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Chapter 2 - Call from Brian
Irritable1 commented on RolandQ's story chapter in Chapter 2 - Call from Brian
Really convincing. You've used such a light touch with the emotions in this one. -
I'm loving this, Roland! I'd call it noir-inspired since the narrator sounds kind of sweet, but it's pretty awesome regardless
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I'm in California, epicenter for every restrictive diet on Earth. I tell you the vegans are mellower than they were... or maybe the bad ones have gone gluten-free now And maybe one reason I'm off the fried seafood these days is because I've got these locally: Dungeness crab is cheaper and silkier than lobster, easier to prepare than oysters. Get the water boiling and you're good to go.
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Now, now. Maybe it's my advanced age, but the ones I meet these days are very sweet and undemanding.
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LOL, remember they must be scarcely bigger than hazel nuts. And where you're going to get the ship's biscuit I don't know! Still, a lot can be done with bacon... Oh god I'm so hungry... Edit: Now, I will say that I've never eaten a fried clam that didn't have a bit of sand in it. I have a theory that in chowder the sand all sinks to the bottom or something. This liability doesn't arise with oysters, and they have a lot more flavor.
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Happy birthday Mann! Sorry it's so late!
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Speaking of New England, here's the bit in Moby-Dick that always makes me so hungry I have to take a break:
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I think most batters overwhelm the delicacy of fish, but I love fried oysters. Not every place even offers them so it's self-limiting.
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OMG, I KNEW IT I KNEW IT! All the biological changes sound interestingly like women's experiences, especially birth. I had a visceral little "ugh" feeling throughout that section... Nice work, Sasha!
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OMG, I KNEW IT I KNEW IT! All the biological changes sound interestingly like women's experiences, especially birth. I had a visceral little "ugh" feeling throughout that section... Nice work, Sasha!
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LOL yeah I threw that in as a sop to the UK spelling I started life on, which still gets me in trouble sometimes. You could also argue that "brilliant" was like "groovy"---just too shameful to retain and thus a necessary exception. But it actually sounds from Thorne's post like it's still current enough to get by, so maybe I'm just talking to the wrong people.
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Yeah so it's crazy AND misspelt! Speaking of which, whatever happened to "brilliant"? Seems like a contradiction of Graeme's hypothesis that new usage gets held into later years.
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Like rain on your wedding day. One usage that interests me is the metaphor about placing pressure on someone to do something. Americans shorten to "pressure," I think reaching for the older, and still perfectly usable, "press." British people go for "pressurize" which I think is just nuts.
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Aw, I like "liberal." Various bits of business English take turns driving me mad, but I think "bucket" has been the worst for me, even worse than "leverage."
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Me too. It's cold and clean, makes me think of a Wyeth. I like to think I've grown a bit more open-minded with time about what I consider Aahrt. Part of it is about training one's own eye.
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This is probably one of your funniest. Love it.
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Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown
Irritable1 commented on Cole Matthews's story chapter in Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown
I'm really astonished that none of the characters considered an abortion an option at all... Mirabelle would really be ok with Button giving up a treasured scholarship and working at the country club rather than going to school? -
Dinner, A Show, and Dessert
Irritable1 commented on Cole Matthews's story chapter in Dinner, A Show, and Dessert
In a long term relationship, it's the little things that come to mean so much... -
The Death of a Good Dog
Irritable1 commented on Sasha Distan's story chapter in The Death of a Good Dog
Hee. I can understand that it's difficult when your crush isn't interested in you and then he calls you by someone else's name, but it's still not nice to bite! -
Oh, you're in Arizona?
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Happy birthday, Slytherin!!!
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LOL. Good news is we've already had the children
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Mr. Irri just said "villainous." Forget everything I've posted in this thread.
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San Francisco suburb, extremely family-oriented. There are, I think, a couple/three lesbian-based families in the school district, who appear to be exactly as boring as the rest of us No bathhouses, sadly--that would really liven up the PTA. Oh well. Edit: maybe it's a function of age, but I know a bunch of out gay people at work, and we're all in pretty much the same long-term monogamous situation, with or without kids and/or mortgages, or trying to get there. Clubs and bars, forget about it. We all want to get home early for some family-related reason.
