JamesSavik

Historically, everyone that has bombed London has come to regret it. :2hands:

I hate it when friends are fighting... I try to stay out of it and end up pissing off everybody. ...and it's something that I didn't even instigate!

Another suprise! First it was jsmith turning 16 and now xander. Following their posts, I had both them pegged as college aged. Ummm I guess reading the fine print would be useful. Darned intelligent, articulate and talented kids! What's the world coming too! Back in my day we were stoopid and we liked it! So what if we got a little dain-bramaged. It was all in good fun. Since you're both turning 16, here's a few thoughts for the occassion. 1) Stay away from under aged drinking. 2) If you can't, at least stay away from tequila. 3) OK. So you're forced to drink tequila. Just don't swallow the worm. 4) So you ate the worm huh? Jeez I hope you don't die. 5) The giant chicken is just a hallucination. Don't shoot at it or try to run over it. :wacko: 6) OK. So you didn't die. That's good. Now you're in for the hangover. You'll probably want too. Have fun. Remember- there's a time and a place for everything and that place is college!

Best Regards Xander! Hope you have a great year.

I didn't so much come out as I was thrown out. When I was 12 I had a friend that my scoutmaster decided that had grown too close. Then one hot day in July, I'll never forget it becase it was my birthday, I had just turned 13, he threw 5 boys out of the troop for being homosexuals. On the thinest possible evidence, without any possible appeal. To my devout Baptist parents, I think they would have prefurred a serial killer in the family. So, I was 13, and "out" in Mississippi. Parents and kids were warned about the five of us so it was all over town. When school started in late August, I got the joy of starting 7th grade as one of the only known gay people in a not so large town. I'm writing a story about it. Broken

I love it when my office mates eat at the all you can eat India Buffet so I can laugh at them farting all afternoon. Dear God would somebody please open a window! :wacko:

What, no ELO? Ozzy but no Sabbath? no AC/DC? No Zepelin -- dude you're a freak <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is just what I have on CD. AC/DC, Zep and Sabbath are on the original album format. [for the kiddies, that's what you play on a turntable. Do you know what a turntable is? (vintage audio info link)) ELO?

Here's a list of stuff in my collection: A Flock of Seagulls Aerosmith Alanis Morissett Alic in Chains Asia Billy Idol Billy Joel Bruce Springsteen Butthole Surfers Cheap Trick Clannad Coldplay Counting Crows Creed Darude David Bowie Dire Straits Disturbed Evanescence Foreigner Garbage Good Charlotte Green Day Guns N' Roses Henry Rollins Hoobastank INXS Jackson Browne Jane's Addiction Jeff Beck Jim Carroll Jimi Hendrix Johnny Cash Kansas Korn Linkin Park Marilyn Manson Meat Loaf Metallica Mudvayne Nine Inch Nails Nirvana Offspring Ozzy Pearl Jam Pink Floyd Puddle of Mud Queen REM red hot chili peppers Rush Savage Garden Seether Soundgarden Stabbing Westward Staind Steve Miller Band Stone Temple Pilots Styx The Babys The Beatles The Cars The Cranberries The Crystal Method The Cure The Doors The Eagles The Fixx The Police The Rolling Stones The White Stripes The Who Tom Petty Tool Toto U2 Van Halen X

I hate it when my officemates eat at the buffet at their favorite Indian cafe and then stink up the office all afternoon.

A friend of mine is very sensitive to any kind of jewelry. It causes him to break out and requires a topical steroid cream to make the rash go away. Sometimes the condition can appear out of the blue. All of the sudden a necklace that he had been wearing for years gave him an awful, itchy rash. The condition you describe sounds a lot like contact dermatitus which is defined as: an inflammatory response of the skin to an antigen or irritant. Contact dermatitis can cause discomfort and embarrassment and is the most common skin condition among workers' compensation claims. Contact Dermatitus Info

Wrong generation for me. Back in my day if you had piercings you were a pirate. :2hands: I agree with Shadows. The skin that you're in is what makes you hot, not a hole in your ear, a big assed eagle on your back or a rebel flag on your forearm.

OK- it's good that us gay folk have a media presence. I just wish that consisted of a little more substance than obscure made for TV movies and stereotypical fluffy stuff. If they are in need of some good dramatic stories to make into movies and shows, the story archive is loaded with them. I would prefur the "gay media face" be like the Advocate's Future Gay Leaders (link to article) rather than a Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy (Link). Not that it's a bad movie. It's just severly dated.

OK, this is how geeky I am. I name my computers after un-maned space probes. My current machine is named Viking. My last machine was Pioneer. Others were Voyager, IRAS and Mariner.

Beware of what you access at work! Employers can and often do use employee internet usage as an easy excuse to terminate workers and it is not easily appealed countered. To successfully protect yourself from charges of inappropriate internet usage is expensive as it requires expert testimony and the company is holding all the cards. Often you are forced to defend yourself without even seeing what information that they had. Unions often don't want to get involved if pornography is alledged. In one case that I'm aware of, an employee was terminated and he appealed. The sites that the employee charged were "pornographic or appealing to purient interests" were 365gay and the news side of badpuppy.com.

I wasn't complaining...

Er...Sophocles? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Probably Plato's Republic. Could have been worse. The Rhetoric of Aristotle will make your eyes bleed. I've got a kick-azz study guide for Plato's Republic. If you want, I'll scan it and email it too you. Just PM me if you want it.

Coke-cola was first formulated and sold in Vicksburg, MS. Back then the secret ingredent was just a smidge of cocaine so it became very popular, very fast. A lot of Mississippians call any soft drink a "coke"... for which they have a strange craving. For example: If you yell to cousin Skeeter: "Hey Skeeter, git me a coke", Skeeter might come back with a coke, root beer, orange or grape soda or an RC cola. However, Skeeter will not bring you Gatoraide as that's called gator-juice and Mountian Dew is that green s***. Mississippians will probably not understand what "pop" or "soda" is.

I'm reading Conrad, Salinger and Rand this summer. Non-fiction, I'm fairly geeky. Reading Forgotten Calculus to brush up on my skills. Understanding the Linux Kernel by Bovet and Stars and Their Spectra by Kaler are on my pile.

I don't believe that the "community of floundering" as much as it is going through some changes and some routine cycles. First- it's summertime. A lot of people are simply doing other things. Second- some premiere authors here and elsewhere have left the community. This has a effect as their fans realign themselves. Third- many readers furiously read everything they can find and go away. They might wait weeks or months before they come back to see what is new. Fourth- If you write it well, they will come. That's not an admin function, that's on the authors. Authors, like everone else, go through slumps, get busy, face real life challenges or just plain burn out. This stuff will work itself out with time. The best plan is not to over react or think of it as a crisis.

Happy birthday Movieguy, and many more!

Keep your head down Bloke. Take care and stay safe.

A good mod should: 1) be mellow and not fly off the handle 2) have a thick skin 3) be objective and not use their power to push their own agenda 4) be able to talk everyone from hormone crazed teens to senior citizens and treat them all with respect- even when they don't deserve it. 5) respond quickly to requests & complaints All in all, it's very much like customer service. Only true masochists need apply.

I have seen this before. Way back in the eighties a statistical corelation between circumcised and non-circumcised males and the transmission of the HIV virus was observed.

All fun aside, 12 step programs are useful to a whole lot of people. Everybody has heard about Alcoholics Anonymous but there are many others. Narcotics Anonymous is the second biggest 12 step fellowship. Others include: Codependents, AlAnon, Smokers, Overeaters, Gamblers all have an "anonymous" 12 step program. If they help some people, and they clearly do, it's all good. I just got a 9 month chip for being drug free for 9 months. I thought that it would suck but I'm a lot better off now than I was. There is one 12 step program that I have an issue with- there is something called Homosexuals Anonymous. It is very tiny compaired other 12 step fellowships. They've pretty much dried up as far as I know.