JamesSavik

The titles are easy. It's the stuff that comes after that is difficult. I can come up with a Pulitizer Prize winning title. My problem is matching up a Pulitzer prize winning story to the title. Here are some good ones if you can make something of them: Dog Guy, Cat Guy- the tale of romance between two very different people and the furr flies. Diary of a Neurotic Dog- a Dog's eye view of a romance. Dom did something like this in his blog but I think it could be expanded and refined. Night Moves- a grifter meets a nice guy and finally discovers what he wants but is it too late? Dawn's Early Light- two injured Marine heros come home to recover and are awarded the Navy Cross. When they come out, they discover that the Corp is deadlier than anything that Saddam had. the End of Winter the Polk County War 10,000 Shades of Gray the Destruction of Matthew Gentry

You are right Nick. That is a puke-fest. Just my opinion: if that's how it is and apparently, how it is gonna be, be somewhere else. Now- you may be the right guy to fight the battle and change the heart. As for me I'm sick of the battle and would rather save my sweet words for someone who deserves them.

Luc- Unless you made someone overdose and die at gun point, then it was entirely their decision to do whatever junk they did. It is sad, yes, but not an outcome that you had any control over. People do what they do of their own free will. No one can make another person do anything except by force or duress. I sing the song because I love the man I know that some of you don't understand Milk-blood to keep from running out. I've seen the needle and the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's like a settin' sun. -Niel Young JS

Jack- Just wanted to let you know that I'm enjoying this story and following it with interest. I like it and that means something because I'm very picky about what I read. James

>> Is America that stupid? I quit asking that question after Reagen's 2nd term. :wacko:

It all depends on perspective: are the names what the dragons call themselves or what people call them? If it is what the dragons call themselves, this is a derivative of their language or the basic language family. eg. like Latin ==> English, Spainish, etc. One trick that you might look at is using Latin or Greek root-words for their names. Here is an Ancient Greek to help ==> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_PersInfo.html If it is what people call them, it'll be something like: EEEEK, Oh Sh..., Holy Crap did'ja see that!?

B.B.E. I hate the very idea of anyone pushing around someone that is 110 pounds. If he is drinking a lot, it will only get worse. In situations like this, the person that is being abused is paralysed by some bogus beliefs. Usually those beliefs are rooted in a poor self image. You don't HAVE to take it. You CAN do better. You DESERVE better. YOU are the one that has to take action. We can cheerlead, give advice and generally pump you full of sunshine but YOU are the one that has to take the bull by the horns and neuter the b@stard. All my best wishes, please let us know how its working out. You are only 18 and entitled to pick a bad boyfriend or two. If he is being a shitee, then you just have to remember to flush before he stinks up the joint. James

I don't watch American Idol. I can't imagine anything more boring. Golf maybe?

Happy Birthday! Please don't be a stranger.

You can't please everybody Nick. If he is looking for a one-handed story, I'm sure that he can find something on Nifty diaper fetish page that will suit his fantasy... I mean fancy.

You can only appreciate it in the native southern. It is pronounced... Hawt

Any movie with a whole bunch of young Greek guys is off to a flying start on general principles alone IMHO.

Net fiction is a strange thing. Some of it is worth exactly what you pay for it. Then there is some minority of net fiction that is absolutely priceless. This means that you have to sift through a lot of silt to find the gems. Now I enjoy a little eros as much as the next guy but that is NOT what makes a good story IMHO. Dom's work is an excellent example of sex being an important part of the plot, just not the whole plot. This is the kind of story that I like and gravitate toward. I'll do you a favor and give you a heads up on a few of the net's best authors here and elsewhere. This is by NO means all of them and if I leave any out, I mean no offense. Some may argue that Driver's stories may well be some of the best there has ever been. I'm not in that camp but there is no doubt that the force is exceptionally strong with Driver. He is a master. If you haven't discovered Comicality here at gayauthors.org, WTF are you standing around for? Go to Comicality's Shack Out Back forthwith knave or thou art a slacker. Luv ya Cosmie! Another highly respected net author and one of the true masters of the art is Dewey, author of the classic Brian & Pete series. Dewey's site [and Awesomedude.com] are also home to the Awesome Aussie Graeme. He is the author of New Brother, Falls Creek Lessons and about a zillion short stories: a form that he excels at. Speaking of Awesomedude.com, it is the home to a battalion of talented writers- both newcomers and veterans. Freethinker, Graeme, WritesByHimself, EleCivil, RusticMonk, PecMan, Jamie of Icaria and a few dozen more are hosted at the venerable Dude's place. Of special note at AD's place are Jamie author of the Wizard of Icaria series and EleCivil: a very talented young author who is pounding out pure gold. Departed from the net but by no means forgotten is the beloved Eggman: author of A New Life and Life Goes On. These gentle good-natured coming of age stories set sunny southern California are literally loved by thousands. His work can still be found in his yahoo groups theGlassOnionNews or in the Nifty Prolific Authors Page A lot of people dearly love Grasshopper and I can understand that. He's quite good but he is very young. I expect that his best work is in front of him. I don't have a link to his work handy but I'm sure a kind soul here can supply it. Gay Authors has a powerful stable of authors. You can dive off into any of the authors works without reservations: Vance Lista, Little Buddha, Myr, dkstories, Ghost Rider, Jack Scribe, Luc, Christopher Lyton, the Zot... Pick any one of them and and you won't be disappointed. That ought to keep you busy for a few months. Have fun & enjoy!

No. Richard Hatch, the actor, is actually Tom Zarek on the new BSG. Believe me- he was a big ole hunk of burning seventies hotness. Richard Hatch, the reality show doofus, is, erm, nobody.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Something is rotten in the state of Hollywood. O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do! Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. This was the unkindest cut of all. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine. Out, damned spot! out, I say!

Like it or not, we gay folk are defined by our sexuality to some extent. We simply don't fit the usual mold of getting married, having a soccer mom and supporting an SUV full of kids. I'm fine with that. Although I like kids, I like them much better in small doses and preferably living elsewhere. I detest SUVs and I really despise mini-vans. It's a lucky thing that I can't have a rocket-launcher because I would cleanse the road of those damned rolling abominations. I have absolutely no doubt that the behavior that you described is equal parts homophobia, ignorance and social ineptitude. I'm sure that we all know and understand those three attributes all too well. There is also probably an element of denial involved too. Social ineptitude while annoying, is forgivable. Homophobia is annoying, potentially even dangerous, but we know and understandable it to some extent. Ignorance is just plain sad- and denial is pathetic. Back in the early 90s, I had a friend that worked for CDC tracking AIDS cases in Georgia and Florida. People that do that burn out fairly quickly and change jobs to something less stressful like air traffic controller or working at the department of motor vehicles. He told me about a case where he met this redneck guy in his mid-twenties who was symptomatic but denied being gay or bi. When interviewed, he said- I'm not really gay. I just like to have sex with my cousins and their friends at deer camp. When ignorance meets denial, the results are usually a pathetic, sometimes even tragic mess. And some people think I'm stuck-up and too picky about the people I go out with.

Here you go Wrath- Johnathan Brandis- a total sweetie. His passing was so sad. BTW- this is how I imagine Brandon from the Dairy of Billy Chase. From another generation: this is Leif Garret, hunkola of the 70s.

A few thoughts about BSG from a long time follower... Battlestar Galactica (TOS) is an artifact of the Cold War- in fact it appeared in the late 70's- at the very height of the Cold War. The idea of a "Nuclear Pearl Harbor", a devastating sneak attack with nuclear weapons, was something that was very much on peoples minds at the time. In fact, the BSG(TOS) was singled out by high profile members of the peace movement as pro-military propaganda and scaremongering. The original series started strong and the writing seemed to decline a little with every episode. What has been reported in the history of the series was that the studio was low-balling the production- using the same cuts over & over, crappy production quality and so on. The network and the studio had no idea how to handle Science fiction in general and Battlestar Galactica in particular successfully. They packaged one of the darkest scenarios imaginable, the nuclear annihilation of a race and the struggles of its survivors, as a kiddie show complete with the trilogy of death for a sci-fi series by the sixth episode: a cute kid, a smart dog and a dumb robot. [Once this trilogy has appeared in a sci fi series, it symbolizes doom because the writers have reverted to clich

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Here is the address for the Eggman's Yahoo Group: the Glass Onion News The name of his best know works are A New Life and Life Goes On. I dare you to read either one and not fall in love with his characters. The Eggman is awesome!

Battlestar Galactica... where are you? like Thailand??

Just when I was getting used to the bizarre morphing of happy-go-lucky Dirk Benedict Starbuck into the angsty Katee SackhoffStarbuck, they killed her. I can't believe it. I'm in a state of shock. Starbuck wasn't supposed to die.

Disclaimer- today's birthday boy is another James. My birthday is in late July which makes me a Leo- ROWR! Happy birthday to the other James.

I hate Hollywood. Stuff like the Oscars makes me want to puke. When they get together and pat themselves on the back after yet another long, hard year of producing mediocre and trite crap, it's a real barf-fest. It doesn't matter what they wear, they are cheap plastic soul-less automatons underneath.

Dan- Happy birthday! Best wishes for next year. JS