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Wow... what have we unleashed here? Thirdeye... you must have been "saving it for marriage" and we are definitely on the honeymoon! How long have you been at this? No matter how long, keep it up!

Johnny... Well, let me add that you will always be welcome to post here as well. Current or future stuff... doesn't matter. It is all good stuff... and after all, you are family! All the best with your new activities...

...er, Peter, Paul & Mary?? :oops:

Attaboy, Aaron! The young man made an excellent point in his blog. Two young men who share the same sexual orientation may live next door but never know... at that age gaydar is seldom well developed. I grew up in St. Louis County and had the biggest crush on my best school friend. But due to fear of defining myself to another -much less myself- I never acted upon it. I learned ten years later -meeting in New York City- that he had also had a huge crush on me, but that out of the same fear, never told me. Oh that we'd have had the Internet and The Mail Crew... how different things might have been. Keep up the great work, guys!

Oh my God!

Hey... welcome to The Eggman... writer of one of my fay-voh-rite stories... A New Life/Life Goes On and purveyor of the popular site http://www.theglassonion.org just in case you didn't know. Eggman, the link to your story dropped off the AwesomeDude home page not long ago as we passed the 60 days since Chapter 7 was posted. Hope those brewskies aren't coming between us and Chapter 8! I was a major market DJ during the sixties and know the bass line to just about every tune from early 60's to early 70's. While listening to Sirius Satellite Radio's 60's channel yesterday... I thought of you while playing air bass! Welcome to the AwesomeDude Forums!

Fine James... If you'll send along your story files... we'll enroll you in the New Writers Series which will tell everybody you would like maximum feedback and constructive crticism... And you get the spiffy little NWS logo behind your name... listing on the New Writers Forum page... sorry, the secret decoder rings are on backorder. Story files to dude@AwesomeDude.com. And thanks to Dewey... but you know we are all family here and I highly recommend his site to all.

For the record... I have received no recommendations that I post the story either from forum members or the author. I would be glad to consider it if that's what you want... I can't be everywhere! :p

Here's Joey's pretty Word page :D http://www.tragicrabbit.org/rfi.htm

Attaboy, Rainbow! :D/

What's going on here? A foodfight in one of my Forums? SPLAT! Sholda ducked.... :roll:

:D

Totally Awesome... Dude! :D

Gabe... we are still collecting pictures for our great AwesomeDude Picture Match Off. Everyone is to send a picture of him or her self as a kid... we'll take any age... then when I get at least a dozen of them we'll publish them to a page here on AwesomeDude.com with a list of those who sent them. The person who gets the most matches between AD Forum members and their childhood pictures (guessing, esp or divine reckoning) will win a DVD of his or her choice. Actually, pictures have been coming in rather slowly, probably because digital cameras weren't around when many of us were kids. But it isn't too hard to scan that old snapshot from the family album... so that's the suggested way to do it. :D/

I'm gonna confess... not supposed to have favorites so let me say that Fifteen is among my favorite stories of all we've posted here on AwesomeDude. T. Scott writes so well and, like Josh and Joel, crafts erotic fiction so well and with such humor that you can't help but love those naughty boys. Keep it up my friend... er, I didn't exactly mean it like that! :clap: :clap:

Hi and welcome Rainbow. Good to have you aboard. You'll have to watch out for our Site Jester, Ben Dover... though. He's been a bit quiet lately, I think he has joined a traveling troupe of "Naked Boys Singing" or something. He's moderator as well of our Limerick Lane forum. We are a pretty positive group but sometimes get bogged down in weighty discussions. Your humor or should I say"humour" will be welcome!

I got what you were saying, Passive. Codey's poem was good AND easy to understand. Frankly, when it comes to poems, I usually find them to have more impact when heard rather than read from a page. Two of Gabe Duncan's poems which he recorded and sent to me and which are posted in the Poet's Corner in text AND audio, came alive when read in his own voice. Codey... how about recording some of your poems? I'd be glad to post the sound files along with the text files in Poets' Corner with Nick & Gabe's (moderators) permission. :smt034

Hi Thirdeye... so you write songs. That means you probably sing too. If you have a guitar and can make us a recording we'd be glad to post the file as an audio file to share with your friends here at AwesomeDude. Or you can recite it as a poem and send the file to us and we'd be glad to post it along with your song/poem on the Poets' Corner page.

Let me add my welcome, Lugnutz! :D

Hi Agertone, Please check your email. :)

Yes... and our own Sequoyah does the same in his A Special Place by simply separating parts of a chapter with the name of the person whose POV is taken. Of course, as Sequoyah does, you have to be ready for a quick shift of gears as the writer to make it really appear to be a different character's POV. The reader will follow you without effort if you succeed.

Congratulations, Thirdeye. The club scene isn't for everybody, but some of the best friends I have known over the years were met when I was younger and did the club thing. Coming out starts with telling that first person and sounds like your brother was a good choice. All the best,

Former Pantera guitarist among 4 killed at club Police officer shoots suspected gunman to death Friday, December 10, 2004 Posted: 12:54 AM EST (COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNN) -- A 25-year-old man stormed the stage at a heavy-metal rock concert Wednesday night, shooting and killing Pantera founder and Damageplan guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three others before a police officer shot and killed him, Columbus police said. On Thursday, police identified the suspect as Nathan Gale of nearby Marysville. A spokesman said police had no information about a motive or possible link to the band. "Right now we don't see any connection at all, but that could change," Columbus police Sgt. Brent Mull said. "Unless he left a note or there's something else, we may never know the motive." At least two people also were wounded in the attack, which occurred shortly after Damageplan began its performance at the Alrosa Villa nightclub on Columbus' north side. James Niggemeyer of the Columbus police was nearby and responded to a call about the shooting. He slipped in a back door, and someone directed him to the stage, Mull said. "We got the call about 10:18, and by 10:20 he was in there," Mull said, adding that "it was probably less than a minute before he engaged" the suspect, who was holding a hostage. "The officer was able to strategically gun this guy down before he was able to kill his hostage," Mull said. "It appeared he was about to kill his hostage before this officer put an end to it." Mull said the hostage was unharmed and that Niggemeyer's action saved lives. "The officer ran in without any backup ... obviously put himself at risk," he said. "The community has a real hero here." Abbott, 38, and his brother, Vinnie Paul Abbott, 40, formed Damageplan after the breakup of Pantera -- a group they formed in the 1980s. Their father is Jerry Abbott, a country and western songwriter and producer. (Dimebag profile) Pantera's third release, "Far Beyond Driven," debuted at No. 1 in 1994. The band was nominated for Grammys in 1995 and 2001. The band dissolved at the end of a tour last year -- amid much speculation on fan Web sites that the split was not amicable. The two brothers, however, played down any bitterness during an April 1 interview with CNN. "It just kind of got narrow-minded, and we just wanted to bust it open a little bit more and just broaden it up, go for the Baskin-Robbins 31 flavors instead of the one, you know what I mean?" Darrell Abbott said. Vinnie Paul Abbott said: "We had 13 years of really, really good success. And basically the singer wanted to move on, do some other things and really lost his focus." At least 1 audience member among deaths At least one of those killed Wednesday night -- Nathan Bray, 23 -- was a member of the audience. Mull identified another deceased victim as Erin Halk, 29, although it was unclear if he was a concertgoer or an employee. Mull did not identify the remaining fatality. Abbott was the only band member confirmed dead "at this point," he said. One of the wounded is in critical condition, the other hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Two others were hurt and treated at the scene, although the nature of their injuries was unclear. Mull said homicide detectives are checking possible amateur video shot inside the club during the shooting but said they weren't sure if the footage would be useful. Police roped off a huge area of the nightclub's parking lot as 60 detectives questioned hundreds of witnesses. Police brought in buses to keep the witnesses warm as they waited. Witnesses described the gunman as a heavyset man, wearing a Columbus Blue Jackets hockey jersey. Calvin Bota said he saw the shooting from the mosh pit in front of the stage shortly after the band began playing. "Somebody came -- I don't know where they came from, out of the audience or whatnot -- but they come onto [the] stage and ... he shot the guitarist at first, fired a couple of other shots and then he hid behind the stage a little bit," Bota told CNN affiliate WSYX. "Everybody started scattering, you know, there's mayhem everywhere. And then a police officer came into the building, you know, came in professional with his gun raised, and then he proceeded to shoot the guy." Mull said Columbus police have responded to previous incidents at the club, including several he characterized as minor as well as a shooting in the parking lot. He said he was unaware of the club's security practices, except that it had no surveillance camera or metal detector. "They are in charge of their own security inside," he said. "There are times they hire off-duty Columbus police for parking lot security -- we are prohibited by law from working inside a liquor establishment -- but last night there were none." CNN's Steve Brusk contributed to this report.

Actually, I think the avatar is fine. Most of his posts are not miniscule so it hardly stretches the size his post takes up. Have you ever considered making yours larger, Blue? <g> On that note, I'll make a hasty exit... stage right .. even!

Hi Green, Welcome to AwesomeDude. Our Forums Administrator Blue usually does the Welcome Wagon duties, and it is my job to work with our authors and manage the site to which this forum is attached. Both of us have been stretched a bit the last couple of weeks, so I apologize for the delay in welcoming you. I have actually seen both your stories listed over at Nifty.org but have not had a chance to catch up on my reading, something I will be attending to this month. I will certainly give both of them a read in the near future. I thank you for finding and joining the AwesomeDude Forums. We try to provide a site where authors, editors and readers can come together and have open and helpful discussions about stories and writing. We hope you'll be a regular here.