Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 17, 2012 - 3:29pm
It's a trap.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 17, 2012 - 3:31pm
The right smelly foot.
Greetings, Litreactors.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 17, 2012 - 8:27pm
@ Bill Tucker: get the hell out now. These opinionated crazy bastards have held me captive for several weeks. Time I'll never get back.
Run, Bill run...
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 17, 2012 - 9:27pm
<--- pwns nkwilczy's ass
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 17, 2012 - 9:31pm
I mean, it's a nifty story, sure, but I still think my characters and atmosphere were stronger.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 17, 2012 - 9:43pm
<--- is actually fairly impressed with nkwilczy's story.
That one should clean up pretty nice, man. I liked it.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 17, 2012 - 9:52pm
You bring out the best in me Utah.
I also enjoyed your story tremendously, I'll have to think deeply about my reccomendations.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 17, 2012 - 10:05pm
Same here. I'll stew on it tonight and put together the LBL in the morning.
Until then, chew on this:
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 18, 2012 - 12:12am
Utah I am instantly transported back to high school listening to RATM drinking beer and doing general stupid shit. Oh the good ole days.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 18, 2012 - 8:21am
(socialist?)
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 18, 2012 - 9:22am
Well, RATM might = socialist.
But young Utah just = angry youth with a gun in his lap.
Only, you know, not so angry, really. And sans gun.
But I'm w/Diaz: takes me back. Every time I hear their version of "Pistol Grip Pump" I want to light a cigarette and go pick a fight.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 18, 2012 - 9:27am
I want to light a cigarette and go pick a fight."
Love it. Do it.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 18, 2012 - 9:30am
I'll have to wait til after work. Everybody here right now are Spanish traslators/vocal talent and audio/visual guys. If I scare them off I'll be stuck on this project for another 6 months.
So I have to wait til after work.
Bill Tucker
from Austin, Texas is reading Grimm's Fairy Tales (1st Edition)February 19, 2012 - 9:35pm
@Boone It's amazing. Every time I go to do some actual work at my nine to five, I find myself drawn to this fine site and the content therein. The virus has infected me. And now to post in the sexy thread. Viva la Sunday night whiskey!
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 20, 2012 - 6:47am
So the scratchy sound above my home office turned out to be a family of rats. I was just excited to have company.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 20, 2012 - 7:48am
And just so you all know, I am listening to Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 20, 2012 - 8:28am
When I was 19, a couple raccoons moved into the attic above my bedroom. And at night they had some sort of organized fight club directly over my bed. Each night I would wait for the ceiling to give way and a pack of feral raccoons to fall on my head.
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyFebruary 20, 2012 - 9:02am
The first rule of raccoon fight club is...
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 20, 2012 - 9:29am
Very nice Dave. Avery will now have this mental image everytime she thinks of raccoons fighting above her bed.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 20, 2012 - 9:32am
Well, there aren't raccoons in my attic now. This was ten years ago. Those raccoons are probably dead. Also I live in a whole other place.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 20, 2012 - 9:34am
But I know you think about them and wonder which ones survived.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 20, 2012 - 9:41am
Probably the fat one. Once, at night , I looked out the kitchen window and there was a giant raccoon looking back at me. He was up on one of the porch posts and he was ENORMOUS. Like...I don't know. I can't think of a good analogy. Let's say he was beach ball sized.
And I sort of freaked out and I wanted to scare it off, but I wasn't sure what to do (at this point I am going to reveal that I was about 16 at his time - so old enough to be smarter) and finally I got in the cookie jar and got a cookie out. I opened the window and there it at the raccoon. And that motherfucker caught it. I shut the window.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 20, 2012 - 9:44am
I'm sure he was "That's what I thought little girl. Pay homage."
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 20, 2012 - 9:51am
Old racoons never die, they just get stuck in trash cans.
I've seen a few racoons, but their place in the ecosystem is mostly inhabited by possums in this state. Now that is an ugly rodent, makes a racoon look dignified.
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyFebruary 20, 2012 - 9:51am
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 20, 2012 - 10:12am
Yeah. BAscially I gave him a serious taste for 'people food'. It was poorly thought out.
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February 20, 2012 - 10:43am
Did I mention Drive was an amazing movie/
I'm done with periods, I'm just going to do the Kerouac thing/
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 20, 2012 - 10:50am
"I notice that there's a long gap in your job history and it says here that for 22 years you went Kerouac on everyone's ass?"
Flaminia Ferina
from Umbria is reading stuffFebruary 20, 2012 - 1:49pm
Possums. I love possums. Maybe just because I never seen one live. But I frigging love possums. Must be from that Ice Age movie, all this love. Fact is, I love possums, it seems.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 20, 2012 - 1:59pm
If you love them, flaminia, it is because you've never seen one.
Flaminia Ferina
from Umbria is reading stuffFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:05pm
Are they so ugly? Maybe that's why I love them. It could be.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:12pm
It's not an ugliness like an ugly dog kind of ugly.
They're ugly like a mean rat. Big mean teeth. One wandered into my friend's house one day and looked at us and hissed and showed us its big mean teeth. We burned down his house just to get rid of it.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:14pm
They are hideous, I understand "so ugly it's cute" but I mean, overgrown rats with Dr. Emmet Brown hair that frequently carry crazy diseases and smell ungodly, ehhh, some things are ugly for a reason.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:17pm
They have scary human faces on rat bodies.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:19pm
Normally when I run over a creature I feel a bit bad. When I run over a possum I just try to get its family as well.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:22pm
Wouldn't want to leave orphans.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:25pm
Why do we have a marsupial on this continent anyway? And why is it the ugliest marsupial? I mean, I know koala and wombats aren't the friendliest things in the world, but they can hang out in my front yard all they want. For the ladies. If the ladies see a possum in your front yard they don't get out of the car.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:25pm
Hitler got reincarnated as a possum.
Flaminia Ferina
from Umbria is reading stuffFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:37pm
I'm dying inside.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 20, 2012 - 2:40pm
Possums eat wicked children.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:42pm
Possums eat good children.
Possums eat children.
Flaminia Ferina
from Umbria is reading stuffFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:43pm
I hate 20th century fox for making me love an unworthy creature. I will never, ever, sing along their jingle when a movie starts anymore. Never.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 20, 2012 - 2:44pm
Eat possums, they're awesome?
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:46pm
There is a possum jingle?
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 20, 2012 - 2:51pm
Possum pot pie. Great with sour cream and onions.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 20, 2012 - 2:57pm
okay - wait..that little thing in Ice Age is not a possum. It's like...a prehistoric squirrel or something. You mean that thing that is always chasing an acorn, right/ Squirrel.
Possums only eat children.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 20, 2012 - 3:21pm
Ice Age animal is a Sloth or the one that goes after the nut is indeed a squirrel
Flaminia Ferina
from Umbria is reading stuffFebruary 20, 2012 - 3:55pm
I mean Ice Age the Meltdown Possums
They're hilarious
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 20, 2012 - 4:01pm
flaminia_klla= win ---though I guess we can forgive you Utah, you are from Texas, you guys arent happy unless you're killing something;.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 20, 2012 - 4:04pm
That's the beauty of Texas. When everybody is happier killing stuff than not, everybody tends to be a lot more polite.
It's a trap.
The right smelly foot.
Greetings, Litreactors.
@ Bill Tucker: get the hell out now. These opinionated crazy bastards have held me captive for several weeks. Time I'll never get back.
Run, Bill run...
<--- pwns nkwilczy's ass
I mean, it's a nifty story, sure, but I still think my characters and atmosphere were stronger.
<--- is actually fairly impressed with nkwilczy's story.
That one should clean up pretty nice, man. I liked it.
You bring out the best in me Utah.
I also enjoyed your story tremendously, I'll have to think deeply about my reccomendations.
Same here. I'll stew on it tonight and put together the LBL in the morning.
Until then, chew on this:
Utah I am instantly transported back to high school listening to RATM drinking beer and doing general stupid shit. Oh the good ole days.
(socialist?)
Well, RATM might = socialist.
But young Utah just = angry youth with a gun in his lap.
Only, you know, not so angry, really. And sans gun.
But I'm w/Diaz: takes me back. Every time I hear their version of "Pistol Grip Pump" I want to light a cigarette and go pick a fight.
I'll have to wait til after work. Everybody here right now are Spanish traslators/vocal talent and audio/visual guys. If I scare them off I'll be stuck on this project for another 6 months.
So I have to wait til after work.
@Boone It's amazing. Every time I go to do some actual work at my nine to five, I find myself drawn to this fine site and the content therein. The virus has infected me. And now to post in the sexy thread. Viva la Sunday night whiskey!
So the scratchy sound above my home office turned out to be a family of rats. I was just excited to have company.
And just so you all know, I am listening to Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello.
When I was 19, a couple raccoons moved into the attic above my bedroom. And at night they had some sort of organized fight club directly over my bed. Each night I would wait for the ceiling to give way and a pack of feral raccoons to fall on my head.
The first rule of raccoon fight club is...
Very nice Dave. Avery will now have this mental image everytime she thinks of raccoons fighting above her bed.
Well, there aren't raccoons in my attic now. This was ten years ago. Those raccoons are probably dead. Also I live in a whole other place.
But I know you think about them and wonder which ones survived.
Probably the fat one. Once, at night , I looked out the kitchen window and there was a giant raccoon looking back at me. He was up on one of the porch posts and he was ENORMOUS. Like...I don't know. I can't think of a good analogy. Let's say he was beach ball sized.
And I sort of freaked out and I wanted to scare it off, but I wasn't sure what to do (at this point I am going to reveal that I was about 16 at his time - so old enough to be smarter) and finally I got in the cookie jar and got a cookie out. I opened the window and there it at the raccoon. And that motherfucker caught it. I shut the window.
I'm sure he was "That's what I thought little girl. Pay homage."
Old racoons never die, they just get stuck in trash cans.
I've seen a few racoons, but their place in the ecosystem is mostly inhabited by possums in this state. Now that is an ugly rodent, makes a racoon look dignified.
Yeah. BAscially I gave him a serious taste for 'people food'. It was poorly thought out.
Did I mention Drive was an amazing movie/
I'm done with periods, I'm just going to do the Kerouac thing/
"I notice that there's a long gap in your job history and it says here that for 22 years you went Kerouac on everyone's ass?"
Possums. I love possums. Maybe just because I never seen one live. But I frigging love possums. Must be from that Ice Age movie, all this love. Fact is, I love possums, it seems.
If you love them, flaminia, it is because you've never seen one.
Are they so ugly? Maybe that's why I love them. It could be.
It's not an ugliness like an ugly dog kind of ugly.
They're ugly like a mean rat. Big mean teeth. One wandered into my friend's house one day and looked at us and hissed and showed us its big mean teeth. We burned down his house just to get rid of it.
They are hideous, I understand "so ugly it's cute" but I mean, overgrown rats with Dr. Emmet Brown hair that frequently carry crazy diseases and smell ungodly, ehhh, some things are ugly for a reason.
They have scary human faces on rat bodies.
Normally when I run over a creature I feel a bit bad. When I run over a possum I just try to get its family as well.
Wouldn't want to leave orphans.
Why do we have a marsupial on this continent anyway? And why is it the ugliest marsupial? I mean, I know koala and wombats aren't the friendliest things in the world, but they can hang out in my front yard all they want. For the ladies. If the ladies see a possum in your front yard they don't get out of the car.
Hitler got reincarnated as a possum.
I'm dying inside.
Possums eat wicked children.
Possums eat good children.
Possums eat children.
I hate 20th century fox for making me love an unworthy creature. I will never, ever, sing along their jingle when a movie starts anymore. Never.
Eat possums, they're awesome?
There is a possum jingle?
Possum pot pie. Great with sour cream and onions.
okay - wait..that little thing in Ice Age is not a possum. It's like...a prehistoric squirrel or something. You mean that thing that is always chasing an acorn, right/ Squirrel.
Possums only eat children.
Ice Age animal is a Sloth or the one that goes after the nut is indeed a squirrel
I mean Ice Age the Meltdown Possums
They're hilarious
flaminia_klla= win ---though I guess we can forgive you Utah, you are from Texas, you guys arent happy unless you're killing something;.
That's the beauty of Texas. When everybody is happier killing stuff than not, everybody tends to be a lot more polite.