Comment (59 bits)

Rss
I don't know if methodically replacing the word "said" will improve anything . . . could lead to a Tom Swifty situation :D (eg "Who let the dogs out?!" Tom growled.)
Now, that would depend on your perspective. Michael Corleone did alright in the first Godfather movie. For Carlo Rizzi, maybe not so happy an ending. But he was a twerp anyway.
Someday I must tell the tale of the three for a dollar tamales. Actually, just the title tells everything you need to know.
 We moved from a 1800 sq. ft house to one with 2600. Somehow I managed to fill up the whole thing (there's not a lot of stuff, but some of it is just bulky and requires a lot of room to use, like the exercise tower I do pull ups and dips on). The...
Top ten signs you're in deep trouble, starting tonight. 1.) Husband runs away from Pesto Tortellini, claiming the garlic is making him ill. 2.) Renames his car the "Batmobile." 3.) Builds a special orthopedic bed featuring an oblong, hexagonal...
I don't thing you really want the smell-o-vision recount of our trip from Florida to Virginia with the dogs . . . .
 It's odd to think, Kelly, that in a way, I've outsourced part of my brain to your website. I've always been terrible remembering dates -- events and stories I can remember, but the numbers mean nothing. I always end up having to look up the info...
I think that's the door the Morlocks come out of at night.
Thanks for the photos! That was a nice tour.
 Happy Birthday!
Think that's bad? When I have my hair cut, I usually also have to have my eyebrows trimmed. I think if I let them go, they'd go all Heavy Metal on me. Or Chinese Sorceror.
When I hear the word 'skipper', unfortunately I think of the big dude in the blue shirt who was always swatting Gilligan with his hat. Hope he's not that Skipper, too! ;-)
 Which herbal tea? Oddly, I don't mind drinking coffee in the summer, but tea seems off limits for me until winter.
 They say cameras don't lie, but they are wrong. Quite a bit of it has to do with lighting. Further, the physical and mental state you're in at the time can play into it. Right now, you're under a lot of stress, so I wouldn't go all Dorian Gray ...
I can't help but notice the color of the water at Six Flags matches the color of Ty-D-Bowl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPBnciNAqI
Every time I hear "trackball" I think of this old game called "Missile Command." I'm lucky to have avoided carpal tunnel syndrome -- or purple cow, for that matter. Think about it: I'm a heavy computer user, and I also play guitar, bass, and pia...
When we first got Neri, she was a happy, bouncy puppy. She grew up quick, but didn't quite lose that puppy instinct of leaping straight up into the air when she got excited. Result: when she was a gangly adolescent, she "sprained a hock." It on...
 I feel something similar with the movie "Blade Runner." The death of each of the replicants reflects something I've felt when confronted with mortality -- Leon, surprise; Zora, terror; Pris, rage; Roy, resignation. I'm not sure Roy or I would th...
The weird part will be when you are mid trip, and realize you're cut off from everything familiar. Don't panic; you've still got each other. That's the great leveler.
 Most of the reading I did about musical Pitch Class Sets was done on the treadmill at the local gym. I had time enough to finish 3 books!
What a coincidence we'd both be uprooted at the same time -- good luck on your move. Ours is mostly over . . . there's only the nuclear fallout of paperwork left to consider ;-)
I know exactly what you mean. PowerPoint is the most effective torture device since the invention of Vogon poetry. Just what the world needed: a way for boring people to enhance their tediousness with spinning text and sliding pictures. Thanks!...
I'm using the same Neri system get inside this house right now sort of technology, but I'm ok who wants a biscuit not certain it can handle inside, now! the sheer number of interruptions.
Now you have to rig it so you can edit photos like Deckard in "Blade Runner." ;-)
My wife's wearing the same things. We call them the Risen Mittens (a reference to the Resurrection Gauntlet in the TV series "Torchwood" -- yes, evidently everything we say to each other is some sort of inside joke).
 You're about to hear the red tuba!
The "Come Pet Me" look.
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG' !! Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: Move 'ZIG'. Captain: For great justice.
I'm certain there are aliens. I'm equally certain they are on *distant planets*, not flying around the backwoods of Earth abducting Cooter and Jethro.
Person? It was the Borg Collective. Just wait until they redecorate the place with all those hoses (because that's the first thing Borg do when they move in, put up hoses all over the place).
Odd thing is, I'm always me. Myself. Does that mean I'm a literary character in someone else's novel? Hmm. I have always suspected either Stephen King or Nora Ephron. (I think it's called "When Harry Met the Crimson King.")
Green Lantern's powers were great -- the ability to use that ring to do anything you can imagine, build any object you can think of. Of course it would always be green. Then there was that stupid weakness . . . the color yellow. How could he fa...
When I lived in Chattanooga, Eastgate mall used to be haunted by those survey people. We called them "The Venus Mall Trap." The only time getting snagged by them paid off: we got to see the preview trailers for Star Trek IV about a month before ...
Your stories are among my favorites. I wonder if some day one of us is going to leap off the web page and into the world of print. [ . . . Or, what Egon Spengler said . . . . ]
Imagine the reverse situation -- an alternate universe version of you. In this other world, you've found a relationship. Your partner is highly energetic, frenzied really, but apparently incapable of doing anything on their own. You have things...
I will miss this neighborhood. We have two dogs, Neri and Nora, both female Collies. Very smart, but maybe a little too analytical. About a year after we got Nora (the 2nd one), we were walking in our neighborhood when -- out of a driveway culv...
I'd bet they renamed Highway 666 because . . . well, I can't think a single metalhead here in town who wouldn't steal the sign. Replacing all the road markers every few weeks had to get tiresome.
 This sound like it's going to be a great story -- I'm looking forward to the next episodes.
I put a lot of time into music, and I see where you are coming from. Musicians have to deal with critics. A lot of times, the worst criticism comes as a kneejerk reaction, not a result of deep listening, nor from the standpoint of technical expe...
I hate to push this out of the philosophical realm, but for me, the simple reason is: I have to go to the can. Badly. (And get out of those seats -- they are not comfortable.) When you're watching a movie, and really into it, some of your perce...
Whatever I focus on becomes my whole world. It's easy to lose things when they move outside the scope of the tunnel vision. Has nothing to do with getting older, except I have a larger wasteland of memories spreading back behind me like miles an...
You know, probably pets are the best anchor point against that sort of fright. I don't have the same sort of nightmares as I did when I was a kid -- mine are not about fright, but about loss. For example, one night, I woke up from a dream where ...
Ah, but the real trick is to meet Heat Miser, and convince him to do something about Global Warming ;-)
I tried giving up coffee recently [actually, just cutting back from the 2 pots per day]. My resolve lasted about 2 hours. And yes, I have some now.
 I had a TRS-80 ... it gave me the advantage of learning BASIC, Pascal, Z80 Assembly language, and elementary shell scripting (it was called JCL or 'job control language' in TRSDOS). However, it was rotten for graphics. I knew that going in, but ...
I'm not sure it's possible to assign rigid interpretations to dreams. Context matters a lot. An owl could be anything from the one I hear at night (somewhere in the neighborhood) but have never seen, to Athena's symbol of wisdom, to Jerath the G...
This isn't going to make much sense. Or maybe it will. Maybe you'll land on my "frequency" and get it. Most of the time it seems like I'm rambling when I try to pass on something deep, but here goes. A long time ago, I read Roger Zelazny's Amb...
Years ago, when I became a vegetarian, I accidentally did the same thing, except with spinach. Let me tell you, overdosing on spinach doesn't exactly turn you into Popeye. Rodin's "The Thinker" comes to mind, actually.
J'étais là longtemps. Il est très "Hallmark", mais aimez-vous vous-même en premier. Je ne trouvais personne jusqu'à ce que j'ai abandonné la recherche. Votre titre est tout à fait exact!
 J'ai beaucoup de choses à dire. En bref: 1.) Pendant un an, j'apprenais le Français -- c'est comme musique. J'espère que je ne suis pas trop terribles! 2.) La plupart des gens interessants ont plus d'une dimension. 3.) Je suis également introvert...
1 2

Bit11 Bit2 Bit19 Bit3 Bit15 Bit4 Favicon Favicon Favicon

Member since February 19, 2007
197 stories,   711 bits
45392 views
Tags (all)
Calendar

Subscribe

Email:
AddThis Feed Button