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J.J.Janicki

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  1. Growing up, I would have found Solsticeman's version of purity an awfully lot easier to deal with. J.J.
  2. To be honest, Chris, I was hiding in my closet observing my activities. Comes from being such an introvert... I guess... Yeah, that was probably it, all right. That, and something like, "You know, I'd really, really like to improve on this..." It's always fun - or at least interesting, to compare notes, though. Thanks for the kind words, though. All of y'all.
  3. Tracy! You're alive! Old people. ... You have to reassure them. (Adapted from Throw Momma From the Train.) (And...) You know I'm only kidding, right Tracy? I mean, I'm GLAD you're alive... at 4:43 in the morning.... um....
  4. Growing up in Germany at that time, it would have been a near-miracle if you weren't caught up, believing well past the bitter end that you were a part of something that could change the world... for the better. Alfons Heck came of age in that environment, as a proud member of the Hitler Youth, and having read his story (A Child of Hitler), in that respect, Wandervogel rings true. Alfons Heck also appeared in a BBC documentary (seen on our Military Channel), and courtesy of YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1-HFb_w71k number one: Hitler was charismatic. Whether you know a word or German or not, you still cannot help but feel it. (At the very start of the video.) And then at the 7:17 mark, there's Alfons Heck, and after watching... I understood that something very similar could happen in any country. Even here. It's possible. J.J.
  5. Trying my dead-level best not to throw in any spoilers, I guess all I can say about Puppy Love is: if you like reading good stories, then this is definitely one of them. Just go with the flow, okay? Well, okay, I guess I can also say this. Right now, I'm a little over halfway through Dan Simmons' Summer of Night, a novel I'd not heard of until seeing it mentioned on one of the AD forums. I'm a little over halfway through, and A: I have to agree with Stephen King's blurb: that he SHOULD be in awe, only B: I have to keep reading and reading some more because by now, I also know that there are no guarantees, that even a character who seemed to be the most important can come to a bad end - not even halfway through the book!! - and having grown to like most of the boys in SoN very much, I'm wondering how many more are likely to survive the last 20 chapters, so with all that in mind... Puppy Love was a much-needed diversion. Can't think of a better way to start a rainy Sat morning. J.J.
  6. Just the part after Patrick wakes up to Tangerine Dream. Not the angsty part. Unless, of course, anyone's interested in seeing what should have been a "worst" changed from the original and incorrect "worse", but aside from that.... just the last part. If one so desires, that is.
  7. It might be better to ask a question like this in the Green Room, but since it involves TSTDSAA.... Well, okay. A reader had a very good question in regard to the hospital room experience, and in thinking about it, I had to admit that I'd once again fallen prey to a slight case of tunnel vision. As in ack as opposed to ACK!! ... because the reader was kind of enough to say that he'd enjoyed the story in spite of that. But anyway.... and for what it's worth, after asking Mike about it, the slightly improved version will be reposted in the near future. I'm guessing tonight or tomorrow. `Cause if you see a way of improving the story, then you should, right? (Figured since I mentioned a question at the start, I should ask one.) J.J.
  8. I'm still in the process of getting the hang of forums and the like - and I'm also being interrupted by thunder storms, some with a lot more potential to do very bad things to my computer than others - but my remark just above was in reference to breakups being commonplace between the ages of 18 and 23. It took me quite awhile to grasp that. A lot longer than it should have been, I guess.
  9. I was always wanting to hear Tony Peluso's finish again. And again. And then, "Just one more time, and that'll be it for now, okay?" Used to drive my friends nuts, because most of them were into harder stuff.
  10. I'm not quite sure how I managed to survive the 70s, but overall, I still miss it. And not just because I'm a little bit older now. I think I'll leave it that, but yeah, time certainly does fly.
  11. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned on this forum how I was hoping the writer would let me in on some more stuff he'd written and how I would then pass it on... But for what it's worth, I passed the story on to someone else and in reply he said: You're right. I loved it. The writing is to die for, absolutely exquisite. This guy is a real artist. I've forwarded to a couple of friends whom I'm sure will like it too. So if nothing else, it looks like it's still unanimous.
  12. Colinian's link still works. Just checked, and it DOES!
  13. I agree with everybody else. It's beautifully written. Haven't come across anything else by him, but if he answers my email... in which I sure wasn't saying anything bad about his story... unless maybe he thinks I was a being a little too effusive... Well, I hope not. But anyway, if I hear back from him and he's written anything else, I'll pass it on, because I'm sure it'll be worth the read as well.
  14. My first reason for checking out A Girl For Me was just that I know a TG. Never met her/him in person, and odds are, I never will, but still, I'd say by now we have a relationship and at FIRST, I was only thinking that this could be a story she'd really enjoy. (By now, I have no problem thinking of her the way she'd prefer.) But anyway, five chapters in, and I'M blown away. Failte200 is one hell of a good writer, it's that simple. So after googling him, I came across this: http://queerschool.com/?tag=/Failte200. `Course, then there was the question of whether or not the two links still worked, so I quickly checked that out as well, and... um... Well, okay, pasted in just below are the first two paragraphs of Alex and Bobby: Alex was afraid, and knew he had every right to be, but he also knew that this wasn't something he was going to be able to help. So he was understandably fretful as he waited to drive Bobby home from school. Two weeks ago, he'd finally been able to admit, at least to himself, that he liked guys. That he was gay. He'd actually said the word to himself. Gay. It was surprisingly hard to do. He'd known, in a way,that he was gay for four years now – since he was fourteen. Knowing wasn't really that big a deal. It was a secret, certainly, not the kind of thing you let anyone know about. Not here in West Texas, not here in the Permian Basin, not here in the tiny, dusty town of Wink. Knowing was easy. Using the word was hard. Shit. It looks like I might be hooked again.
  15. By now, I have it on good authority that Cole's one of those who never starts posting chapters until his whole entire story is finished, so it's safe to look at it like a serial. Until it's finished, there will be more excitement to look forward to, every Wed and Sat. And it's definitely lived up to expectations so far. J.J.
  16. I realize I'm getting into this way late.. I sure do wish I'd happened across something like this when I was in my teens. It's still unlikely that I would have been giving an oral book report on it, but... Well, at least I would felt a lot better inside. It is that good.
  17. So.... you guys are saying that constant mind chatter is a GOOD thing? Aside from when I'm trying to meditate, I mean. Then it's not a good thing. Not really. But anyway... Well, at least I haven't yet inflicted of my early drafts on anyone but my long-suffering proof readers.
  18. Thanks for your kind words, guys. But anyway, I think early on one of my bigger problems was way too many asides. Breaking the fourth wall and all that... which often worked on Malcom in the Middle... and even better on Monty Python... and occasionaly, I'm guessing it worked for me as well. But still, I was doing it too often, and in the case of the longer story LuKas came from, I think NOW that it was getting in the way. Especially since I was writing it in the third person. Even if I still like the story idea. A torturous affair involving a lapsed Baptist boy and a schizophrenic Mormon boy. What could possibly be better? But anyway, I'm thinking if I attempt to tell the story behind the story, then even if that original story's still there, it also becomes an entirely different story. It still remains to be seen if I can make that work, though. But before being swallowed up by March Madness again, um... Well, again, thanks, and hopefully, I will return soon enough.
  19. I've read Salem's Lot at LEAST five times, and if I were to start reading it again today... even knowing in advance who's to die and who's to survive and how, I'd still be getting those wonderful goose bumps. Often enough, I'd still be needing to reassure myself... just a little... that vampires don't really exist... But still, I think Salem's Lot should be a list of best 20th novels, and one day, it just might be. But I thought It was awfully good as well. Even if... well, for me, once I'm through with a Stephen King novel, it's not a good idea to start another by him, because almost always, it starts sounding the all the same. Different set of good but flawed characters along with a dose of pure evil, but it still sounds almost the same. .... at least until I've given his writing a rest.
  20. He was indeed, and even though I felt badly for him almost from the start, this particular Wikipedia article gives one reason to feel even worse about it. In spite of my choosing to believe in reincarnation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Nikolaevich,_Tsarevich_of_Russia Come to think of it, my reading all about Alexi might have been a major catalyst in my choosing to believe in things my parents did not believe in, but anyway... He seemed to be a nice kid.
  21. When I was about the same age Alexi Romanov was at his unfortunate demise, I often fantasized... sort of... about being able to go back in time and being able to save him. Which of course, would result in the two of us being thrown together. And Cole, through this story, I've been able to revisit those fantasies. Along with a few variations I might not might have thought of back then... Well, I suppose I did, but ANY-way, it was a fun read. Very much so.
  22. I've read the first two chapters of Solticeman's latest, and so far, it looks like another gem. Complete with some conflict. Quite a bit, in fact, but even so.... It's interesting. Very. J.J.
  23. Um... sounds really good so far. Even if I'm blushing. A little. `Cause I'm shy. My alter-egos might not be, but most of the time, I am. But anyway, it's made my night. First, the tornado watch we were under didn't produce any near me, then this. Cool!
  24. To be honest, early on I liked it... mostly. In this case, meaning that I was also resisting, but that's mostly because as a teen, I thought that love completely trumped sex, and for me, that didn't work out very well at all. Even if in my case, whether I wanted to admit it or not, SEX was still something dirty. So in that respect, I suppose I was a bit Victorian. `Course, I was also lying to myself, but... But anyway, I thought the concluding chapters were absolutely glorious. If there were coincidences that seemed too good to be true, so what? Seems like everything by Charles Dickens was chock full of hard-to-believe coincidences, but it never bothered me in the least, because I was a romantic. And it was nice feeling that way - a romantic - again. Glorious, in fact.
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