Bondwriter

And while we're at it... Joan Jett! She's the ultimate rock star. And if you have the occasion, see Light of Day by Paul Schrader, with Michael J. Fox and Gena Rowlands. Great performance from Joan.

Good taste, anyone? You've got the peached, I've got the cream! What's that for classy lyrics?

I read chapter 17. I just didn't have one my extremely witty comments that popped into my mind when I did. Bracing up for 18.

It is entirely up to CJ to have Brandon safe and Dimitri fall. Personally, the mere fact that Dimitri is out of the way is enough to make my day. A slow and painful death would just be a cherry on the top.

(And this one is a goat joke also!) ... you have ever had to get up quickly in the morning in order to let the goat out before she dropped raisins on the kitchen floor.

I think he'd have won the Darwin award indeed. I'd encourage everyone to watch the video of Franz's feat. It should make you laugh and shudder at the same time. Notice how he hesitates because of the media presence. I can see the thoughts whirling inside his head: "Will I chicken out? Well, all these people have come for me... At the same time, what if my invention doesn't work?" And indeed, Brandon will have to be saved from the Great Goat Peril. CJ has more power over Brandon's life than Dimitri.

Happy Birthday, Michael!

Snails are more or less flavorless. What makes them tasty is the butter, parsley and garlic they're cooked in. Great entr

I'm glad to inform you that in Germany and France (that I know of), kebab restaurants are serious competitors of Mc Donald's. I'd even say that in the last decade they've outgrown hamburgers. You usually get a full plat with veggies on top of the greasy meat, and here in France, fries on top. The greatest breakthrough in culinary marketing in France of the recent past.

Two bodies offer a similar resistance to air, I'd say, unless the surface of Dimitri exposed to air is significantly different from this of Brandon. But Brandon's odds to catch a tree growing out from the cliff, or to fall 5 feet below on a small platform are higher from a fictional point of view. What makes the odds higher is that the author is not at risk of ending on a spit if Dimitri equals the performance of Franz Reichelt.

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.

Darn, another Nexis Pas fan... Now I'll have to check out your stories!

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).

Thanks to this link, I got lured into spending several hours watching Bill O'Reilly last week (ah! the links on Youtube...) The devil's always intriguing, though this particular one singularly lacks any kind of charm. So no thanks for posting this video to Jack!

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.