DrDonald

DrDonald

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Reply to This Ice Aint Cool - Not Even Slightly in Misc JoeUser Forums

Sorry for you and for your family. Difficult situation that. If the situation wasn't on the bus, I'd have lured him away, where he didn't have an audience. Sadly, all our cities have become hostage to crank and crack. I remember better times. Glad you could vent a little about it though.

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Reply to JUWC Submission in Fiction Writing JoeUser Forums

I like the sensory description. It magnifies the subject matter to give it a feel both gritty and surreal. Devolution, rabies, third-stage syphilis, genetic engineering mishap, radiation-induced schizophrenia : what would it take, I wonder, to create such a world. Maybe just despair. Maybe, in some ways, in some places, it's already here.

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Reply to I Walk Around in Poetry JoeUser Forums

I hear the pounding base line. The whining twang of the lead. Open the church door. The hound is you, howling, howling at the moon.

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Reply to I Walk Around in Poetry JoeUser Forums

So musical, so true. My humble tribute to you and Moore. Loving 'from hell'. You walk around Your steps behind And wildly In my mind Closed eyes see The moonlit hound You walk around

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Reply to I hate being on call in Misc JoeUser Forums

...hmm. If it's OK for you to "whine", maybe it's OK for me to "whine" too. Thanks. Expessing is definitely not obsessing. I haven't been doing enough of it lately.

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Reply to JU Writer's Club: Next Challenge in Writing JoeUser Forums

May have to sit this one out, sisters and bros. Got my hands full with business for a few days. I'll spectate when I get back. I'm helping clear out my dearly departed mother-in-law's house before month's end and it's 200 miles away. She passed away early in November and the house just sold. I expect to be tired when I get back. Will be up for the next challenge, though. Best wishes. - Don

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Reply to Piss on the floor and crap in his pants in Misc JoeUser Forums

Sounded hypomanic. Scarey situation! Assertiveness is key to safety in threatening situations, I find. You did real good. Boy am I glad I haven't had to carry that "ball and chain" (pager) in a long time. I enjoy you posts! You make us feel like we're right there. (btw your title sounds like some kind of hip-hop tune)

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Reply to Dinner and a Story in Just Hanging Out JoeUser Forums

I'll try Straub. I think my wife reads him. She's even more twisted than I am, but, then again, look at who she married! Yep, I've seen "V for Vendetta" (the movie) and I have "Judgement Day" the graphic novel. Yes, I like "From Hell" so far. Also trying to fit in Gaiman's "Fragile Things" and one of his later Sandman graphic novels.

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Reply to Feeling A Bit Better Today in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Glad you're a bit better. Hope you're able to get some rest. Weather's been pretty nice in southern Ontario. Most of that snow we got last week has melted already and the high for tomorrow's above freezing, so it can't be too bad where you're headed.

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Reply to Dinner and a Story in Just Hanging Out JoeUser Forums

My husband is a medic with an Afghanistan tour behind him I'd have loved to pick his brains. (figuratively of course) I have the greatest respect for medics in the services. You must be proud. Thanks Tex. One of the freakiest things I've ever seen was a textbook of gross pathology illustrating people that had died of various causes. I love the dark stuff too. CSI, Clive Barker, Robin Cook, Alan Moore and Steven King. <div class="Article_Quo

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Reply to Aching to Pupate in Misc JoeUser Forums

Nice job! I love the stuff that I write when I'm half-awake...when that insufferable committee in my head is still passed out. It obviously works for you. Some of us guys wait 40 years or so to grow up. Your poem was beautiful. It says that we truly need some kind of rite of passage. An epiphany and a pentecost all wrapped up into one. Reminded me of "Iron John" by Robert Bly.

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Reply to The High Tech Hippie Rides Again in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I agree, lightly sugared fluids like gatorade: the sugar's actively absorbed by the gut and the water follows by osmosis. Small amounts frequently. Gravol's useless. Only time I ever call into work sick is the first day of stomach flu. Wishing you well Mason; that's all I got.

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Reply to M&M's Evolution Theory in Humor JoeUser Forums

Fun stuff SHE! Reminds me of an autumn ritual back in gradeschool. The neighborhood would be covered in horse-chestnuts. We'd drill holes into them and put string through. Then we'd duel the chestnuts against each other. Taking turns, one would be dangled, while the other was whipped at it. The one that didn't break was the "kinger". Sometimes you'd get up to 10 or 15-kinger chestnuts. Guess if we ever bothered to plant the winners, chestnuts might hav

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Reply to Into The Ether in Poetry JoeUser Forums

Speaking of books Maso, I just borrowed Alan Moore's "From Hell" from the library as per your suggestion. Looks good.

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Reply to Dinner and a Story in Just Hanging Out JoeUser Forums

Yes it is. One of my favourite movies as a boy, and I actually own it now on videotape. Loved Hans Conreid in that role. Dr. Seuss of course! Very surreal. After all, it was probably all just a dream. Come to think of it, this feels kind of dream-like...oh no it is! As you see, avatar or not, I'm still just a geek.

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Reply to I Feel Sick in Writing JoeUser Forums

This has more twists than the movie "Wild Things". Quite the roller coaster ride. I didn't know whether to hate the main character or pity him. Well written yet disturbing. I wouldn't want to be in this guy's shoes!

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