Cole Parker
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Most of Des' thoughts seem to be banana shaped. He probaby even dreams bout banana cream pie.C
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You're a writer, Camy, not a game player. I know you don't really believe it, but you are. You have such a great way with words, bending them to you will. You make readers feel whatever emotions you want them to feel. Maybe that's a form of witchcraft, but if it is, it's a more useful form that playing in a netherworld where reality bends and warps. You create worlds we can all enjoy. Come back to us, man. We like you with us. You spice up our world.C
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Now wait a minute here. You're telling me you've been driving around on a bald tire without brakes or headlights, and fouling the air, inside and out side the car to boot. And maybe the boot's bad too!You're a MENACE! You should be thrown in the hoosegow for endangerment! And you can't claim lack of fiduciary emollument of sufficiency because I just read a tale about making recordings. You must be rich. Everyone who makes CDs is rich.So trash the bucket of bolts and get yourself a new Jaguar. That's what all you Brits that are in the upper echelons drive, isn't it? Well, isn't it?Jeeze!C
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Three minutes to read this, oh, the pressureHow can I keep my poems so short?You force then to wither, to be oh so less sirThat it?s hardly worthwhile And as I?m getting senileInstead, I just may go for a snort.You realize I hope sirThe gay bar is beckoningAbout the time that we stopAnd it?s surely more fun thereI?ve got to be reckoningThan trying to read ?gainst the clock.When I?m bellying up there, no one?s watchingTheir watches instead of the menThey know what?s sublimeAnd it isn?t the time,But the drinkers acumen. (OK, you might have to look that one up.)Of course, you know, I think this is twaddleThis rule that we cut our stuff short.So we can leave by eleven, which forces scannableThree minutes or lessWhat is this, a test?And so great lines we?re to abort ? All this is silly, dumb ass and crazyWhen it?s otherwise easy to fixThree minutes a poemAnd then we?re all goin??Why not simply begin this at six?
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I can't speak specifically, but can generically. When The Blair Witch Project came out, it got so much word of mouth raving, I had to see it. And I, too, walked out, because the headache wasn't incipient, it was real. An entire movie filmed like that was way, way, way too much for me to tolerate.I didn't avoid seeing Slumdog because of that. I didn't even realize it was filmed that way. I avoided it because it supposedly has scenes, or a scene, of torture, and I object to torture. I also don't pay money to see it.But the message in the film is one of hope, and so I agree with you, Des: I'm sorry that other aspects of the film denied us the ability to see what the director intended us to witness.C
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I tend to back up a lot. Perhaps that's why I have problems moving forward.Confuscius
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Awwwww! That's so nice. Just like you are, Camy.C
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Welcome, Glendog. The more the merrier, but there is one requirement you might have missed. All new members from Scotland have to donate a bottle of highland malt to all old members requesting same as the price of admission, and this is my formal notification of same. Yeah, don't I wish that were the case!Anyway. I'm not aware of any systemic glitches in story posting. If nothing new is going up, it's much more likely due to laziness on the part of the writers assembled here than on the part of His Dudeness, who seems to operate 24/7 without taking a pause to relax. This works well for us, and if it keeps him on the frazzled edge, well, the site was his idea, so he gets the blame.One obvious thing to suggest. You may have read everyting on the homepage of AD, but if you've read everything available, you've done an awfully good job of reading. Each author listed on the left side of the page has all his writing that is up on the site listed, and in many cases stories that do not show up elsewhere on the homepage can be found there. So, if you haven't done that, you might check that out as there is some very good writing on display there.Glad to have you with us!Cole
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CHANGING ISP'S SOUNDS DREADFUL. HOPE YOUR NEW INTERNIST/SURGICALLY-LEANING/PROCTOLOGIST IS FRIENDLY AND COMPASSIONATE. I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE CHANING TO HIM, BUT IT SOUNDS BAD. HOPE ALL GOES WELL. KEEP US POSTED.COLE
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Can we call that episode tongue-in-cheek?C
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Wow! I thought I knew you, just a little. Now I feel I know you a lot better. And with that comes a great deal more respect. I already liked you. Now, I like and greatly respect you.It's often difficult to do the right thing. It's often easy to justify not doing the right thing.You had a resopnsibility to your boss. He trusted you. He expected you to do the right thing for his business. And when the chips were down, when it mattered, you came through in spades.Mark's being gone might hurt, but it'll be a temporary hurt. The pride you can feel in yourself, the knowledge of who your are, who you'll be when push comes to shove, will remain with you for a lifetime.I'm hugely impressed, Jason. Good for you, man.C
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Do you get to count the words you misspell?Oops! Sorry. You may now return to your regularly scheduled program.C
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Experience only means so much. Everyone conceded that McCain had far more experience than Obama. Yet he ran a campaign that had misstep after misstep, that came close to bankruptcy, that looked from the outside as a disaster. It brought us an unqualified vice-presidential candidate. It brought us a health care package that aided corporations and the health care industry and hurt the very people who needed health care reform. It brought us continued support of a war in Iraq that is costing us $11 billion dollars a month when our country is going into recession.Experience can mean hindsight to avoid past blunders. It can also mean a person is so bogged down in the past, he has no vision for the future.C
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I think it would be difficult to write a really compelling story and not have autobiographical elements in it. I think we all do that. We also disguise it very well, mixing and matching. We draw from our experiences, our knowledge of people and psychology and incidents we've witnessed. Even my most non-autobiographical works contain some of me, in some manner or aspect. It's inevitable.C
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You, sir, are talking my language!!!c
Oh I'm quite sure there are plenty of rules, but:* They're not what the books say they are.* Sometimes what gets called a rule is really a guideline.* If breaking a rule makes a better sentence, it probably wasn't a rule - just someone's opinion.* They change all the time with the rest of language.* There are some occasions where what you're trying to write doesn't yet have clear rules - and by writing you're helping to make them clearer.And finally:* There is a difference between rules and personal style. Some teachers of writing get confused about the difference.the major rule in writing fiction is, there are no rules. -
Naaaa. I'm not into kinky stuff.C
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the major rule in writing fiction is, there are no rules.believe it!C
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One usually has a painful head after dealing with the masked critter.My take on writing in first or third is, it really isn't easier in one than the one, but it sure is different. Third is harder to get started writing in, but after you've done it a few times, it's just as easy as first. And it does allow you to do things you can't do in first, so is a little more powerful a tool.The feel of the story is much different depending on which you use. I let that dictate to me. If I need the thoughts of two different characters in the story, or if I need to have events happening that the main character cannot be aware of, then I write in third. I guess what I'm saying is, I let the story decide for me as to what voice I write in.I think first person gets the reader closer to the characters, and so I like it for that reason alone. But again, after you've written in both, one isn't necessarily easier than the other. It just feels that way at first.C
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Great news! A new story! We'll be waiting for it.And waiting.And waiting.And. . . .Sorry. Just teasing. They say fine wine, and fine scotch, need time to age to come to perfection. I don't mind a bit of waiting for your stories because I know how good they'll be when they do emerge from their coccoon.CPS- Three hours of pedagogical theory? I didn't know there was that much. Not that was meaningful, anyway.
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Very interesting and provocative essay, Rad.My opinion is we have to be cautious if we take what we read in fiction or see in movies as fact. Both media show just a tiny part of the whole, and generally enhance that for dramatic effect. You see only what they show you, and then, in your mind, you extrapolate. Because you don't have the whole picture to extrapolate from, what your mind suggests to you is frequently skewed from reality.Yes, there are cliques in high school here. But they're not generally formed as exclusive, restricted-membership-only sorts of groups. They form more because kids, like everyone else, are more comfortable around others with whom they share common interests. If you're a football player with an IQ of 92, it's quite likely that football and girls are the two most important things in your life, and you enjoy being around others like you who won't challenge your intelligence and will also want to talk about playing football and chasing girls.But see, in real life, outside of fiction, there are shades and nuances that go way beyond what we get from our entertainment. There are football players with IQs of 126 who are very interested in economics, or art, and who don't generally hang with their 92-IQ brethren because they find them terminally boring. They might eat lunch with a group of those guys occasionally, but are just as likely to eat with others that share their common interests.Goths want to spend time with other Goths, as they think other Goths are the only ones who understand them. The may be right about that.But my point is, you can easily get the idea that a person can only be one thing, and being in a clique automatically restrains him from associating with kids from another clique. Yet in real life, this rigidity for the most part doesn't exist. A lot of kids are friendly with kids in various cliques. The clique doesn't determine who kids are, and aren't their sole support structure.Write your story. Frequently, stories about kids that aren't like everyone else are the most interesting, and it sound like yours might be that.I am very surprised that you don't have cliques in the Philippines. I'm surprised because I'd think people all over, of all ages, would naturally tend to congregate along some lines of commonality, be it religion, race, sports interest, art interest, education, economic circumstances, or something else that makes them comfortable with each other. I don't really understand how kids you grew up with avoided this. To me, even if you grew up next door to someone, and played with them as a child, if they developed into an intellectual who loved to read all the time, and you became consumed with playing video games, you two wouldn't have much in common and probably wouldn't want to hang with each other much. But you both would want to hang with people who shared your interests. Which is what cliques ultimately are all about.
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And the menagerie grows ever larger!C
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Your doctor specializes in armpit hair? What kind of a quack do you go to, and why does he spend his time playing with your armpits?Is that really your most interesting and beguiling feature?
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Camy:That's the saddest news I've heard all week, and it hasn't been a good week.You're stories are jewels, and to lose one is tragic. I just reread Bathtime today, and what a marvel that is, saying so much in so few words, leaving so much to us to fill in, yet the filling in is done for us by implication. I hope, hope, hope, you go through the effort to resurrect what you lost. When I've tried to do that I've never been as happy with what eventuates, but please take a stab at it. Your writing is luminous, and the thought of something being lost like that, well, I'm going to leave now and stew a bit.C
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Uh, remember a while ago in another time and place when I was asking, tongue in cheek, about dry English wit? I now have the perfect example to show people. Well done, sir.CI have every sympathy, Camy. The Sony is very bright, very shiny. Just begging to be coveted.On the other hand you have to sympathise with Waterstone's too. They don't have experience selling things that go wrong. It must be freaking them out.Once you've discounted the Sony e-reader, Waterstones do sell a lot of alternatives that shouldn't give any trouble. I recently bought one and I have to say its advantages far outweigh its disadvantages:Advantages:It can be used in almost all lighting situations except complete darkness, and there's a low cost accessory available to overcome that limitation, very useful for those with nothing better to do under the bedclothes.Very low cost, to suit Camys with long pockets and short arms - and delicate credit cards.Very green: it uses no power at all (even page turning is done using miniscule amounts of energy derived from the digestion of vegetable matter or protein - a wide variety of energy sources is available). Also it is fully recyclable and biodegradable, made entirely of paper!Water resistant - it will withstand even full immersion in water, but it is advisable to let it dry before attempting use since damage can occur if used when very wet. Multi-purpose: when not in use for reading, can be used to prop open a door, prevent a table from wobbling on an uneven floor, etc. When no longer needed it will even help with the lighting of a fire.Disadvantages:Contains only one book. Storage capacity is the one major drawback relative to the Sony that I can see. The low cost of purchase however makes it practical to buy several. I have shelves full of them now!I'm hooked - can't think how I ever got along without them. Isn't technology marvellous - I often wonder what my grandfather would think about it all if he were alive now!Bruin
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As we Americans have no idea what terms like stonking, bollocks or bin bags mean, while everyone else is off buying face masks and so intermingling with their contagious brethern, I'll be safe at home checking my English to American translating dictionary. So, to the rest of you Brits: BEWARE! <GRIN>C