Bondwriter

Even if doesn't lead you into a relationship, things will certainly be easier for you. Congratulations on this bold move.

I'd be tempted to go for the "Get a room, you two!" line, but: 1/ Someone used it already. 2/ I've got a feeling you didn't need the advice.

Sadly enough, the pool party that was planned afterwards was cancelled, CJ telling us it would be rescheduled at a later date, because he wants to make sure this Canadian buddy of his can make it. I don't know if us lambs can mingle with goats too much, though.

Well, not the first adjective that came up. Mean, wicked, devious, evil, irritating... I actually thought CJ pulled this trick rather well, since after all he just skips the conversation with Dex (and C&S going to bed, lol), and then goes on with the story. And I was so pissed at CJ for not telling that I looked for the least little detail that would make the whole scheme fall apart. I love your #2 theory. A high-scale fraud. It'll be fun when Chris and Steve will watch the FBI take away Thaddeus and Johnson who will mumble:" Darn, had it not been for these meddling homosexual youngsters, our scheme'd have worked perfectly!" (Yeah, I'm still a Scooby Doo fan)

This is all fine and dandy, but earning enough money to pay the bills and indulge in a bit more than the ordinary chow makes your life less worrisome. I also agree having tons of money isn't a guarantee of happiness. But it helps keeping trouble away.

I don't see how you people can go praising this chapter. Now we know how purely evil CJames is. Satan, Lucifer, Leviathan are some of his names. After about four lines reading, I scrolled down, having the uneasy feeling that indeed the shuffle stuff was meant as "I'm stalling and will hide these vital information from you". Then I screamed out loud, I cursed, I screamed more. I went on reading, and with all my anger and frustration of not learning what would happen, I went searching for any flaw in the chapter. Something that would make it a pure gimmick, some problem making the trick kill the story. And I couldn't find any. All scenes work well. He gets my goat. So I have to agree with Graeme's statement of last week: CJames is a bastard. Well, Eric is too. I just can't wait to learn if the Sheriff and the philandering preacher sell drugs, weapons, human beings or military secrets. Apparently it's not porn... *taps his fingers nervously*

Bert and Ernie taught me a great lesson in life: don't eat cookies in bed, crumbs will annoy the person who shares said bed. And I'm glad to learn that Dick Grayson was followed by other Boy Wonders.

From this quick excerpt, my natural sympathy goes to Gabe: he's assertive, he's a professional who can't take a job poorly handled. I'll wait and see if Brandon is not a complete jerk; until now he's been wallowing in self pity, complaining about his employer (basic employee behavior: if he's not the boss, isn't there a reason in the first place?) As for pools, there are plenty of them in hotels, so you shouldn't be too disappointed, I imagine.

For Zibidibido: the song and a cool animation. I guess Shadowgod's posting brought back to my mind a lot of Leonard Cohen's songs with great lyrics: Chelsea Hotel, Suzanne, The Partisan... Darn, going into hippie mode again! Here is the vid for Razor's song; the great singing and the amazing pictures would be sorely missed if you'd had only read the (fabulous, must I say) lyrics. Edit: the above is a parody, but worth watching, so I'll leave the link. Here is an AMV that features the song with slightly better production.

If only there could be a goats only forum, you'd have read chapter 1 already. Drugs, rock n' roll, no sex though. But I wouldn't want to spoil it for you.

Chase the goats. Hide from the pirates. Welcome!

If this bird (a condor) is big enough to lift Snowy in the air, what about CAPRA HIRCUS? Depicted underneath: less than 2 ft high, weighing UP TO 50 lbs. (Sorry to put up goat erotica, since the animals are in the nude, and it may get some strong reaction from the goats seeing this. It's not considered illegal, since the typing/ speaking goats haven't been banned and prohibited - yet.)

Rereading my reply as I check wrathofmagneto's one, I think it is confused, so I'll go with unrelated statements, which may be as confusing in the end, but intended to be less so. *You may disagree with people's acts or thoughts without hating them. *Arguing/ fighting cannot be avoided to be on a higher moral plane It also brings improvements. *In-the-face rhetoric can be used by good people. *Humor can be seen as disdain; often it is a way to tell things, which is better than grabbing a gun from a traditional moral point of view. *Whether or not there is an afterlife, it's what is done on this earth that counts for mankind. Not absolutely certain that I agree with this. The fact that we would be innately evil or good... Nah. Being brought up in a rhetoric of hatred helps a lot to become hateful. We all have to make choices at some point. OK, I'll come down from the pulpit now.

Hey, Ieshwar, welcome to the thread! I thought about it too, but since CJames has vowed not to use clich

Your posting average is going to plummet! Keep being shy in Wyoming!

Not a holiday here. But it coincides with Pentecoast, the monday after which, until three years ago, was a official holiday. Now, it has become a "solaridity" day, a sort of nice forced fundraising to help the elderly; and a way to start cutting on the number of non-worked days, starting with suppressing the religious holidays. I don't see a bright future for Nov. 11th (1918 Armistice Commemoration), since there are almost no survivors of WWI left... And a government that thinks we are done being "lazy".

I hope getting this off your chest will help you to overcome. Hugs and love.

I didn't read people's reactions in your thread the same way you do. Not leaving oneself consumed by hatred doesn't mean that you have to stand patiently that these conservative/ bigots/ whatever-you-deem-good-to-label-them-as' hearts change. I don't rejoice over anybody's death (plus I doubt dying of a heart attack at 73 is a sure sign of God's hand punishing the wicked), but standing up to them and having an in the face approach don't mean you let yourself being eaten by hatred. And trying to exist on a higher moral plane as those you disagree with is a noble ambition, but that leaves room for humor (I'm thinking of James' Teletubbies joke) and detachment. If in the end, once we die too, we may have made a few changes so the world is a better place FOR ALL, I think it will have been worth it. (Yeah, I was a boy scout and church-goer; it leaves some imprint ...)

And blame it on California's public phones. Maybe Dex could also say: "I've done it. I decoded the data stick. No code can resist me... Guys? Ain't I the best?" "So, what's in it?" "Hey, you asked me to break the code! You didn't tell me to look what's on it! Wait a sec." In the background, I could hear some voices. Dex was quarrelling with someone. "...No, my laptop, you bastard!" Suddenly, he was back on the line. "Man, they stole my laptop, the datastick was with it!"

Phew! Chris made it back to Lonesome Valley! I really thought the Piedmont's Sheriff Department would catch up with him. And Veronica's warth and Betty's ire are certainly more pleasant than being fed some lead directly through his body. I was pretty positive the pic wouldn't turn out OK, one more devious invention by CJ (see picture above). But with his bleeding ass, I hope they can nail the sheriff once and for all. What's the deal with him being a relative? More mystery yet. I noticed with interest the use of the verb "to tremble". And the little comment about California and DST. It's true a state that has a half hour time change is certainly more convenient. Nice chapter. The car didn't blow up, and impounded is better than torn to parts.

Why feed the goat's obsession with numbers? I'm glad no one celebrated over CJ taking the undisputed (and quite undisputable) lead in posting frenzy. But, Brother Emoe, you're forgiven, the chapters have been delivered on time. The legions of readers waiting to see if the car has been fitted with a bomb that would be triggered by crossing the county line will be grateful.

Now, we just have to wait for someone coming to say: "Well, why so much hatred? He who never has conspired to commit murder in the first degree, let him cast the first stone..." I wouldn't be surprised, but though Eric's defense lawyers have taken a pretty tough stance so far, I doubt they'll manage to save him once he faces the jury. They'll try, though.

You forgot possession of narcotics, possibly with intent to sell (but this has yet to be confirmed).

Well, well... I didn't imagine my ironical comment about the three blood-thirsty dictators would bring out a gathering of Eric fans. So now we have two distinct factions of pro and anti Eric. Interesting. Goats seem to lead the pro-Eric group. Is that this surprising?

What I meant is that he was much talked about, not necessarily present. Sure, he had quite a few scenes in the initial blackmail, and kept on lying about "having changed", "having learned from his errors", and all the BS that he may have given our heroes. And he did wish them a good day , and a good sun tan, as he left them staked out. Which is a feature of the villain leaving the hero in utter distress. And Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot weren't THAT bad, if you made a little effort getting to know them.