Sunday, July 31, 2011

Canadiana: Bryan Adams

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Examining the Darker Side of Circumstances

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    Why do men love women that swallow?

    Swallow what, you may ask? Semen, cum, sperm, nut, spunk, man milk, cock snot, man sauce, jism, get it? The thick white stuff that comes out of the penis once a man hits a high note. The stuff that lets a man know that he’s cumming, and the expulsion of which makes him weak in the knees and tremble from head to toe with each bolting jet that bursts from it’s end. It’s funny, our love affair with our own cum and the relation that women have to it.

    First, I can actually remember when I first saw cum. It was mine of course. I was just learning how to masturbate. No one teaches a young man how to masturbate. There are no manuals, no instructions written alongside the penis that reads, 'jerk this way'. Shit, when I was young, I actually remember being ignorant as to what an erection was. I was under the erroneous impression that when I caught an erection it meant that I REALLY had to go to the bathroom. Just imagine my confusion standing in front of a urinal or over a toilet bowl with my cock lolling out and not urinating.

    I used to sneak into my parents bedroom and rifle through my father’s closet for reasons I can’t remember, and one day I found a paperback. Porn. It had a really racy cover of a naked woman being held by a dressed man and across the top it read something like “She’s your ass now”, or “Fresh ass on the block”. I remember sitting down on the edge of their bed while they were out at work and reading through this book with a wild, odd fascination. I even felt both guilty and sinful reading it for reasons that I did not know, but I was reading through it. I had a problem with the word ‘titties’ because I didn’t really know what the word meant, but otherwise I was familiar, miraculously, with the rest.

    It was then that an urgent swelling of my penis caught my attention. It stretched out, as if it was yawning and stretching out it’s arms from a long slumber, and sprung, rigidly from my body. I was both amazed and compelled to read on, read harder, absorb more. I did this for two days. Read, catch a throbbing hard-on, and then put it away and think about the thrilling feeling it gave me all night long. I couldn’t wait for the next day, when I would come home from school, a latch-key kid, open my front door, lock myself in my home and race to my father’s closet.

    Now, the firming of my penis, even though it was pleasu- rable, was not enough on the third day. The penis needed, demanded more. It was sensitive to touch, the shaft, AND ESPECIALLY the fucking head. I rubbed it against my thigh as I read and that felt surprisingly good. In fact, it felt excellent! I rubbed my erection against my thigh faster and harder until I was caught, most unexpectedly, by a near faint, a swoon that sent my head spinning and my hips bucking like an angry bronco.

    And lo and behold, semen! For the first time! Surprisingly spirited jets of semen firing out of the end of my penis, sailing through the air as if I was discharging a pistol. Needless to say, I was shocked beyond belief. As amazing as the orgasm was, it was followed by a terror of equal and opposite severity. I had did something wrong, something bad. I had either broke my penis, or made it do something that it wasn’t supposed to. With a level of wild panic I cleaned up the tiny pools and streaks of cum, my hands trembling.

    I felt guilty and sinful all night long, my cheeks painted with shame. But I was doing it again the very next day, this time ready with a tissue. From rubbing my penis against my thigh, I learned to make the Okay symbol with one hand and just stroke the head of the penis. From there, the fist with the whole penis.

    I was in heaven, shooting spurt upon spurt of cum. Actually taking it for granted as I did. I just knew that when I started masturbating, that’s where I wanted to be. Ejaculating! That was the goal of masturbation and sex. The freeing up of semen from the body. It was a part of me that wanted to be free, to soar, to make a path through the world in lively jets of pleasure. Each jet sending wave upon wave of goodness up the shaft of my penis and raging thorough my body, short circuiting my nervous system.

    Needless to say, the white stuff became essential to me. It became important. For some reason, even the length, the distance, the amount became more and more vital to me as I grew older. When I learned what the shit was for, I was equally enthralled. It was to go inside of the vagina to make babies. Whoa! The penis and the vagina. What a fucking concept!

    But then I sailed into porn. Roughly in high school, I became acquainted with the scourge of youth and like some strange instructional manual, I learned that sperm need not be deposited in the vagina. It can be used to paint the female body. At the time, I was a breast man, and I used to love seeing cum splashed across a pair of full, healthy breasts. How amazing was that?! I used to get magazines with women giving head, and then the men promptly snatching the penis from their puckered mouths to spray their issue across the woman’s ‘titties’.

    But somehow we graduated from the simple stuff. Somehow us teen boys, who started viewing porn, began to change. Some of us went bezerk and wanted to see cum draped across shoes and panties in long, waxy streaks. Others liked it sprayed and drizzled on the quivering buttocks of a woman. While others liked cum flung into hair.

    I, for my part, went my way too. I was always amazed at the blow-job, since I first saw one. And the neat thing was that the favored blow-job preceded any ejaculation anywhere. The woman would be sucking away on some man pole until he was just about to bust a nut. He’d then snatch his prong from her mouth and aim at whatever was desired: tit’s, ass, legs, feet, shoes, panties, hair, blah, blah, blah.

    Then came the day that the penis slipped from a pornstar's mouth, stopped, the hand jerked it to fire like a cannon, and stream after stream of jism splashed against her face. In her eyes, up her nose, over her mouth. And when that happened I knew I had found my world. I knew I understood something that I didn’t before. I, like so many other men, equated our cum to what we desired. Take the guy with the shoe fetish. He has a desire to express the fullness of his sexual feelings upon a woman’s shoes, so he masturbates ON them, spilling his seed ACROSS them. His semen baptizing the shoes with his love and affection...the focus of his desire expressed. Understand?

    A man wants to cum on that which he desires. If he’s an ass man, he’ll pretty much yank his erection from your puckered asshole and glaze your buttocks with his sperm. It’s what he likes. He likes it so much that he’s want’s to paint it with cum. And the same with me as with other men...when we see a beautiful woman, many of us, after fucking her, yank our penises out of her, straddle her neck and pour cum all over her features. In this way we fuck her face too. We paint what we desire with our essence. Women probably find this to be strange, but men can relate. The technical term for ejaculating on a woman’s face is called a ‘facial’. I loved blow-jobs, followed by facials. I loved facials so much that I used to get gangbang facial videos where scores of men would fuck and then facialize a woman, literally covering her face with male issue.

    I forget the name of the pornstar. I really do. However, I loved her the second I saw her act. I bought ALL of her videos. After a blow-job and when the penis reared back for the facial, she opened her mouth and gulped down the shot of sperm like a trout would a fly buzzing over a river.  I was amazed. I was shocked. I was stunned and entranced. And she did not stop there. Other men, in the gangbang, ejaculated into condoms, to which she emptied into her mouth, sucking them empty. She was a human cum drain. I have never seen a woman digest so much sperm. I was hooked. I knew my fetish. I knew what I loved, and I kept it to myself, because like a man with a foot fetish, I was certain that I was a deviant.

    A pervert. A secret perv for oral sex, facials, and now, swallowing women. I just got porn with women swallowing cum. I would go into porn shops and be amazed at the hundreds of mag- azines and videos with women eating cum. I would go into the section of the video store that had these particular videos and see men scattering from it like cockroaches in a kitchen, confirming for me that I wasn't the only sexual deviant out there that loved women that swallowed. I had a massive collection of swallowing videos after awhile.

    I soon found out as time continued and I grew into a man that other men loved to have their women suck sperm. Swallowing became a tease word. Men talked about it openly over drinks and at the job. A blow-job was soon expected to end with a mouthful of cum swallowed by a devoted or skilled female. Anything less was just weak and sad. Women started to make it the subject of pillow talk after sex. Many proud that they could do it, others seeing it as taking no effort, and the sorry assed few that bemoaned it.

    But still not only do we men watch like deer in the headlights when a woman blows cock, and we not only feel a sense of relief and amazement to watch a woman play with a mouthful of spunk, we applaud with great satisfaction to watch them belt it down like a shotglass of scotch. It’s a downright joyful experience to watch her go. Confetti should be thrown, champagne opened, streamers set to fly. The party should begin the minute she swallows and smiles back at you. You want to kiss her all over her face. You are in love with this woman. What insane pleasure the brain feeds back into the nervous system.

    Deter- mined women get even higher marks. Deter- mined? Spillage. Did some cum dribble down her chin? Land on your thigh, her breast? Does her tongue search her chin to retrieve the streaks? Does her mouth snap up the drops on your thighs? Does a finger scoop issue from her breast and deposit it on her tongue? Does she go after every drop? That’s a determined bitch and worth taking out to dinner tomorrow night, with roses and wine, or giving her your phone number in the back alley. Whatever she wants, she gets.

    Men swoon over women that eat cum. Many won’t say it. Many do. So why this fixation? Largely, the hobo believes that the eating of cum signifies acceptance of the man completely. A vagina accepts anything. A mouth is an open invitation, a door into the soul. Consider when a woman eats food. She derives pleasure out of savoring her meal, her mouth taking on seductive shapes, and every woman knows just how seductive a mouth can be when eating a banana. The mouth is as sexual an organ as the vagina or the anus. So to look at a pool of cum resting on the plaza of your ladyfriend’s tongue makes everything new in the world. It changes the perception of light and dark, makes all things new. Its a spiritual moment that transcends sex, souls, heartbeats, and soaring spirits. And her swallowing says in translation, "I'm crazy about you and sucking your cock."

    Or maybe it just makes this perverted, horny fuck feel good to see my woman swallow a mouthful of my load.

    That could be it too.

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The Roué's Progress

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O-Bon Odori 2011









    Once a year in both July and August, depending on which region of Japan, people commemorate and honor their ancestors in a nightly festival.

    Tonight, join Mitsu Figaro and Touma Yoshikawa in the Ballroom inside Coughton Court in Caledon Rothesay for an O-bon Odori dance at 7pm SLT to 8.30Pm SLT. A celebration of japanese music, both old and new

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China Will Not Unload Its US Government Bonds Because of the Debt Ceiling Crisis

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    31 July 2011

    I thought I should write this while the debt ceiling debate is still raging. I want to make these statements before the matter is settled.

    To begin, the debate over the ceiling is for real - it's not a charade. The Tea Party folks were elected to reign in US government spending. They aren't faking.

    Further, let's say a deal is not reached by August 2. This would not necessarily mean that US government bonds would collapse in value. Continuing revenues could still be channelled to meet interest payments on US debt (which are presently only about 10% of US government expenditures - though solely because interest rates remain low).

    Since the US prints its own money, it is well-known that the country cannot run out of cash (it can only run out of cash that has lasting value). This is unlike Greece, which shares the Euro as a currency along with the other members of the European Monetary Union. Greece cannot “print money,” but the US can.

    However, there has been talk that the Chinese, who now hold something like $1.2 trillion in US debt instruments, could “foreclose” on the US, basically tanking the US currency and with it the US economy.

    This argument misapprehends why the Chinese have accumulated $1.2 trillion US dollars in the first place.

    If you want to understand this better, I recommend that you read an excellent article by a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing. In a very concise piece, Professor Patrick Chovanec makes clear why the current Chinese economic strategy not only requires China to keep its existing US government bonds, but in fact to continue buying more (though they are certainly diversifying).

    Professor Chovanec states, "China’s growth model for the past 30 years relies, in large part, on running a trade surplus (selling more than it buys from abroad) in order to maximize capital accumulation and therefore investment at home. At the same it, it encourages inflows of foreign investment into China in order to speed up that process even further, while restricting Chinese money from flowing abroad, in all but a few controlled circumstances.

    "The result is that foreign currency flows into China and piles up, with no outlet to flow back out again. Normally, all those excess dollars that were piling up in China would fall in value relative to the RMB, until the imbalances corrected themselves. However, in order to keep those imbalances in place, the Chinese government intervenes to buy up all those excess dollars (and euros, and yen) itself, to keep its currency from appreciating, and accumulates them as official reserves. It has to invest those reserves somewhere until it decides to use them to buy U.S. goods or make more direct investments with them abroad.

    "Since the U.S. is China’s largest customer, and since many smaller customers also settle their international trade in U.S. dollars, roughly 70% of China’s $3 trillion reserves are in dollars. In theory, it could sell some of those dollars for other currencies or for commodities, like gold or oil, but in practice, given the huge sums they are already holding, its hard for China to sell off even some of its dollars without undermining the value of what it has left. Even if it could do that, there just aren’t any markets that are as large or liquid as the market for U.S. Treasuries, to accommodate the amounts of money we’re talking about. The fact is, as long as China wants to sell goods for dollars, and decides to accumulate those dollars as reserves rather than spending them on imports or investments, it has little choice not only to hold the Treasuries it already owns, but keep buying more and more."

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    I'm not saying the US is not headed down the road to disaster. It is. Things have already gone too far. But the Chinese are not going to upset the applecart next week, whether the debt ceiling is raised, eliminated by presidential decree or maintained.

    Click here for Prof. Chovanec’s article.

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    Oh, just in case you thought that the Tea Party folks are really here to fix the problem, have a look at which party ran up the biggest tally of new Federal expenditures in US history:

    I'm not calling Mr. Obama innocent. He has certainly been a big spender - but he has been no match for the George W. Bush Republicans! As they say, politics makes for strange bedfellows.

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On Battleship Hill

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P J Harvey - In the Dark Places

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Spiritual Sunday

    Today's music program on thap gump's Main stream features sacred and spiritual music from a variety of genres. From Early Music to Baroque to Classical to Native American to Celtic; we hope this program lifts you up through the day.
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Summertime and the Living Is (Not) Easy!

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    We've reached the end of another GREAT month in the Lair and I'm thrilled to send July out with a BANG (or is that boom?) by welcoming my good friend and Lair favorite Marie Force back for a visit. The third book in Marie's "Fatal" series, Fatal Consequences, was released this month, along with a lot of other stuff. But I'll let Marie tell you all about it:

    Greetings to the Banditas! Thank you SO much to my dear friend Aunty Cindy and the gang for having me back again to celebrate the release of my new book, Fatal Consequences. This is book 3 in my Fatal Series, which pairs D.C. homicide detective Lt. Sam Holland with U.S. Senator Nick Cappuano. The Fatal books mix romance with politics and mystery, and book 3 has plenty of all three. Here’s a brief bit about the book:

    The murder of two members of the Capitol Cleaning Service might’ve been just another homicide investigation—that is if one of them hadn’t been romantically involved with a married senator from Arizona. Lt. Sam Holland and her team are plunged into another complex case that at first seems open and shut. But as Sam tugs on the threads of the investigation she uncovers a deep, dark Washington secret that threatens the careers of some of the government’s highest-ranking officials. Racing to catch a killer before he can strike again, Sam and her fiancé, U.S. Senator Nick Cappuano, attempt to plan a wedding while her colleague Detective Tommy “Gonzo” Gonzales faces life-changing news.

    It’s fitting that I should end what has been one of the most insane months of my life with my friends at the thap gump. I definitely need to celebrate that July 2011 is coming to an end. Let me give you the rundown… keeping in mind that Fatal book 4, Fatal Flaw, was due yesterday.

    July began with the final day of the Romance Writers of America conference in New York City. Fatal Flaw was about half done at this point, and not going well for reasons to be discussed later. After sprinting home to spend the Fourth of July holiday with my family, I had to re-pack for a six-day trip to Atlanta for my day job’s annual meeting. Not a word got written on Flaw while my daughter and I were in Atlanta.

    Returning home, we celebrated her 16th birthday and the launch of Fatal Consequences, both on the 18th. That same day, she started driver’s ed from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. for ten straight weekdays. Oh the joy of hauling a sixteen-year-old out of bed at 5:20 a.m., in the summer, for driver’s ed. Around that same time, she got her first real job, working as a hostess in a five-star restaurant in downtown Newport, RI, which is about thirty minutes from where we live. And did I mention my son, soon-to-be 13, is attending sailing camp, also in downtown Newport, but during the day. One kid to Newport in the morning, the other kid to Newport in the afternoon and an 11 p.m. pickup for the working girl. My husband helps, but since I work from home, most of it falls on me.

    Did I mention that we are gearing up at work to move our company’s website to a new platform? To save some money, we decided to hand move all 800 pages and 10,000 linked files and images ourselves. And that started this week , the same week my book is due and the same week the quarterly magazine I edit for work is on deadline. Calgon, where are you when I need you? Thankfully, (and I never thought I’d say this), our designer is running late on the magazine, and it got bumped to next week. There is a God.

    Back to Fatal Flaw, which hung over my head like a shiny, sharp guillotine this entire month. I finished it at 9 p.m. on July 29, the day before it was due. I wrote 18,000 words in three days, and my hands feel like they’re 80 and arthritic. Thankfully, I have three faithful beta readers who were critiquing as I went, which is how we managed to discover. . .wait for it. . . a fatal flaw in the story.

    This is my 19th book, so I have somewhat of a routine by now, but nothing was working, and I didn’t have the luxury of time to blame it on the stress and chaos of my life. The writing was like pulling teeth, and I couldn’t figure out why. Then, when I was 70,000 words into the book, my betas helped me identify a major problem (aka the fatal flaw) in the story. Once I fixed that by writing five new opening chapters—something I have never done before—the writing flowed the way it normally does, giving me an ‘ah-ha’ moment: If the writing is like pulling teeth, something is wrong. Figure out what’s wrong and fix it. My editor and I have chatted about watching out what we name future books so as not to bring the bad karma to the writing.

    To say I am THRILLED that July 2011 is behind me is putting it mildly. I plan to spend August working on that website migration at work and in my free time, catching up on my TBR, lolling about on the beach and my dad’s boat, hanging with my kids and having a bunch of family and friends visit. I am sooooo ready for a break from the pressure cooker. Later in August, I plan to get to work on my fourth McCarthy book and hopefully a Christmas novella for that series. In addition, I have four other books I am preparing for publication, starting later this year: Georgia on My Mind as well as my beloved Treading Water trilogy: Treading Water, Marking Time and Starting Over, so be on the lookout for all of them soon!

    Summertime and the living is easy—or not. Which is it for you? Thanks for coming by and helping me to celebrate the end of the month from hell! I’ll give a copy of Fatal Consequences to one commenter today.

    Keep an eye out for the Sept. 5 launch of the FREE Fatal wedding novella, Fatal Destiny, in which Sam and Nick tie the knot. Until then, I’ll be at the beach!

    Enjoy the beach, Marie! Sounds like you could use a rest!

    Marie Force is the bestselling, award-winning author of the Fatal Series from Harlequin’s Carina Press. The series includes FATAL AFFAIR, FATAL JUSTICE, FATAL CONSEQUENCES and FATAL DESTINY, which is out Sept. 5. FATAL FLAW is coming in February 2012.

    Earlier this year, Marie published her popular, bestselling McCarthys of Gansett Island Series: MAID FOR LOVE, FOOL FOR LOVE and READY FOR LOVE, with more books coming soon in the series. Find out more about Marie and her books at her website: www.mariesullivanforce.com, on her blog at http://mariesullivanforce.blogspot.com, where she runs the weekly Romance & Oreos Book Club, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/Marie-Force/248130827909, and on Twitter @marieforce.    Source URL: https://idontwanttobeanythingotherthanme.blogspot.com/2011/07/
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Appendix N Update

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    Abbey, Lynn:



    Adams, Richard: Watership Down



    Alexander, Lloyd: The Book of Three 1; The Black Cauldron 2; The Castle of Llyr 3; Taran Wanderer 4; The High King 5



    Anderson, Poul: Ensign Flandry; Flandry Of Terra; Agent of the Terran Empire; The Long Night; Three Hearts and Three Lions; The Broken Sword; The High Crusade; A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows



    Anthony, Piers: A Spell for Chameleon; On A Pale Horse



    Ariosto, Ludovico: Orlando Furioso



    Asprin, Robert A.: Thieves World I; Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn II; Shadows of Sanctuary III; Storm Season IV; The Face of Chaos V; Another Fine Myth



    Barker, M.A.R.: The Man Of Gold; Flamesong



    Baum, L. Frank: The Wizard Of Oz, Emerald City Of Oz, Land of Oz



    Beagle, Peter S.: The Last Unicorn



    Bellairs, John: The Face In The Frost



    Bellamy, Francis R : Atta



    Bloodstone, John: Thundar Man Of Two Worlds



    Bok, Hannes: The Sorcerers Ship



    Brackett, Leigh: Eric John Stark, Outlaw Of Mars; The Best Of Leigh Brackett; The Sword Of Rhiannon; The Ginger Star 1; The Hounds Of Skaith 2; Reavers of Skaith



    Bradley, Marion Z: Sword and Sorceress Anthology



    Brooks, Terry: The Sword of Shannara



    Brown, Fredric:



    Burroughs, Edgar R.: Pellucidar; Tanar of Pellucidar; A Princess Of Mars 1; The Gods Of Mars 2; Warlord Of Mars 3; Thuvia, Maid Of Mars 4; Chessmen of Mars 5; The Mastermind of Mars 6; A Fighting Man of Mars 7; The Moon Maid; Out of Time’s Abyss; Jungle Girl, Land of Hidden Men; Tarzan Of The Apes 1; The Return Of Tarzan 2; The Beasts of Tarzan 3; The Son Of Tarzan 4; Tarzan and the Lost Empire 10; At The Earth's Core



    Campbell, J Ramsey: Demons by Daylight



    Carter, Lin: Thongor and the Dragon City; Thongor and the Wizards of Lemuria; Thongor Fights the Pirates of Tarakus; Zanathon; Tower at the Edge of Time; The Black Star; Beyond The Gates Of Dream; Down To A Sunless Sea; Journey to the Underground World; Warrior of World’s End; Flashing Swords 1; Flashing Swords 2; Flashing Swords 5; New Worlds For Old; The Young Magicians



    Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote



    Chalker, Jack L.: Midnight at the Well of Souls 1; Exiles at the Well of Souls 2; Quest For the Well Of Souls 3; The Return of Nathan Brazil 4, Twilight at the Well of Souls 5



    Chant, Joy: Red Moon And Black Mountain



    Cherryh, C.J.:



    Cook, Glen: The Black Company



    Daley, Brian: Han Solo At Star’s End; Han Solo’s Revenge, Han Solo And The Lost Legacy



    Davidson, Avram: The Phoenix In The Mirror, The Island Under the Earth



    deCamp, L. Sprague: The Complete Compleat Enchanter; The Compleat Enchanter; Lovecraft, A Biography; Warlocks and Warriors; The Fallible Fiend; Conan The Barbarian; Conan And The Spider God; Lest Darkness Fall; The Carnelian Cube; The Emperors Fan; The Reluctant King; The Goblin Tower; The Clocks Of Iraz



    Derleth, August: The Trail of Cthuhlu



    Dickson, Gordon R.:



    Donaldson, Stephen: Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever



    Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Lost World



    Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers



    Dunsany, Lord: The King Of Elfland’s Daughter; Over the Hills and Far Away; The Charwoman's Shadow



    Eco, Umberto: The Name Of The Rose



    Eddings, David: Pawn of Prophecy, Queen Of Sorcery, Magician’s Gambit, Castle of Wizardry, Enchanter’s Endgame



    Eddison, E. R.: The Worm Ouroboros; Mistress of Mistresses; A Fish Dinner In Memison



    Ende, Michael: The Neverending Story



    Farmer, Philip Jose: The Maker Of Universes 1; The Gates Of Creation 2; A Private Cosmos 3; Hadon Of Ancient Opar



    Fiest, Raymond: Magician



    Finney, Charles: The Unholy City, The Circus of Dr. Lao



    Foster, Alan Dean: Nor Crystal Tears, Splinter of the Minds Eye; The End of the Matter; The Tar-Aiym Krang; Bloodhype; Orphan Star; For Love Of Mother-Not; The Time Of The Transference



    Fox, Gardner: Kothar Barbarian Swordsman; Kyrik Warlock Warrior



    Funke, Cornelia: Inkheart



    Gardner, Craig Shaw: A Malady Of Magicks



    Garner, Alan: Elidor; The Weirdstone of Brisingamen



    Gemmell, David: Legend



    Goldman, William: The Princess Bride



    Glut, Donald F: The Empire Strikes Back



    Gygax, Gary: The Samarkand Solution; The Anubis Murders; Infernal Sorceress, Death In Delhi



    Haggard, H. Rider: The People Of The Mist; The World's Desire; She And Allan; King Solomon Mines; She



    Hambly, Barbara: The Time of the Dark, The Walls Of Air, The Armies of Daylight, The Ladies of Mandrigyn, Dragonsbane



    Harrison, Harry: The Adventures Of The Stainless Street Rat; The Stainless Steel Rat



    Heinlein, Robert: Glory Road



    Hickman, Tracy:



    Hodgson, W.H.: The House On The Borderland



    Holmes, John Eric: Mahars of Pellucidar



    Howard, Robert E.: Sword Woman; Almuric; The People Of The Black Circle; Red Nails; Shadow Kingdoms; People Of The Dark; Beyond The Black River; The Hour Of The Dragon; Black Hounds Of Death; Conan 1; Conan Of Cimmeria 2; Conan the Freebooter 3; Conan the Wanderer 4; Conan the Adventurer 5; Conan the Buccaneer 6; Conan The Warrior 7; Conan The Usurper 8; Conan The Conqueror 9; Conan The Avenger 10; Conan Of Aquilonia 11; Conan of The Isles 12; Solomon Kane, The Hills Of The Dead; Skull-Face; Black Canaan; Swords Of Shahrazar; Marchers Of Valhalla



    Hyne, C J Cutliffe: The Lost Continent



    Jakes, John: Brak The Barbarian; Mark of Demons; The Sorceress



    Jackson, Steve: Fighting Fantasy



    Kline, Otis Adelbert: Swordsman Of Mars, Outlaw Of Mars, Planet of Peril



    Kuttner, Henry: The Mask Of Circe; Elak Of Atlantis, The Dark World, Robots Have No Tails



    Kurtz, Katherine: Deryni Rising; Deryni Checkmate; High Deryni



    Lanier, Sterling: Hiero’s Journey; The Unforsaken Hiero



    L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle In Time



    Le Guin, Ursula: A Wizard Of Earthsea; The Left Hand Of Darkness; Tehanu; The Farthest Shore



    Lee, Tanith: The Book Of The Damned I; The Book Of The Beast II; The Storm Lord, The Birthgrave, The Dragon Hoard, Night’s Master, Death’s Master



    Leiber, Fritz: Swords and Deviltry 1; Swords Against Death 2; Swords In The Mist 3; Swords And Wizardry 4; The Swords of Lankhmar 5; Swords and Ice Magic 6



    Lindsay, David: A Voyage To Arcturus



    Lovecraft, H.P.: The Doom That Came To Sarnath; The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath; The Shadow Over Innsmouth; At The Mountains Of Madness; The Lurker At The Threshold; The Tomb; The Watchers Out Of Time; Waking Up Screaming; The Dunwich Horror



    Martin, George R.R.: Dying Of The Light; A Song Of Ice And Fire



    Matheson, Richard: I Am Legend



    McCaffery, Anne: The Ship Who Sang; Dinosaur Planet



    Merritt, A.: The Ship Of Ishtar; The Seven Footprints Of Satan; The Moon Pool; Dwellers In the Mirage; Creep Shadow Creep



    Miller, Walter: A Canticle For Leibowitz



    Moorcock, Michael: Legends From The End Of Time; The Jewel In The Skull; The Mad God’s Amulet; The Sleeping Sorceress; The Runestaff; The Lord of the Spiders; The Masters of the Pit; The City of the Beast; The Warlord of the Air; Stealer Of Souls; Stormbringer; Elric of Melnibone; The Sword Of The Dawn



    Moore, C.L.: Northwest Smith; Jirel Of Joiry



    Morris, William: The Well At Worlds End I; The Well At Worlds End II; The Wood Beyond the World; The Water of the Wondrous Isles



    Mundy, Talbot: Tros Of Samothrace



    Niven, Larry: The Man-Kzin Wars; A World Out Of Time; A Gift From Earth; Tales of Known Space; Neutron Star; The Magic May Return; The Magic Goes Away; The Flight of the Horse



    Norman, John: Tarnsman Of Gor 1; Outlaw Of Gor 2; Priest-Kings Of Gor 3; Nomads Of Gor 4; Assassin Of Gor 5; Raiders Of Gor 6; Captive Of Gor 7; Hunters Of Gor 8; Marauders Of Gor 9, Tribesmen Of Gor 10, Slave Girl of Gor 11; Time Slave



    Norton, Andre: Quag Keep; Exiles of the Stars; Warlock of Witch World; High Sorcery; Witch World; Sargasso Of Space; Lord Of Thunder



    Nowlan, Philip F.: Armageddon 2419 A.D.



    Offutt, Andrew J.: Demon In The Mirror; Eyes Of Sarsis; Web Of The Spider; Conan, The Sword of Skelos; Conan The Mercenary; Swords Against Darkness I; Swords Against Darkness II; Swords Against Darkness III; Swords Against Darkness IV; Swords Against Darkness V; The Iron Lords; Cormac Mac Art



    Piper, H. Beam: Space Viking



    Pratchett, Terry: The Colour Of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort



    Pratt, Fletcher: Land Of Unreason; The Blue Star; The Well of the Unicorn; The Carnelian Cube



    Saberhagen, Fred: The First Book Of Swords; Second Book Of Swords; Third Book Of Swords; Empire Of The East



    Schmitz, James: The Witches of Karres



    Sims, John:



    Sirota, Mike: Master Of Boranga



    Smith, Clark Ashton: Lost Worlds Volume 1; Lost Worlds Volume 2; Out Of Space And Time 1; Out Of Space And Time 2; The Abominations of Yondo; Genius Loci; Poseidonis; Zothique; Hyperborea; Xiccarph



    Smith, E.E. ‘Doc’: Triplanetary



    Springer, Nancy: The White Hart



    St. Clair, Margaret: The Shadow People; Sign of the Labrys



    Stasheff, Christopher: The Warlock Wandering; A Warlock's Blade; Warlock And Son; The Warlock Is Missing; Her Majesty's Wizard; King Kobold



    Stewart, Mary: The Crystal Cave; The Hollow Hills; The Last Enchantment



    Swann, Thomas: Cry Silver Bells; Moondust



    Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings



    Van Arnam, Dave: Star Barbarian



    Van Vogt, A.E.: The Voyage Of The Space Beagle; Quest For The Future



    Vance, Jack: The Languages Of The Pao; The Dragon Masters; The Best of Jack Vance; The Dying Earth; The Eyes of the Overworld; Cugel’s Saga; Rhialto The Marvelous; Trullion, Alastor 2262; Wyst, Alastor 1716; Marune, Alastor 933; The Faceless Man 1; The Brave Free Men 2; The Astura 3; Lyonesse 1; The Green Pearl 2; Madouc 3; The Face 4; The Blue World; Galactic Effectuator; Big Planet; City Of The Chasch 1; The Dirdir 3; Suldrun's Garden



    Verne, Jules: The Mysterious Island



    Wagner, Karl E: Bloodstone, Death Angel’s Shadow, Dark Crusade



    Weinbaum, Stanley; The Black Flame; A Martian Odyssey



    Wellman, Manly Wade: The Old Gods Waken; Silver John; Who Fears The Devil?



    White, Theodore: The Once and Future King



    Williams, Robert M.: Return of Jongor



    Williamson, Jack: The Legion Of Space



    Zelazny, Roger: Nine Princes In Amber; The Guns of Avalon; Sign of the Unicorn; The Hand of Oberon; The Courts of Chaos; Jack Of Shadows; Dilvish, The Damned; The Changing Land; Isle of the Dead; Trumps of Doom; Blood Of Amber; Sign Of Chaos; Knight Of Shadows; Prince of Chaos

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    Today's programme features a wide range of music, but around one common theme: the plays of William Shakespeare were the inspiration. The works you'll hear today range from classical – for example Tchaikovsky's fantasy overtures for Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet and The Tempest – to the modern: Gryphon's Midnight Mushrumps, also composed for The Tempest but this time by Richard Harvey for Peter Hall's 1973 National Theatre Company production; and a great deal more, such as Alfred Reed's evocative Shakespearian pieces for wind band. We'll also hear a selection of period pieces from Philip Pickett and the Musicians of the Globe - the marvellous recreation of the Globe Theatre in London.

    Then please join us at 11am and 7pm Pacific Time (19:00 and 03:00 in the UK) for the latest instalments in our exciting radio adventures - Part 2 of Jack Flanders in Dreams of Bali and Part 2 of Ruby 8 - Good King Kapoor in The ZBS Radio Hour.
    Today's programme is presented by Elrik Merlin and produced by thap gump in conjunction with our friends at the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen to the programme in-world now at http://main.radioriel.org, or simply click here to start your player, if your browser is configured to do so. Listeners in the United States are encouraged to tune in using this link: http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel/tune_in


    For more information on the Alexandrian Free Library, current exhibits and the work of Consortium members in general, please visit the Alexandrian Free Library website, or one of their branches in-world.
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Friday, July 29, 2011

CSI Launch in the Lair!

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    by Jo Robertson

    We're not exactly having a Launch Party today. Do I hear groans and sighs of disappointment. The Banditas and their BB's are always up for a raucous event.


    Never fear! We have the usual finger foods and goodies on hand. Sven's been hard at work in the kitchen making canapes and those little barbecued sausages, as well as caviar and champagne.
    Unfortunately he's not getting the usual "help" from Lars, who's promised everyone a foot massage today. It's probably just as well since Lars tends to drop things.



    The party preparations are on temporary halt, however, because we have a serious problem in the Lair.
    Someone (andI'm not mentioning any names) stole the proof copy of Jo-Mama's debut book "The Watcher."


    In case you're confused look to the left for Evidence #1 -- the purloined book!



    Missing, MISSING, I tell you! And someone must pay!



    You might suspect the Golden Rooster carried the book off to the Land of Oz or even -- shudder -- to the "right coast." Or perhaps a Bandita Buddy from down south "appropriated" the proof prize. Not naming names, again, but I hear some of those southern gals have sticky fingers.



    In fact, our famous Chook is NOT the culprit, but the investigator. So line up the usual suspects and let the case begin!



    GR:     What? What? Oh, that's right, some naughty visitor to the Lair has stolen Jo-Mama's proof of "The Watcher." Let me see, let me see (dons his Sherlock Holmes hat and whips out his magnifying glass).



    Sven:     Not I! I've been slaving in the kitchen for days (looks darkly at Lars). With NO help, I might add.



    Lars:     Don't look at me (eyes Aunty Cindy's pretty colored toes greedily). I've been playing with pinkies all day.



    [Enter Gladiators Demitrius and Marcus, flashing swords.]



    Jo-Mama:     What about those two?



    GR:     Not likely. They never learned to read, just a bunch of steroid-pumped hunks (looks jealously at the Gladiators).


    JM:     Say it isn't so! Reading is the foundation of civilization!


    GR:     Whatever. (Bends over, examining a dusty spot on the end table of the reading room.) Hmmmm, looks like the book was lying here.



    JM:     Good grief! How can you tell MY book was there? There are millions of Bandita books around here. (Flings her arms wildly) It IS the thap gump Lair, after all. Books are coming out all the time!



    GR:     I see dead people.



    JM:     What are you talking about, you crazy chook?



    GR:     Dead people! Aren't your books full of dead people?



    JM:     Well, sure, "The Watcher" is a romantic thriller, but it's not ALL about murder and mayhem. There's a very sensual love story in it. Kate and Slater have an instant connection between them, and although she's single minded to the point of annoyance, Slater's just the man to, uh . . . distract her.
    Take a look at Evidence #2 -- the back cover blurb:



    Forensic psychiatrist Kate Myers believes the killer of two teenage girls in Bigler County, California, is the same man who savagely murdered her twin sister over fifteen years ago. Working with a single-minded tenacity, she sets out to prove it.



    Deputy Ben Slater hides his personal pain behind the job, but Kate's arrival in his county knocks his world on its axis. He wants to believe her wild theory, but the idea of a serial killer with the kind of pathology she proposes is too bizarre.



    Together they work to find a killer whose roots began in a small town in Bigler county, but whose violence spread across the nation. A Janus-like killer, more monster than man, he fixates on Kate. The killer wants nothing more than to kill the "purple-eyed girl again."



    [Enter Paolo, Lucius, and the Hockey Hunks, led by Zach, all bearing trays of champagne and bottle of Coke and Pepsi -- perennial rivals in the Lair]



    GR:     (shouting at the top of his lungs) Let the festivities begin!



    AC:     (Grabbing for the champagne) Give me one of those! (sniffs loudly) I hope that nasty Ermigarde isn't going to eat all the food.



    GR:     (Stumbles about, muttering) Clues, clues, must follows the clues.



    Readers, join us in the hunt for my proof copy of "The Watcher." Who do YOU think purloined the book? One of the Banditas or Buddies? One of the Lair denizens or guests? Or someone we'd never, ever think of! Heh, heh, who's the main suspect??!!



    One clever commenter who convinces me who the guilty culprit is and WHY will receive a free download of "The Watcher" when it becomes available the end of August.



    Everyone who emails me a snail mail addy (jo.lewisrobertson@yahoo.com) will receive an autographed postcard of the book cover and will be entered to win a PRINT COPY of "The Watcher."
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August 4th NipClub tours CANADA!!!


    Courtesy of @DanaPixie and @Spike_Cat everyone attending thap gump this week gets a FREE box of Tim Horton's TIMbits!! One of Canada's favorite treats!! Grab your box and enjoy!


    This week we enjoy Canada. Many of us from the US travel there on vacation, but some have not yet experienced the majesty of this beautiful country. Rather than talk...I'm going to let the pictures do the talking
    as we get ready to enjoy Canada!!! @TheNascarKitty thap gump Manager.
    Our final pawty spot is so remote I had to buy @TinyPearlCat
    a bigger thap gump passenger chopper to get us to it. The bus just cant
    make it that far into the wilderness!! We'll shuttle you non-stop to the pawty.
    (Pearl is training assistant pilots to help her out)




    Ontario's Pride and Joy Niagara Falls. Breathtaking.

    @Spike_Cat lives in Ontario, home of Niagara Falls.

    At night Niagara Falls is breathtaking.


    HollieCatRocks!!

    
    AutumnTheDoxie
    
    Spike_Cat
    

    thap gump salutes our Canadian Anipal Friends!!!
    Our good employees @AutumnTheDoxie,
    @HollieCatRocks and @Spike_Cat are
    all from lovely Canada, so we decided to
    visit them at home!!!!



    Canada is a gorgeous country, full of majestic cities, glorious lakes, sky high mountains, untouched wilderness, and all types of terrific things to
    see and do. Let these pictures do the talking. An amazing place.




    Often thought of as mostly wilderness Canada boasts many large world class cities

    The first 3 pictures Below: The home city of @HollieCatRocks, lovely Vancouver, British Colimbia!!






    This strange sculpture is in one of Vancouver's lovely parks.


    The two photos above are from Banff National Park in Alberta
    in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

    Edmunton, Alberta Canada. @AutumnTheDoxie lives in this area!!



    Blackford Lake in The Northwest Territories are isolated and beautiful!!
    Novia Scotia is beautiful, coastal, with an old time marine feel.

    The Ocean cut some beautiful paths on Coastal Nova Scotia

    Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park, British Columbia

    Lake Louise in Banff Nat. Park, Alberta. (More pics of Banff Park above)

    The world famous Klondike River Valley in the Yukon Territories!!

    Parliament Building in Ottawa
    Wabumon Lake in Alberta
    The view from the rustic bar we've rented to hold thap gump!! Have some fun! Swim, fish, hunt some moose or elk,
    maybe even a bear (NOT the teddy variety please) or just sit, enjoy the view and enjoy noms & drinks with pals.

    Menu:
    Canada is a very large country, settled by immigrants from many different nationalities. Portions of it are mainly French, like Montreal, whereas Ontario is a large settlement of Italians and boasts wonderful Italian food, other areas have wide influences, plus, being such a huge untouched area of pure nature, there is a rustic touch of wold game foods too. We've put together a menu that has a little of each for your "Nom"ing enjoyment.


    Jigg's Dinner, a Canadian specialty, Boiled Ham, Cabbage, Carrots
    Rutabaga and Parsnips with Mashed Potatos and Gravy
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    French cuisine: Mushroom Pepper Pork Chops in Wine Sauce with twice Baked Potatoes.
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    Montreal's famous Smoked Meat Sandwich.
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    Italian Mozarella Cheese pan seared with Tomato and Mushroom
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    Canada's National Treat POUTINE!!
    French Fries with Beef Gravy and Cheese Curds
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    Canada's Favorite Treat Baked Beans on Toast
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    Canada has some of the best Chinese Food! Here's Chicken
    with Chinese Vegetables, Fried Rice and Pork Lo Mein
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    Canadian Whiskey...will warm your soul....
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    Polish Bacon and Ricotta Cheese Potato Perougi's from Ontario!!
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    Italian Shrimp Mostiacolli from Ontario
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    Tim Horton's Famous Coffee
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    Canada has more donut shops per cappita than any other country.
    Tim Horton's are the National Fave.
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    Wild Game Buffet...try some Bear, Squirrel, Moose, Elk,
    Deer, Raccoon, and more!!!


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    Canada - goose - glitter Pictures, Images and Photos
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