TracyMN

"My Beautiful Laundrette" and later, "Brokeback Mountain"

There's a Green Room?! Define "writer". I've embarrassed myself for less. Tracy

I just polished off the available posts of DGC 4, and though it's the same Daron, reading a blog post format seemed, relatively, like a lot of work. Like writing a snail-mail letter, I imagine.

LOL, thanks, Blue, I was of course, horrified, and only just now returned to find all my Knights come and gone from my rescue...thanks to all who here, and elsewhere offered instruction, links, and further information (whoohoo! Book 4); and to CP, master of wit, understatement, and the obvious, for making it all possible. (Is that food they're throwing?Oh, dear...) Most of all, thanks for allowing that I might be on to something with DGC. Because there are only so many hours in a day, I'm inclined to think those of you with two "jobs" already deserve equal credit for intention. Tracy

As if I wasn't excited enough, Courage was my early and durable favorite.

A three book series, the first of which is free, all available on Amazon.com. (The following two paragraphs are from book one, the disclaimer is for the addy and the other, from the "about DGC" section at the back, is what I imagine an introduction might be if I had a clue about such things... Contents of this ebook were serialized online at Daron’s Guitar Chronicles (http://daron.ceciliatan.com) between November 2009 and February 2010. Daron’s Guitar Chronicles is by Cecilia Tan, the author of many books and short stories. She first began writing about him when she was 16 years old, in high school in suburban New Jersey in the early 1980s. Fragments of stories came and went, and Daron figured in several short stories she wrote for classes in college, though never as the central character. It seemed for many years like Daron’s story was being told to her by the characters all around him. It wasn’t until 1992, in graduate school for a masters degree in writing, that she buckled down and started writing from his point of view. ******************************************************** The story very quickly speaks for itself, and the spirit of this particular forum is tailor-made for finds like DGC. A period of impatience, not overly long but long enough, regarding a particular aspect in the latter part of book two was the only negative in an otherwise delightful experience. Tracy

Thanks guys, I'll send these along to him. Facilitator of Happiness, it doesn't get much better than this.

Happy Holidays AwesomeDudes, and Thanks, for a wonderful year of the greatest answers to the dumbest questions...and for your effort, always~ Tracy

Well, that's a relief. I laughed. I belong. I thought I had to pay to get in here. I wanted to follow the woman who almost laughed, to see if she actually did.T

Why on earth would I trade one minute of the single-most perfect joy of my whole life, reading, which now affords me the second, talking about what I think, feel, understand and want -to a captive audience no less, for what is probably be the most thankless job in the universe and an opportunity to experience, up close and personal, the collective mind that equates pathology with entertainment and other peoples misfortune as a sign of their success? When I want to torture Cole, I just start talking... Tracy

CANADA is to be my retirement gift to myself. <g>

Seeing "Capitalism" in a subject line is like Christmas for me, and there is always hope in my heart that inside there will be another fanatic who can connect those devils to every evil under the sun. As long as there's a Santa, there's hope. What better to illustrate the form, function, application, operation, and impact of Capitalism than the horses it rides in on? And there will always be one brand that serves the particular purpose best--Charmin is my TP representative, for reasons almost identical to those that make it America's favorite and for that fact as well. Certainly a gentleman's rant, Chris, think a girl could learn to to that? <g> Tracy

LOL, the button isn't there now. It WAS, I swear! T.

Yes, it's the "see full list" which is not missing on my screen, but when I click it I get the error message that says "You are not allowed..." I'm not sure what page I was on. Nice to see you both. And Mike, your hair looks fine. Tracy

I can't view the full list of who's on and what they're doing. Having just discovered this feature, I'm not inclined to let being a dork, again, keep me from it. Tracy p.s. all of a sudden I can start a new paragraph? I didn't do anything different here than I did on the other thread, where my whole post was a run-on.

I don't know how to use the new format, so words in odd order or hanging out by themselves are the result of a keystroke I expected to do something else. I was going to say...this site has the potential to make a go of such a venture both interms of authors and audience, but I'd have said GO! no matter what. The future is becoming apparent reality before our eyes, the future we envisioned and the willingness to put a stake in it is something I would support in every way possible. And none to quietly either. Tracy Why can't I start a new paragraph? Those two words below were my first attempt at backspacing, I think. You have

Is there a "Zombie Pub Crawl" where you live James? Tracy

Not sure I need another place to talk, but at least I'll be on solid ground. I'm going to go see what the rest of you do here. T.

OK, Pinocchio. Tracy

Cool, Dude!! Tracy

I'm pretty sure EVERY bridge in Minnesota is been either replaced or repaired, in typical American knee-jerk response style. A look we wear all too well, IMO. It is, indeed, an excellent assessment, DK. As always with this crowd, it pays to be late. Any point worth making has likely been, and well; and here at least, its own or the sake of argument is reason enough. It's all I can do not to choke on the obvious much of the time; to breathe in the presence of certain things almost feels like a gift. LOL, "feels like" is reason enough for a thank-you in my world. Here's mine, to all. Nice to see you Chris, whether you're news or just news to me. Well, news here. Your work, of course, is not. Tracy p.s. Sacrifice our involvement in the affairs of others to save 10 billion a month? The illusion of control is priceless!

Hello Kuinut: There's two ways to look at everything, I guess. But if you apologize for what I took to mean that you read it before it was finished, and were absent when the final chapter appeared, I want to first run to your rescue, and then show you the sign that says "Don't encourage them..." But you got your answer, and you came to the right place for that. Hello All Tracy

So, there is good news out of Minnesota...I'd almost forgotten. I had to read the ballot question over a couple times to understand that a yes vote would support a BAN on gay marriage; I can only hope the other voters in MN are not so easily confused. I tend to think of amendments in terms of something already there, of changes as granting further freedoms. Where ever I got the impression, it does not apply to the current environment where the trend is away from the very principle of America, the one spouted across the world as what makes America great. Go figure... Tracy

I didn't see that coming, Cole, which is, along with not having to wait, what I love about Flash Fiction. All the fun of a good "prank", without humiliation. I have to agree that the idea is exceptionally well-suited to the task, and recognition of such things amidst the barrage of daily living must share some portion of the overall credit of a good idea put to good use by capable hands. But well-substantiated claims of comparative safety aside, for mitigation of this particular risk alone to contribute at all to actual security or in any measure to your sense of it, there would have to first be mitigation of the factors responsible for virtually all but 3 of the total number of incidents who's causes form the basis of the risk that our fear and need for security are born of. Pec's conclusion is to my mind, the only reasonable one, and for all it's potential gratification, that groping is one small part of an overall costly knee-jerk response, who's only hope for effectiveness would be in its pandering to a desire for immediate relief from the concerns that accompany the conveniences we scramble after like candy spilling from a pinata. If this is a high-jacking, and I'm not saying it is, it is not without defense. The door was open. If it was a set-up of sorts, I was certainly born to it. Never underestimate the power of Flash Fiction to spark the imagination, or an author to incite a riot. Tracy

42,000 gallons in half an hour?! Even with nothing to compare it to, it is a horrendous, heartbreaking thought. Is it too much to hope they will be forced to pay what they consider "too much" of the fraction of the cost that is measurable in dollars this time? I am once again, stunned if not surprised. Thanks for putting the news in my path E.J., and for the link. Tracy