Bondwriter

Steve, you were raised a Catholic, weren't you? (damn wussy compassionate people ) I know you beta-readers don't get squat, but my fee is rather high, and not having any incoming chapters means lower income, which in turns means lower revenue for France under the form of gladly paid taxes! Allons Enfants de la Patrie! So why would a mere goat get some rest, be able to get more time to think his plot and characters, and be allowed to provide a better story for his cohorts of readers, if it means my nice and respectable government doesn't get its rightful share? Come on, CJames, it's two chapters a week you're supposed to toil over, now, we Frenchmen love to exploit foreign labor! Especially minority animal labor. I want to get my L

The SMS you got is the straw on the camel's back. I'm sure that were I I this guy's psychologist/ lawyer, I could find him tons of excuses. From your end he's just a jerk. Someone who moans and bitches at the waitress is a big no-no. Period. The racist slur in the SMS? You may move on to better people. From the photo thread, you've got a great smile, so be the hot piece of cuteness you are, and go on trying, use the electronic media, which is a good way actually to move beyond physical appearance, and you'll get to meet guys whom you'll enjoy and make happy.

I hope pimping is illegal in your state, because the way you try to peddle Herb as a hot piece of maleness is rather shameless and vile. Welcome to the Jungle, baby, as the Great Philosopher Axl Rose used to say. Work, a world in which merit is seldom rewarded, and disgusting politics prevail... By the way, managerial positions aren't any easier to handle. You just usually end up better off at the end of the day.

I'm a regular bitch. I have no friends. I make people unhappy every chance I get. I managed to be rude to about ten people today. I earn enough money that I can look down on five bucks. (Erm... If you kidnap Steve, could you possibly ship him over?)

He! He! With all these praises, the pressure must be quite intense on the goat. Now this should give us some high quality fiction to enjoy. OK, The Scarz won't be the next villain, maybe. What do you guys think Instinct is going to meddle with? Terrorists? Embezzlers? Smugglers? Serial killers? Bossy mothers who have their say in the wedding? Crazy female fans who don't get over aforementioned wedding?

Quality VS. quantity. A nice motto. One Bob abides with.

Doomsday scenarios are a fixture of the right to enforce some drastic policies that favor the rich. Check out from other sources. There are indeed issues, and the necessity to reform the system, so that those who take risks lose when they screw up, and not just win when they're successful, but there are still some strong bases for the US. Of course, spending billions on wars that won't be won is a pretty poor investment, but there are still tons of wealth to be used for the good of everybody. Same over here in Europe. As for your point 4, sorry, but the control of states over central banks is a thing of the past. This would take politicians with guts, lots of support and understanding from the population to reverse the course it has taken (and which is indeed detrimental to many of us).

Lots of thinking from Dennis in this one. I'm still concerned with the car and the impending drama, since some authors seem to be willing to put their characters through much sorrow. Maybe it's because the business issues are kind of remote in my memory, but I'm kind of lost on the embezzlement stuff. I hope Gerald's parents eventually get out of the picture. One question about this sentence: From my understanding, then things would have gotten much, much better, but then afterwards we're told they're still having major issues.

Why do we like superheroes in the first place? The issue is with (actual) straight guys liking them, not us!

Not my favorite Queen, as far as the music goes, but quite moving, since it was shot less than six months before Freddie died. And he looks so much better without a mustache...

The devil, or some representative of it. Like, a snake, a pentagram or a goat. Ugh! A goat!

I doubt Yuri is the one who survived (but two people might have survived, the Scar losing one limb in the process...) So I'd say for sure J/S is alive. But is a disfigured one-arm guy a worthy villain for the next adventure? He is also out of money. And so much for strangling people with his garroting wire... I hope CJ gets a good sidekick/ henchman to our villain so he may pull out plots that endanger Instinct and give us thrills...

Now, I didn't know about fishermen. Though my theory about the guys who go hunting in the swamps is that they're gay, or at least dissatisfied with their family life. But I wouldn't dare come close to one of their huts and yell "Hunters are just a bunch of closeted gays!" because they've guns and they drink. Hence provocation could be a bit dangerous. The Greek stuff, maybe, though it's another macho country... Surprisingly enough, in my family the percentage is limited. I've got one cousin who lives with another woman, out of 40 cousins overall. There might be one or two closet cases, but I actually doubt it.

We weren't given any information about the time of arrival of the medics chopper, or not that I remember. Actually, in the movie Three Kings, there's a shot explaining that what's dangerous is having the guts pierced and then the blood poisoned by the bacteria in the digestive system, and that's what causes death. As for massive blood loss, since we have around five liters of blood, if too much is lost then you die. The things you learn in first aid courses is to limit the blood loss as much as possible in case of an injury. Well, after this ghastly paragraph, here is the result of the search my aides performed last night (bold characters mine):

"doctor's names" become "hallowed names"????? I'd say you tweaked a delicate, dainty description of a poor guy going into a hospital to visit his boyfriend --recklessly endangered and thrown into a coma by a wicked author-- into a super-misleading piece. I'm still not convinced. I'll throw my sleuths on Jerry's trail at least; I'm sure there's a clue under the shape of a comma somewhere indicating that no, after all, he survived a bomb that went off 1 and a 1/2 feet from his face, and the ensuing fire. Indeed. Right. As if. My diagnosis prior to the epilogue. A goat who plays with machine guns but sheds a tear over his umpteenth reread of Music is the Soul of Love. (Notice how the first name Barbra is subtly altered to make a reference to one of CJ's great influences) Well, at least this time you don't commiserate over the fate of a low-life scum to the point of letting him walk away uninjured.

Yeah, well, you're quite right. I'm not too big on smilies...

I'd rather have them on the Jerry Springer show, provided this still exists...

I really don't see how much Helen's death adds to the tension, at least the fact that she's still considered as dead in the previous chapter, with some clever hints that it could actually be an hospital, but with massive ones that it's a funeral home or a church. To sum up: Helen jumping in front of Eric/ sacrificing herself: OK Helen badly wounded, biker seeing her die: OK Helen's fate unsure as they chase Dimitri: OK Misleading paragraph in chapter 47: fatwa. (You might always try to blame Shadowgod, but I don't see how you can incriminate the poor SoCal hunk this time...) Otherwise, this is a cute ending. And this has been a great story. So what's next? Will Instinct manage to save the world from the threat of ruthless speculators starving the masses by their treacherous deeds on the world's commodity future markets?

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Blame it on Shadowgod.

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All the clues are there. This ain't CJ-related. ?????

OK, OK, but Life, the Universe and Everything = ???