JamesSavik

People are innately evil so the concept of morality is merely an illusion that people use to justify what they were going to do anyway.

Two dramas are about to restart: Flash Forward and V. Both are better than nonReality TV.

I wrote this las February about a particularly bad year. People who had been living with AIDS for years were running out of time. The drug cocktails were still in trials. The love of my life died. Trebs said a lot of people don't want to talk about that time. About the people that we lost. I do. It's how we keep their memory alive. _________________________________________________ 1996 I have seen the fire Destroying everything in its path In its blazing wrath I have seen the fire Bringing terror as its might As it consumes the night I have seen the fire Slaying friends and lovers Strangers and brothers I have seen the fire. Out of control consuming souls Hell on earth a mass funeral pyre I have been burned by the fire With scars that don't show The loss it still burns and stings Friends and lovers I can not replace I am haunted by their familiar faces ashes and memories that I hold dear Are all thats left of those times and places I have seen the fire and the funeral pyre When I saw the lights go out on my generation And horror and confusion gripped the nation Consumed in a viral conflagration I look to my right and look to my left at the lonely, empty spaces I walk where we walked and talk where we talked in the lonely empty places and wonder to my self why am I still here the smoke it still stings my eyes Someone must be left to remember The year that innocence died.

I am willing to surrender immediately to you Patrick but JamieD would probably be a better match for you. The two of you would be an impressive couple. Cam and Meeko are tough competition too.

There once was an author named Comsie, :king: Whose fans thought he was da bomb see, So they harassed him with out mercy, for new chapters and verses. Until he turned Billy Chase, into a vampire without grace and sent him their way too feed.

Everybody sing for Billy! :music:

look a little closer at that "pineapple". it's not the kind that you would want in your fruit salad.

Back in the days before the drugs improved, the biggest killers were PCP (Pneumocystis pneumonia) and various cancers. Cancers are still a bane for HIV infected people that can't keep their viral load down.

That's a question that would take volumes to answer and it has changed as the medications have improved. These are some of the common infections/conditions in people with HIV/AIDS. Pulmonary PCP or Pneumocystis pneumonia TB or drug resistant Tuberculosis GI candidiasis (fungal infection) herpes simplex-1 cytomegalovirus mycobacteria Unexplained chronic diarrhea in HIV infection Salmonella, Shigella, Listeria or Campylobacter parasitic infections cryptosporidiosis microsporidiosis MAC Mycobacterium avium complex Neurological AIDS dementia complex Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) toxoplasma encephalitis misc encephalitis Malignancies ARL- AIDS related lymphthomia KS- Kaposis Sarcoma Hodgkin's disease hepatocellular carcinomas head and neck cancers lung cancer All of these are considered symptoms of AIDS/HIV infections and many can be fatal under their own power. MAC in particular is responsible for the wasting aspects of AIDS. It will cause significant weight loss over very short periods of time. This is ONLY A START. Do your research. Look to Wikipedia, CDC and various HIV/AIDS awareness websites.

Yup- you might think of it as sign that you have arrived. :king:

Here's a partial list: Ritchie Valens 17 aircraft crash Sid Vicious 21 Overdosed on heroin Eddie Cochran 21 Car crash Buddy Holly 22 Plane crash Aaliyah 22 Plane crash Ian Curtis 23 Suicide (hanging) Tupac Shakur 25 Murdered (shot) Janis Joplin 27 Overdosed on heroin Kurt Cobain 27 Suicide (shot himself) Brian Jones 27 Drowned Jim Morrison 27 Officially recorded as a heart attack (various cases of death have been offered including drug overdose, respiratory illness and natural causes) Jimi Hendrix 27 Believed to have asphyxiated on his own vomit after drinking wine and taking sleeping pills Marc Bolan 29 Car crash Jeff Buckley 30 Drowned Patsy Cline 30 Plane crash Karen Carpenter 32 Heart failure (due to anorexia) Keith Moon 32 Overdosed on anti-seizure medication taken as part of an alcohol treatment programme Elvis Presley 42 Heart attack John Lennon 40 Murdered (shot) Marvin Gaye 44 Shot by father during argument Freddie Mercury 45 Aids Frank Zappa 52 Cancer John Entwistle 57 Overdosed on cocaine Ian Dury 57 Cancer George Harrison 58 Cancer Dusty Springfield 59 Cancer

BTW- regarding hate mail and not circumcision: anytime your writing addresses any controversy, you stand to run afoul of one side or the other. It has NOTHING to do with the quality and/or caliber of your writing. Most people can write mechanically and/or technically correct. What makes a writer of fiction special is the creativity necessary to come up with a plot interesting enough to explore. PS- To interested Europeans: We Americans don't force circumcision on anyone. Plenty of us will appreciate you just the way you are.

I'm not sure why but the circumcision debate is often as heated as discussions about the one true religion. There's no real answer for What's better? Here in the states, the numbers of uncircumcised males is growing simply because parents are talking about it now and its not something that just done automatically anymore. I think that the right answer to that question is whatever. I've had wonderful lovers who were and were not circumcised. Thinking back I never even thought of them in the context of circumcised or uncircumcised. They were hot either way. Regarding your story, in the South many factors could have come into play. When it takes place is very important. In the 50s-60s, circumcision was seen by some anti-Semetic Southerners as a Jewish thing and was actively discouraged. Other times in a majority circumcised South, an young uncut male might feel a bit like a freak. Some curious boys, not necessarily bi-curious boys, will want to see it, touch it and figure out how it works and how its different!! Case in point: When I was in 8th grade, there was an 7th grader on my football team that was exceptionally shy about his goods. I could tell that it wasn't his size that he was nervous about. After practice one day we walked home, smoked a joint and I asked him why he was so shy about his dick. (At that point I had heard of circumcision but I had never seen one). He told me that he was uncircumcised and that the way people reacted to it made him feel funny. I asked him how they reacted to it and he said that a lot of guys wanted a better look and many of them wanted to touch it and ask questions like what does it feel like when you jerk off! He wasn't ashamed. He was just too modest to be an educational accessory!

Plague of the Dead 978-1-4391-7673-3 Thunder and Ashes 978-1-934861-01-1 The Morningstar Virus Series by Z.A. Recht is a good zombie apocalypse yarn. It is still being written but these two titles are available now. It combines elements of horror and action adventure for a fast moving story. Best of the emerging "Zombie Apocalypse" genre.

May the next year be the best yet!

I could never get used to Riker as a bad guys.

When I was working for the Air Farce at Barksdale I had to drive one of those K-cars in Air Force blue. Of course it was a contract car- as striped as humanly possible. Damned thing had an AM radio and a heater which wasn't much use since it was August in Louisiana. That summer was all hot and noisy with B-52 in and out all the time. The KGB could have probably recruited me with an air conditioner and earplugs.

Would you fly in something made by Chrysler?

why did I get 666?

They are shelved beside the fusion reactor and the 150 mile per gallon engine: things that will never see the market because they kill existing industries or can't be controlled.

I go on hiatus from writing a couple of times a year when I'm pole-dancing for Chippendales.

Welcome the spring.

When the President approached the dais, he looked tired and haggard. He seemed a step slower than he usually appeared but confident and resolute despite the black circles around his eyes. It took McMahan forty-five minutes to tell the entire story. At each critical point he provided the evidence to validate its veracity. In conclusion, McMahan said,