tororo

i myself am waiting for a really special occasion to use the chicken smiley. i'm sure i'll need it some day

as for firecrackers and swimming pools, the pool got cut from the film and the firecrackers these cool strobe-y things that silhouette characters at night. but i was just the lighting girl, so i didn't really get to play with them.

also, italo calvino rocks

I think you're right, but I really won't have any way of knowing short of posting a Private Eye at the corner, & that's just a little obsessive.

you've expressed from time to time uncertainty about your English, but I have to say you can put a sentence together better than perhaps 90% of the people I know for whom English is the only language they know, or are ever likely to know (especially now that the widespread use of the internet, instant messaging & what-not has evolved--or devolved--communication in English into what often seems like strings of acronyms & stock phrases used badly)

&, for me, your writing often has that slightly exotic tinge that I admire in Dinesen, Joseph Conrad, & Vladimir Nabokov, among others.

--rats

i was in france 3 years ago for the 14th... it was fun

To answer your question: pour vivre heureux vivons caches! Et je suis toujours en France by the way, je vis cachee dans les Alpes. Heureuse donc

wow - you have a platinum tooth. rock on

by spatial design, i mean architecture. and by slave, i mean college student.

you can rail at the stars, but you can't argue with a cookie....

thank you!

i think thank you is one of the best comments to get.

much better then some others i can think of

Yes yes, good news is good news.

However, because I am indecisive, I have decided I will change the dragon's name again. I just don't know what I'm changing it to.

Thanks!

The article's been published all over, and we've gotten a lot of really good feedback so far, it's exciting. We're in the process of writing our followup - Allies Who Are - hopefully, people will be into that too.

Americans have short attention spans. Just like most kids.

oh no....what if that DOES happen? it would terrible...I might actually get something good! aaaaaah!
-ew, heat.
Dave

merci...you're welcome to come by anytime...

hey tororo
thank you for your support. My last two exams went much better than the previous ones. Those were probably the last exams of that kind I shall ever take in my life which makes me kind of nostalgic!
I have also just been to my last University ska night ever in the UK which makes me sad but also excited about the prospects of something else to do!

Hello yerself there, Tororo.

I just remebered something. I wonder if ratsonjulia has ever read F. Paul Wilson's The Tomb. It's not a very good book, but fairly entertaining. There are these Indian demon creatures in it that I think were called the Rakoshi. Not quite Baksashi or Raksasha, but similar, eh?

P.S. Toshio Saeki makes me feel all weird inside (Good or bad, I can't say).

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Je ne sais pas si mes origines viendront ajouter qq chose aux dbats ci-dessus (que mon anglais dfectueux a eu qq problmes a dchiffrer). Mais cherches plutt du ct lorrain-sidrurgie-polak-rital pour mes modestes origines quant Kerguelen, ca vient d'une certaine fascination pour ces "iles de la dsolation" merci pour ton petit message! Y aurait t'il un website avec tes crations qq part? For the other readers: sorry for not writing in english, it's day off here today and we froggies tend to be lazy in that kind of days...

I think you hit the nail square on the head with the AD&D ref. --when I woke up from the dream the image in my mind was a pen&ink drawing I'm sure came direct from one of the manuals--(incidentally, I think I can out-dork anyone in the room in that I only "role-played" once of twice, but I've read a lot of the manuals & supplementary materials)

'The Jungle Book" has been on my "to read" list for a long time, & I'm going to try & get to it in the next few weeks as one of the projects I've been mulling over concerns a "feral child" in the manner of Mowgli, Tarzan ( & a number of historical precedents), worked around the framework of the "Little Red Riding Hood" Mythos.

good luck with the deadline, eh?

little niece & nephew are addicted to Disney movies, so I've seen the animated Jungle Book a number of times (but not the subsequent live-action versions)--I've got admit a certain fondness for it, mostly for the vocal talents of Phil Harris & Louis Prima (the "I Wanna Be Like You" rocks, if you can shut off a somewhat disturbing latent message that seems buried therein)

I still can't bring myself to watch the animated "Hunchback of Notre Dame", altho I have a certain morbid fascination--I re-read the novel recently, & it seems to me to be about as apt for the "Disney Treatment" (chipper songs, plucky side-kicks) as Stephen King's "The Shining" (which led to the somewhat diverting mental game of "What would the Shining be like, given the Disney treatment?")

& finding "The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2" at the rental place a while back struck me in pretty much the same way as if I'd heard they'd made a "Hamlet 2" (opening with Hamlet & Ophelias wedding)

I suppose I should actually watch them if I'm going to keep bitching about them, but bitching about them gives me a certain comfort, & I shall continue to do so whenever the subject comes up. it's, like, my thing.

[Edited on May 26, 2003]

[Edited on May 26, 2003]

I know what you mean. When we lived in germany, we lived two houses down from a restaurant with two michelin stars. One night I woke up to find my house in uproar and there was a lot of noise everywhere. I was small and didn't have a clue what was happening! I was taken outside by my parents and watched the restaurant burn to the ground. In the next four years it burnt down another three times until they found out it was a kitchen assistant who was part time arsonist. I even once completely slept through it burning down. In the morning, there was only the ash and blackened timber.

Its been rebuilt every time. Does that tell us more about the resilience of the owner and his spirit or about the capitalistic ideals which stand behind such a venture?