I just finished a story Elevation:Sea Level
Here's the real ending:
She started to sniffle. By the week's end she had pneumonia. The doctor, the hero, tried to save her. She died. He placed her in a wooden box and shipped her to Nigeria. A small little-known cannibal tribe called the Heyhai made her into a soup. She tasted okay. The tribe Fed-Exed her bones back to the doctor. He made her into a big wind chime for his patio.
So as you can see, everything turned out just fine.
The End.

I have created a MONSTER I can't keep up with it. Correspondence, collectors, and I haven't even gone back and put up the letters from the peeps that found PLACEMENT paintings, the other pics of minigolf spots, edited the letters, blah, blah, blah.
I need an assistant.
I just want to plow forward.

I am off to watch "Christmas Vacation" and wrap a pile of presents. I LOVE giving presents!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will make deliveries over the weekend :) Santagirl
P.S. My Christmas family this year is a single mother with 5 children who lives on crack row in _______. My only q is this: How many 9 year old boys wear pants 32" x 32"? That's bigger than mine! He could be 32" around, but 32" inseam? I think those are for her bf. Oh who cares. I bought three pair anyway. It's Christmas!!

War is a dirty business. It’s like the game “Risk.” Except it is played with far more finesse and strategy.
When the people’s fever for war and revenge begins to cool the government will release another morsel for the people to chew on. The recent release of the Osama bin Laden “confession” tape is the latest morsel doled out for your eating.
As I understand it, this film has been in the possession of out government since September yet it has only been released right now. And now I have seen Old Glory being raised even higher. “See we were right.” “I’d kill him myself.”
Are you curious as to why it has been released now and not before?
Two weeks ago three men in Illinois were set free from prison. They had spent something-teen years in prison for crimes they did not commit. We always want the accused to fry so we feel safe.
Read Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” It is the book that opened my eyes. It is my mantra. Basically the setting is a Big Brother society where every move of every citizen is monitored. There are strict rules about what a citizen can do, think, aspire to, read. A big screen is in every home…”Good morning, Linda”… And for every crime a scapegoat is shown on the screen being captured in a dramatic cop/perp chase. “Dear Citizen, we have captured the evil-doer, now you are safe.” And the citizens close their wide-gapped mouths and go back to their robotic, hum-drum, manageable lives.
So is the bin Laden tape authentic? Have the five translators done an accurate task?
I do not know.
But as one astute Asian newsreader said, “In Chinese one word has many, many meanings. Arabic is a similar language. I wonder about the accuracy.”
Context is everything.

P.S. “Fahrenheit 451” refers to the temperature at which books burn. Book burnings happen throughout the book. At the end the “bookpeople” escape to a forest. There they find the other book lovers (free-thought lovers), and each has memorized an important book for eternity so the words will never be lost.
What a phenomenal read! Ray Bradbury, who hails from Waukegan, IL, has given us much important information/secrets in his science fiction. Pick him up. Read him. He can help you and me and everyone else. Abolish the groupthink.

Oh I almost forgot to tell you about the sky. Geminid meteor showers, tonight! Right in my birth constellation. AND a solar eclipse! Get out your glasses! A man is packing me up early tomorrow morning. I am looking for something close to transformation. Transformation into what...I have no idea.
Catch it!
" You just might be in for a special treat: “The Geminids are noted for their vividly colored fireballs, which should appear in abundance near maximum activity,” reported Robert Lunsford, visual program coordinator for the American Meteor Society.
Another plus for this year’s Geminids is that the peak comes at the time of the new moon, which means there won’t be any competition in the night sky — and which brings us to Friday’s eclipse. "
FIREBALLS...just what I have been waiting for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"There was a boy
and a girl..."
I still need the lyrics....PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I almost cut my hair.
This morning I was walking around when suddenly I realized I had taken on the persona of Mia Farrow in "Rosemary's Baby." There I was in black leggings, a long black, sleeveless A-line top (it looks like a maternity top ha!) and THE shoes. I think it was the shoes that did it. They are black flats, actually sandals, with the briefest swath of leather across the toes and a little bow. Yes, I said bow! I am not much of a "bow" person so you can see why I ended up confused, overtaken, and shook out.
Right then I thought of chopping my hair into a 1/2" spike, Miaesque.
Instead I have an agenda today, so I have no time for hair-chopping.
I must watch "American Beauty" today because tonight I am meeting A-man for a discussion on the religious context of the movie...dinner and a movie.
I was black yesterday. Today I am only gray. Improvement!
A devoutly religious man at Christmas has some sort of relevency, doesn't it? See how lucky I am!
Fuck me.

"Slow Dancing In The Snow" by Althouse. Anyone have the lyrics????????????????? I adore this piece and just heard it in a superb performance. Share?

Authentic Danish Kringle...Racine, Wisconsin...rich with pecans and it comes with a priest's collar! You can win one HEREgluttony and confession all-in-one!