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Good Choice Dark: Songs: 1. All I want for Christmas is You- Joann414 2. I Saw Daddy/Mommy Kissing Santa Claus- Dark 3. There's No Place Like Home For The Holiday - Sasha Distan 4. It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year- Winged_Wolf Literature 5. A Christmas Carol- Cole Matthews 6. Masters of the Winter Solstice 7. One Candle 8. The Night Before Christmas- Aditus TV/Movies 9. Elf- Scotty94 10. Black Christmas - Thorn Wilde 11. Charlie Brown's Christmas 12.It's A Wonderful Life- W.L

Songs: 1. All I want for Christmas is You- Joann414 2. I Saw Daddy/Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 3. There's No Place Like Home For The Holiday - Sasha Distan 4. It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year- Winged_Wolf Literature 5. A Christmas Carol- Cole Matthews 6. Masters of the Winter Solstice 7. One Candle 8. The Night Before Christmas- Aditus TV/Movies 9. Elf- Scotty94 10. Black Christmas - Thorn Wilde 11. Charlie Brown's Christmas 12.It's A Wonderful Life- W.L

Should I feel jealous? Also, the reason why causality hasnt seen new chapters is this story in my head that needs to be written.

Let's all just agree that fact is only as true as what people want to believe Tom Daley is Bi or not Bi, Real Crosscurrent vs. Unreal Crosscurrent, and me being a carefree dog or a cynical gay guy with a taste for life are facts and fictions. No one person's reality is the same as another, but we share common traits that allows us to appreciate ourselves and each other.

Ehh....to each their own, but I can't really picture anything sexy about those guys. Power stopped being sexy, when everyone got into it

Songs: 1. All I want for Christmas is You- Joann414 2. I Saw Daddy/Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 3. There's No Place Like Home For The Holiday - Sasha Distan 4. It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year- Winged_Wolf Literature 5. A Christmas Carol 6. Masters of the Winter Solstice 7. One Candle 8. The Night Before Christmas- Aditus TV/Movies 9. Elf- Scotty94 10. Black Christmas - Thorn Wilde 11. Charlie Brown's Christmas 12.It's A Wonderful Life- W.L

Sort of read one, maybe I will read the other, but it is my choice I liked It Started with Brian, but prefer other classics like Brian's Destruction more .(Yes, I plugged for Dewey's beautiful saga) Think about it this way Tim, people, who have an attraction to their own gender are yearning for someone to be a role model for them. Unless you like "Queer Eye" and "Glee", there are few living heroes around that people can identify with, nothing against those that like mainstream media portrayals though At the end of the day, people might want to be individuals, but they do want a hero, a champion, or someone they can look up to. Athletes have been that for centuries and when a major athlete reveals a key detail that they can identify with, then everyone who shares it want to bask in his glow.

Scrooge & Marley is a gay adaptation of the classic "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, if you the idea of a gay scrooge

All the next generation game systems are now out, so what do people think? I am a Playstation user, but I will freely admit to like the Xbox for certain games. Wii is too casual for me. Now as a warning don't turn this thread into this: http://youtu.be/NYbs0firps8

Wow $6 billion that is one heavy hangover, especially since Applebees only brings in less than $3 billion every year On the flip side, Anheuser-Busch, owner of the Budweiser brand, and Coors are probably going to record normal sales, because whether it comes free or not from a restaurant, somebody paid for the rounds Here's the snope article, it's an urban legend Banger http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/applebees.asp

Oh Wow! I liked J. Edgar and Milk Age difference does not really matter, 19 or 39 as long as they love each other, it is all that is needed.

Fine, I won't name the Chinese provinces or muni's as certain things are too "political" I remember our elementary school teachers throwing out old maps in 1997 after we finally got funding for new maps. There were so many "SR's" on those maps, I wonder how many kids had to learn with those old maps of Europe. Does anyone remember Yugoslavia ever existed anymore? (My teacher gave me one of those and told me it'd be fun to look at when I get older, ) Anyone else remember those old maps? If you do, it is not an issue of education, but educational reaction time.

I thought 6 was watchable, but I tend to agree, most of the sequels were crap. On the other hand, Pleasantville was a great movie and it was fun to see the contrast in color (on several levels). I bought the DVD in college for $5 iat a clearance sales and my roommates didn't get why I bought that movie, until I showed them. It was an underrated classic that few people acknowledged at its time.

Let's all just say that we're glad he has diverse interests and leave it like that As long as the relationship is healthy, loving, and happy for both participants, straight/gay/bi does not matter. Labels are what researchers and marketers like to pigeon hole in demographic research based on defined traits. Unless you are making a living at marketing KY Jelly and Trojans or are a pollster, you don't need to break people up into neat little subgroups. There's a principle that few people (including myself) ever really pay attention to, there is no such thing as a "model answer" to who you are. I am incredibly happy for him with a slight bit of jealousy towards his lucky boyfriend. Now here's the next question, who is his boyfriend? "Looks around the room for the elephant" Come on guys, he never said his name and now I have many fears that another eligible famous potential gay bachelor could be taken

Outside of Fast and Furious, let me also add that he was in another movie I liked: Varsity Blues. (Yes, I like derivative American Football movies)

R.I.P Great Actor, but his career was shadowed by the Fast and Furious franchise I have always heard that life imitates art, but going out like that seems to give a whole new meaning.

But that's the point, the world is made up of consequences and impossible choices. The game is fun because you're not just killing zombies like dead rising or in a weird place like bioshock that happens too, but your life and the lives of other characters in the game have meaning to how it progresses. Straight up zombie/ghost/monster shooters or atmosphere is scary, but making a bad choice is the scariest of all.

New favorite game is walking dead...so tragic and human, it is like the show as a video game. I couldn't save any of them I usually hate tv/movie video games, but seriously I think this is the best and all you moral choices come back to haunt you. It is not about the tv characters, but the universe of the walking dead. Also good is the video game last of us, if you like the genre and zombies .

I just went through my annual performance review, today. I didn't know what to expect to be honest; I knew I did well, kept costs down, increased cash overall by about 35%, and made some damn good projections of receivables based on historical data. I also maintained a tight leash on state based tax agencies and hounded them for refunds due to technicalities of our rate adjustment versus their standard rate that we were automatically paying based on employees. (Tax stuff, but basically, if an employer has a better handle on employee turnover, your rate should be lower for withholding in state taxes. The problem was that our rate was lowered years ago, but several states had been charging us more.) Anyway, I was hoping for maybe getting a small pay increase and/or bonus for all I did, but instead, I got.....a 20% salary increase!!!!!! Christ sake, it is more than $10K to my salary and I don't know what to feel. It's an early Christmas present for me

Just found this song on youtube after watching the Muppets Christmas Carol

I know, it's rude to bump your own thread (no rules against it on GA, but I've heard the internet etiquette), I will try to limit this to a handful of times just to keep the list up and the thread visible Songs: 1. All I want for Christmas is You- Joann414 2. I Saw Daddy/Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 3. There's No Place Like Home For The Holiday - Sasha Distan 4. It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year- Winged_Wolf Literature 5. A Christmas Carol 6. Masters of the Winter Solstice 7. One Candle 8. The Night Before Christmas- Aditus TV/Movies 9. Elf- Scotty94 10. Black Christmas - Thorn Wilde 11. Charlie Brown's Christmas 12.It's A Wonderful Life- W.L I've described my concept in my blog for my story based on "It's a Wonderful Life" as a corollary to the central question of Capra's movie in inverse nature, "How much is a life worth, when it has affected others so negatively?". The story will center around a recently "outed" pastor, who many people might be happy to see die in our community and his "former" group.

On another note, Yang, your cynicism is sort of sexy Some days, you just wonder how screwed up the world is and realize that the world is not screwed up, but you are for thinking that it can be better. After the cold war, kids that grew up in the 90's enjoyed unparalleled freedom and hope. We had unlimited prospects in front of us with new technology like the Internet and new discoveries from the human genome project. Now look where we are, a new global war against an ideological and cultural foe that may never end, an economic recovery that is uneven and uncertain, and people acting crazier and crazier every day with their actions. You can die watching a movie, going to the mall, flying on a plane, or even just walking on the sidewalk. We are cynical today, because human life has dropped in value and meaning from where it was in the 1960's.

Kyle sounds like a good kid and I am glad you guys are paying attention to the bullying. As for those kids, someone should talk to them about their behavior.

My generation and by extension Yang's generation are cynical about life. We grew up with a lot of promises about technology and futures, then we were left out in the cold. The current generation of young adults are not less patriotic or sensitive than the generations of JFK and FDR, but we embrace our cynicism and disdain for realities much more than earlier generations. People in the past were shocked inhumanity; today, we are expecting the next the shoe to drop and merely laugh at it, because the world is a sad and horrific place where people die for no other reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I know, it's been only two weeks, but I had to stop writing as I wanted to create a few degrees of separation between my fiction and my dream world. I have stopped dreaming about President Obama's assassination, which is a relief (Unless, it comes true, but I am not Christopher Walken ) Today marks the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, so I will give the man his due and a moment of silence as a fellow New Englander... Writing As for my writing schedule, Causality will probably get another chapter next week, but I want to focus my work and energy on my interpretation of "It's a Wonderful Life", Frank Capra did a great job talking about average Americans trying their best during the Great Depression to get by. We are in another economic downturn with many people still unemployed or underemployed. I want to focus on an average man in a setting that Gay writers are usually one dimensional about,Religious services. I know I will be writing a tight rope between staunch believers, Atheists, Agnostics, and gay guys that give a damn about that subject. However, during great times of turmoil and trial, people turn towards religion for solace and seek for guidance from a higher being. One thing many gay writers forget at times is that faith is not an evil monster, but it can be an oasis in a desert. The character in question will be a recently outed gay clergyman, who's life is on the downturn. Abandoned by his church, his friends, and his family, he contemplates the same thing that the titular character of "It's a Wonderful life" did, suicide. This guy is not someone GA members will like and may even want dead for all the harm he has done to others through his years doing "good work". However, that is the point, how much is a single life actually worth despite its negative impact on others? (I consider this a corollary question to the one posed by Capra) For long time followers and readers, I have love of parallels and inversion. I could have written about a gay teen facing alienation, bullying, and contemplating suicide, but it is a road much traveled by writers on here and elsewhere and merely copies Capra's famous movie. I want to do an original based on his work.