or the loss of blood. When he began to give up all hope, he noticed that about fifty feet away, there was a dead mountain goat with one of it's legs in a leg trap. Pulling himself over to the goat, he began to see hope again, as he now had a source of food until hopefully rescuers found him. After several days, and no sound or sight of planes or rescuers, the goat was mostly consumed by now. The meat gave him more energy, but still he had no way to walk. With not much left of the goat but the carcass and legs and head, he started having an idea, that probably no other sane person would think off. He took the rear leg and cut it from the goat. He noticed the width at the top was much the same width of his leg just above the knee. Using a needle and some thread from the survival kit, he began to sew the goat's leg to his leg. Since the blood had stopped from his leg, he felt very little pain. Finally after sewing for quite a while, he released the tourniquets from his upper leg. He immediately felt the warmth of the blood move down his leg. The strange thing was that he felt the goats leg becoming part of his leg. As he looked down at the part that was goat, he was shocked to see the skin pinking up, and he could feel the pins and needles of an area that had frostbite. Not understanding how it could be, he pulled himself up a tree so he was in a standing position on his right leg. Totally not believing what happened he gingerly put the weight on his left leg and was surprised to see it was supporting his weight. Realizing he now had a chance, he started to walk in the way that he thought was towards the main highway. Slowly his vision started changing and he could see much better at night. His smell seemed more intense, and he seemed to be growing more body hair rapidly. He then realized that as much as his blood was flowing into the goat's leg, the goat's blood was now mixing with his. This would also explain the flashes he saw before him, where he saw a human setting out leg traps. After a couple of weeks the man/goat, had no urge to be found and began to realize that if he did come across another human, he would probably kill them. His hatred for humans was all consuming now. Slowly, spring turned into summer, and this brought the humans out camping to the mountains. The goatman was able to control his urges when he smelt humans, and turn the other way. Finally the urges became too much. A pair of newlyweds were camping in the Barrier Lake area that had just opened up that summer. Their second night there, in the middle of the night, the guy got up in the middle of the night to go take a leak. When he was away from the tent and relieving himself, he thought he heard a noise. Thump, click, thump, click, thump, click, thump, click. He turned to the noise, and saw a creature that looked half man, half goat driving a sharpened stick into his finance's body in the tent. Screaming he ran towards the goatman who suddenly noticed the man running towards him. As the man got closer, he realized his wife was dead, and he could see the look of death in the goatman's eyes. Realizing the goatman was now coming closer to him, thump, click, thump, click, he saw that the thumping was from a heavy bare human foot, and the clicking coming from a goat hoof where the left foot should be. In a panic the man ran away as fast as he could. The next day, the RCMP and Provincial Conservation Officers searched the entire area, to no avail. They did find the man's wife, but had trouble believing his account of a goatman killing her. So was born the legend of the goatman. To this day, anywhere in the Rocky Mountains from the United States to the Yukon Territory, people have heard late at night odd sounds. When asked what they sounded like, they reply it was a "thump, click, thump, click, thump, click. Hence, this is why, my vote is for The Goatmen, as I do believe that CJames is the original goatman. Just look at his picture!! I imagine the sunglasses are truly hiding the murderous glow in his eyes. Steve P.S. Remember the above "ghost story" is told to kids about 8-14, and not meant to be criticized for the total unbelievable nature. But I'll tell you, when your out camping and that is the last story you hear, it is damn scary

Okay, so now I'm beginning to wonder if this whole CJames=Shadowgod thingy may have some weight to it. First we have: Then we also have:

Let me just say that if I was 20 years younger and out at the time, and you weren't with someone, I'd say "hey" . But, I have to ask, wouldn't it be a bit narcissistic if you dated someone named Steve? Hmmm, something for even me to ponder . Steve