Tragic Rabbit

* My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose My love is like a red, red rose: All spiky leaves and thorny, Crawling thick with icky bugs; Too bad I?m always horny. My love is like a field in bloom: Dirty, unkempt, rank with weeds; It?s just my goddamn bad luck That I?m packing what he needs. My love is like a sunset dream, Or nightmare that never ends; I ask when he?ll get a life, He just answers, ?That depends.? My love is like the deep blue sea: Salty, stormy and all wet; I hope the jerk will dry up But it hasn?t happened yet. My love is like a pure white dove: Sharp beak, squawking to be fed, Pinfeathers, bird mites and germs; Tends to shit right on my head. *

That's so very beautiful, Elecivil. Your stuff, poetry and prose, always makes me feel awkward with words. You're wonderful. Kisses... TR

* All My Old Boyfriends If I took all my old boyfriends And stacked them way up high, Pairs of feet atop of shoulders, I?d build a tower to the sky. That big skyscraper might wobble And topple to earth soon, But before it all had crumpled It would have reached up to the moon. If I took up those old lovers, Then laid them end to end, My willy would be exhausted And might take several days to mend. *

The dryest wit in the West. Kisses... TR

* Ode to a Wilted Trojan (with apologies to Percy B. Shelley) Oh, weary Wilted Condom, husk of playful night, Thou, with whose assistance the guns of love Are loaded, then soon shot off, out of sight. Lubed and ribbed, minty fresh, tightly rolled, Panic striken multitudes agree: O thou, Keep us safe whilst in your glove-like hold. Each gift of seed, given forth but not for issue, Each swollen condom a corpse within its grave, Thine latex doth encase; less need for tissue. Your spermicidal scent, resounding rubber snap; (Sweet signal, O let the sweaty games begin) Coaxed easy from your individual foil wrap. Wild and Wilted Condom, which art lying by my bed; Destroyer and preserver; hast the fires of new love fed. *

Thank you AJ, that's a wonderful compliment and comment, I just wish it weren't the only one I got. But I do thank you, very, very much. Though Dude also said he liked it in N&V, or maybe that was just his cat that liked it. I'm curious, though, about the quantum leap. How's that, if you can be specific? Is it better than Lucky Strike or Some Enchanted Evening, or just better than Drama Club's worse and/or early chapters? It doesn't feel good to keep writing things without getting responses. Also feels as responses arrive in reverse proportion to the amount of work that the story required, which is most disheartening. Little nothings get more comment than something that took more of what I call work. And I don't even have an Editor to tell me I'm a clever boy. Kisses...to AJ. (I want to have his babies) TR, having cheese with his whine

Hmm, 'germinate'? If you came here looking for fertilizer, you came to the right place, Rick, look no further! SO glad you joined us and so glad you're available. I've been trying to contact you. Can you resend that other story to me, and anything else you might have lying about? I might want to run the little one, despite what we talked about, after an edit job, if that's okay with you. Kisses... TR story-editor@awesomedude.com

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If your looking for volunteers to do the proofing, then let me be the first to volunteer. :twisted: If you or anyone else is interested, I'm curious about the benefits of an Editor. If someone would like to proof/edit/comment on Der Cowboy (link on front page), I'd appreciate it. Not only do I have a lot of trouble catching some of the more glaring mistakes that occur in a bigger project, I'm fascinated by the idea that someone could help me to be a better writer by editing. I started writing last summer, in late July, and am still trying to find my voice, my TR self, and welcome assistance to that end. If you need the story in an rtf file, just let me know in PM. Kisses... TR http://www.awesomedude.com/stories/short_s...er%20Cowboy.htm

* Soldiers and Saturday afternoon cowboys combine when two homesick young men encounter each other in an unlikely time and place: a Belgian snowstorm in 1944. What makes a friend and what makes an enemy, and how to tell the difference when you're cold and tired and sick at heart? I strive mightily for accuracy but if you find mistakes in either historical fact or proof-reading, please let me know! Kisses... TR http://www.awesomedude.com/stories/short_s...er%20Cowboy.htm

Possibly the locale. I'm only guessing but I know Rad. (and he's just such a ducky darling!) Kisses... TR

The main difference is that Americans don't SPEAK English. But thanks for the link. Since I don't have editors, I have to muddle through on my own with research and such, and find my own mistakes. Which explains a lot, I know. Kisses... TR

* Dead Boyfriends The roses grow so beautifully Along the garden wall The daisies in the center Seem to need no care at all. White lilies grace the pathway Where I take my morning walk The tulips rise majestically And almost seem to talk. The beds are soft and fertile The water pure and sweet All the best of everything Down to the earth beneath my feet. My flowers are deserving And my garden, my delight I bring them their fertilizer In the middle of the night. The best and richest nutrient And as I bury it down deep I murmur softly to my flowers And sing you both to sleep. *

Touche' :smt041 A hit, a palpable hit! TR, chagrined

I totally agree, Graeme. Just finished reading it last night and it was delightful! I hope we hear more from Rick in the future! :D I don't agree, I think that post's underrating Rick! The guy is a really good writer and that plot's not hackneyed, its a classic...but a HETERO classic and I loved reading this version. The way it was written was exactly right for the genre, for the classics it harks intentionally back to. It was wonderfully researched and presented and his way with words is extraordinary. He's a 20 year old Brit, if I remember correctly, and I hope we can get him to write more for us here at AD. Welcome to AD, Rick! Btw, I can't find your email, can you contact me again at story-editor@awesomedude.com? Kisses... TR

Paris Hilton? Say no more. Haven't seen it and hope I never do. Funny thing with sucky movies, you end up watching them sometimes, despite your best intentions. God willing, I have no friends who'd buy tickets to anything with Miss Hilton in it. Anybody else think the Austin Powers sequels were worth walking out during? I did laugh some at the first one, I admit it, but the second one just hit too many bad buttons waaay too early in. Mike Meyers is funny sometimes, in a really insipid way, but more often just annoying. Still, a hundred times less icky than Sandler, to me. Kisses... TR

The Chanuka Song Lyrics by Adam Sandler "Okay... This is a song that uhh.. There's a lot of Christmas songs out there and uhh.. not too many Chanukah songs. So uhh.. I wrote a song for all those nice little Jewish kids who don't get to hear any Chanukah songs. Here we go..." Put on your yarmulke Here comes Chanukah So much funukah To celebrate Chanukah Chanukah is the festival of lights Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights When you feel like the only kid in town without a Christmas tree Here's a list of people who are Jewish just like you and me David Lee Roth lights the menorah So do James Caan, Kirk Douglas, and the late Dinah Shore-ah Guess who eats together at the Carnegie Deli Bowser from Sha Na Na and Arthur Fonzerelli Paul Newman's half Jewish, Goldie Hawn's half too Put them together, what a fine lookin' Jew You don't need "Deck The Halls" or "Jingle Bell Rock" 'Cause you can spin a dreidel with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock- both Jewish Put on your yarmulke It's time for Chanukah The owner of the Seattle Supersonicahs Celebrates Chanukah O.J. Simpson, not a Jew But guess who is? Hall of famer Rod Carew- he converted We got Ann Landers and her sister Dear Abby Harrison Ford's a quarter Jewish- not too shabby Some people think that Ebenezer Scrooge is Well he's not, but guess who is All three Stooges So many Jews are in showbiz Tom Cruise isn't, but I heard his agent is Tell your friend Veronica It's time to celebrate Chanukah I hope I get a harmonicah Oh this lovely, lovely Chanukah So drink your gin and tonicah And smoke your marijuanikah If you really, really wannakah Have a happy, happy, happy, happy Chanukah Happy Chanukah

Come to think of it, gays in the military refur to themselves as family. If you hear someone saying that "sorry, this party is for family only", unless you KNOW what the deal is, most people probably wouldn't give it a second thought. I like the use of family as a code word and wish it would spread. :smt049 Where do you live? Everywhere I've lived, 'family' IS code for gay/queer/GLBT. Seems like its been a while, too, I know that the We Are Family song has been kind of a gay anthem for quite some time. And family is nice, we make our own families, my (gay) pastor says, and make them better than biological ones. Family of choice. So family is maybe a good word? Kisses... TR

But do you think it's such a hot idea for authors to actively attempt to put symbols into their writing? I mean, doesn't it just come out that way, if it's to work? I know that the writing book I'm currently reading (been reading a lot of them this past 10 months since I began writing), recommended by RusticMonk-Robert's Rules of Writing, clearly states that trying to put symbols in is a mistake, that either they're there or they're not. I really do like that book, btw, and highly recommend it for practical advice. Kisses... TR

My comments were only partly to do with the story or directed towards you, mostly, as is usual, I used them as a jumping off point for other commentary. But we discussed that tonight in IM and I think we're cool. I meant more about my life than my writing, although they are intimately connected in ways even I don't understand. Pax. TR

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~invar/circular.html#1 Kisses, TR

Jar Jar is so icky, I was just revolted. Felt like ten different alert buttons being pushed when that guy talked. I had zero desire to see another one of these movies, they desecrate the memory of the original three. Jimmy Carrey, I don't know. Sometimes I loathe him, I cringe when he talks in some movies, but in one or two, I like him okay. I like the flawed Truman Show, and I thought he was more decent in it than most films. I think there's another that doesn't ick me out but I can't think what...Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of those mildly-annoying-that-they-exist films that uses a not-unknown SF type storyline and gets undeserved originality points for same from people who don't read much. And the weird thing is that Carrey's kind of cute, except for those faces he pulls. Of course, I also complain that Keanu has no faces to pull, wooden acting, but he's still damn sexy. I'm inconsistent... I don't ever see anything by that jerk who did Waterboy, he just makes me shudder when I so much as see his face that I could never bear it, I know. Even so, now and then one sees something unwillingly, with a friend perhaps, and so I know that he sucks progidously. And his films are banal and insipid. And his friends' films are banal and insipid. Why is banal and insipid so appealing? Without advertising, most Hollywood films would never break even. And television is even worse, I'm with WBMS or whoever here who said that it's astounding that people get paid to write such utter shyte. And that people spend time from their lives to watch it... I think Elecivil is revealing here, with his detailed plot and dialogue, an intensely geeky side that is incredibly endearing and adorable. I just had to mention. And, EC, the dialogue to Parasite Eve was fabulous! Unrecognized genius. And the film sounds fun, too. Some of those imports from the west are just a scream. Mismatched dub tracks add to the entertainment value. Why do people hate subtitles so much? Pet peeve of mine. Kisses, TR

:roll: He went there, yes he did. Would this be Oaklawn Cats that's so formula-free funny? Blue, would it surpise you to know that people really talk that way? People I know? (Naturally, I never talk that way) I'm not clear on what you think, so I'm mentioning. The cattiness is part of the humor, but it's mixed in with everything else. The fact that some of it requires a decoder ring is probably a legacy of the closet, I'm thinking. And I'm wondering how it sounds to people who don't know anyone who talks that way and can't imagine it, or are actively hostile, allergic to other gay people or whatever. I have such non-patience with the actively hostiles. 'Straight acting'! No one must ever guess! And then there is such a worship cult thing of the (alleged) Uber-Butch that I get a bit catty myself sometimes. I think most of us have a bit of yin in our yang, otherwise where's the fun? But Oaklawn Cats is more a humorous micro-tragedy, you know? Public cattiness/private pain. For so many reasons, the pain is private but that doesn't mean that others don't grok you. Everyone's been hurt; everyone has suffered losses, the losses that dare not speak their names. All part of why I'd rather buy coffee in gay-town, surrounded by GLBTQAXYZ people, than anywhere else in town. I feel safe, it's home. Cats notwithstanding. And, in a story, this is bad? Bleh. No Kisses. :twisted: TR PS. Anyone else get a rush hitting that 'Submit' button?

Damn funny, that. TR

Excuse me?? TR :roll: