JamesSavik

This reminds me of a cartoon by my buddy the Oatmeal. He won't mind if I snarf it if I include a link. the Oatmeal Piggers! Piggers! PIGGERS!

Back in the 70s there were a whole bunch of drugs that aren't around anymore- Quaaludes, Ts & blues, and reds just for starters. I didn't really want to focus on the drugs. I wanted the story focused on recovery.

Years ago I worked for a hotel in New Orleans that got a lot of business during football season. Very often the visiting team for the Saints games stayed there. I had just finished installing the video surveillance system for the building and I was sticking around a few days to make sure everything was working. New Orleans PD showed up on a Monday and I got called in and asked to play back video from several very specific areas. The cameras all fed into a laser disk system and I could easily pull it all up- time and date stamped. I had no idea what it was about. They just said show up cameras X, Y and Z between 9pm and 2am. Easy. Everything worked like a charm. There was nothing but stairwell, hall and freight elevator all night. I was dismissed after I showed them lot's of nothing and burned them copies for the record. What I found out later was that I had just exonerated a famous NFL player of a rape charge. Whenever I hear stuff like this I take it with a huge grain of salt. Famous people are often targets of all sorts of scams. I honestly don't know about Cosby but I do know that there a whole lot of bullshit involved in these celebrity shake downs.

I'll admit it: I'm a Civilization junkie. Not sure why but I always seem to end up in a battle to the death with the Japanese and the Russians.

The Mustard Jar The Mustard Jar Codeysworld Codeysworld This site is aimed at the younger set but the writing is top drawer. Colinian has some really great stuff there. Stormverse Stormverse A very complex and popular series of stories.

The following is a list of some of my favorite GLBT oriented story sites. I know there are more but these are special in one way or another. If you find a site missing, please add it in a comment. Awesomedude Awesomedude My "home" site and the home of many really good authors I like to hang out with in case some of the magic is transferable. Deweywriter Deweywriter This is the home of Dewey's Brian & Pete Saga and the Eggman's A New Life. Go there. Pack a lunch and plan on camping out. CRVBoy CRVBoy This is the site that I first discovered way back when. It is still very much alive and kicking with an impressive array of authors. DaBeagle DaBeagle This is the home of the incomparable Master Beagle, the creator of the Sanitaria Springs stories. Stories by Driver Stories by Driver This is the home of Driver and his amazing stories. IOMFATS IMOFATS The site is so British that it even has an English accent. It is home for tons of good fiction and authors you just won't find anywhere else.

I am the anti-bully. I won't stand for it. If I see it, I will not ignore it. It's not boys will be boys or kids being kids. Those are excuses for people without the moral courage to say NO MORE. There is nothing wrong with YOU. There is something wrong with THEM.

Some of us know.

where would the fun in that be?

The Littlest Hero 14% Nightfall 7% Tomorrow I go to sign up for my gradual school classes. Annoying these distractions from writing are. [yes- there are clues in the songs.]

Shush! Don't let that get around!

I wasn't yelling at you aditus. I've just run into a lot of stories inhabited by Mr. Perfect of late. I just can't relate. We have nothing in common but sexual orientation and Mr. Perfect has never given me a 2nd look so I talk shit about him and hope he notices me.

You know what bugs me in a story? Mr. fucking Perfect. If I were ever to meet this person, I'd probably kick his ass on general principles. Granted: with some authors, there is some level of wish fulfillment going on but please! I'm not going to dump on any author- lot's of us do it. See if you've met this asshole: Mr. Perfect as a kid is brilliant and gets all A's. He's the perfect size, with perfect hair, with perfect bod and a perfect schlong. Of course- he get's the perfect boyfriend. He already knows more about sex than the karma sutra. Mr. Perfect as an adult has the looks, the perfect car, the perfect job, is rich as fuck and gives money to feed starving orphans and nuns in Bogustan. Ever meet Mr. Perfect? Of course not. He doesn't exist. If he did he would be an insufferable ass hole. Real people have problems. Real people live in the real world. Real people struggle, they have problems and issues. And sometimes they rise above themselves and overcome. THAT's WHERE DRAMA COMES FROM. Think about how many stories you read where you encountered Mr. Perfect. Remember any? I doubt it. Mr. Perfect has nothing to teach you. You live in different worlds. Mr. Perfect doesn't worry about money or rejection or abandonment. If someone is dumb enough to leave him, they'll line up to jump in his bed! He's Mr. Perfect! Let's talk about some imperfect characters you did remember. Rory from Dom's Desert Dropping. Wasn't he an annoying little bastard? Dumb as a post to boot. You remember him because he was real and he grew up during the story. Remember Arron from the same story. You remember him because he was flawed. Or Prez from the Eggman's a New Life- you remember him because he was REAL.For a kid from Sherman, TX, moving to Malibu, CA was a New Life! Or Dewey's Bryan and Pete because you wanted them to be as real and couragious as they were. Or Scott and Joey from Driver's Falling Off a Log- they were real because they were who they were. You loved them because they were awkward little kids figuring out life. The moral of this blog is that our characters don't have to be perfect for people to love them. In fact, the charm of many characters lies in their flaws.The ones that we remember are the ones who grow and overcome as we watch.

i like cool PJ's

hello my friends. I have an unusual request. No it doesn't involve a chicken suit or gravy this time. In an upcoming story, my character is a young metalhead in middle school. Jimmy Mcculloch is small for his age and a bit immature. He's the younest in his class because his August birthday fell at just the right date for him to start scool. He wears NIN or Tool or anthrax or megadeth t-shirt all the time. He drinks and smokes weed every day. He doesn't have a lot of friends and is a target for bullies. He is not brilliant in all of his classes. He's not self confident, doesn't really know who he is. He is very angry and has been abused by a drunk mother and he skims her dope when she is passed out. ______________________________________________ What would you expect to find on his MP3 player? What groups would he like? or hate? Why? What does he hope for? What does he fear? Help me figure this guy out. I think I know him but there is always more to a person than the masks they wear. If Jimmy Mcculloch sounds familiar, it should. It's the name for a guitar prodigy that played with Paul McCarthy and Wings in the 70s and died very young of an OD. There's always a reason.

Tim- perhaps fairy tales would have been a better choice of words The guy is biblical- it seems to be coming from the jaw bone of an ass.

Just wait till you get hooked on Driver, Dewey, Freethinker or theEggman. You won't be seen for days.

Last month we had a very unusual protest of the ruling that struck down the law banning gay marriage in Mississippi. A black minister put a wedding dress on a horse. You don't see that everyday As you can guess, I wasn't too fond of that. It prompted a discussion on social media a little like a wild fire with brilliant social commentary like "adam and eve, not adam and steve" and "next they'll want to marry their dog". This doesn't bother me. I've seen it before but then came the question- why do people compare this to allowing mixed races marry? At this point, I had to jump in: This wasn't very popular. I'm still getting hate messages and threats from it. And a lot of good comments. It seems a lot of people never saw it this way before. The possibility that gay marriage will eventually come to Mississippi of all places hit this state like a social earthquake. Many of us never thought we would see it in our lifetime. If it is coming here of all places, which is only a little less socially conservative than say Iran perhaps, should spread hope and cheer to GLBT people everywhere. In the last year we have had many wins. Here in the very heart of the bible belt, this one is especially sweet and it has been a very long time coming.

this is fun

It is never easy to lose friends. They are hard to come by.

Who knew Hitler was a fan??? Wet and naked with a goat in the dark- BAHAHAHAHAHAHA I don't care who you are- that's hysterical.

A New Life by the Eggman Preston O'brien and his Mother have relocated from Texas to Malibu, CA. For a gay kid from Texas, it is a whole New Life. This story has been around for some time. It is a great slice of life in Southern California in the nineties. It gives hope to those of us that live in the sticks that somewhere there might be a new life for them too. Bonus: the Quarry by Driver This is Driver at his best. It introduces a huge cast of characters and delves deeply into life in the seventies. It is addictive and beautiful and terrible all at the same time. It is the first online story that I found that wasn't text porn. It gave birth to a whole series of spin offs called Stories from the Quarry. Courage and Passion Freethinker is an artist. His canvas is words and his works are a thing of beauty. His stories are like peanuts. Once you start, you can't stop and- you will be richer for the experience.

Tapping by Kit This little story is lot's of fun and it is as English as a pile of fish & chips. Mark is 15, just out of school and his dad has to move. They buy an old mansion in Scotland with a ghost and a 100 year old secret. What will he find when he looks for answers? READ IT! IT ROCKS!