AURAPTOR

Woke up this morning in a pretty pissed off mood. I had dreamnt that I was playing golf , very badly, at some small time club tournement. It wasn't exactly a John Daley moment, but I was playing horrible golf and was furious. Now, I don't play golf that well to begin with. I've got nothing AGAINST golf, I just don't play it very often. I dig the [i]concept[/i] of golf just fine. Oddly, I've not played it in a LONG time, nor do I plan to...which makes me wonder...what the hell? Andway..it's Thursday...so I got that goin for me

PRAIRIEHARPY

Ok, I'm lost. How do we post pics?

SUCCATASH

I'm going back to school! I just signed up for a bunch of night school classes at the Community College so I can learn PHP and Flash. Also, I'm taking a Javascript and XML class, it should be cool. The whole program will take a year. I hope I can stick with it. And the coolest part is... my job is paying 100% of my tuition. I'm the marketing guy & webmaster at my work but HTML isn't enough these days, I want to learn more. I'm really excited. Classes start at the end of August.

HASLINGER

The girl is named whitney. I didn't really want a relationship, but it happened. What perplexes me about my current situation is the feeling that it will end very soon, and I am not that upset. She is by far the most PHYSICALLY attractive woman I've dated, but it's just not clicking. Not to geek out to hard here, but she's never seen Star Wars, and never plans to. OUCH. She, as I have recently learned, hates sci fi. Not that it really matters that much, but she's only into...INDIES. Don't get me wrong I love independent filmmaking [i sort of have to], but indies seem to always end in some realist depressing fashion. I can't take that all the time. Man i like to tangent. Or would that be more of a digression.

RHYMEPHILE

'kay, this has nothing to do with FF, but it's been driving me crazy, so you're stuck with it. I just finished reading "Cerulean Sins" by Laurell K. Hamilton, the 11th book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. I love the universe she created, and I love the characters, and that's why I keep reading. But good [i]Lawd[/i] that woman needs a new editor! Ugh, the plotting is poor and the spelling is atrocious. Multiple spelling mistakes in the [i]same sentence[/i] is just bad. It's been that way throughout all of her books, and I can't seem to understand why such a popular author doesn't get someone better (or someone at all?) to read over the damn manuscript. The word "alright" is not all right in a book. It's totally incorrect. "Marshall" is a name, not a federal marshal. The word "toward" is used in American English, while the word "towards" -- used extensively in this book -- is generally British usage. I also know it's wrong as far as AP standards, because I used to be an editor for a newspaper. It's stupid stuff like that that always ruins her books for me. Well, that and the lack of plot. Her books remind me of Plot?What Plot? (PWP)fanfic. Has anyone who has read her books just wished that Jean-Claude would sit Anita down and give her a history lesson on vampire politics and customs? That would solve like, 99% of her problems in any novel. It's a standard theme now in her novels to have hundreds of pages of vampire politics, sex, and descriptions of Anita's emotions and senses in between a few pages of plot. "Cerulean Sins" is especially poor in plot, and it's really disappointing. The first time the actual plot is mentioned, the murders, is on page 110. Sheesh. Then there's more sex and vampires, and the last few chapters go back to the murders. By that time I don't even care. It's a shame because the universe she has created is so unique as far as vampires go. I'm fascinated with that aspect of her books. It's too bad the rest is laughable.

CHANNAIN

Wow. I was just looking through my reviews today and I gotta say the response has been surprisingly good. I mean all I did was expunge an idea that refused to lie still. I thought, "There had to be a time before the war when Mal was happy. A reason why he was so passionate about winning a doomed war. Where was he? Who had a hand in making him happy? And where did that cross come from? What if he got it from a woman?" Amazing what the words "what if" can do. So here's the scoop. Heartbroken 7 is on its way. It's in the hands of my Beta group even as I type. One critique has come back and I'm waiting on at least two more, so it should be posted shortly. Heartbroken 8 will follow, concluding this little tale of mine. I apologize for the delays between installments, but I had this idea that I shouldn't write while I'm going to school (AD in Graphic Design), so I didn't during first quarter, thinking I would catch up during my break. Only I didn't do that either. The resolution for part 7 didn't even hit me until I was headed back for Summer quarter, so it seems I write better when I'm under pressure... go figure. If you're unable to visit this site regularly - due to what the writers for "Adventures in Gunrunning" call "Real Life Issues" - but would like to see how this ends, I would be happy to notify you when it's posted. E-mail me at channain@yahoo.com and you'll be added to my Browncoats list for notices on my artwork and fan fic. Speaking of the real world, I've recently been given the crazy notion of releasing Heartbroken as a digest-size fanzine, complete with illustrations that will include the crew of the Zirondelle. It seems pretentious of me to think that anyone would want to pay money for something like that, but if you're one of those who would, please indicate that in the e-mail as well. I'll likely do illustrations of the Zirondelle crew anyway, just because I feel like it. Those will be posted on my artist page at MNArtists.org, saving Haken a little bandwidth. Keep flying!

CYNDAMINTHIA

ok, I've only been on this site for a day, but ... is there no way to search for people? or, users? Aii.... Anyways, I'm a tourguide for my university, so I gave a tour this morning, and it lasted a really really long time. Plus, it looked like it was gonna rain. phoooey, we were gonna go out tonight too.

BLINKSGURL

hey this is my first blog. very boring indeed just thought i shouldn't make my profile too boring. so yea