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Friday, August 28th, 2009
6:43 am	Writer's Block: Clock Punching What was your first job? View 551 Answers My first job was working in a grainery during harvest. 90 hour work weeks for about a month. When I joined the Army, basic training was easy in comparison. I should add, that was my first paid job. I grew up on a farm, so I was working most of my life; buiding fences, ploughing, rearing and sometimes killing livestock, that sort of thing. (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
6:31 pm	Writer's Block: Going Without Have you ever fasted or done a cleanse? View 508 Answers I used to practice demonology, so yes, I have. Still not sure it works, but just in case, it seemed safer to follow the rules. (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 16th, 2009
10:18 am	Writer's Block: The Right to Privacy Should some parts of celebrities' lives be off-limits to the public, or is giving up privacy a fair price for being famous? View 512 Answers Don't know, don't care. The only actor that I've enjoyed hearing an interview from is Jack Nicholson. Interesting man, and I do wish we were neighbors so I could pick his fevered imagination at times. Other than that, why care who's screwing who behind someone elses back. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 27th, 2009
3:52 pm	Writer's Block: Bite Me From Dr. Polidori's Lord Ruthven to Stephenie Meyer's Edward Cullen, the annals of vampire lore are filled with attractive, charming bloodsuckers. Which one would you most want to be bitten by? View 512 Answers The kind whose throat I can rip out and achieve immortality for myself... (Comment on this)
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
8:37 am	Writer's Block: Dog Day Afternoon The Dog Days of summer, the hottest days of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, start today. What's your favorite thing to do in hot weather? View 502 Answers The same as cold weather: Have sex, ride my motorcycle, and drink beer. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
4:59 pm	Writer's Block: Set the Scene Empty parking garages, roadside motels, dark caves, dank basements, overgrown forests—what kind of setting makes you feel nervous? View 501 Answers Small spaces. I'm claustophobic. Has to be small enough that I can't get my elbows away from my sides... (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
8:28 am	Writer's Block: My Biggest Environmental Pet Peeve Littering, long showers, not recycling... What's your biggest pet peeve about the way some people (mis)treat our planet? Sponsored by One Million Acts of Green brought to you by Cisco. View 500 Answers One person SUV's. You know who you are. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
7:30 am	Writer's Block: There Can Be Only One Do you believe in monogamy? View 501 Answers Kinky as hell and monogamous to boot. It's kind of annoying, how many people think that since I like bondage, floggings, mindgames, etc, that I must also be a swinger. It ain't so. She is MY slavegirl,and I'm not the sharing type. I got really irratated when I had a "friend" keep trying to get me to share my wife. I stared him down and asked him why, in all the years he had known me, he never asked if he could ride my motorcycle. He told me he knew I would be pissed and say no. "Then what makes you think I'd let you f*ck my wife?" Polyamory doesn't work. Not in the long term. I want to spend my life with this woman. Not 5-10 years. All of it. Polyamory isn't a new, clever idea. It's called f*cking around, and it's always been bad for relationships. (Comment on this)
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
9:29 am	Writer's Block: Desert Island Time You're packing your bag for that magical desert island that happens to have electricity, a TV, and a DVD player—what five DVDs do you take with you? View 501 Answers "The Quiet Man", "Leon The Professional"(European cut), Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams", "Richard III" with Ian McKellen, and "The Princess Bride" (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
7:46 am	Writer's Block: Jackpot If you won the lottery, what would you do with your newfound riches? Submitted By kimbereli09 View 500 Answers Help out my family, open a Lovecraft themed fetish club, buy a few (more!) motorcycles, return to college, make certain my daughter is set for life... (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
8:21 am	Writer's Block: Animal Instinct What creature would you choose as your spirit animal? View 502 Answers A polar bear chose me. Suffice to say I was VERY altered. I went on a spirit quest and didn't know it at the time. A friend had gotten me some peyote and told me to "Cut it into thin slices and eat it." He didn't mention that he gave me enough for about 4 people, that it tasted like vomit, that it would make me puke, and various other details. I walked all over this earth, ended up in the artic circle and met HIM. Biggest animal I've ever seen, blotting out the stars overhead, white and utterly frightening. I remembered that polar bears don't fear humans, to them we are just another chunk of meat. Somehow, that does make me feel better, that we are not the pinnacle of creation. That ultimatly, we are very small in the universe. (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
8:00 am	Writer's Block: Dream Job If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? View 501 Answers Taste tester for Guinness Porter Stout! Hell to the yes! If not that, then I would prefer being the Beloved and Tyrannical Emperor of the World.... (Comment on this)
Monday, February 9th, 2009
6:49 pm	Writer's Block: Half a Glass Do you consider yourself an optimist, a pessimist, or a realist? View 500 Answers A cynical realist. (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
9:12 am	Writer's Block: Better to Receive Sometimes it's the thought that counts, and other times it's the thing itself. What's the best gift you've ever received, thoughtful or otherwise? View 500 Answers The love of my wife, and the birth of my daughter. (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 25th, 2008
10:17 am	Writer's Block: Use Your Power Our holiday gift to you: the question submitted most often to Writer's Block—if you could have a superpower, what would it be and how would you use it? View 500 Answers CELLPHONE EXPLODEY!!! Bwahahaha! If you want any of the classic superpowers though, I would want invulnerability. (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 21st, 2008
11:34 pm	Writer's Block: Long Nights, Short Poems It's the winter solstice in the Northern hemisphere, summer solstice in the Southern hemisphere, and Haiku Day in the U.S. Does that inspire you to write a three-line poem with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven in the middle line? View 500 Answers Assuredly not, There is no inspiration, Haiku just plain sucks.. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
8:17 am	Writer's Block: Doh! It's the twentieth anniversary of the first Simpsons episode today. Who is your favorite Simpsons character—Ralph? Sideshow Bob? Ned Flanders? An actual Simpson? View 500 Answers None. I loathe, despise, abhor, ect. the Simpsons. As soon as I was forced to watch an episode by an ex-girlfriend, I knew that "Doh!" would become part of the American culture. Everyman be damned, how it works is: Idiots watch television, idiots say to themselves "Wow, he's dumber than I am and HIS life works out, why should I try to improve?" (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
8:41 pm	Writer's Block: Legends of Rock There are a few concerts that go down in musical history—Altamont, Woodstock, Live Aid, the Hannah Montana Best of Both Worlds tour—as legendary experiences. What live show stands as legend in your own experience? View 500 Answers Drumquest. 3 Days of percussive bands, at least 1,000 people with the drums they brought, lots of firepits, lots of ways to get altered. I stayed up all three days and nights. At least I still had my pants, wallet and moccasins at the end of it. I saw a lot of people come crawling out of the woods buck-naked... (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
2:04 pm	So it's been a few days, I ran over all the details in my mind, And I think I made all the right decisions. I rode through the center of a 5 vehicle pileup, including one 18-wheeler and a cop car. If I owned a camera, I suspect I could give most of you some grey hairs. I was riding in the right lane, heading for my exit, 18-wheeler next to me, a car in front of me, a pickup in front of the car. I spot that there is a cop on the shoulder w/someone pulled over, and slow down a bit, not an issue as I usually ride w/two fingers on the front brake when traffic is bad. The pickup in front sees the cop and panics, locking his braks briefly, the car behind him completly locks up and turns sideways. As soon as I saw the pickup hit the brakes, I was decelerating hard, enough to figure on stopping without hitting the car in front of me. Then the cars right rear panel slams into the rear of the cop car, spinning her back the other way to slam the left rear quarter into the front tire of the 18 wheeler. I got showered in pieces of glass, plastic, metal, and truck tire. Behind me I can hear more tires squealing, but can't stop to check the mirrors. She now spins off the road, the pickup in front has gone in front of the 18-wheeler, and I get some open space. I had already downgeared while slowing, gunned it, dropped the clutch, and took my open space. As soon as I cleared my rear view mirrors, I stopped and ran back to render aid. Nobody was seriously hurt, and the cops were staring at me like they had seen a ghost. My total damage were some bruises on my legs, one mirror knocked loose, some scratches on my visor and a broken spoke. Yay, full face helmet and gear! One of my friends stated that riding through all that and still stopping to render aid makes me an action hero. The whole incedent took maybe one or two seconds. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, November 28th, 2008
11:33 am	Writer's Block: Tales from the Registers Whether you call it Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day, today is going to be a long day for those who work in retail. The customer might always be right in the store, but here on LJ let's hear some stories about times when the customer was wrongedy wrong wrong. View 437 Answers Simple, anyone willing to shop at 3am instead of sleep or party is a consumer whore... (Comment on this)