Tanuki Racoon
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I dunno, it's more than a little disturbing. The young boy's "member" is definitely not flaccid while he's watching his sister fondle daddy. Again, there's just too much wrong with this photo on so many levels.
Observe
1. Body language
2. Where everyone's looking
3. Facial expressions
etc
Just nothing redeeming about this photo except it is very funny but in a terribly disturbing way.
To address once concern: Careful inspection at high magnification will reveal this image doesn't appear to be photoshopped
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Started 21 March 2009, Saturday, 201pm
Step One: DRAFT WRITE OF NOVEL
Chapter One: Finished 20 April, Apx 6800 words.
Chapter Two: Finished 3 May, Apx 5000 words [11800 rt]
Chapter Three: Finished 9 May 2009, Apx 3100 words. [14900 rt]
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I see decades of therapy in someone's future...
Pretty much for anyone viewing it :)
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I want to thank those AD members who posted in reply to that entry. My goal is to make sure he knows what a good person he is. If you are willing to share that URL with your like minded friends and ask them to post comments too, it would be good.
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Phantom is to be commended for his bravery, his actions, and doing the right thing without any regard to his own personal safety. That's what a hero does.
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http://www.gayauthors.org/forums/index.php...;showentry=8985
Phantom is now my hero. Good for him. I wonder how many people could say they'd step in and do something. I'm proud of him. I really am. Throw your own kudos there if you don't mind. The world needs more people like him.
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I have a friend who's been. Pickpockets are a huge problem. Some places are open and others close. In the actual Times Square most places close for their own safety. But the actual event goes on for blocks. There are porta-potties on many of the side streets but nowhere near enough.
That's all I recollect from his tales.
(Much of the actual square is barricaded off with metal poiice barricades.)
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- starts with main character waking up
- anything with the words "turgid member"
- adverb hell
I am in violation of these 3 items.
- starts with main character waking up
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It's comments like these that make me glad I know Mr Savik :)Calling him a flaming asshole and a national embarrassment is an injustice to assholes everwhere. -
So... you're going to finish step 1 before beginning to rewrite, edit, and post. The way you worded the steps it sounds like the entire novel will be finished in step 1 before you begin step 2. Is my interpretation correct?
Yes. This is a marked departure from my usual method. I usually slave over one chapter at a time and rarely go back once done except to fix technicalities.
I don't like this method as much but I need to try it for this novel because this one is, er, um, well, more complex due to various circumstances.
All my stories have messages and this one is no exception. But this one's going to have something hidden in it for the clever reader. My money is on almost nobody figuring it out which is how it should be :)
What genre is it?Yes :)
It's set mostly in present day times. I've added a bit from this genre and that to create something a bit, well, odd. I do odd very well but you guys have never seen me do odd before.
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I do not consider myself an artist. I am a writer, and I will even concede writing is an art. But an artists paints or sculpts. They compose and play music.
Je ne suis pas un artist.
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So, I am working on my new novel. I've received a few inquiries.
It's a new genre for me. It'll have at least one person who is younger. It's going to be my longest story ever -- at least that's the plan. I aim to break the 100,000 word barrier, beating AWMS:DC by a good 6,000 words.
I'm going to post progress reports for your amusement.
Started 21 March 2009, Saturday, 201pm
Step One: DRAFT WRITE OF NOVEL
Chapter One: Finished 20 April, Apx 6800 words.
Chapter Two: Finished 3 May, Apx 5000 words
Chapter Three: In Progress (barely)
Estimation: 25 chapters late 2009 or early 2010 completion
Step Two: RE-WRITE (when Step One Finished)
Step Three: Editing
Step Four: Posting
I will answer limited questions via email or post Here if there's any interest but I will not discuss details of plot/etc.
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Four friends, who hadn't seen each other in 30 years, reunited at a party. After several drinks, one of the men had to use the rest room. Those who remained talked about their kids.
The first guy said, "My son is my pride and joy. He started working at a successful company at the bottom of the barrel. He studied Economics and Business Administration and soon began to climb the corporate ladder and now he's the president of the company. He became so rich that he gave his best friend a top of the line Mercedes for his birthday."
The second guy said, "Darn, that's terrific! My son is also my pride and joy. He started working for a big airline, then went to flight school to become a pilot. Eventually he became a partner in the company, where he owns the majority of its assets. He's so rich that he gave his best friend a brand new jet for his birthday.
The third man said: "Well, that's terrific! My son studied in the best universities and became an engineer. Then he started his own construction company and is now a multimillionaire. He also gave away something very nice and expensive to his best friend for his birthday: A 30,000 square foot mansion."
The three friends congratulated each other just as the fourth friend returned from the restroom and asked: "What are all the congratulations for?"
One of the three said: "We were talking about the pride we feel for the successes of our sons. ...What about your son?" The fourth man replied: "My son is gay and makes a living dancing as a stripper at a nightclub."
The three friends said: "What a shame...what a disappointment." The fourth man replied: "No, I'm not ashamed. He's my son and I love him. And he hasn't done too bad either. His birthday was two weeks ago, and he received a beautiful 30,000 square foot mansion, a brand new jet and a top of the line Mercedes from his three
boyfriends."
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1. Needs lots of editing for sure. I think half of it you'd catch on a re-read
2. The flow's nice but the details are sparse -- I'll agree with the others. We can't care about your characters if we don't have a little bit.
3. I disagree with one of the poster's comments. Since we know what the father does, as readers we can guess an income range. Further the kid has his own car. They have guns about the house. All sorts of clues give us insight into the family.
4. I'd read more.
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Shamus and Murphy fancied a pint or two but didn't have a lot of money
between them, they could only raise the staggering sum of one Euro.
Murphy said, "Hang on, I have an idea."
He went next door to the butcher's shop and came out with one large
sausage. Shamus said "Are you crazy? Now we don't have any money at
all!"
Murphy replied, "Don't worry - just follow me."
He went into the pub where he immediately ordered two pints of Guinness
and two glasses of Jamieson Whisky.
Shamus said "Now you've lost it. Do you know how much trouble we will be
in? We haven't got any money!!"
Murphy replied, with a smile. "Don't worry, I have a plan, Cheers!"
They downed their Drinks. Murphy said, "OK, I'll stick the sausage
through my zipper and you go on your knees and put it in your mouth."
The barman noticed them, went berserk, and threw them out.
They continued this, pub after pub, getting more and more drunk, all for
free.
At the tenth pub Shamus said, "Murphy - I don't think I can do any more
of this. I'm drunk and me knees are killing me!"
Murphy said, "How do you think I feel? I can't even remember which pub I
lost the sausage in."
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It's ironic that vocal homophobes would sell a drink that tastes so much like ass.
Not that I know what ass tastes like, but I concur.
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I don't understand, frankly. I tasted it once. It's fucking horrible.
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Mr Card's views on homosexuality were tamer in the day -- read Songmaster if you don't believe me. Certainly homosexuality isn't the end of the world in this novel.
He's changed. I don't like him.
He's a good writer and I still read his stuff.
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Poetry born of pain is somehow poetic.
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I was working on a Mac which had a photo-shop type program and it kept freezing up on me until the Mac technician opened up a control panel and assigned more memory to the program. I saw him do it, but I have no idea how to do it myself.
Just how do you find the shutdown thingy on a Mac. Where is it? I couldn't find it. I suppose I didn't want to shutdown the apple I wanted to turn off the computer. Who knew there was an apple menu?
sorry
You must have been using an old Mac. In older versions of the OS you could assign memory by application. Now it's all automatic. OS9 and older had (in the info window) a memory setting that was user controllable.
Shutdown is on the Apple Menu (OSX) and on older versions I don't remember but it's probably on the file menu?
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I can build a PC from scratch and usually troubleshoot the physical breakdowns.
I still can't work out how to switch off a Mac machine or why I have to configure its memory for certain programs and not others, if I can find where to do that. Its video card controls are an enigma that seem greyed out or frozen.
I can build a PC from scratch and in college I repaired them for a living. I'm a geek. Hell, I can solder parts onto a motherboard without flinching. So I know PCs and like Pec, I've used both. I own a Windoze laptop.
You don't have to configure a Mac's memory. In fact, I'm not sure you CAN. I'm confused by that one point.
What's upsetting to us Mac people is the fact that people continue to bash Macs who clearly have absolutely no clue about them. (There are a segment of Mac people that return the favour).
You shut a Mac down the same way you do a PC. You select SHUT DOWN and then it shuts down and turns off. One menu choice. You have the START menu we have the APPLE menu.
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Cost and the fact that you can actually get hold of a cheap PC that will do some things that can't be done or are very difficult to do with a Mac especially when one considers the staggeringly high price tag that goes with a Mac.
This was in YESERDAY'S Business Week. Pretty much makes your argument (which perpetuates a myth that hasn't been true for years) moot:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/con...ws+%2B+analysis
Have a nice day :)
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I fucking hate you. I almost pissed my pants.
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That was an extraordinary painful read for me. I'm not sure how it'll affect others, but I know why it felt like I was kicked in the stomach with a steel toed boot.
I guess I should congratulate you for getting to me. That's the sign of a really good author. Making your audience FEEL is hard.
Right now, I'm just angry that you made me feel something that I wanted to stay buried.