Bondwriter

Eight heroes flying...

Samuel Doe had not gained power through antagonizing the U.S., though.

Darn. American humor lost a funny liberal long-haired hippie. Along with the people of SNL back in 87-88, he was one of these guys that made me feel good about the entertainment industry. Too soon? 71 is an OK age anyway if you've managed to live full throttle. So, RIP, George, if there's any place where to rest.

OK. CJ's reply about the Scar comforts me into thinking our J/S is a big screw-up as far as strategy's concerned. He's way too much short-term, and doesn't encompass a wide-enough scope when it comes to making up his plans. Gary's view of comparing him to comics books villains just reinforces my point. Jerry's gonna land in the world of over-the-top villains (think Christopher Walken in A View to a Kill, or your favorite James Bond villain -- I tend to like Michael Lonsdale's scheme in Moonraker, plus he's a rather mild-mannered bad guy). That's another proof of CJ's hatred towards his characters: heroes are put through utter distress, but so are the baddies. No one's safe from the Goat's evil brain.

My theory would be that CJ's delusional tendencies may wear off on female subjects of the human kind. We'll need further research to establish this theory as a hard fact.

My feeling about J/S: he's in Paraguay, the deception of the author wouldn't go as far as this. But don't other readers feel like me that Toomawoomba was the apex for the Scar? I think that he could manage building/ planting the bomb, which shows he had some leadership/ engineering skills, but since he's scared the planet s***less, it's going down the hill, because his HR management are quite poor, beyond having people they'll be highly paid and then killing them. I don't think he can manage a coup in Paraguay. The dynamics in South America are not the same than they used to be, and Paraguay has been democratic since 1992. Hence, since this is supposed to happen in 2010, he has to deal with people who've known democracy for almost two decades. He would need to have the land owners and the big company owners, plus the police AND the military if he wanted to succeed and enjoy a few years of peace. He'd have been better off buying an island in the Caribbeans (or in the Pacific), with one bomb cleverly hidden. I think the wiping out of Instinct was poorly planned. It should have been in the blueprint of his general scheme, and handled way before, and he should have had a B-plan for the last bomb, not relying on the same "band cover-up" stuff for all of them. Plus relying on someone like Dimitri is kind of stupid, since he's quite unreliable. (The fear of height, the killer's instinct...) I'd bet CJ could open some workshops in some remote location in the Arizona desert (there seems to be mine shafts galore over there, perfect for this kind of events), World Domination 101: Soft and Hard Skills to Become a Faultless Criminal Mastermind

It is high time you start taking pride into being the King/ Queen/ Master/ Emperor of cliffhangers, CJ. High time.

I'm all in for this, but I won't claim to be normal. Actually, there are quite a few abnormal things I could do with CJames once he's sporting pink underwear.

Sorry to zeta-edit your post, my friend, but in this particular occurrence, the spelling is O.K. Check out for yourself. And only in Kansas could they think of such a name for a city; though maybe they were forecasting the advent of a notorious goat author of the cliffhanger kind. With a very high death count in the history of fiction, not like a mere legendary pistol duel could actually fit the (wild) bill (hickock).

Regarding the Yap/ Tiger discussion about serials, I must say I really like it this way. It's a feature of popular literature to have serials and cliffhangers, and from the interaction with readers this creates, this compares to the 19th century's writers and the mail they got. Conan Doyle had to revive Sherlock Holmes whom he had killed because of the readers' pressure. We can get our way if CJ actually kills Helen. Readers of CJ's stories, unite and take over!

Trying to prove you're normal by putting a goat in pink underwear... Mmmh. Interesting.

Well, good luck to you if you want to have CJames acknowledge his problem. There have been numerous efforts to have him take the first step. All in vain.

I was thinking of good old Allen... He doesn't wear rags at that time. And actually, on your pic, you look a bit like my friend Nick, who's really cute and fun to hang out with. Well, he does share my peculiar tastes, hence the fun part, but not only.

Or to join Jack Kerouac on a trip from NYC to Los Angeles.

Overall a good summary of things we know. About 3.: does putting readers in utter distress with evil CH actually mean the goat has a good heart? About 4.: one of many titles, but the popular votes eventually settled the matter; though you're right about the denial.

Hey, it seems everyone is giving advice, and instead of ruining Tiger's Desiderata thread, I'll make it an entry. WORDS OF ADVICE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE People often ask me if I have any words of advice for young people. Well, here are a few simple admonitions for young and old. Never interfere in a boy and girl fight. Beware of whores who say they don't want money. The hell they don't. What they mean is they want more money. Much more. If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit, not with the good Lord telling him how to f*ck you on the deal. Avoid f*ckups. You all know the type. Anything they have anything to do with, no matter how good it sounds, turns into a disaster. Do not offer sympathy to the mentally ill. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel. You are a terminal fool." Now some of you may encounter the devil's bargain if you get that far. Any old soul is worth saving at least to a priest, but not every soul is worth buying. So you can take the offer as a compliment. They charge the easy ones first, you know, like money, all the money there is. But who wants to be the richest guy in some cemetery? Not much to spend it on, eh, Gramps? Getting too old to cut the mustard. Have you forgotten something, Gramps? In order to feel something, you have to be there. You have to be 18. You're not 18, you are 78. Old fool sold his soul for a strap-on. How about an honorable bargain? "You always wanted to become a doctor. Now's your chance. Why, you could have become a great healer and benefit humanity. What's wrong with that?" Just about everything. There are no honorable bargains involving exchange of qualitative merchandise like souls. Just quantitative merchandise like time and money. So piss off, Satan, and don't take me for dumber than I look. As an old junk pusher told me, "Watch whose money you pick up." -- William S. Burroughs

Punxsutawney?

OK, now is the time to tell you: I added a few typos. Mwah! Ha! Ha! It seemed it was the least I could do to mimic the behavior of the unsavory characters of a terrorist kind you relish in bringing to life. They (the typos, of course) are carefully hidden, and I'll tell you where they are ONLY if you deliver the remaining chapters with Instinct unharmed (go for the dream stuff for 43, Dimitri could have chewed on some hallucinogenic plants as he was in his lair...)

Didn't Shadowgod solve the problem once and for all?

Nice collection of goat pics, isn't it? I agree, having had a team of hackers get in there earlier on (for one the numerous cliffhahers in FTL). As for the paragraphs, thanks for leaking them. There's enough commas to identify CJ as the author, and I'm glad the story goes on like this. The ghost of G

I just finished Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg. It's funny, and it makes you cry. Great novel about a gay guy in New York City in the 80s.

You know me, I'm usually not the last one to badmouth the goat, but I'll come to his rescue (this time); he needs to encode it in HTML, and then send it to Joe, who apparently is busy at the moment, before it's eventually posted. (Hey! I just wrote a sentence CJ-style, notice the commas and the indented clauses )

44 was sent back from zeta 3 minutes ago.

I had an idealistic vision of Joe so far, the super thorough, honest, serious guy. But auctioning one's BF doesn't really fit this image, does it?

Won't vote.