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Running the Nets! Weekly Netrunner Articles! (Updated 4/29/13)
Posted 03 December 2012 - 03:36 AM
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Posted 03 December 2012 - 03:41 AM
RtNfFaP - 5 Tips for New Runners
Posted 03 December 2012 - 10:42 AM
The runner tips are great. While they probably seem obvious to anyone that's got more than a few games under their belt I can not tell you how many new runners are afraid to run anything unless they have a full set of ice breakers and plenty of bits.
Posted 03 December 2012 - 12:48 PM
Thanks. I plan on expanding to more specialized/advanced articles, but I wanted to follow a logical progression first.
Posted 06 December 2012 - 04:20 AM
I like what you've written so far. Keep up the good work.
Posted 10 December 2012 - 08:38 AM
RtNfFaP - 5 Tips for New Corporations
Last week you read my "5 Tips for New Runners" entry and now you're kicking ass and taking names! No Corporation can you keep you out of their servers and you've started to purposefully sacrifice Agendas to Data Dealer just so you can keep walking all over them longer thanks to all that amazing advice I gave you. You no longer run recklessly into Junebugs and instead run into them like a boss, tanking the net damage with your grip full of cards.
But now you've got a new problem. See, when you play Corporation, Runners always avoid your traps. Your R&D is practically leaking Agendas. Even your 12 deep wall of ICE couldn't do anything. You're at wit's end and, if you lose one more game, you are going to do the unthinkable: give all of your employees a raise, provide healthcare to everyone, and become a *gasp* non-profit organization.
I can't let that happen, so, here I am again, this time bringing a few tips to help those heroic Corporations deal with all of those nasty Runners! As with last week, please take this advice with a grain of salt. Playing Corporation, in my opinion, is more complicated then playing Runner and often relies on surprising, tricking, and ambushing the Runner, meaning that "rules" are even more prone to being breakable then with Runners.
Still, I feel like these tips should help you out on your way to becoming a serious Corp player!
1. Think Before You Mulligan
As a Corporation, a mediocre hand is trouble. However, a bad hand loses games. I've played against Corps (and been a Corp) that have mulled decidedly "meh" hands into a game losing 3+ Agenda hand. So, before you mulligan, think very carefully about how bad your hand really is and if it is worth risking the fact that it could be much worse.
I am not trying to scare you out of mulligans as Corp! When your hand is legitimately bad, you should have no qualms about tossing it back. It is just that you should think very carefully about how much you want to risk that the hand could be much worse. Moreso then a lot of other games, a bad opening hand for the Corp can be fatal.
2. Card Draw May Not Actually Be King
This is a rule that may rub longtime TCG players the wrong way. The simple fact is that, as a Corporation, seeing too many of your cards can be a bad thing. The fact that your Agendas also serve as a win condition for the Runner means that drawing into them is, in many ways, a negative; your hand will become crowded (making HQ runs easy to complete), you won't have enough adequately defended Remote Serves to play them to (forcing you to take big risks to get them out of your hand), which could force you to dump them into your Archives (the very worst place in the game for Agendas, as it is the least useful location to defend and guarantees access to everything in it with a single run).
As such, you want to try to keep those Agendas in your R&D for as long as possible.
Again, don't let this scare you out of drawing when needed. It is just that, as the Corporation, there is a real downside to drawing large chunks of your deck.
3. You Can't Keep a Runner Out Forever… Just for a While
It is important to realize that, no matter how awesome your walls of ICE end up being, it isn't impossible for the Runner to crack any data fort you have. It is simply a matter of money for them. I don't care if it is 3 Archers followed by 3 Tollbooths followed by 3 Heimdalls (although serious congrats on that server, it is pretty beastly): as long as the runner has the right Icebreakers and the ability to get Credits, they WILL eventually manage to get into it.
This means that, especially as the game progresses, timing becomes everything. You have to time Agenda attempts so that the Runner can't actually reach them while the Agenda is in the server. This is where bluffing and misdirection come into play really come into play: if a server is so expensive to run that the Runner can only do it once every three turns, then make them run it while nothing of value is in there! Or maybe they have exactly enough money to run it right now, but you have a second, cheaper data fort and they can't run both this turn. Go ahead and install two things down and make them choose where to hit!
You can't think of making a data fort impenetrable. You need to think of how to make it impenetrable just long enough to score your Agenda!
4. Midgame is Your Friend
Despite (in my opinion) Corporations playing similarly to control decks in other card games, a Corporation does not actually want to reach lategame. When lategame finally rolls around, the Runner is going to have a fully assembled rig and be at their most dangerous. The Corporation is at their best before the Runner reaches that point. The ideal point in the game for the Corporation is when they have some credits stockpiled, a couple ICE (preferably some of it unrezzed) on their servers, and the Runner has yet to be able to develop a full suite of Icebreakers.
It is at that point in the game that the Corporation is safest. The Runner won't be able to penetrate all types of ICE (and they won't even know if they have enough credits to punch through the wall), your big, expensive ICE can stop runs dead in their tracks, a failed run will take significant time for the Runner to recover from because they don't have Armitage/Magnum Opus in place yet., etc.
Exploit this opportunity!
5. Don't Underestimate the Dangers of R&D
Especially early on in your play, R&D won't seem that dangerous to leave exposed. After all, they have to luck out and hit those Agendas! Of course, to even reach those Agendas, they are going to need to not hit ICE or Operations that will completely stall out their attempts to peruse your R&D. You can get by without defending it too well, right?
R&D is incredibly dangerous to you. You have no idea what exists in R&D or how it's ordered. It could be ICE for the next 5 turns or it could be 2 Priority Requisitions sitting right on top, waiting for the Runner to liberate them. The fact of the matter is that, if given enough opportunities to run R&D, the Runner will hit Agendas. Worse, there are already a few cards (Maker's Eye and Medium) that will allow the Runner to access multiple cards in a single run, increasing their chances of seeing an Agenda substantially.
So don't skimp on defending it because you think "Oh they'll just keep running into cards they can't get rid of!" Defend your R&D like every card they hit could be an Agenda because, for all you know, it very well could be.
And there you have it, 5 tips on playing as the Corporation!
Posted 16 December 2012 - 02:04 PM
RtNfFaP - Icebreakers are for Chumps
I haven't had much time to play with What Lies Ahead yet and this weekend was busy, so this is going to be more of a ramble then my previous entries. Hopefully you can glean some insight from it.
As I've grown more familiar with Android: Netrunner, I've made an interesting discovery: Icebreakers are far less necessary then I thought. There are, in fact, times where Icebreakers are completely unnecessary or even a bit of an impediment to your play.
Please visit Rogue Thoughts to read the rest!
Posted 23 December 2012 - 06:22 PM
Running the Nets for Fun and Profit - Rototurret is Pretty Awesome
That is one of the most terrifying sounds that a Runner hitting a server can hear.
That is the sound of a Rototurret warming up before it opens fire on that Runner's avatar.
Yes. This week's Running the Nets for Fun and Profit is going to be completely dedicated to playing with Rototurret as the Corporation. Do you have a problem with that?
Seriously though, you're probably wondering why I'm willing to dedicate an entire article to a single piece of ICE from the Core Set. You might even suspect that it has something to do with the fact that I'm at the airport right now and remembered that today was Sunday a little late. Well, that might be part of it, but, honestly, Rototurret is a piece of ICE that deserves some discussion.
Please visit Rogue Thoughts to read the rest!
Posted 31 December 2012 - 03:42 AM
Running the Nets for Fun and Profit - What Lies Ahead for Criminals
Sorry guys, this week has been a bit busy (and my playtime has been limited) so I don't have a huge, in-depth, fancy article this week.
So, instead, I figured I'd talk just a bit about what I feel What Lies Ahead has brought for Criminal players. Please take all of this with a rather large grain of salt, since this is mostly theoretical (again, only really managed a few plays with WLA so far) and first impressions.
Please visit Rogue Thoughts to read the rest!
Posted 31 December 2012 - 02:29 PM
Hi, AndrewRogue,
Are you still looking at how to build your audience? If so, I'm in a similar situation and am exploring and experimenting right at the moment.
In August, I wrote a post on my own blog called, "What's so keen about Android: Netrunner?" According to my site stats, it's consistently the most popular posting I've written, even though I've not produced any Netrunner-related content since (or even bought the game - I'm an old time NR CCG player but keep managing to talk myself out of splurging on the new version).
I set up Google's Webmaster Tools a couple of days ago, and it even went so far as to tell me that that post has ranked as high in the top 6-10 results when someone searches for "Android Netrunner"! It's dropped to the 11-20 range since, but I'm curious as to how to get it back up there.
Right at the moment, though, I've got no idea just how, or how. I'm re-installing a WordPress plugin for SEO on my site right now which could give me a little more info.
Do you know how your posts are performing? It looks as though you're getting feedback here.
Rob / SlamDance
Posted 07 January 2013 - 06:52 AM
RtNfFaP - A Rogue's Love of Fast Advance
Fast Advance is one of my favorite Corporation deck archetypes in Android: Netrunner, right next to Tag n' Bag, program destruction, and frying the runner's brain.
This all may point to the fact that I am a terrible person.
As such (and as it is the Corp archetype I am most familiar with at the moment), I figure I might as well talk a little bit about Fast Advance.
Please visit Rogue Thoughts to read the rest!
Posted 14 January 2013 - 02:24 PM
This week we see a return to some basic guidelines to help newer players come to grips with the game.
Also, Neural Katana hype.
RtNfFaP - A Rogue's Guide to Surviving Net Damage
An important part of being a Runner is the ability to gauge how safe you are at a given moment during a run. So, today, I figured I'd run you all a bit through the dangers of Net Damage during a run and give a bit of advice on how to survive. Or at least give you something that will help you realize where you went wrong when you act like an overly aggressive idiot like myself and run headlong into fatal Snares…
Posted 14 January 2013 - 04:14 PM
Thanks for your efforts!
I played my first few games just last night with a friend. We just used the suggested two starter decks (Shaper vs. Jinteki) to play three games (First game: I was Corp and the other two games I was Runner). I lost both games as Runner by being flatlined.
Posted 15 January 2013 - 02:32 PM
Thanks for writing these amazing articles. I can't speak for all of us but I can say that it has helped those of us that are faily new to the game. I don't learn games through rulebooks, I mainly learn by just playing or watching YouTube. These articles are something that I have been able to read and understand. It has totally helped to understand the game rules and on how to play it better. Keep up the awesome work!
Posted 21 January 2013 - 06:55 AM
I spent way too much time playing Netrunner over the weekend to even dream of writing a real article.
So here's what I played this weekend instead.
RtNfFaP - A Two Tournament Weekend (Decklist Spotlight)
Okay, going to take a moment to be fully honest with everyone here.
I'm exhausted, as I have just finished two back to back Netrunner events (one Saturday, one on Sunday that I also happened to be running). I won the first (22 prestige) and was 6th in the latter (17 prestige). So, rather then a particularly lengthy post, I figured I'd just share the two decks I ran with you, let you mull over them and talk a bit about them later…
Posted 25 January 2013 - 12:17 AM
I just wanted to say that these articles are great. Thanks for writing them Andrew.
Posted 28 January 2013 - 03:54 AM
AT: Well thank you kindly. =)
A bit of a follow-up to last week (at least the HB deck from last week), I opt to talk about program destruction. This felt like enough of a deal to be a two parter.
RtNfFaP - Program Destruction Part 1 - The Tools of the Trade
For a runner, program destruction is one of the scariest things you can run into. It ruins your carefully constructed rig, slams your momentum into a brickwall, creates a window for the corporation to go from dead in the water to letting their sysops post inappropriate pictures of your mother onto runner BBSes, and sometimes leaves you without any form of recourse.
As a corporation, it is one of the most delightful things you can do. It stops the pesky runners from getting into your servers, with the added benefit of letting you watch the hope drain from their eyes as they realize that they can't touch you anymore.
So I figure we should talk a bit about it…
Posted 28 January 2013 - 06:11 AM
Great article, keep up the good work. I am really enjoying your Netrunner coverage.
Posted 04 February 2013 - 05:12 AM
A quick note before I get into the normal post! I am looking for suggestions on some topics to cover in upcoming Running the Nets articles! Got a card you want me to discuss? Curious about an archetype? Some sort of deck giving you trouble? Want me to look at a decklist?
Drop me a line here and I will consider it for a future installment of Running the Nets! =)
I continue running my mouth about program destruction, as well as my thoughts on how to best counter it and how to best mobilize it.
RtNfFaP – Program Destruction Part 2 – Surviving and Thriving
So, last week we talked a bit about the tools used for program destruction. This week, I figured we should talk about how to really put those tools to work. Or avoid being utterly destroyed by those tools.
So, without much ado, let's get started…

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Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim.
Spring, 1849: Eli McCullough is 13 years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and waging war against their enemies, including white men - which complicates his sense of loyalty and understanding of who he is. But when disease, starvation, and overwhelming numbers of armed Americans decimate the tribe, Eli finds himself alone. Neither white nor Indian, civilized nor fully wild, he must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong - a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
©2013 Philipp Meyer (P)2013 HarperCollinsPublishers
So hooked by audio that I have to read books aloud. Love reading the reviews. *If my reviews help, please let me know.
"Five Stars for the Lone Star, The Son, & Meyer"
Thud! Hear that? It's the sound of a book hitting the floor from the top shelf because one of those previous 100 Best Books is hitting the ground to make room for The Son. This is The One that you wait for, hope for, and love every minute you spend reading or listening.
Meyer's new novel has already earned comparisons to the works of Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian), Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove), James Michener (Texas), and Edna Ferber (Giant)--and justly so, as one of the most entertaining novels of the American West ever written, and probably the book to bet on as the biggest blockbuster since The Help. Spanning four generations of Texans--from the first man born into the Republic of Texas in 1836, the grand patriarch Col. Eli McCullough, to the death of his great granddaughter/oil baron, Jeannie McCullough in 2012.
Meyer is an exciting, fresh-voiced author with an historian's flair. He layers this family saga with the colorful mythopoeic history of our unique American West, painting a rugged land, fought for, and inhabited by the white man, the Indian tribes, and the Mexican people. The land itself seems a part of these people, running through their veins like the blood they shed to claim a piece of the frontier. Three family members narrate the story of the Texas McCulloughs:
Eli narrates the frontier years, beginning as a young boy kidnapped during a violent Comanche raid where he witnesses the brutal murder of his mother, sister, and brother. Eli is taken and raised as a Comanche. Instinctually, he fights to survive among what history calls the most savage tribe of Indians. When finally returned to the white society, he has embraced the Comanche so completely that he rejects the life of his childhood, and is seen as an outcast, a *white Comanche*, "either hero or sociopath." In his voice the book is alive and vivid--his young observations of a foreign harsh world so achingly raw and interesting that this time alone would have been a captivating book.
Peter McCullough, the son and resentful heir to the cattle and land fortune amassed by his father Eli, is the conscience of the book--the tender hearted, tragic love-struck narrator, traumatized by a brutal raid against a neighboring Mexican ranching family, initiated by his father and his Vaqueros under the guise of recapturing stolen livestock. Peter is disgusted by his father's legacy, trapped by his role, and stuck in a loveless marriage.
Jeanne Anne is the gutsy great granddaughter of Eli, born in 1926--a tough oil baroness with the hide of an armadillo, that must fight to be accepted in a *man's business*. Meyer gives her a strong and authentic presence, and captures her inner-battles of carrying on the family legacy and raising her own family. The three narrations wind in and out of each other with an unhindered clear progression that moves the saga along effortlessly, until the mighty family trickles to just a stream.
The evolution is bloody and brutal. Meyer relates the unsparing events detached from emotion, offsetting the horrific deeds with the instinct for survival - and the need for prosperity...the path of all histories. The violence is also set against the backdrop of the natural beauty of the American West - the rugged and unforgiving landscape, the choreography in the hunting of buffalo, raising cattle, excavating for oil, It is the process of birth in nature and life and seems organic. With these filters, the violence is authentic to the history and never grabbed me as gratuitous or manipulative. You listen with a strange sense of acceptance. (I wasn't aware that some of our *current slang* ain't so current.)
You hear a rattle and a native drumbeat, joined by a strumming guitar and the chords of a melancholy harmonica--and finally the smoky twang of Will Patton's voice hits your ears. It's all like the thrill of hearing the swelling surround-sound envelop you at a theatre...there's an excitement already to this one, promising an adventure that is delivered with perfection. A powerful, raw story, from an author destined to be known and a book that won't be forgotten. The Son kept me spellbound and left me looking back, yearning for more of this journey across Texas through the years.
*This is already so long, but I thought the interview with Meyer featured on Amazon was worth mentioning. His research process and commitment were very interesting.
"... there are times when silence is a poem." - John Fowles, the Magus ^(;,;)^
"The blood that ran through history"
First, I need to thank (@Melinda) for recommending this novel. I read American Rust a couple years ago and loved it, but might have missed this nearly perfect novel if I hadn't stumbled onto Melinda's fantastic review and been gently prodded by her into reading it.
There are certain rare novels that brilliantly capture the art, heart, and action of both American fiction and history. 'The Son' is one of those historical novels that can absolutely propel the reader. Its narrative strength, however, is equaled by its artistry and its multi-generational, multi-narrative, epic arc. 'The Son' captures the tension between land and people; the contest between people and people; the struggle between fathers and sons. 'The Son,' is the history of Texas and the West told through three generations of Texans: Eli McCullough (born 1836: the year Texas became a Republic/thesis), his son Peter (born 1870/antithesis) and Peter's granddaughter Jeanne Anne (born 1926/synthesis).
This is a novel that is a pure descendant of Melville, Faulkner, Cather and McCarthy. These authors set the stage that allowed Meyer to carve an epic novel out of the rich soil of the Earth and to shoot another Western myth into the the innumerable stars in the sky.
I'm usually not a fan of multiple narrators for a book, but 'The Son' was well served by four strong narrators (lead by Will Patton).
I really can't recommend this book enough. One of my favorite books/novels/audiobooks of the last several years. Seriously, if you have one credit left in your cache, I would recommend using it RIGHT now to buy rights to this novel. You won't regret it, but your children may--eventually.
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"Blows you away!"
Phillipp Meyer's "The Son" is a gritty and intense novel that I fully enjoyed. The Son is always moving forward at a pace that easy to follow and leads to strong character development. The Son is historical fiction, where the reader/listener is exposed to the domestication of Texas by the United States by following three generations of a family from late 1800s to the 1980s. The three family stories switch at the conclusion of each chapter, allowing the reader to directly evaluate the impact of distant events on future behavior.
Word to the wise; The Son this is not for the faint of heart. Myers provides detailed scenes of torture, rape, kidnapping, and murder. However, these explicit elements are the keys that make the novel effective and powerful. If you are looking for a traditional Texas Cowboys versus American Indians stories, look elsewhere. The Son is full of real characters replete with dubious intentions, faulty assumptions, prejudice, and self-serving motivations. The Son is ultimately a tale of personal survival through the destruction of others.
In my opinion, the best parts of The Son occur through the expert description of the culture of the Comanche American Indian. The Comanche way of life, hunting/gathering skills, mating rituals, and family upbringing are exquisitely described. Learning the hunting rituals of the Comanche is reason enough to purchase this audio book. Overall, I would strongly recommend The Son as a highly engaging book for anyone who understands there are no heroes or pure villains when you analyze historical events. The Son is ultimately about perspective.
"Three stories, one compelling and two less so"
I suppose the word "sweeping" was first applied to fiction to cover novels of this kind--ones that tell a single family's history over a period of roughly 170 years. The author tells the story through the consciousness of three characters. The periods covered are of uneven interest, and the narrative alternates between the stories of the three main characters. The advantage of this strategy from the point of view of readers is that we only have to listen to the less interesting stories for 10 - 30 minutes at a time. We know that a more interesting character and more interesting story will be along soon.
The most arresting story is certainly the one covering the earliest years. The character is interesting, and his story is both horrifying and at times lyrical. He has fascinating reactions to the major events of 19th century Texas history, including ones in which he plays a minor--though often shocking--role. The early 20th century history is less interesting, though told from the perspective of a somewhat interesting, guilt-ridden protagonist, one who is not well suited to his tumultuous times or the manly role that he is expected to fill.
I suspect the author got bored telling the story of his last main character, a wealthy woman who is not persuasively characterized and whose life story is sketchily rendered. That's o.k. Most of the characters whose lives intersect with hers are not all that interesting anyway (except the 19th century founder of her family's fortune, i.e., the first main character in the book). Unfortunately, that character dies when she's a child.
Will Patton is a first-rate narrator; the other three are less distinctive. Will Patton has the advantage that he is presenting the most interesting story in the book--that of the first, 19th-century character. My feeling is that his story is compelling enough to see most readers through the entire novel. On the whole this is a satisfying and in some ways memorable read. From what I have read of Comanche folkways and history, the part of the story touching on Indians and Indian-Anglo interactions is accurate and unusually sympathetic to the perspective of Comanches.
" I have my mind... & a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." -T.L.
"Great Read for Preconceptions of Oil & 'Wild West'"
I read this book after reading a review from a person who I've trusted on a number of books & she has not left me down with any novels yet... This book is quite the historical fiction that is able to contain complex metaphors, multiple-generational-long end life crisis's a human might go thru. In this case its thru the eyes of a family that spans over a hundred years but starts with one, larger than life character... Eli McCullough, a man who was taken when he was a boy by one of the most ruthless group of Indians in history, the Comanches.
Eli lives thru this ordeal to become an accepted part of the tribe & I found myself wanting to hear more & more, by the end I could have listened to the whole book if it was just about Eli & his POV on his life with a smaller concentration of the other characters in the book although they were not uninteresting, the combination of Will Patton's narration, life trials he went thru in the hands of 'savages' & then the life trials he went thru once returning to 'civilized society,' & of course the authors style of writing containing the vivid descriptions, POV analysis from a man with this unique background, metaphoric & real life issues he conquers in his own way which then reach way beyond his mere life but into the lives of the other character POV's... Eli's timid, yet 'educated & civilized' son Peter who has trouble bridging the gap between him & his father or even understanding the gap that separates them & great-grand daughter Jeannie who doesn't have this father-son problem but a much larger gender bias in a time where the oil barrons of Texas were making they're marks in histrory.
The chapters go by & each one is a POV of one of the characters plus a surprise one near the end & u see what it meant to have a father or any number of other family members as the family name grows to represent the rugged, wild state of Texas & perhaps in a real cheesy analogy why no one 'messes with Texas' lol. I enjoyed this book because listening to the internal dialogue of a completely dominate alpha male, a 'boy' who is essentially the polar opposite of his father but is too 'weak willed' to show anyone around him he is the rightful heir or should be taken seriously, & finally a woman in a man's business that finds a way to continue & grow the family legacy bigger than ever until the climactic end where the entries of an old man, love-sick son, & slowly growing 'senile' matriarch show the inner workings of their minds to readers. This climatic end should not be revealed because everything leading up to it foreshadows much of what happens but it is up to the reader to be able to try & imagine what this life that at least I've only ever heard about, & in this case read about. With the narration & writing I would most def. put this piece up there with parts of the 'Lonesome Dove Series' & other Western novels.
Put on ur war paint & take a small look into the eye's of death from 3 different POV stemming from the same biological start because even Eli ends up giving a POV that seems like an entirely diff. person before & after his Native American experiences... Great book, just wish there was more 'Patton' & 'Eli' because it was at the least one of the more intriguing perspectives an American can try to imagine.
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"Ambitious, haunting and harsh. And brilliant."
This is one of those books that's alive while you're listening and stays with you long after you're done. There's an element of brutality that's difficult to hear. Yet, it makes people who they are and so is a part of the whole thing just as much as the landscape.
This book helps you understand the Texas mindset and how it has impacted politics, business and society. Clearly, some of the big political personalities we've seen come out of Texas in the past century were a product of it. (LBJ, anyone?) The racial tensions that burn today are deeply rooted in the past.
I have a personal bias against books that continue to jump back and forth through characters and time frames. I find it jarring. This book is right on the ragged edge of doing that poorly. The thing that saves it from disaster is Will Patton. I looked forward to hearing him again and so didn't mind when a section ended and he began again.
This is an important book just from the perspective of understanding a part of history that's been overlooked. If you can handle the violence, you'll be rewarded with one of the best listens of the year.
Rating scale: 5=Loved it, 4=Liked it, 3=Ok, 2=Disappointed, 1=Hated it. I look for well developed characters, compelling stories.
"Morally bankrupt dynasty"
"There were people who ate the earth and those that stood around and watched them do it."
So said Lillian Hellman in "The Little Foxes", and the quote is apt for the McCullough dynasty in "The Son". For all of its ambition to present a sweeping epic of Texas history through the eyes of three generational representatives, these three characters came across as soulless and selfish, with no clear motivations for their lives, simply grasping for what they could acquire no matter the cost or who had to pay it – generally the Mexicans and other family members.
Eli's story is admittedly the most colorful, with his abduction by the Comanches, his life with them, and afterwards in the Texas Rangers and the Confederate Army. But none of it ever felt as adventurous as expected. Much of it was just gruesome and murderous, but quite emotionless, even for the victims. The ease with which he changed allegiances, killing without conscience the enemy of the moment, spoke of a man with no soul or direction. Love was just as empty, expressed almost exclusively in sophomoric sexual terms (and too often with barnyard vocabulary).
Peter (Eli's son) and Jeannie (Eli's great granddaughter) each eventually inherit to various degrees the empire, but exist only through the prism of Eli's life – Peter hating him and Jeannie mythologizing him. Neither ever feel adequate with themselves, so they are weak and inadequate characters, and I found them essentially sterile. Lacking heartfelt emotions, I felt nothing for them. All background characters were just that: background and generally one-dimensional, too often stereotyped.
Narration – 2/3's good. Patton and Shepherd did well with Eli and Peter. Kate Mulgrew to my ears was grating and rough, trying too hard to portray a tough Texas gal, which just came across as a whiskey roughened broad, often indistinguishable from the male voices.
I know this is a dissenting vote – most reviewers loved the book. I felt it was cynical and spoke to the futility of life spent only on building dynasties and not relationships. I'll give it three stars for ambition and many of the well written passages, but I found little inspiring or uplifting to recommend it.
"Dagny Taggart as a Texan"
This book is about money, murder, and the choice to be free. The female narrator reminded me of Dagny Taggart from Atlas Shrugged. Her choices and sense of self are not reflective of the time in which she lives. Peter is flawed, and the moral compass of the novel. As the seeker and questioner, Peter is the historian of the truth in a time when myths were formed in the West. The Colonel is in a class all by himself. How he attains wealth and his pursuit of power and his story is captivating.
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"Historical western fiction worthy of McCarthy"
The Son provides an entertaining, long-arc view of Texas; it is a family drama that covers 150+ years in a fast paced, well researched way. The family's generations takes a bit of figuring out (wonder if there's a family tree printed in book?), but becomes clearer as book progresses.
This is a great book and I was sad when it was done. I've read most of Cormac McCarthy, including his trilogy. This is almost as well written, with its share of frontier harshness.
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""Each of us walks in our own fire""
Philipp Meyer's The Son (2013) is an absorbing historical novel about the history of Texas (Indians, Mexicans, whites, nature, cattle, land, oil, blood, etc.) told via three different narrative modes and writing styles from three different point of view characters from three different generations of the McCullough family. (And late in the book a fourth one appears.) As indicated by the epigraph to the novel, a quotation from Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ("the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works. . . buries empires and cities in a common grave"), Meyer takes no sanguine view of the sanguinary history of Texas and the McCulloughs (and of America, the world, and humanity in general).
The first voice of the novel belongs to Colonel Eli McCullough, who in 1936 at age one hundred is recording his autobiography for a WPA project. Thinking that his life has been too short, the self-proclaimed "heathen" begins by explaining how Texas became a republic, how his family came to be living in Comanche hunting grounds, and how the Indians captured him at thirteen in 1849. Eli's experiences are horrible, beautiful, and vivid. No idealized noble savages, the Comanche are human beings attuned to the natural world and capable of as much cruelty and kindness as any people. The details Eli relates about making bows and arrows, hunting, raiding, being a captive, using buffalo, making love, giving names, and so on, are mesmerizing and authentic-feeling. And he often evokes a terse beauty: "the water glassing over the stone, skunk tracks in the mud, a heron in a far pool. There was a bobcat ghosting through the willows, thinking no one saw him." Looking back in 1936, Eli feels the thinning of life in the world with the loss of the rich wilderness. "The human mind was open in those days. We felt every disturbance and ripple. Man today lives in a coffin of flesh, hearing and seeing nothing." If a fire came to destroy everyone on earth, he would pour coal oil on himself. As for his family, Eli knows what his son did, but he's not talking about it for the WPA.
The second point of view character introduced, with third person narration, is that of Eli's great-granddaughter, Jeanne Anne McCullough, an immensely wealthy eighty-six year old woman who in 2012 is lying paralyzed on the floor of the deserted family mansion, recalling and reflecting on her tomboy childhood, her admired great-grandfather, her all-consuming work, her big brothers, and her disappointing children. She has come to realize that, "The Colonel had been right; the only one you could depend on is yourself." As a woman trying to succeed in and be accepted by the male world of land and oil, she has not had an easy time. She thinks, "There had never been a place for a person like her." But fracking is for her an act of creation, and she doesn't care (too much) that some people view business empires like hers as evil. She has hired a man to write the history of her family, but for years he's only researched without writing anything; is he the "author" of the book we're reading? And what are the papers she regrets not having burned? As for her family, she knows that at one point her grandfather Peter McCullough (Eli's son) disappeared in disgrace, but tantalizingly prefers not to think about why.
The third narration is that of "The Son" of the title, Peter McCullough. Writing in his diary at age 45, the guilty pacifist Peter depicts painful events during the "bloody summer" of 1915, a time of horrific violence between white and Mexican Texans. With Peter trying to defuse a potential massacre ("the old family ritual"), he believes that his journal is the only true account of the McCulloughs. Not unlike Jeanne, he has often felt out of place: "I am an exile inside my own house, my own country." Unlike Jeanne and the Colonel, he believes that "This family must not be allowed to continue." Peter is given to morose self-criticism like, "Looking back on my forty-five years I see nothing worthwhile--what I had mistaken for a soul appears more like a black abyss--I have allowed others to shape me as they pleased. To ask the Colonel I am the worst son he has ever had." He says that he remembers everything, so when is he going to tell us what he did to become expunged from his family?
The haunting "western" music beginning and ending the audiobook is perfect, and the readers, Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, Clifton Collins Jr., are excellent, fully inhabiting the characters whose narratives they are relating. Will Patton is especially appealing as the laconic, leathery, masculine, and sensitive Eli.
I did find Jeanne and Peter and their stories less compelling than Eli and his. As Meyer rotates among the three characters, his novel reads like a fusion of Conrad Richter's The Light in the Forest, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County family novels, and the movie Giant. In addition to telling the complex and gory story of the American west, Meyer's novel is about parents and children, the inexorability of fate, and the futility, greed, and destruction of human endeavor. Eli's last chapter is apocalyptic ("I looked into the book of the earth"). Human history consists of one people displacing another, whether Indians, Spanish, Mexicans, or Anglos, all parties being expert at atrocity. Meyer at times uses that kind of past to evoke a forlorn, numinous mood, as when Eli is digging graves and finds an ancient black cup: "Because it had lain there a thousand years or more it made Toshaway [his Comanche father] and all the others seem very young; as if they were young and there was still hope." People interested in American and western history full of detail, blood, love, and loss should like The Son.
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BY RICK MORRISSEY firstname.lastname@example.com November 12, 2012 10:41PM
Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler (6) walks of the field after a play against the Houston Texans in the first half an NFL football game in Chicago, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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To find an NFL coach as loyal as Lovie Smith is, you'd have to look for one who delivers slippers and the morning paper to his players. Without that sense of allegiance, Smith is nothing more than a headset atop official Bears apparel. He knows this.
On Monday, the league looked into whether the Bears had followed proper protocol in dealing with Jay Cutler's concussion during Sunday night's game against the Texans. One writer compared the team's conduct to the Browns' handling of Colt McCoy's nasty concussion last season.
In other words, had they kept Cutler in the game when it seemed clear he was concussed?
By the time Smith met the media Monday afternoon, an NFL spokesman already had told the Sun-Times that the league's review of the situation found no wrongdoing on the team's part.
Some people are still having trust issues.
"No matter how the Chicago Bears explain it, they failed Cutler in the game by not testing him for a concussion right away and/or taking him out of the game,'' wrote NFL.com's Gregg Rosenthal. "Chicago coach Lovie Smith said Cutler did not start displaying symptoms until halftime. That's ridiculous.''
For those of us who have been around the Bears' coach for a while, even those of us who are not Friends of Lovie, the criticism simply didn't ring true. Smith allowing his big-shot quarterback to continue playing a game while concussed? This from a coach who would hurl himself in front of a bus of reporters to shield Cutler from harm/pesky questioning? The coach who wouldn't say an evil word against a player suddenly becomes Dr. Evil and throws concussion caution to the wind?
No, that's not how he works.
He serves and protects his players, sometimes to a fault.
"We'll never put a player at risk,'' he said Monday. "No game is that important to us."
Smith has said a lot of things over the years that weren't believable. That wasn't one of them. There was nothing in his words that suggested lip service.
It was a refreshing statement, and I hope he meant it right down to his marrow. What he said Monday is miles from what many coaches think: Suck it up and get back in there. The fog will clear.
Too many lives have been ruined by repeated blows to the head. We seem to learn of more struggling former players every day. Would Smith want a damaged Cutler on his conscience? Lovie's a lot of things, but I don't believe cruel is one of them.
But let's deal with the practical part of this. The Bears' 2011 season all but ended when Cutler went down with a broken thumb. Why would they risk long-term damage to him in the ninth game of this season? It doesn't make sense. If you have to lose him to a concussion, better it be for a game or two in November rather than for the rest of the year.
The wild card in this is Cutler. After the Bears' 13-6 loss to Houston, player after player talked about his toughness. The lingering problem in football and other sports is that people still equate toughness with shaking off head injuries. Playing hurt is part of the deal for people such as Cutler and Brian Urlacher. Maybe Cutler did a good job of acting after the Texans' Tim Dobbins crushed him with a hit in the second quarter. Who knows what the Bears saw when they looked in his eyes?
We certainly can put to rest the silliness that Cutler isn't tough. That's the criticism other NFL players sent his way a few years ago when he left the NFC Championship Game with a knee injury. The guy has the pain threshold of a rhino.
He's difficult, yes; wimpy, no.
Cutler needs to be saved from himself. I believe Smith knows it. This is a player who has suffered multiple concussions and hasn't been upfront about his definition of "multiple.'' Six? Eight? Ten? Your guess might be as good as the Bears'.
Smith would lie to your grandmother if she asked about the extent of Alshon Jeffery's hand injury. You can bet he won't tell us everything there is to know about Cutler's concussion, either. But that doesn't mean he would knowingly allow him to play with it.
Until there's evidence to the contrary, I'll trust that Smith is true to his player's-coach reputation. He might be hardheaded, but he's not hardhearted to his people, especially his star quarterback.


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BY SEAN JENSEN Twitter: @SeanKJensen January 31, 2013 11:28AM
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NEW ORLEANS – San Francisco 49ers receiver Randy Moss doesn't know exactly what teammate Chris Culliver said about the prospect of a gay player in the NFL, but he clearly disagrees with the young backup cornerback.
"I really didn't know what was said," Moss said. "I knew it had to do with homosexuality.
"We're all human, so it's not fair to sit there and judge a man or woman on their sexual preference. That's just not right."
Culliver was surrounded by more reporters than any of his star teammates Thursday, as he attempted to minimize the damage of one of the biggest controversies of this Super Bowl after suggesting to radio host Artie Lange that gay players would not be accepted in his team's locker room.
"I was really not thinking. Or, something I thought, but not something that I feel in my heart," Culliver said. "I'm not trying to bring any distraction to the team."
Whether he intended to or not, Culliver has become a distraction. An editor for the Huffington Post called for the NFL to suspend Culliver for his comments.
"Hopefully, he's doing a great job of facing up to all the media. It might not be something he's used to but now he has to step up and be a man about it," Moss said.
"We reject what he said," 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said. "That's not something that reflects the way the organization feels, the way most of the players feel."
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Moss, for one, was candid and provided well-rounded insight on the issue.
"Being a homosexual, that's just your sexual preference. That doesn't mean you're a bad person. I don't really judge people. Being in the locker room, being outside the locker room, we're all human," he said.
Asked if the NFL is ready for an openly gay player, Moss said, "I don't really know if they'd be ready for it.
"All these men being in the locker room, some are straight, some are not. It would probably be a problem. But once we get through that first year or two, it would all smooth over. I really do."
Moss also suggested that there could already be gay players on NFL rosters.
"You see guys and see how they react and how they go about their day and you sometimes wonder. But it's not my position or your position to call them out or to make them look bad or make fun of them," he said. "Like I said, we're all human. God made us all, and if that's what you choose to do, that's what you choose to do. I don't think we should tear a man's head off or a woman's head off on their sexual preference."
Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, who has been an outspoken advocate for same-sex marriages, had this initial reaction Culliver's remarks: "You can't fight hate with hate. You have to fight hate with love."
Ayanbadejo went on to address how he handles anti-gay people.
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I didn't start cooking until my early 20's, even though I come from a family of accomplished and admired home cooks. While I grew up watching my Italian grandmother in the kitchen, I remained uninterested in trying anything on my own. As a young lady, I was known for being particularly ignorant in the kitchen, with no idea how to even make a hot dog! All this changed, however, when I got engaged. I realized it was time to let my inherent talents out of the bag. At the time, the New York Times had a weekly column called The 60-Minute Gourmet by Pierre Franey. Each week, I would follow these recipes diligently, and taught myself to cook that way. From there, I began to read cookbooks and consult with relatives on family recipes. At my ripe old age now, I feel I know enough to put together a very pleasing meal and have become accomplished in my own right. Having an Irish father and an Italian mother, I'm glad I inherited the cooking gene (and the drinking one too! One thing I have learned is that simpler is always better! I always believe cooking fills a need to nuture and show love. After being widowed fairly young and living alone with my pitbull-mix dog (Jade and my Turkish Van cat (Buttons, I stopped cooking for awhile, since I really had no one to cook for. I make care packages for my grown son occasionally, and like to cook weekly for my boyfriend, so I feel like I am truly back in the saddle!! Update - February 2008: My beloved Buttons passed away last year at the ripe old age of 22! Shortly thereafter, I adopted a sweet young cat who I called Delilah. This past December, she was just joined by her new (adopted baby brother, Bentley. Both kitties are getting along famously with Mama Jade. Update - November 2009: My wonderful dog Jade passed away suddenly in August. After three months, I have just adopted a boxer/pitbull mix that I call Zoe. She gets along wonderfully with Delilah and Bentley.
If it's eating, anything that doesn't have feta cheese, goat cheese, gorgonzola cheese, or sprouts!!! There are very few things I don't like. If it's cooking, I pretty much enjoy almost everything. I like to cook and bake. However, I don't like anything that is too time-consuming or complicated because, in my experience, it seldom is worth it. I recall making a Buche de Noel many years ago for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, I was up until 3:30 in the morning, making the buttercream frosting, which required 1 pound of butter, beating in 1 tablespoon at a time. That's 32 times!!! I was not only exhausted, but bored. The cake looked beautiful, though. On Christmas Day, I got many compliments and hurrahs. It did taste quite good. But I realized I could have made something much simpler that tasted just as good. Lesson learned and adhered to since then!
As far as restaurants go, I prefer to go to places that offer cuisine I don't prepare at home. A friend and I have a local restaurant review blog, so we try to eat out often. What is really important to me is a really good glass of wine to go along with my meal!


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British Fashion Icon of the Year 2011 Award Winner Emmanuel Ray doesn't seem reluctant to take his clothes off!
Wow, Emmanuel Ray, as yummy as always. Ass-tastic!
Any more guys?
Christian Bale's sweet ass!
Jamie Bell
Bear Gryllis behind the scenes footage
bunch of good ones here - http://malecelebsblog.com/tag/nude-male-celebrities/
some very hot pics
Joe Manganiello's naked butt
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OMG!!! It's what introduced me to JUB in the beginning!!
Any who, here's Jonathan Groff from "Shameless" and also Zachary Quinto's current beau.
Second is my eager and insatiable bottom himself: my Zachary Quinto! (where Jonny's lovely cock gets to call "home" repeatedly ... lucky bastard!)
Just found this today -- it's got to be a fake, as there is no way his Olympic speedos could ever have hidden that!
This was an interesting find on "Amateurs from Everywhere 4" the other day.
Can someone post the nudes of Andrew Lincoln??? The ass and cock ones :P
I think that if I were a famous celebrity that I would not hesitate to be seen d'être vu nu
Like way the show there assets.
Any David Conrad, Jensen Ackles, Stephen Amell? Please?
Joe Zaso's recent pix
Does anyone have any shots of Charlie David's ass? ("Mulligans," "Judas Kiss," and "Dante's Cove")
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I had a c-section with my son and an unplanned natural delivery with my daughter. i will say the natural delivery was much more easier. My body knew what to do and I had a quicker recovery time. I would do natural again. I think the contractions were more severe than the actual labor itself...
I, too, wanted a natural med-free delivery. I had seen The Business of Being Born and read all the reasons why you're better off without meds, and I was determined to go med-free. I even hired a doula to coach me through the process and support me with the natural childbirth. I'll go into the details in a minute, but the short story is that I wound up getting an epidural, and I have no regrets. It was absolutely the right decision for me!
The longer version: I labored for most of a day before getting to the point that I felt it was time to call in the doula. By the time she arrived at my house, I was having contractions every 5-10 minutes, and they were about a minute each. They were painful, but manageable. I labored at my house with the help of my husband and doula for several more hours, until my contractions were about every 4 minutes, 60-90 seconds long, and about an 8 (out of 10) on the pain scale. The doula was actually the one who made the call that we should go to the hospital. Based on my contractions, she figured I would be 4 or 5 cm dilated. When the nurse checked me at the hospital however, I was only 1.5 cm. Normally they would send a person home with only this amount of dilation, but my contractions were painful enough and close enough together that they decided to admit me.
Within the first hour of arriving at the hospital, my contractions started coming every 1-5 minutes (irregular) and my pain level jumped up to a 10. My contractions were literally the most painful thing I had ever felt or imagined, and I started having panic attacks because I couldn't see how I was going to get through them. I labored like this, still med-free, for another 5 hours, at which point I was told I had only dilated to 3 cm. This was when I realized I couldn't do it on my own. If I had been 8 cm, I might have been able to hang on, but knowing that in a 5 hour span of the worst pain I had ever experienced I had only dilated an additional 1.5 cm was too much for me. I ordered the epidural and waited for sweet relief.
One of the reasons I had wanted to avoid having an epidural was that it can slow down a person's labor and potentially lead to needing pitocin to help speed things up. However in my case, the epidural dramatically sped my labor up. About 3-4 hours after receiving the epidural, I was 8 cm dilated, and 2 hours after that I was holding my beautiful baby in my arms. I think the pain of my contractions was just so intense, that my body couldn't do what it needed to do. With the pain gone, my body was able to relax and get on with things, and my labor and delivery went very smoothly from that point.
What I learned from my experience is that everybody is different. For many, possibly even most women, a natural med-free delivery is the way to go, but this isn't true for everyone. It certainly wasn't true for me. So my advice would be to learn as much as you can about having a med-free delivery, and have a doula or midwife to help you through the process. But make sure that your support team will STILL support you if, in the moment, you change your mind and decide to go ahead and get medicinal help.
I had an epidural with all 3 of my boys and the experience seemed to get worse each time. With my 1st my heart rate and blood pressure dropped drasticly along with the babies after the epidural. I was given so much of the epidural i couldnt feel a thing not even the urge to push like your supposed to. With my second I had horrible back pain after the epidural that took about a month to ease and to this day still have back pain. When I went into labor with my 3rd I was already 4 1/2 cm and 80% thined out. My contractions were very mild and i felt i was ok and didnt need anything. I suffer from anxiety so its hard to stay calm sometimes, the nurses kept urging me to get the epidural before the contractions started getting bad, and that fed my anxiety. I got the epidural when i didnt need it. I had horrible back pain from it agian and come to find out I had pulled muscles in back along with a horrific bruise on my back. I could have definately had my 3rd without medicine i do believe, after the epidural my son was born less than 45 minutes later. My labor progressed very quickly. I am currently pregnant with my 4th baby and I fully plan to go all natural as long as everything goes ok and there are no emergency procedures needed. Whatever any woman chooses to do is just fine every person feels differently and has different experiences. Do what feels right for you. One persons good experience or bad experience isnt the same as the next persons. Good Luck and God Bless!
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Some of us may have had the pleasure, or displeasure, of knowing people like Talal. A bullshitter of epic proportions whom everyone knows is a bullshitter, yet who carries on bullshitting without respite because with the passing of time his bullshitting knowhow has evolved and overtaken his capacity to tell fact from fiction.
By way of background Talal was an Egyptian lad who was raised in the US. I met him years ago in Washington DC, before he became an alleged investment banker.
What I recall most from that first encounter was thinking to myself: "My God, this guy is an extreme exaggerator." What I didn't give him enough credit for at the time, however, was his creative capacity. Only now, looking back, can I admit that he infused high levels of creative genius into his stories.
The way his brain fabricated these tales should be the subject of a National Geographic feature on the intricate workings of the human brain.
Everybody knows a Talal
In practically every group you'll find someone like Talal. And they'll generally exaggerate anywhere between 25-30% away from the truth. Outliers like Talal, however, will occasionally hit 100%+. For instance, someone will ask him how many women he's been with and, without hesitation, he'll double where he thinks others in the group would fall. So not only does he fabricate rapidly but he gauges his surrounding, constantly adapting output in accordance to input. A magnificent mind.
His were stories we loved listening to even when we knew they were wholly unfounded. If he accidentally bumped into a cute girl at the bar, excused himself, walked away and reached the group and someone asked him what just happened, he'd reply something to the effect: "Oh, she asked me if I was alone and wanted to have a drink but her breath was kicking like Van Damme so I had to escape." An innocent kiss on the cheek in the real world translated into wild sex in his matrix.
Initially, Talal used to tell everyone he was Italian. Even though his surname was as Middle Eastern as shawarmas. He figured it would yield better returns with the American girls. As we got to know him better and learned that his only link to Italy was a 1-week family trip to Rome when he was eight, he skilfully preempted any attempt to question him on his nationality and dismissed the whole thing as a joke.
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Is it really wrong to say Stewie Griffen. Not the child but whenever you see im as an adult, either in the family guy movie or episodes where he flashes to the future.
There are so many gay comments that come out of his mouth as a child, its funny to see him as an adult.
Tara from buffy.. before they killed her off
Patsy & Edina (Absolutely Fabulous)
Uncle Ruckus (The Boondocks)
Tanya Turner (Footballers Wives) my all time favorite soap bitch diva!!!
Max from Happy Endings.
He's not your typical gym bunny or your stereotypically "pretty" gay guy on tv. And he has a belly. lol
I think he's cute as hell.
Haha! I love this. lol
I feel like bumping this because I've been getting into Damages recently, and I fucking love Ellen Parsons beyond words.
"I am so sick of your bullshit."
omar little and marlo stanfield from the wire. my dudes.
Daria Morgendorffer from Daria
Morticia Addams from the addams family
Peewee Herman
Peggy Bundy from Married with children
and April Ludgate from Parks and recreation
Ron Swanson and April Ludgate
Elaine Bennes:
(Love, love, love the way she dances)
Karen from will and grace. She always makes me laugh.
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I have a new favorite TV show, and a new favorite TV character, although I wouldn't say I love her with my heart and soul. The TV show is Gravity Falls, and the character is named Mabel. I won't post a picture or youtube link, because she's twelve. (Although she's animated, so maybe that's OK?)
What do I like about her? I've always had a soft spot for characters that some might quickly dismiss as "dumb", but upon closer examination, they're what you might call "differently smart". Gracie Allen is sort of a prototype. I also enjoyed Wildcat from the Talespin cartoon. Upon finding something refurbished extremely well, I say it's "good as pretty and twice as new", which I copped from him.
Mabel's in the same league, I think. She sort of wanders to the beat of her own mp3 player. Lots of what she does seems either a bit simple or a bit out there (or both, like when she successfully Bedazzled her face). She wears some weird sweaters - the ones below are just from the first ten episodes or so, and the "Mabel" one in the lower left actually plugs in. She wins a pig, names it Waddles, and enjoys dressing him up. And despite everything that's going on in Gravity Falls (lots of weird shit), she's nearly always happy.
Miss Cordelia Chase
Miss Prudence Haliwell
Miss Piper Haliwell (Before Prue's death)
Eternal youth and endless life. I'll sacrifice everything and everyone to obtain it
Hazel Burke from Hazel.
If only there were more people like her.
My Rebekah <3
Honorable mentions,
(Victoria Grayson, Katherine Pierce, Gabrielle Solis and Edie Britt)
Lucy Ricardo from I Love Lucy
I know they're from the same show, but Im absolutely obsessed!
Constance from American Horror Story;
Although all the actors on the show are amazing, she is my favorite character.
And Tate from American Horror Story;
^moreso when he's being cute, not a psycho lol
Both of the them are also in the second season, playing as different characters (the 2nd season has some of the same cast, but it's a completely different story so they play different characters).
If you haven't been watching the second season of AMH you need to be!!!
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Cars > Frogger's Garage
About Frogger's Garage
About me and my passion for cars
I grew up working on cars, all kinds! Ford, Chevy,Fiat,Mercedes,VW's. I loved them all! My Dad was a line mechanic at the local Chevy Dealership. I use to goto work with him during the summer when school was out. I loved it!
I built my first SBC at age 12 with the help of my Dad!
Later we built a '69 Ford Ranger with a 350 from a Corvette in it. After graduating High School he gave me the truck. A few years later I returned the favor after adding new wheels and tire's.
My first car
A '74 Vega Wagon.It needed a clutch so I worked odd jobs to get the money.I later traded a Honda 350-four chopper I had for a '74 GT hatchback Vega with no engine. I pulled the motor from the wagon, rebuilt it and put it in the GT.
Car I wish I still had
1968 Camaro SS Factory 4 Speed
Car clubs I'm in
H-body Club, C.A.R.S., H-body.org
- Type of racing: nascar/drag racing
- Driver: Dale Jr.
- Driving song: Copperhead road
- Car movie: Mad Max
- Car book: How to Hot Rod a Small Block Chevy
- Car magazine: Super Chevy
- Car game: Gearhead
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Phoenix Specialty Coatings Business
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The HHR Store Business
Welcome! The HHR Store is happy to support the HHRitage Foundation and to be one of the sponsors of the HHRitage Nationals. We are also proud to offer The largest Selection of original HHR shirts and merchandise ANYWHERE! We also offer the famous "Smoothie Door Lock Knobs", Traffic...
Missouri, United States
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Oct 1, 2011 | 8th Annual Car Truck and Bike Show |
May 25–26, 2007 | Chattanooga, Tn. H-body Show & Run! May 25th & 26th |
Apr 28, 2007 | Relay for Life Car Show |
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May 23–26, 2008 | F-Body Gathering 12 (G12) |
Feb 17, 2007 | Georgia Street Rod Assn Annual Swap Meet |
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- May 28, 2007 at 9:48 pm
- There are car guys,and there are straight up car artist, you are both! I hope i can accomplish somewhere near what you guys do to your rides.Nice......Very Nice!
- Mar 17, 2007 at 3:06 pm
- Great Vega. So are you going to build yours too? Are we CRAZY or what? Hope to see it on the road again soon. See ya.
- Feb 21, 2007 at 10:17 pm
- nice vega. cant wait to get mine painted.
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Engine Bay Almost Done!
Apr 26, 2007
Well pretty much got the engine compartment done, just waiting on the new alternator (100 amp Chrome) and gotta pick up a new coolant overflow bottle. The old one sprung a leak!...
Engine Bay Facelift 2
Apr 2, 2007
New update: Well got the engine compartment painted using Eastwoods underhood paint. Very good color, similar to a Satin Black, however the durability leaves something to be...
Engine Bay Facelift
Mar 21, 2007
I thought it was time to clean up under the hood. I pulled the engine gave it a new set of rings and bearings along with a fresh coat of paint. My heater core has been leaking...
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Doubles With Ripsta
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