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Do you have a favorite poem? One that speaks to you and stirs an emotional response? I actually have two. Both by Edna St Vincent Millay

Damn!! Forgot about some of those titles. L.I.E. Mysterious Skin You Are Not alone ---- Also ---- Dream Boy Prayers For Bobby

Beautiful Thing Latter days

If you Goggle it, you'll get about 9,920,000,000 results.

You're 22 and you're talking about the younger generations!! You are the younger generation.

Right you are. Never, ever post anything before the second cup of coffee.

Blue Cheese

Gee, took you long enough. "Hash Pipe" was the first single from their 2001 "Green Album". LOL

When Fred Phelps and his band of idiots showed up at Comic-con they were in for a surprise. Link to full article w/pictures

A very Happy Birthday, James. Remember, you are only as old as you feel. It does get confusing though. Sometimes I feel like I'm 100 and sometimes I feel like I'm 16. I just wish when I feel like I'm 16 the body would co-operate.

Where you fit on the political spectrum may well determine if you'll enjoy or hate the book and/or the movie, if it truly gets made. The book was less favorably received by those on the left of the political spectrum than by those on the right. A lot of Ayn Rands philosophy, which is the foundation for the book, is anathema to the philosophy of Liberals and Progressives. Anyway, this was just a bit of news about another attempt to make a film from the book. There have numerous failed attempts since the book was first published in 1957. Welcome back, James. Hope you had a great vacation away from the rat race.

NECRO POST. This subject was over and done with several months ago. There was no need to bring it up again.

I appears that Atlas Shrugged may finally make it to the big screen. Since the book actually has three parts the movie will be made as a trilogy. Which might be a good idea since it is a massive work it really couldn't very well be reduced to one movie without destroying the story. Here is a link: Atlas Shrugged article

Depends on my mood. Could be anything from Bluegrass to Zydeco with two exceptions. I don't listen to Rap or Hip Hop.

Yep! Do that all the time with online stories. Bad writing, no discernable plot or the plot just falls apart, an inordinate amount of time between chapters, etc. Dead tree books? I have my favorite authors (Raymond E. Feist, Janny Wurts, Joan D. Vinge, Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven and a few others) and I usually don't bail on one of their books, but it has been known to happen. Back when I first discovered LOTR, I bought all three books. Started Fellowship of the Rings and didn't get past the first chapter, put them on the bookshelf and forgot about them. Then sometime later, I read an article about how they were all the rage on college campuses. I remembered that I had the books and wondered what was so great about them and started to read them again. This time I went through all 3 books one right after the other. Then went back and got the Hobbit and read it. Because of the time lag between chapters of online stories, if I'm really enjoying the story, I'll likely re-read, at least parts of it, while waiting for a new chapter. Usually, when I do that, I discover little things that I've missed the first time around. Jamie's The Scrolls of Icaria is one such story. There are many little gems that I've discovered in re-reading all or parts of the story. But, there again, a story has to be well written with all of the elements that hold my interest. By the same token, I frequently re-read dead tree books. With books in a series I'll start with the first book and continue through all of them.

Are you kidding? As uptight as the country on this side of the pond is about anything that might even suggest that humans are a sexual animal, anyone attempting to produce a show like that here would likely be drawn and quartered. Look at the uproar that Janet Jackson caused when she showed a tiny bit of tit. Oh, just so you are aware unless you have an UK IP address or are using a UK Proxy you can't watch UK TV programing on the net outside of the UK. THelink will take you to the Channel4 web site, but if you're in the US... not going to happen. Found that out when I tried to watch an episode of Merlin on the BBC web site.

And for heavens sake... DON'T OVERCOOK AND DESTROY THE SHRIMP... It doesn't take very long for the shrimp to be cooked.

Talk about schizophrenic. I put in 7 different entries from my journal and got the following: 1. Edgar Allen Poe 2. Mark Twain 3. Kurt Vonnegut 4. & 5. Margaret Atwood 6. Leo Tolstoy 7. Vladimir Nabokov Everything that I have written are like short entries in a journal. All non-fiction. As hard as I've tried, I've never been able to write fiction. I get these ideas and when I try to expand them into a story, they never seem to go anywhere and then just disappear.

"How Green Was My Valley"

Hear! Hear!

Katherine Hepburn and any one of her leading men. Henry Fonda, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart. That's all that I can remember.

Precisely. I'm not anti-sex scenes if they are necessary to advance the story and are done... well let's just say tastefully and do not become the focus of the story or of a chapter or multiple chapters. I am anti gratuitous sex. If I want porn I can always go to Nifty. LOL It really does boil down to each his own.

WOW!! When did they capture aSASQUATCH!?

I'm with MikeL. I tend to skip over paragraphs of nitty-gritty, down and dirty, fully detailed sex scenes. And, if such scenes seem to be the focus or occur in every chapter, I usually drop the story from my reading list.

Thank the current deity it isn't snow. *shutter* Fantastic looking trailer. Only about 5 months to wait. And a movie in two parts yet! A one year cliff-hanger... unless you've read the book of course