tororo

Good morning Tororo.. I'm hearing some really horrible news on the heat wave over there.. 3,000 dead?..My god. Are you staying cool and hydrated? Hope you are well.

"Baldric! The Yanks, even that daft Bush fellow who is about as stupid as two very stupid things put into a small box & artfully commingled, thus increasing their stupidity exponentialy, will never fall for this dosh about Weapons of Mass Destruction & Nigerian Plutonium..."

"Ah, but I have a cunning plan...."

Good day Sir! Welcome back.
Yoshitaka Amano *thumbs up*

all this room to express ourselves and all we do is make faces? ... it really does make its own statement doesn't it?

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.