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Introducing K-Pops sensation Holland who came on to the Korean pops scene openly gay. Here's his video Neverland.

The Internet is great! It spawns covers and collaborations among little know young artists all around the world. Here's a collaboration between 13-year-olds Alexandru and Danni Jules covering Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.

Wow!

Coming this weekend... a new novel by John S. Lloyd (a.k.a. Seth Newman) "Leaping into the Quarry" starts its serialization. Illustrated story about a young man born into the circus.

Brush up on your Rothenian, Henry Atwood is back! The greatest show on earth descends on Strelzen, and before the Eurovision Song Contest is finished with Rothenia it will upend many of the lives of its citizens, and indeed the city itself. For the feud between the Houses of Lucic and Staufer will have to be overcome before Yuli Lucic and Roman Staufer von Ebersfeld can find true happiness and bring peace to a divided city. Starting at AwesomeDude on Saturday, June 30th!

I enjoyed this story, especially the realistic characterizations. They all seemed so real and believable. While the story was entitled Bullies the story was really all about Mike and how strangers rallied around him in his time of need. Good job, Colin. Mike

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Announcing the return to Sanibel Island on Florida's Gulf Coast. All the favorites are back Clay, Ivan & their son Dylan, who is growing up. The third novel Rick Beck's "The Gulf Series" starts Wednesday, May 16th!

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I've just about decided to stay with this theme as it is clearly popular. We will stay with the 'Hallowe'en Theme' black and orange in our logos on both the Forums and the AD Site, however. Mike

Hmmm ... I wouldn't be too critical of "Auntie." She'll be turning 96 herself later this year! Mike

Finally got one of the themes working about half past midnight. I have another theme I may set up with the Orange/Black Motif. Although I do kind of like this one.

FYI it appears many other site operators were blind-sided by this same problem. I guess misery loves company!

Yes, the update requires a theme update as well. Nobody spelled that out. Try resetting your users interface theme to IPS default and march onward to get a theme update. Mike

The new version of the AwesomeDude Forums theme arrived overnight. When we upgraded to the latest version forum software on Thursday we briefly lost use of the site. It is currently in the IPS default theme. Following the AD Site update for 4-21 I'll begin working ib the new AD Forums Theme and the new Forums Theme will go live as soon as all the bugs are worked out. We apologize for thia brief inconvenience but believe the Forums and Forums Theme updates will enhance your AD Forums experience long term.

If you are reading this in the ugly default forum theme, you will know something is wrong. Once, every month or two, the admins of sites get a notice to upgrade to the latest version of the Invision Power Board forum software. I got such a notice this afternoon and followed the usual procedure. However, when the upgrade to version 4.3.0 was completed the AD Community Forums had disappeared. IPS blames IPSFocus - our third party theme provider. IPSFocus says the updated theme will be available later today. If we're lucky... that is IF... we might have the theme updated overnight. IPS reset our site to the default (ugly) theme. Running the AD Site and the AD Forums is not easy and I'm only one person... so your patience would be greatly appreciated. Mike

That is sooooooooooooooooo true!

I heard the story on NPR this morning and it brought a tear to my eye... thinking of the dead, the injured, the families and the community. While I'm moved to say a prayer for all of them... I wonder to whom -if anyone- I should address it.

I agree. Guarded is a spellbinder. With a busy story site to run, I seldom run off to other sites to read stories, but this one kept me checking daily for new chapters at Nifty. I've written to Wayne inviting him to join the cadre of top authors here at AwesomeDude but am still awaiting a positive response. If you think the story and other stories by this author belong at AD, I would'nt discourage your writing him and saying so. Mike