Hoskins

This post is relevant to my interests and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Your straight boy may not be so straight. He may also just be really curious. Eh, do him. What harm? Have a good xmas, don't let the Christians make you sin (do it for yourself) and Steve still owns a lot of Apple, left testicle notwithstanding.

I use a nook and my iphone. I really like the nook for the e-ink, the price was right, and I really, really don't like proprietary formats or DRM on ebooks (otherwise I'd probably have gone with a kindle. I like the smaller form factor of the nook and kindle over the ipad -I borrowed one for a couple of weeks and found that the ipad seems, to me, to be just exactly the wrong size for holding it in one hand and reading. I can hold my nook in one hand and read comfortably. I'm very interested in seeing the new crop of devices.

I've converted lots of books. Things I've learned: Calibre rocks. PDF's suck. HARD. I like to read on my nook and my iphone. Line breaks and pagination are terrible in PDF format on these devices. The most flexible format I've found is epub. When I need to edit an epub (usually to fix page break/pagination from a converted PDF) I use Sigil.

BRRIIIAAAANNNN

I think Card is one of the biggest closet cases I've ever seen. He sticks to his religion so he won't stick to the hot dudes around him. His work (Speaker for the Dead, the Seventh Son series) tends to have homo-erotic content while being somehow...homophobic. I wouldn't want to be his brain, is what I'm saying, because he's confused.

There is only one way to know. Write him into your story, first name, some traits, etc. Put the character in uncomfortable situations. See if he notices or mentions it...

REAVERS

I'll be watching it. Its been a good treatment of the subject. it will be interesting to see what happens since Walter Eglee left the writing staff. It seems the whole writing process for the second season is in flux, with rumors that the writers got fired (not true) and maybe they're going to use freelancers and maybe not. Whatever. It'll be good.

Sure they bought drinks. The legal limit was 1.0, and that's 2 or 3 drinks. Why go nuts?

Who said I drank at the bar? That's for amateurs. Also, it was seventeen years ago.

I used to be a bar hound. I'd club at the drop of a hat. I'd walk in and check out the people there, see if I wanted to get to know anyone. It'd go something like this: - I prefer a younger guy to an older guy. So that would eliminate about half the people in the bar from even being looked at. That's + - 5 years of my own age (less when I was younger) - I don't like tall people either. So, another 15 % or so. - Dark skin? Turn on. Too dark? Turn off. Too light? Bleah. Another 25% gone. - Heavy? By like, even a few pounds? GTFO. - HAIRY? G.T.F.O. my god, eww. - Dancing? I don't dance. So go away. By the end of the night, I'd be down to, uh, me. Which was boring, so I'd get mad and leave (nobody said it made sense). When I was 30, a guy moved into the house I was renting and we hit it off as friends. Within a year, we were a couple. He was younger than me by about 6 years, carried a few pounds more than he should have, hairy, and not the sharpest tool in the shed. Funny, funny guy. I had a tiny, tiny physical attraction to him, but not much. It was enough, because I truly wanted to make him happy, and make his eyes roll back in his head. We lasted about 5 years, and are still friends today (I'm his crack whore and he's my Cleveland bitch). Looks are important, but being shallow is even more important, because it will leave you staring at your empty passenger seat on the way home from the bar. It's all in what you want.

A 20 year old up and coming (and closeted) guitar prodigy with a thing for the lead singer in the band, set in the mid-80s, youtube videos all over the place, and a damn fine story, all told by an author that really knows how to nail "atmosphere", including relating her experiences at the clubs and places that inhabit the story. If you like music and you like hot little guitar players with "issues", well, here you go. You cannot ask for better than this on a cold night with nothing better to do, unfortunately I had things to do but skipped them for this story and read far into the night. I downloaded the first 40 chapters onto my nook and then picked up the remaining HUNDRED + chapters (they're not very long) on the website. And the story's not done yet. First time readers should start here. Daron's Guitar Chronicles - the link to the story up to date

Exercise is HUGE. Give back. Stay busy. Kill zombies.

You people don't get too kinky, do ya? Fisting is best done with crisco. And that's all I'll say about THAT.

Nice clock!