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  1. *crackle...crackle* Hello? *sound of long distance static* Hello? Dude, are you there? Dude, if you can hear me, stay by the phone and I'll call you right back. Hey Dude, wow, this is a lot better connection. Yeah, this is Seattle. We were all sitting around drinkin' some of our fine microbrew earlier tonight and you name came up. We all said we'd been missing havin' you around, so I thought I'd give you a call. See, I hear you're looking for a new home for Awesomedude HQ, and thought I'd get our bid in early. I think we'd do a fine job of hosting you, the site, and all your kitty buddies. Oh, you're all ready thinking about us? Awesome! We'll see about getting that non-homophobe in office, and get back to you then. All right, then. Bye!
  2. aj

    2008 Motto

    I would add to this "And get a lot of sleep - you never know when you might get to go for a walk." cheers! aj
  3. Interestingly enough, I recall reading a study about this very subject: apparently, there is an orientation based difference in what pheromones attract gay men from which ones attract straight men. It was discovered that straight women and gay men are attracted to essentially the same scent (sweaty male body smell) and straight men and lesbians responded to a different set of smells. I don't think I'd be inclined to go around smelling guys' armpits to verify this result, but if true, I find that very compelling evidence that sexual orientation is an innate trait, depending on the age and experience of the subjects being tested...if they were older and more experienced, maybe their reaction to certain scents could be a pavlovian reaction. I know that smelling a man with a little bit of sweatiness makes me salivate. cheers! aj
  4. Do Emu actually flap? I need to look into this more closely...I've never actually thought about emu sufficently to wonder if they flap or not. cheers! aj
  5. I think this has some very real potential. I like the voice of the character - seems like a guy who lives mostly in his own head, and is used to going on and on about stuff in there. I know how that feels, for sure. I'd really like to see more of this, and as I was reading it, I could feel my special, spidey-editor's sense just tingling. This one would be a lot of fun to work over. Anyway, do us all a favor and don't give up on this, ok? It's clear that this guy has a story to tell, and it derserves to be heard. cheers! aj
  6. navigation? *shudder* Whenever I go out driving with my best buddy, I somehow end up being the 'navigator'...which inevitably ends up with me being yelled at for being such a lousy navigator. See, I have a very mild case of dyslexia, which comes out as left/right confusion...not that I don't know the difference, or that I can't tell which arm is my left or my right, but on a purely cognitive level, I get the two confused. I can look to my right, know that that's the direction we need to turn, and say "Take a left here." I'm so used to this that when I'm driving, I expect that I will take the wrong turns and have learned to have a very good sense of how to get back to where I was so i can take the turn I should have taken the first time, but my buddy gets very frustrated if we don't do it exactly right the first time. I know that for me, the study has it exactly right - I do navigate from landmarks. I'm terrible at looking at a map and knowing where the hell I am, so I have to watch for physical signs about where I need to go: turn this way at the 7-11, cross the street at the Crescent Tavern and take the next street on the same side as I'm driving on, etc. cheers! aj
  7. Hey guys - just found another really fine story over on Nifty, this one called 'Godsend' in the sf/fantasy section. I've contacted the author for permission to post a couple of chapters here, because I think this story would make a very fine addition to our content. It's very good work, and very nicely written. I found an error or two while reading it (yes, all 30 chapters or so this morning) but I don't think it's even going to need any addtional editing. I'll post the chapters when/if I get a postitive response from the author, who's name is Joe. cheers! aj
  8. Interestingly, I had an encounter with raccoons just last night. I was just getting home from work - about 7am or so - and there was a great deal of noise coming from the parking lot across the street: loud hisses and growls and the most bizarre shrieking noises. Something was up in one of the trees over there, and there was a rather large raccoon on the ground. Suddenly, a big branch fell off the tree, and a second raccoon came rolling off of it, looked around like "How the hell did I end up down here?" and then was charged by the first raccoon, and took off running across the parking lot with the second raccoon in hot pursuit. I was safely behind a tall fence, so there was no chance of my becoming involved, but it was an amazing cacophony. cheers! aj
  9. I'm enjoying this tale as well. I think my favorite part is the way he manages the interaction with the protagonist's mother....very deft touch. I don't know that I would go as far as Wibby - but then, who would go as far as Wibby no matter what the topic? - and say that either Driver or Cole are the best writers on the 'net or even this site, since this site in particular suffers from an embarrassment of riches as regards the talent displayed here, but I always click on it when I see a new chapter out. cheers! aj
  10. hey 'nutz - I didn't want to sound too sycophantic, so I held off on writing a note until others had commented...but, like Graeme, you know what I think of the story. I suppose you could say that, being your editor, it's in my job description to like this story...but it ain't nececelery so. I've told plenty of people I didn't like their story and why. But I like this one. I've said it before...it's your literary voice, because it sounds just like how they used to talk back home, and that's comfortable for me to read. I like your characters, too: just ordinary guys trying to make it in the world. cheers! aj
  11. This is what happens under a religious dictatorship. the separation of church and state is not intended to protect the church...it's job is to protect the government. cheers! aj
  12. I've always preferred a long slide model, myself. cheers! aj
  13. I wonder why, when I go to the link in the post, I get an MSN sign in rather than the test? I think I'll just state that when I took the GRE, I got 99+ percentile on the vocab section and let that be my bragging rights. I missed 'propinquity,' but that was the only one. cheers! aj
  14. We've seen this story before, I think. It still needs a serious re-write. I'm gonna say no, unless the author is able to do a lengthy overhaul. cheers! aj
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    Leftovers

    I read chapters 5&6 last night, and I was not as happy with them as I was the first 4 chapters, and his editing went to crap. We'll have to see where he goes with this before I get quite so enthusiastic again. cheers! aj
  16. Codey has gone on to the next great adventure, and we who are left behind are poorer for his departure, but much, much the richer for the body of work and the memories that he leaves us. May the Mother hold you to her breast, Codey, and your journey be swift and uneventful. cheers! aj
  17. Below is a couple of notes that I exchanged with the author of "Leftovers," a novel he is publishing on Nifty. I really liked it, and I think it's pretty site worthy. Here's a link: http://library.gaycafe.com/nifty/gay/highschool/leftovers/ Subject: Re: Leftovers - a great story Andrew, Thanks for your kind words. I'm please you're enjoying Leftovers. I took a quick look at your site and it looks interesting, but I try not to read other stories when I'm in the middle of one, I will go back when I wrap Leftovers. I would like to do that for nifty before I start submitting to any other site. Stay in touch and i'll contact you when Leftovers is finished. Thanks, Scott On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:21:05 -0400 andrew swift <joesdog@excite.com> wrote: >Hey dude - > >Read the first four chapters of the story and was very impressed. >Very nicely done! > >I wonder if you'd consider posting this tale on Awesomedude.com? >It's a writer's site for gay fiction, mostly involving youth. No, >it's not a 'friction-site' - we're about seriously good >literature, but we're not prudes. I'm on the editorial board, and >I think that 'Leftovers' is just the kind of work we're looking >for. If you haven't been to the site before, I'd invite you to >come take a look around, and see if it's a place you'd be >interested in having the story reside. Let me know what you think, >'k? > >cheers! > >aj > >
  18. I've gotten some very nice feedback on some of the few stories I've done...I think the ones I most appreciated were when people commented on "Story Time" (soon to be on AD) and said they wished they'd had a gramps like in the tale...frankly, I do too. What it showed me was that I had succeeded in my attempt to write a good character, and that always feels good. Sadly, no one has said they wanted to meet/date/sleep with me...I think I'd be a lot more complimented by that. cheers! aj
  19. Pearlman's a scumbucket, and rumors have been flying around about him for years...nothing new about that. He needs some jailtime for the shit that he pulled. cheers! aj (no, not THAT aj )
  20. It should be pretty clear that the originators of the poll aren't seeking to confirm whether sexual orientation is an inherent trait or not, but whether people believe that it's an inherent trait or not. But, and here is the bottom line, I think it is being used as a means of bringing a little controversy and attention to their site more than as a means of honest inquiry, which strikes me as a little cold-blooded. cheers! aj
  21. By far the most interesting line in that story was the last one...mostly because I find myself completely undecided as to what to go as for Halloween...how often do surveys mirror real life, I ask you? aj
  22. *sigh* I hated to hear this, as it means that one more bright light is flickering. My thoughts and prayers to Cody and Tim and both their families. aj
  23. aj

    AwesomeDude Radio

    LOL..."Of course Dumbledore is gone...you can't expect him to stay in your picture all the time, now can you?" or words to that effect. It's heartening to know that Camy is so dedicated to his listeners. However (I almost spelled that as 'hoever' which might be somewhat appropriate at this juncture), I think that with a little effort Camy could learn to multi-task and be doing someone while singing...it's all about breath control, y'know. cheers! aj
  24. As usual, I find myself agreeing with WBMS' observations and disagreeing with his conclusions....funny about that, no? lol I agree that this reads more as an essay than a story, but I don't mind that. I appreciated the attempt to write something 'outside the box' and I think it was fairly successful in what it was trying to do. Second person is tough...I've never written anything worth mentioning in it, and kudos to the author on trying it. Pretty much the only other thing I'd ever seen written that way before were those execrable 'multi-possibility' novels published in the 80's...remember those? "If you choose to remove your clothes, turn to page 162. If you keep your clothes on and castigate Jonny for trying to tempt you into sin, turn to page 164." Horrible stuff. I had this amusing vision of Strom Thurmond floating around in my head while I was reading this piece, and that all by itself was enough to keep me happy. Oh wait...D&D instructions were commonly written in 2nd person too, weren't they? cheers! aj
  25. I've never liked the 'time paradox' idea, and time loops are ridiculous, mostly because my idea of time is a little different. Time is not linear. There is not one track of history moving back and forward from this particular point in time. Instead, time is a great branching complexity, with each branch representing a choice, and two (or more) timelines moving away from that choice. So, for instance, in this timeline Hitler was killed in a drunken brawl when he was still a hack painter. In it's other half, he lived and went on to create the third Reich, but in this third one he actually had some talent as a painter and pursued a career in the arts and never became a dictator...you see what I mean. There are multiple focii or determinate events, each with many branching possibilities. So, when Homer sneezed on that T-rex, nothing actually happened in the timeline that we happen to inhabit, but another was created where the outcome was different. Therefor, when I see an episode of star trek where someone is damaging the timeline, I generally scoff if I'm thinking about it, or I just keep munching my popcorn if i'm in an "I don't care, this is a good story' frame of mind. cheers! aj
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