BronxWench

Zombies would be a huge improvement over lawyers. Just one catch. They'd starve to death in the capitol....

I'm not seeing a category in the archives for either the actors themselves (in Celebrities) or for the shows (in Television). I'm sorry.

Speaking as a woman of a certain age, who has been privileged to see a great deal of change in her lifetime, the supremacy of the Tea Party will be occasion for me to actually leave this country. If I'm going to be told that I'm a second class citizen who can't think for herself because my gender makes me incapable of logic, then I'm perfectly happy to take my knowledge, my skills, and my demonstrably superior intellect elsewhere while I pursue a somewhat more Jeffersonian solution to the problem of the Tea Party and its mission of oppression. Revolution was not only contemplated as a future event by our Founding Fathers. They were wise enough to provide the blueprints on how to take our country back from future fundamentalist oppressors. Certainly, any group that would deny rights to anyone who isn't an older male of a specific religious persuasion and ethnicity counts as an oppressor, don't you think? Or did we just fight a war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda based on their fashion choices? I won't argue that the current bipartisan party system is more than broken, but replacing it with oppression and backward thinking is not the answer. Perhaps it's time for the moderate voices to be heard again, or for us to stop electing lawyers to govern us.

Honestly. I miss the hisses and pops from an older, much-loved, well-played LP. I still have all my old LPs, and thinking about it, it must have been a Zenith then that my dad used. I gave the receiver to an audiophile buddy years ago, and at last report, it was alive, well, and glowing nicely. And I still have an analog tv, picture tube and all. I watch the damned thing so seldom that it won't die, and I'm not replacing it until it does.

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Sundays. The Wicker Man is Sunday. Tuesday is Ritual Dismemberment.

Mine was one of those kits that let you build your own stereo receiver. I want to say it was a Phillips, but that may be wrong. Anyway, my dad built it, and when my sister and I got our first apartment alone, he gave it to us, along with two huge speakers and a turntable. We were definitely cool.

Hi, You can go to your Author Profile, open the Control Panel, and in the correct subdomain, select the "Delete" button. You'll go to a page with a dropdown that lets you select the title of the story to be deleted, and then once you've done that, you can click the delete button next to it. That should do it. Failing that, you can tell me the subdomain and story, and I'll take care of it.

It was never Kirk and Spock! Spock always had more taste than that... (It was Spock and Chris Pike, of course...)

"Slash" is used to describe fiction with same-gender pairing. For the most part, slash by itself seems to be taken as male/male, and femmeslash refers to female/female pairings. It covers all the non-anime/manga based fictions, since anime/manga has its own terminology: yaoi and yuri, respectively. It's actually a good question, since people tend to wonder why I get pissy when they say I write yaoi and I correct them sharply. I write slash (male/male) as well as het, and nothing I write is set in an even remotely anime or mange sort of universe, thankyouverymuch.

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There is still a shop in NYC that sells vacuum tubes. Seriously. I used to watch my dad testing them, and I had an old stereo receiver that used them. I happened to be passing the shop a few weeks ago, and it's still there, and still has the tubes and a tube tester!

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Oh, yes, and listening to my grandmother grumble that her fingers were too big for the holes.

Hi! While we work on the code rewrite project, the best way is to add the story to your profile under Currently Reading. It's a handy place to keep the link for quick access, and also lets others know what you're enjoying, which might get them to read that story as well.

I remember the first two digits you dialed were actually letters that referred to the local exchange here in NYC. I lived in TRafalgar. I was also the envy of my friends when my dad put a princess phone IN my room, because he was tired of my hiding in the closet to talk on the phone (Yes, children, people actually did that in real life.)

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I grew up in the days of reel-to-reel tape players and black and white television. For some reason, I decided I loved the new technology as it emerged, and became an avid collector of tech toys. Fortunately, my daft bugger is as big a geek, and we've raised geek children as well.

I will second what DG said. My dad received the most incredible care from the hospice nurses and caregivers, both at home and at the hospice itself for the last three days of his life. Their caring extended very much to all of us who were left behind, and I am so very grateful for all they did to ease our pain, and to give my dad the passing with dignity that he wanted so very much. To this day, I have these lovely little prayer beads they gave me hanging on my desk, my touchstone and reminder that life is meant to be celebrated, and that those we love live on in our hearts and memories.

If you look at your story where it shows up in the "Latest Stories" page, you'll see the stats listed after the story summary. You'll see the current hits on the story, the number of reviews, and the ratings: These stats used to appear on the listing of stories on your profile as well. Right now, it's not appearing there, but we hope to have that back as the rewrite progresses. In the meantime, although you can't edit the information there, you can still see the information in the old profile format like DG and JayDee explained above. Just copy that last number in your profile url and paste it over the one in DG's link, or JayDee's link, and you should see something like this: The stats show up there nicely.

Given the limitations of the Summary Field currently, many authors don't use the "m/m" or "m/f" tags in a subdomain where we have the categories available for "Het" or "Slash - Male/Male." It gives the authors that slight increase in size for the actual summary as opposed to it being no more than a list of tags. As part of the code rewrite, it's my understanding that the tags will have a separate field, which should allow authors to write a clearer summary if they wish. This would make it easier to search by specific tags, if I'm not mistaken. I'm not a coder, however, so we'll have to see how it develops.

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Oooohhh.... Pretty!

Damned close! Just put the beard on a very ancient red dragon, and we're good!