Quiet Moments September 2009

... that."~Dom Chapman "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up."~Mark Twain "No one is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."~Henry Ward Beecher... true romantic feeling: not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?"~Thomas Wolfe "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."~Ralph Waldo Emerson "All our talents ...

It's the return of Riley, Sue Extraordinaire!

..., you know... No offense. You would say that, obviously. "First our chasers: Potter, Potter, Wait, what? and Wolfe The hell is Wolfie doing in this fic? Oh wait. , followed by our two beaters: Black and ... do go away?" "Yup. Don't worry, my dumb blonde buddy. You were great at try-outs. Mark said he's never seen anyone chase down a snitch so quickly. You'll do just great," Riley ...

FIC: Touchable Dream 1/1

...Blake whispered in her ear, before taking her earlobe between her teeth, nipping hard enough to leave a mark. "I...I love...oh God, Blake," Doris replied, mere inches away from getting lost, giving in.  ...murmured sleepily, after a few moments of silence. Blake laughed.  "What, about this?" she giggled.  "Doris Wolfe and Blake Marler wish it to be known that they are madly in love and yes, the sex...

Best books of 2009.

... by Scott Westerfeld. The Island of Doctor Death & Other Stories & Other Stories by Gene Wolfe. The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason. War Music by Christopher Logue. .... Queen of Candesce by Karl Schroeder. Miracle Man: The Golden Age by Neil Gaiman & Mark Buckingham. Bluebeard's Legacy edited by Griselda Pollock & Victoria Anderson. The Arrival by Shaun Tan...

Dynamite Championship Wrestling in Orlando, December 12th, 2009

... Wrestling show I saw; that’s right, a wrestler making an ass out of himself and being a mark in the worst way. Sigh… 3. Sledgehammer defeated Michael O’Toole. Yep, once again I was reminded of... the bout, it was pretty good. Windsor-dressed and looking much like the wrestler now known as Desmond Wolfe-started off in there and remembering way back when to those awful Funk shows, this had to be the ...

Update

...with her laptop (no, I cannot). I had to piss alluva sudden so I was about to step outside to "mark my territory." As I open the door, there's a white / silver newer model SUV with a very loud ...'em. Hell, there are copies of them in Brandi's folder on my computer. But Brandi said her friend Wolfe told her that an unknown person, someone none of us seem to know, sent him a Facebook message with one ...

Dammit, redux. (LJ Only)

...of no problems. Christ. I have a bunch of posts I want to write, some about Christmas shopping, some about the NERO WOLFE dvds I've been watching with my son, and especially one about the three Mark Hamill STAR WARS movies I watched with my son (and how surprisingly awful they were). But everytime I start one I ...

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... prompt, our round eyes are drawn to round things. Jeremy M. Wolfe of Harvard Medical School and his colleagues found that curvature was a...circle beckons not for its resemblance to human face but as a mark of human art. Dr. Dutton, author of “The Art Instinct,” ...recognize “human artifacture,” he said, and roundness can be a mark of our handiwork. When nature does play the meticulous Michelangelo, we...

1001 Books to read before you die

...the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 20. Islands – Dan Sleigh 21.... Ballard 67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski 68. Blonde – Joyce ... Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe 219. The New York Trilogy –... Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe 398. The Cubs and Other ... 673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe 674. Story of the Eye –... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 826. Bel-Ami – Guy ...

... April 20, 1953 Ever the Method actor, Brando appears on the cover in character as Mark Antony while filiming his fourth movie, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "Julius Caesar." Hedy Lamarr:... she is devoted to the intellectual life. She sprinkles her conversation with lines from Thomas Wolfe and Browning, with the same candid simplicity she uses in describing her dumbbell exercises." Audrey ...