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After Brian returned, we parked Paul's truck in my apartment building garage and took my Subaru downtown. Brian stayed behind at the condo. 'To hold down the fort' as my father used to say.
Trevor kicked the back of my seat almost the whole way there until Paul pulled the car over, like a dad who'd had the last straw, and threw Trevor in the way back, behind the dog screen. Obviously, I don't have a dog and I have never owned a dog, but found the screen helpful for hanging up drawings and drying sandy, wet bathing suits and flip flops from a day at the beach. It was also now useful for containing Trevor. He didn't dare draw attention to himself, lest a cop see him in the way back without a seatbelt. He knew that I would've been more than glad to get a traffic violation ticket just to have a police officer take him off of our hands. He was becoming a burden to us.
Paul kept glaring back at Trevor, who was trying to light another cigarette. Paul kept all the windows open to keep the light from being successful. I watched Paul with amusement. He noticed and smiled a little. I knew how hard this was for him. Trevor was a painful jab in his side when he should've been mourning the loss of his friend and mentor. To be stuck with such a pain in the neck was the worst thing that could've been going on for Paul. I was so worried for him and well, selfishly at the moment, for me and for us. I shouldn't have been thinking such thoughts at a time like that, but that's when they usually came. We had only been together about a year, but our relationship was still relatively new, mostly still within the honeymoon stage. Would Faraday's death kill our relationship? Faraday had been such a huge part of Paul's life. Would Paul throw me over to devote himself to the case full time, wanting no distractions from his sexy new girlfriend? God, I was so in love with him. Losing him, I thought, would send me over the edge of my parapet. Brian would have to stay by my side, as I would lapse into a love coma, unable to cope with a life without Paul. I would subsist on a diet of booze, cigarettes and reality TV, staying hidden away in my condo-cave.
"Dollar for your thoughts?" asked Paul, startling me out of my glazed space-out which I called thinking.
I looked over at him and smiled. "No thoughts. Just very tired all of a sudden. Seasonal Affective Disorder. Need to recharge for the next round."
That seemed to satisfy him and he returned to driving. We were pulling into the downtown precinct as instructed by the cops. With much prodding, assisted by my tapered acrylic fingernails, we got Trevor out of the hatch back, inside the station, and up to the information desk.
"Excuse me," I asked the officer behind the counter. Desk sergeant? What did they call them now? In-take officers? Or was that drug rehab lingo? "We've brought in Trevor Gerard. He would like to turn himself in."
"Bitch! Cunt!" yelled Trevor before Paul could clamp his hand over his puckered foul mouth and restrain him.
The officer looked past me at Trevor. Trevor had the officer's full attention now, "You'd better not be calling me names, sir. That will get you arrested."
"Oh no, he's not calling you those names. Those are the names he's been calling me for the past couple of hours. He has issues," I informed the officer.
The officer now turned her attention to me. She had all the mannerisms of Jabba the Hut. I'm not saying that she was obese and slug-like with excessive drool and pasty skin. Her movements revealed more the subtle and deliberate benevolence of Jabba the Hut, with an ownership of her power and manipulation. Every gesture and expression was measured and done for an exact purpose and effect.
"And the other one?" she asked patiently.
I looked at Paul and then back at her. "He's my body guard."
"And you are?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Lois Pushkin. We're here to see Detective Patrick," I answered.
"He's unavailable right now. Working on a big case. Can't deal with stalkers right now, even if you did catch them peepin' in your window."
"I think he'll want to see me. It's about his big case." I was getting weary of Jabba and I could sense that behind me, Paul was close to snapping Trevor's neck.
"What do you know about his case load?" asked the officer rhetorically. "Tell me what you have and I'll relay it to him."
"No," I said. "He either sees us right now or we leave. You'll have to explain your actions later to the DA." Boy, I really did watch too much television. I didn't think Jabba would believe me.
The officer held my eyes for a few seconds, sighed, and then picked up the phone to call Detective Patrick. "Yeah, there's a woman here who says she has information for you about the case you're working on." She paused. "Uh, yeah, a Lois Pushkin." Suddenly, she jerked the phone away from her ear. "Sonofabitch slammed the phone down in my ear!"
The swinging doors to my left flew open and three plainclothes detectives shot through the doors at a full trot. Paul relaxed his grip on Trevor, instinctively pushing him towards the cops. Trevor wriggled his way forward, resisting like a cow to a brand.
"Ms. Pushkin!" said the cop whom I assumed was Detective Patrick. I realized now we had never met in person before. Another officer came around to escort me back through the doors.
"Thank you for coming down and turning yourself in. You have the right to remain silent….."
"Hey, whoa! I'm not turning myself in. I've brought you Trevor Gerard. You said that if I had any information on him, I was to let you know. Well, I have him in person so there you go," I said as I shrugged off the other officer behind me. Paul was instantly by my side, pulling me into him, creating distance between me and the police. Was it for my safety or theirs?
Detective Patrick looked at Trevor who was now sitting on a waiting room chair, legs crossed, sniveling into his hand, sweat beading on his freckled pale brow, trying to fade into the background. The officer crossed over to him and asked, "Are you Trevor Gerard?"
Trevor looked up at him, defeated, "Yes, I am and I didn't do anything."
Detective Patrick began, "Trevor Gerard, you are hereby under arrest for the murder of Christian Harold Faraday. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you." Blah, blah, blah, we've all watched Law and Order. Another officer hand-cuffed Trevor while Detective Patrick read him his rights. Then the second officer led Trevor through the double doors.
Trevor spun around spastically and yelled at Paul and me. "Bitch, you'll pay for this! You too, Asshole! God Damn Fuckers!" Then he burst into sobs that racked his entire body, almost pulling the officer down to the floor.
"I need to know if he'll be all right and when we can see him again," I asked Detective Patrick.
"We said that we'd be here for him." God, I hoped I sounded convincing. I really wanted Trevor kept at the station, under supervision. But I definitely didn't want him spreading lies about me and Paul and pointing an accusatory finger at either of us. Being able to possibly know what he was confessing to the police would be a bonus to us.
Detective Patrick looked at me skeptically, connecting the thoughts after Trevor's little display. "Be here for him? I think you need to think about yourself right now, Ms. Pushkin. You're a 'person of interest' in this case and I need to take a statement from you. We have never sat down to chat about your version of events." said Detective Patrick.
"Me?! Why me? I was only the guy's designer. He paid me in full, always. I had no motive. I'm an outsider to this whole situation," I protested.
"According to estate security logs and camera video, you were very much a part of the Faraday world and involved with everyone in it," he revealed. "We'll need to get your statement.
And while you're here, since you were able to pull Trevor Gerard out of a hat, would you happen to know the whereabouts of the general contractor, Paul Atkinson?"
I reached over my shoulder and tapped Paul on the chest. Detective Patrick looked at Paul and then back at me and then returned to Paul. Then he said, "I'm definitely going to need a statement from the both of you."
Paul squeezed my shoulders and kissed my cheek. We followed Detective Patrick through the double doors he so graciously held open for us. He was smiling like the cat that ate the canary. In the corridor, another officer took Paul away from me, and Detective Patrick led me into a tiny, claustrophobic, unaesthetic interrogation room. Martha Stewart, where are your jailhouse hints when I need them? Oh, shitshitshitshitshit.
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Monday, May 03, 2010
die sum die!
Sum: Goodnite...I need to go...borther has school tommorow.....
Linus: Okie...Goodnite...
Sum and brother exit door. I proceed to the kitchen to prepare food for my dog...ten minutes later I come out to feed dog....sum is still outside my gate.
Linus: Anything wrong? (thinking something is wrong with his car)
Sum: Oh...nothing....just killing some snails....
Linus: You killed my snails!!!!???!!! FU((&YIMUI&IMI&I$UBRGFHJNUIN$EU%!!!!???!!!!
Sum: they are your snails?
Linus: Yeah...I feed them...
Sum proceed to pick something up from the middle of the road...
Linus: what are you doing?
Sum: Some of them are not yet dead...
Linus: Then???
Sum: I put them in the middle of the road hoping to watch when cars run over
Linus stands baffled for a while....
Linus: ...u know how you said you get bullied sum??? It could be karma...
Sum: what you feed them?
Linus: Vegetable scraps from my kitchen!!!!
Linus: my poor snails....
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3 comments:
- Cmate said...
Hahaaaa! That's what happen when you have extraordinary pets!
- Ashed_Dreams said...
If not for Linus, you are all dead meat. Stop whining and be glad that most of you are still in one complete piece... >:D
- RyoKenzaki said...
OMG Sum :(
How could he be so cruel :(
Poor snail
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Still not better than Simon & Garfunkel. But he's doing a pretty good job.
He's got a fair voice that man, listen to when he's actually putting power behind his voice.
It's beautiful.
It's always nice to hear a voice that touches you. Especially considering what kind of music Disturbed usually make lol


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VK.com is the fastest growing social network
I am not a big Facebook fan, I don't know why but I never did like Facebook.com since the website went online.My friends love it and they are on it all the time, even my wife got hooked to it, she says you have to know the person in real-life in order to use FB as a spying tool to their hoes, vacation, car models and lifestyles. She is right, it is a very good spying tool indeed! Most of the time FB makes me sad because I see other happy people with lots of money I don't have and taking good expensive vacations here and there.
It pisses me off. So I started to Google Plus. I have been Google plus-ing since 2011 (I think) and I still haven't figured out how Google Plus is a Social Network. It's an informative website with loads of pictures and information but I don't see friends and families crowding Google plus. Mine don't.
For science, news,technology and geeks Google plus is nice cozy home.
Then suddenly I discovered VK.com, it's simple, it's fast, it looks a look like FB and it has lots of Russian girls in it ready to "friend" you. I mean that is cool. In FB all I could "friend" were guys and unattractive girls. But in VK.com its loaded with hot Russian girls ready to be pals and "like" your rather useless posts. I am married and happy, so Vk.com is quite an outlet to the virtual world comparing to it the harmful pornography and real physical affairs.
So guys and girls – get to VK.com the fastest growing social network out there which does not bullshit the bullshitters!
According to Alexa Internet ranking, VK is one of the most visited websites in the post-Soviet countries. It holds the second position in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and 5th in Kazakhstan.
Founder Pavel Durov launched VKontakte for beta testing in September 2006, having just graduated from St Petersburg State University. Next month the domain name vkontakte.ru was registered. User registration was initially limited to within university circles exclusively by invitation, but the site still grew quickly. In February 2007 the site reached a user base of over 100,000 and was recognized as the second largest player in Russia's nascent social network market. In the same month the site was subjected to a severe DDoS attack, which briefly put it offline. The user base reached 1 million in July 2007, and 10 million in April 2008. In December 2008 VK overtook rival Odnoklassniki as Russia's most popular social networking service
By : Anti-social guy who is Fed-up with Facebook and the boooring Google Plus networks.


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…especially in the cold and rain." So sang Captain Sensible, which we discovered when we were guests on Croydon Radio's monthly poetry show, Poets Anonymous. It was one of the London-themed records on the show's playlist, and was chosen especially to fit in with our London-based project. We'd met the show's hosts – Peter Evans and Ted Smith-Orr – when we featured at Beyond Words this January in Gipsy Hill, and were thrilled to be asked to guest on their show.
Listen to the full show here.
The journey to Croydon involved some nightmarish one-way systems, watch-out-for-that-tram moments and multistorey car park angst, but eventually deposited us safely into the welcoming warmth of hippy-chic Matthews Yard, where the radio station is based.
There was time for a quick run-through of the structure for the hour long show, then we went into the studio, got mikes and headphones sorted and waited for the longest 5 minutes known to woman or man before we went on air.
The programme was kicked off by Peter reading The Very Leaves of the Acacia-Tree are London by Kathleen Raine, then it was our turn, reading poems that wove from north London to south and back again, and slipped between different centuries. We had two generous ten minute reading slots at either end of the programme, and a relaxed interview with Ted halfway through, when we talked about the evolution of our project and the research behind some of the poems. We each read a favourite poem, too, and listened to great music tracks by George the poet, Mr Sensible and Phil Minton singing a setting of William Blake's poem The Fields. That hour flew past. Today Croydon, tomorrow the rest of the world!
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Lester Park Elementary students participated in the 11th Annual Giving Tree Project, spreading cheer to patients at local hospitals by purchasing, decorating and donating small trees. Children bring donations they earned at home or happen to have in their piggy banks to purchase the artificial trees. They make decorations in their classrooms during the weeks leading up to the delivery date.
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Last night, after I had changed into my jamma pants, I remembered I was supposed to pick up one of the Hubs' prescriptions that day and I had totally forgotten about it. So I had to run to the pharmacy. It has a drive thru window so I decided it wouldn't be a big deal to wear my jamma pants (as a rule I don't generally wear my pajamas in public. That's not how I roll). I still had on the shirt I'd worn all day and the top half was all they'd see right?
When I got to the pharmacy the pharmacy tech told me that they couldn't fill the Hubs' script (why couldn't they call me for that info?). After a little more communication it turned out that they had mixed up the Hubs with a different patient. I should have taken this as sign that the visit wouldn't go so well. However, the mistake was caught pretty quickly and I didn't think much about it, aside from being glad the issue had been straightened out.
I paid and the guy put all my things into the little basket to return to me. However, he did not bother to put anything on top of the receipt. So as soon as the drawer opened toward me the receipt literally flew away. Now, the Hubs and I have been trying to save all receipts so that we can itemize our taxes at the end of the year. So of course I was all, "ahhh! I need that receipt!!!" I pushed the pharmacy drawer closed and opened my door slightly to see if I could see the receipt. Of course I couldn't and there was a car in line behind me. So then I got out of the van and glanced around a little more. Still couldn't find the ding dang receipt.
I got back in the van and pulled forward so the other car could have their turn. Then I proceeded to get out of the van and hunt the parking lot..... The good news is I did find the receipt. And after my ire about losing my receipt subsided I realized that I had totally forgetten that I had on my hot pink, striped pajama pants and a shirt that didn't even remotely match... Yep, this is my life. This event is not even close to being isolated. This kind of thing happens to me rather frequently. Most of the time I just let it roll off of my back, because I'm used to it, but this time I thought maybe you'd like a little giggle at my expense ;).
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Online resources
Divorce Care.org– This website provides a guide to finding support groups for those who are separated and divorced. They also offer daily emails stressing strength and healing. This organization is religious and uses quotes from the bible in its support messages.
HuffPost Divorce- The Huffington Post has a dedicated section in their newspaper for all topics related to divorce. Subtopics in the Divorce section include: Celebrity Divorce, Parenting, Dating, Divorce Laws, Divorce Stats, and Divorce Advice. Huffington Post gets a HUGE thumbs up from me since very few online resources offer a section dedicated to Single Parents and Divorcees.
Scoop Post- Scoop Post is an up and coming news and story platform website. There's a subsection under the Culture/Lifestyle community dedicated to Single Moms.
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July 16, 1973
Peter J. Brennan,* Secretary of Labor, Plaintiff,
S & M Enterprises et al., Defendants
William B. Jones, District Judge
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William B. JONES, District Judge:
This is an action brought by the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to enjoin the defendants from violating the provisions of sections 7(a) (1) and 15(a) (2) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 207(a) (1) and 215(a) (2) (1970),
and to restrain the withholding of the payment of overtime compensation allegedly due certain of the defendants' employees under the Act. The defendants are the owners and operators of three parking garages in the downtown business section of the District of Columbia. Jurisdiction is based on 29 U.S.C. § 217 (1970). The case is now before the Court on cross-motions for summary judgment.
The defendants have agreed to the Secretary's statement of material facts not in issue submitted pursuant to Local Rule 9(h), except that they deny that any overtime compensation is due any of their employees. Thus the Court finds that no material facts are in issue and the case is ripe for summary disposition.
The individual defendants, Donald E. Swagart and Willis R. Manning, Jr., apparently operate the three defendant parking garages through S & M Enterprises. Ownership of two of the three garages is vested in the estate of Harry A. Swagart, Jr., of which the individual defendants are trustees. The third garage is 50 percent owned by one of the other two garages. The defendants admit that the separate defendants constitute a single enterprise within the meaning of section 3(r) of the FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 203(r) (1970).
Each of the garages is admitted since March 1, 1969, to have had over $250,000 annual dollar volume of sales made or business done, thus removing them from the retail exemption of 29 U.S.C. § 213(a) (2) (1970). The defendants admit that they have had at least two employees engaged in parking, moving and handling automobiles which have moved across state lines. Furthermore, the defendants admit that they have failed to pay their employees overtime compensation at one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over forty in a given workweek.
The defendants seek to avoid injunctive relief from being entered against them on two grounds: (1) that their employees are not in an "enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce" within section 3(s) (1) of the FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 203(s) (1) (1970), and thus do not fall within the bounds of the overtime pay provisions of section 7(a) (1) of the FLSA, quoted in note 1, supra; and (2) that assuming that a violation exists, there is no need for injunctive relief. Finally, a reduction of any payment of overtime wages determined to be due is sought by urging that the two year statute of limitations provision of 29 U.S.C. § 255(a) (1970) should be applied rather than the three year period for willful violations contained in that same section.
The Court finds for the Secretary on each of these points.
Engaging in Commerce
Coverage under the overtime pay provisions of section 7(a) (1) of the FLSA is extended to any employee who is employed in "an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce." Section 3(s) (1), 29 U.S.C. § 203(s) (1), defines such an enterprise as one which has
employees engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, including employees handling, selling, or otherwise working on goods that have been moved in or produced for commerce by any person, and which --
(1) . . . is an enterprise whose annual gross volume of sales made or business done is not less than $250,000. . . .
As set forth above, the defendants admit that each of the garages has done over $250,000 business per year since March 1, 1969, the date from which overtime compensation is sought. Thus the defendants' argument that they are not covered by section 3(s) (1) rests on their assertion that their employees, who admittedly move, park, and handle automobiles which have moved across state lines, are not in an enterprise engaged in commerce.
The defendants' position is that the activity of their employees cannot constitute engagement in commerce because the automobiles involved are goods already in the hands of the ultimate consumer and thus exempted by section 3(i) of the FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 203(i) (1970). Principal reliance is placed on Shultz v. Wilson Building, Inc., 60 CCH LC P32,218 (S.D. Tex. 1969).
In Wilson Building, the Secretary of Labor asserted that the parking of automobiles which had at some time in the past moved in interstate commerce before delivery to their owners constituted an enterprise engaged in handling goods in commerce under section 3(s) (1). The Court rejected that argument, holding that the goods had come to rest upon delivery to their owners and had thus been removed from the chain of commerce.
The Secretary, however, does not rely in this case on the handling of goods theory asserted in Wilson Building. Rather he properly points out that section 3(s) (1) covers the defendants' employees if at least two employees are engaged either in commerce or in producing goods for commerce (which includes handling goods in commerce, as in Wilson Building). Republic Pictures Corp. v. Kappler, 151 F.2d 543, 545 (8th Cir. 1945). Thus the Secretary is entitled to summary judgment if the defendants' employees are engaged in commerce, a question that is answered by determining whether interstate commerce would be impeded or abated without the services of the employees. Overnight Motor Transp. Co. v. Missel, 316 U.S. 572, 86 L. Ed. 1682, 62 S. Ct. 1216 (1942). Although Congress did not exercise its full authority in the passage of the FLSA by requiring that employees be "engaged in commerce" rather than merely in activity affecting commerce, the term "engaged in commerce" is to be liberally construed. Overstreet v. North Shore Corp., 318 U.S. 125, 128, 87 L. Ed. 656, 63 S. Ct. 494 (1943).
The only two reported decisions other than Wilson Building, supra, dealing with parking lot or garage employees have both tried to enumerate the factors to be weighed in determining whether employees are "engaged in commerce." In Jackson v. Airways Parking Co., 297 F. Supp. 1366 (N.D. Ga. 1969), the Court found that employees at the defendant's lot at the Atlanta Municipal Airport were engaged in commerce and thus covered by the FLSA. In reaching that conclusion, the Court looked to economic factors as well as common understanding. Thus the Court found the following factors most important: the economic independence of the business; the nature and extent of the work claimed to be part of interstate commerce; the degree to which admittedly interstate commerce would be impeded without the employee activity that is the subject of the complaint; the geographic relationship of the activity in a common sense understanding of interstate activity; the degree to which contractual and practical relationships brought the defendant into interstate operations; the facilitation of interstate transactions or communications; and the extent to which the activity is entwined with the continuous stream of commerce. Id. at 1373.
In Jackson the Court found close contractual and economic ties between the airport, an admittedly interstate facility, and the defendant's lot. Moreover, the geographic isolation of the lot made its dependence on the interstate airport clear. The lack of competing facilities further indicated that interstate travellers were dependent upon and ...
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Nashville (Day 4)
The following day, Sunday, Mom and I went to Fido's for a late breakfast. After breakfast we wandered into this cute little store across the street called Posh. This store is amazing! We spent quite a bit of time in this store, having fun, trying different things on. I even got a cute black top. After that we wandered around town for a bit and then headed to an early evening mass at a beautiful cathedral in downtown Nashville. After mass, we met up with Kenny for dinner and to go over a few business things. It was definitely a relaxing Sunday.


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BRAMPTON, Ontario — A man was shot and killed after opening fire in a courthouse just outside Toronto, injuring a police officer on Friday, officials said.
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit said a man entered the court house in Brampton, Ontario and fired shots, injuring a police officer before being shot dead by police. The wounded officer is in stable condition at a Toronto hospital.
Peel Regional Police Cst. Fiona Thivierge said the courthouse had been sealed off, following the shooting.
Alex Anderson said he was in the hallway of the first floor of the building when he heard a shot being fired.
"I heard one shot and I didn't think too much of it," Anderson said. "Then a series of shots that just went two, three, four, five. In that process, people were running. Everyone was scattering to the nearest courtroom that they can just get into."
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Mr. and Mrs. Rice!
For years we wondered when they'd make it official. Well, today was the day. OakTeam keyboard player, Greg Rice became the world's luckiest man, marrying the beautiful Elenore Spicer of Goldsboro, NC. It was an unbelievable event, complete with huge church ceremony, mad scientist organ player and Tarantino opera singer. The afterparty started with the remaining OakTeam guys performing the featured dances. First, Greg and Elenore danced to "S'Wonderful" sung by Jack, Elenore and her dad then danced to "If Not For You" sung by Dave and then Greg and his mom danced to "How Sweet it Is". After we worked our magic we then proceeded to git our drink on and ignore the other band who we never caught the name of.
Much love and luck to our brother and his new wife.
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Okay. So Spring ain't sprung, the grass ain't riz, but guess just where my hy'cinth iz! Yes! Last year, I planted the hyacinth I'd bought at Publix. I stuck my face in the purple blooms and inhaled the scent of home. Oh my. I think our cold winter made it all possible. I am thrilled on a daily basis. I wonder if I'll dig them up -- there are three -- and bring them with me when I move (eleven blocks east and fifteen blocks north) or if I'll leave them for future renters. I suspect the former, selfish wench that I am.
Yikes, huh? I can't quite put my finger on what's so amazing about a chocolate cross or praying hands, but I am dumbfounded. It seems sacrilegious, and yet it is a nice melding of the secular and the Christian, and it's doing it with chocolate, so how bad can that be?
On the other hand, someone told me they'd bought chocolate Jesuses at a church once. Man, I'd love one of those! Talk about "This is the body"! Talk about becoming One!
And the last of the newness is MotoBling -- mobile bling. Michele still prefers Mo'bling because it suggests mobile bling and more bling, but since I'm a missionary for artcars, I must insist upon MotoBling. I want people to buy a handful of these painted magnetic-sheeting squares and put them on their cars in patterns. If they won't paint their cars, they can at least decorate them.


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Kids and their Boundaries
Got 192 back. I love my old bus.
On the Murray route, this morning, there were no girls except for Miss Laura- the bus aid. All boys.
Leesha and Cara were home when I got here. My me-time was less than private. Leesha is feeling much better. She's also reacting favorably to having those boundaries again.
Leesha was very well behaved, tonight. I believe it all has to do with boundaries. See, for the last couple of days she's been with Grandma. Grandma kind of lets Leesha decide what she wants to do or what she wants to eat. This leaves her in a most unpleasant state. She becomes a real pill. Its strange how once we crack down and tell her how it is, she's great.
Ordered Melaleuca.
David Sorley returns home today. He's been out east taking care of his mother, giving his sister, Mimi, a break. He's been gone for about 2 weeks.
LOST wasn't finished downloading before it was bedtime. We'll have to watch it tomorrow.


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All right listen, I just started reading a book called Incognito - The Secret Lives Of The Brain.
Does this sound appetizing to you? It is f***ing awesome. The premise is that our conscious state of mind, which we all perceive as who we are, is merely the tip of the ice berg. That consciousness is merely the beneficiary of the incredible stuff that goes on behind the scenes in our diseased little brains.
I have read enough and thought enough and felt enough to know that this is true. I have been victimized by my own brain for a lifetime. All the dark nooks and crannies, all the diseased pockets of misinformation and disinformation, all the misunderstandings and misinterpretations that combine to make me a part time clerk in a liquor store at the age of fifty eight.
What I love is this guy's approach. He takes a tough subject and makes it readable. Don't get me wrong, I am barely into the book and I have come across a couple of dry parts already. it's the kind of book where you cannot allow your mind to wander. You cannot suddenly wonder if you put butter on the shopping list in the middle of a chapter explaining the misconceptions about the relationship about what role the brain plays in how our eyes "see." You will miss something.
You have to focus to read this book but, then again, isn't that a good thing for your brain?
A couple of great references he has thrown in early on. He pairs the following two quotes. Carl Jung: "In each of us there is another whom we do not know." Pink Floyd: "There's someone in my head, but it's not me."
Read a little Eckhart Tolle and you will dig where he is coming from.
He uses hitting a baseball as a great example of the separation between the brain's ability to process something and conscious response to that. If a pitch is thrown at 100 m.p.h. it reaches the plate in four tenths of a second. That is enough time for the batter's eyes to pick up light signals from the baseball and work all that information through the brain in a way that gets the muscles of the arms moving. But conscious awareness takes half a second, which means the ball travels too rapidly for the batter to be aware of it. In other words you do not have to be consciously aware to perform sophisticated acts.
This blows my mind.
I can see you are already getting bored so I won't drone on.
I am excited because I am working on my brain right now, kneading it like dough, trying to bring it back to life after decades of dumbing myself down. This book gives me more to work with.
The author raises the following questions to give a taste for where he is going with this book.
How is it possible to get angry with yourself; who exactly is mad at whom?
Why do people love to store their money in Christmas accounts that earn no interest?
If the drunk Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite and the sober Mel Gibson is authentically apologetic, is there a real Mel Gibson?
What do Ulysses and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common?
Why do strippers make more money at certain times of month?
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Here's our review of Captain America The First Avenger
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F@ck! Youtube banned my video because of copyright infringement. I really don't understand where they got that from. The only thing I can figure is the song at the end, even though it's on YouTube in several other places. WMG doesn't want me using their music apparently. Instead of redoing the video I'll just sum it up.
Captain America was a very good movie. It set up for the Avengers a lot. The characters were good and the special effects were fairly good. A few problems here and there but overall a good movie.
The Lord Of Dust - 8.5
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Hey /a/,
Da Hootch replied back to me! HE LIKED MY IDEA, I FEEL SO PROUD RIGHT NOW.
Made me chuckle, thanks.
Sweet jesus Hootch
>Hootch enjoys vore/hard vore
I'm not sure how I should feel about this
DaHooch is the hero we deserve
I'm looking forward to reading this tonight, but I feel like both his and your ends are boner killers.
Where is my vanilla ending, Da Hootch? Why can't I have it just once?
welcome to the 21st century
where you can email your favourite porn provider and have a calm, rational discussion, on what method a character would be eaten after being beaten and raped.
ShindoL is for the not crazy violent and depraved stuff.
That librarian one was pretty good.
Truly we live in a time of peace and prosperity.
Wheelchair girl?
I liked that one, except for the alien beast penis.
>Why can't I have it just once?
You had it more than once. Go read more doujins.
No no no you're doing this wrong.
Killing is a huge turn off in every possible way.
Mutilation is where its at.
I liked the one where the girl gets her uterus pulled out.
Not the sand-loli one, the other one.
and you didnt ask him to make more ranma's stuff
why, anon.... just why ?
>You will never be the girl in a Da Hootch work
Fuck, it hurts
And that eaten alive one sounds amazing
>Not the sand-loli one
Fag. That's the ultimate ShindoL doujin right behing TSF Monogatari..
If he did a Nibutani/dogfucking doujin with drugs and mindbreaking I would be happy as a clam
On the topic of bad fetishes, how do people feel about meme50 going off the deep end with all the scat and vomit?
Personally, I'm pretty butthurt.
Those aren't doujins.
>vore ending
I could get behind that. Though the doujin already did have a short scene with Link getting eaten by a Like Like. I'd like to see a piece by Shindol dealing with every, or at least most, of the enemies in a Zelda game. Ganon is kind of boring.
You shouldn't bring drugs into a pure love between a dog and his bitch.
You dumb? Its fatalpulse thats female. Hootch is an american male.
I'll never understand vorefags
I will never understand people that don't understand vorefags.
they predicted flying cars
we got porn
>scat and vomit
I will never understand the appeal.
You just don't understand the hunger.
I'll never understand parachute pants.
That being said I have gotten aroused at the idea of knocking a person unconscious and eating them. But that was after a night of ether and heavy drinking so take it with a grain of salt.
There was one dahootch dominion about a nun in an orphanage. Started off with her playing baseball with a cross. What happened to that? There are only 2 chapters on Saxons last I checked.
Pretty bad. I read that Tenryuu doujin and fapped to it, because of the heat of battle, but those fetishes are so shitty (pun).
> dominion
Fucking autocorrect
It's degrading. So utterly degrading. It's disgusting.
That in itself is appealing.
I felt it was rather deep commentary on how Kancolle is like shit and vomit.
I know Barrier Free but didn't hear of that. Vanilla too? I need something to help me waiting for translations of the Zelda doujin.
That one was funny as HELL.
People seriously get off to this shit? Jesus...
mfw never will be the utterly abused girls...
Easily one of the bests.
fetishes like these are 100% normal anon, you can't say anything if you like stuff like traps, etc...
I see. It's not my thing though.
He's so polite.
People are really this square? Jesus..
Real-talk, though.
Fetishes are seriously just fetishes. If you get if to ryona, who cares. It's not a problem until you go out beating women to death, and that is far, far outside of the norm. Those people are fucked up in other, deeper ways.
I wish he did another collaboration with Lilith, Monster Survive was pretty good.
pls no.
Being turned on by death is quite different from being turned on by a feminine boypussy.
>Skull crushing ending
Is daHootch an /a/non? No, right?
Ahhhh such heaven, I want to be made to roll in my filth like a pig..
>Da Hootch thread
Truly worse than Hitler
It seems like pure bliss
its his 2nd lilith gig.
he's bound to get another job
>Not understanding the great pleasures from vore
I thought Da Hootch was a circle?
>missing the point of my post
literally every thread with stuff like inflation/scat/vore/guro fetishes make you notice those people are fucked up in the head just by the way they type, its like there's some fine line between normal fetishes and fucked up shit
stuff like liking stockings, or leglocking is tame as fuck and normalfag tier, ntr and shit is more anon tier
when you masturbate to your waifu getting forcefed with camel cum until she explodes so you can masturbate using her guts
thats when you know that person is fucked, even by /a/'s standarts
yall niggas need jesus
MmMm what I'd give to become retarded from punishing gangbang sex
Has this shit been uploaded yet?
>fans of shitty moe anime with no storyline have shitty tier fetishes
as expected
>into hard vore
>did a Joshiraku doujin
I hope he doesn't go back to Joshiraku. At least not with that mentality.
it is. shindol is the artist.
with one man circles it doesn't matter much what you refer to them as
>stuff like liking stockings, or leglocking is tame as fuck
There have been countless serial killers that were known of killing women to steal their stockings and shoes since they had a foot fetish
A circle can consist of a single person. I think it might be for publication reasons or some shit.
Eroquis/Butcha-U is another example of a single man circle.
I really like the accuracy of detail he put into the muscle structure, for harapan master ever day is back and arm day at the gym.
I'm kinda interested in vore, what's the appeal? How does it get you guys off?
>comic sans
Is this a new fetish? Because, seriously, what the fuck.
Oh boy, seems like you haven't spent much time on NicoNico.
The digestion does me in, the prey trying to survive, as the predator enjoys every moment of the victim's demise, just so their digested bodies becomes delicious fat and other remains to be reduced to waste.
Depends on the kind. In the case of things like OPs descriptions, it's being degraded to be just some meat - literally.
Depends on the person. Some like the idea of total domination, others see it as a form of bondage, and then there are those who get off on the guro factor (assuming said Guro is actually drawn or heavily implied). I've noticed a couple of Japanese artists get into it because they see it as the first step to "tentacle walls" or those fleshy, organic environments so popular in tentacle hentai.
Foot fetishists are on a lower tier than hardcore guro, scat and vomit to me.
1.you look at it
2.you fap and cum
I don't get it. I am on NicoNico right now.
but that doesnt make sense, judging by that you'd get off on lions hunting zebras
not on cartoonish anatomy
Why is her eye a clock?
Really cute shit.
There's a difference between soft vore and hard vore, idiot
would love to discuss these nasty things more <spoiler>over skype or email...</spoiler>
>No reaction image
I'll abuse you if you stop posting like a retard.
This seems to be the easiest way to proceed.
there's a deep seated desire reaching back to your most ancient of ancestors. watching their kin devoured by ferocious beasts. the fear of seeing these horrific acts before them and the pleasure of knowing they will live another day. it's a blissful mix of masochism and sadism.
it's the bleeding edge of carnal knowledge.
Why isn't yours?
Vore isn't just one thing, there's tons of different vore, some involves swallowing, there's vore that enjoys chewing which means eating the flesh.
A lot of people enjoy the swallowing
>tfw you like ntr, mind-break, public-use and drugs but can't into vore
why /a/ why?
How do you mess up spoilers that bad?
I-I'm sorry...
I don't mean to come off as condescending but as this point is his shit any different than guro?
Vore and the rest of the fetishes you mentioned are not related, really.
then explain the difference between your two shitty autistic fetishes anon
and chek my dubs
Sasuga ShindoL. I love you OP.
He's probably a newfag.
Because fetishes.
A lot of people like feet but they don't do a thing for me, and no matter how well someone explains why it gets them off I doubt I'll ever understand.
If you didn't say your post in such an autistic way I would but just use google to learn it yourself
Well, he did tastefully cut away from showing the actual gore.
Lurk More.
unless you are a faaaag
ITT: Edgy manchildren
>any different than guro?
It has better art.
If you're talking about vore it depends. If it ends with digestion then chances are it'll fall into the guro category. If it's like how ShindoL portrayed it (Link gets swallowed and spit out later, intact) then I don't think it really qualifies.
According to another faggot who did the same (probably the same person) it's like they do it in some forum, possibly reddit.
Vomit bro here.
Unlike footfags, I realize my fetish is seen as too strange and perverse for general audiences and even for many /a/nons so I don't bring it up unless prompted. I've met footfags in real life that bring that shit up out of nowhere, to women even and it always strikes me how they really believe people will think it's normal and not off-putting as fuck.
I'd never tell a girl she has a pretty mouth and that I'd love to stick my fingers down her throat and make her gag until her stomach is empty. I don't even want to but foot fetishist can't shut up about how they love heels/sole/sucking toes/etc. in public.
The faces are so contorted it passes the point where I can find them attractive.
You realize you are in the thread now too, right?
>and it always strikes me how they really believe people will think it's normal and not off-putting as fuck.
Foot fetishism has been in the top 5 fetishes for centuries.
vanilla fag here
fuck off
>tfw you're running out of gigantic-breast irrumatio mind break doujins
Agreed but with one caveat: cum-vomit is hot as hell.
>tfw always self insert into them
I have once read how foot fetishim make sense, apparently the foot shape goes to remind that of a Vagina, if this is true I wonder if these people either are very confused or suffer a neurological disease, but then, it cant be just that, if people like to not just look at the plant of the feet, still the idea of fapping to it seems, boring, what does that has to do with sex?
No one's trying to impress anyone with how edgy they are, this is simply a calm rational discussion of our fetishes. If you feel uncomfortable or have nothing to contribute then perhaps this isn't the thread for you.
>Scat and vomit
Love it. There really isn't any good stuff out there.
>On the topic of bad fetishes, how do people feel about meme50 going off the deep end with all the scat and vomit?
Vomit is hot as fuck and those doujins are hot as fuck as long as you don't look at the scat.
But it's still a fetish and still a sexual thing. You don't tell someone you just met or barely know how much you love DFCs and that her flat chest is lovely and you want to listen to her heartbeat. Footfags tell women how much feet turn them on and what they like about them all the time. I heard a coworker saying this to a couple female coworkers after he had just started there less than a week ago.
They have the false impression that since feet aren't seen as sexual objects that it's okay to talk about them in a sexual manner to relative strangers.
It depends on the kind of vore, but as for the kind I like, there's a lot of elements that put it together. It's mostly a dominance thing, as most fetishes can be boiled down to. As a little kid, before I even realized what sex or sexuality were, I used to fantasize about being a mouseboy hunted down, toyed with, and swallowed up by a catgirl, or being trapped in a spidergirl's web while she wrapped me up tight and got ready to eat me. I think probably anybody who likes femdom can get into vore at least a little bit, provided it's the right kind. There's just something erotic about being threatened and then selfishly used.
ShindoL is right though, eaten alive is the best kind, hard vore is really just guro and it's more likely to appeal to guro fans than soft vore fans.
Scat is so great, I just enjoy the girls taking large dumps
>"Are you cold? Let grandma shit on you to warm you up"
>living Poo golems
>that giant, fat ass and hairy anus
Probably my favorite scat doujin of all time.
Yeah, feetfags tend to be sort of autistic and not understand that they're creepy as shit.
Like, I love feet, but I'd never bring it up in a conversation with someone like that.
Apparently the center of pleasure in the brain is quite close to the part that controls the muscles of the feet, some people confuse these signals
Now let's see if I'll get a reply back from Kamino Ryu-ya.
Source? Choking is awesome
>meme50 going off the deep end with all the scat and vomit
Uh-oh, I hadn't heard about this. meme50's one of my favorites but scat and vomit are two of the only fetishes I can't stand at all.
>vorefags thinking they are hot shit
>can't handle hardcore hand holding in the missionary position
guys i need some good mindbreak stuff
how do you feel about loli mindbreak?
Lucky bitches
Link dying at the end made me sad ;_;
>tfw you will never fill your waifu's belly with your cum until she projectile vomits
That is good
This is what a normalfag is to me, not someone who doesn't have a waifu, likes 3DPD, doesn't like moe.
daily reminder this is da hootch
Woah, off with your deviant shit.
Great shoop
Seems 100% legit.
it's actually very bad and we're very bad people for enjoying it.
newfags gonna new
You're a monster..
>Still trying this hard
Please stop, it's a dead horse and you're getting off on beating it.
It's a joke image, the Hootch is a fat Japanese guy
I saw him before
Never judge anyone on a fetish
Until they start doing illegal shit and hurt people
It's an amazing time to be alive.
>fat japanese guy
>from new york
no such thing
Seriously I know you're trying to be funny but it's retarded
Now if only we had holodecks.
I remember watching his stream and I thought it was just a lot of semen until he started adding in the details.
God damn. You better frame that.
I would go mad, in a good way.
Had you communicated via twitter, I would be more inclined to believe you
I don't know anon. It feels like he was there when you were planning to write him a letter and just replied to be a gentleman.
Also what's wrong with skull crushing? There was that work of another author that combined gore and vore and had the girls cooked, no one objected to that. I really think it was sexy and erotic in a way.
Does DaHootch really enjoy this kind of shit? The way he tries to come up with something horrifyingly new and disturbing endings everytime just gives me the impression that he wants to make his doujins unforgettable.
Pity that Shindol has increasing edgemaster tendencies like Fatalpulse. Snuff, guro and vore are just not my thing and even the violence in his Zelda doujin was something I looked past rather than enjoying it. I'm all for doujinshi showing womenfolk succumbing and worshiping at the altar of D, but Shindol tends to go over board a lot of times, at least from my POV. Pity, really. I wish he'd keep his doujinshi at the fetish level he uses for his regular h-manga.
You're crazy if you think your fetishes are somehow neatly compartmentalize-able and magically separate from who you are. If you find the idea of raping and abusing a small child erotic, then you have major psychological issues that need to be addressed.
Just because you don't actually hurt anyone doesn't mean you aren't fundamentally dysfunctional and broken. This kind of fantasy is not wholly separate from how you view the world, it is part of who you are, there's a reason it it appeals to you, an innate feeling of inferiority or inadequacy that seeks violent catharsis. It's a small and petty and bitter and horrific reaction to your anger at life that speaks to a very basic flaw in your character: you wish to inflict suffering on others for pleasure.
The best I can do is understand this and do my best to mitigate it on my own, constantly interrogating and analyzing my motives, because I'm too cowardly to seek treatment and too selfish to stop fantasizing about it. But if someone were to call me a monster, they would be essentially correct. The worst thing you can do is pretend you're somehow better than what you daily prove yourself to be.
Nothing is shopped about the email I sent him.
Guro isn't the same as vore btw.
That actually sounds fucking hilarious.
So? I'm fine being a monster. Everyone has skeletons in their closets anyways.
Not reading that wall of text, but thanks for the links. Lolicon and femdom always make for a good combination.
>Guro isn't the same as vore btw.
No one said it was
i saw this image on lit a few days back and i've been meaning to ask if hootch wrote an actual novel
You could have a dual personality, though. It's entirely possible that one side of your being is perfectly normal, and then a switch goes off and you become a mindbreak loli fetishist. Kinda like Gollum.
Feels bad man.
>have to keep pc porn free because three different groups of friends and relatives are visiting on three different days
>a fourth visit is planned the planned day of fap
How would you feel fucking a woman that actually does ahegao during sex? Do you think it'd be as hot with 3dpd?
>I don't believe you since Hootch said he doesn't like blood or guts, since must be the same as vore
>Yet Guro and Vore aren't the same at all
Yes you did
Fatalpulse is female? What the fuck? I thought he was a misogynist man.
No, it'd look stupid.
>Not encrypting all of your drives
>letting secondaries into your personal space
Are you 12 or something?
>tfw your favorite fetish is under represented
>tfw learning hiragana by reading hentai doijinshi every day
>tfw it's working
Hmm I kind of like these violent doujin, but IRL seeing with my own eyes? I doubt I would really like it, I have that feel that what I can't do is better for fappin'.
>>I don't believe you since Hootch said he doesn't like blood or guts, since must be the same as vore
Your proof is a sentence you made up
Just .rar the files with a password, if someone ask about it say that you were trying to discover the password because you couldn't remember.
Someone post his four leaf lover email chain from a few years ago.
And now you're mad
But that's fine, I have a special fetish for butthurt so please continue
>using rar
7zip, rar is obsolete.
Buy an ext HDD, encrypt it, voila.
It is?
You shouldn't have winrar installed either.
This isn't 2005.
>You will never have a waifu who belongs to you completely and loves it when you fuck her mouthpussy.
Feels awful man.
Isn't this the same as saying people who play CoD enjoy killing people?
>And now you're mad
What is it like in the Land of Make Believe?
>So? I'm fine being a monster.
I wonder if you're really fine with it or just saying so.
Perhaps so. A fantasy will probably always be more extreme than reality, and yet it contains the kernel of what you desire. You enjoy the prospect of making someone else hurt, of degrading someone -- do you ever wonder how that urge expresses itself in your day to day life? Even in small ways? Something to think about.
Everyone has their fucked up side true, but there is something much deeper-seated here.
I accidentally linked the same thing twice in my last post, I meant to link this.
You dare question our lord and saviour?
That's it keep getting mad, you're only giving me a throbbing boner within these red shorts
what are you, autistic? how the fuck do you fags even notice this shit?!
I would say the depiction of violence in our culture has become as extreme and therefore worrying as our porn has. I have to question the kind of mind that enjoys a Saw movie, for instance. And if nothing else CoD is apologism for the United States military-industrial complex, and I reflexively dislike propaganda.
People have always played cops-and-robbers style fake wargames though. From an evopsych perspective we can attribute it to the same sort of reasoning behind why lion cubs in the same pride will spar, etc. -- it's our animal side's mental preparation for a real conflict -- as shitty as it is, bloodsport satisfies some innate human impulse.
A ShinoL doujin isn't bloodsport though, it's sexual torture, and there's nothing natural about enjoying torture.
>Do you think it'd be as hot with 3dpd?
Nothing is how with 3DPD, that's why it's 3DPD.
But for some weird reason I always make myself think 7zip is bad
You tell me, anon.
ill just leave this here for future generations
He's done vomit before.
Don't be angry just because you posted an easily shopped email.
But winrar is what's bad.
>father is Japanese, mother is American
Not this shit again.
You guys, pain hurts.
blame wiki
That's it anon, give me something to fap to. Give me your full butthurt, I'm close to creaming myself
>that photoshopped image of that girl
But she's Japanese-American
Love hurts. Love scars.
shidoL is whoever you want it to be
I want ShindoL to be an incredibly perverted mother of three who is raising her children to be cumdumps for her husband and all his friends.
>In an interview, Shindo has cited Takeda Hiromitsu as a manga artist who served as an influence for him, and they have met before.
What do upstanding gentlement like ShindoL and Takeda Hiromitsu do when they meet?
It was the first thing I noticed
Fatalpulse isn't female either.
Cannabis is the female one
>rar gigabytes of porn
No thanks.
Every ero-mangaka and doujinka is female.
I kind of know how you feel, OP. After Mogra New Year I asked one of the DJ's if they were gonna upload their set.
He said no but I was excited that he replied anyway.
They're also all 12.
>mfw morally ok with fapping to gore
>dick wont let me
>stomach turns when intense stuff happens
sure sucks being me
I'll fap to the mos brutal mindbreak but my dick wilts at the first sight of blood. Even the little trickle of deflowering. I just can't deal with it.
who does the best scat doujins?
Thom Yorke.
You seem like a good and smart anon, but don't be so hard on yourself. Just continue to criticize/question/understand. And you're obviously too self-critical to ever get to the point of inflicting this on others, so you're not quite one of the "monsters" this poor world has actually seen.
Man it wouldve been better if shindol just went with femlink getting impaled on ganons dick watching as the intestines and stomach gets pushed out violently along with the signature cum explosion from hell
best would imply quality, no one that can draw draws autistic fetishes, this is only bad ones exist
a shame really, look at mlp or anything furry related.
autists dont worry about spending tons of cash on shit that makes their dick hard since they cant control their dosh
>can only fap to rape once the victim(s) start enjoying it
>like this because friend of mine was raped
life is suffer
Recently saw a jav where an ero-mangaka got fucked, some of her stuff is even on exhentai.
Huh, I thought that was fake.
hahaha oh god, i love that crazy bastard.
havent checked out the fem link thing yet though...soooo THANKS YOUR SPOILING THE ENDING OP! YOU ASS!
pls go and stay go
Get out
vomit is fine, but the scat is a little too much.
>citation needed
does the font really bother you that much?
Comic Sans looks like squiggled shit stains.
Do artist ask where did you read his work?
I don't mail artist because I feel bad about that.
Hey the only reason you are not out there killing people is that you can do violent things to fictional people.
There is nothing negative about those impulse. I fully embrace the "survival of the fittest" mentality. To survive you have to be strong, and you get stronger with conflict and violence.
Lazy ass normalfag dont have this impluse or think negative of them because they are normal.
It's better to satisfy those impulse than letting them build up.
>I have to question the kind of mind that enjoys a Saw movie
It's not just about the gore you know. Jigsaw took a bunch of lazy ungrateful fuck, strap them onto a deathtrap and teach them about the value of being alive. Kind of like an extreme Tyler Durden. If you survive Saw's game, you will treasure every second you are alive, never waste time again.
Kaitou Pink
to name 2
How do I get sadpanda to work on Android /a/?
That is really fucked up.
Also my dick is rock hard.
feels fucking bad, man
download the files to computer and read them from device, or remote desktop.
I couldn't get it to work normally for me
>Hey the only reason you are not out there killing people is that you can do violent things to fictional people.
That's not true at all. People weren't rampantly murdering each other before vidya existed, nor did vidya eradicate murder. Humans have always had outlets for violent impulses and those impulses have never meant that people "really" want to murder someone.
>the rest of your post
Get out /v/ermin
>tfw I can never summoned enough strngth to email NaPaTa.
Jigsaw's "live life to the fullest" motive is a flimsy excuse to help the audience justify to themselves why they enjoy the movie. If the characters learn some kind of moral at the end (no matter how trite or silly) then everything is all right: all's well that ends well. But that's fucking retarded. You may as well teach someone not to procrastinate by chopping off their legs. Have you ever heard the phrase "a cure worse than the disease?"
Anyway, people don't really enjoy those movies because of the killer's motives, they enjoy them because they get to see a person's insides become their outsides, repeatedly, in many varied ways.
So the only reason masochists don't hurt themselves is because they can fap to femdom?
that NaPaTa face is too cute
Shadow the Hedgehog is possible to enjoy unironically.
Bring it.
Is this new? I don't remember this one.
Enjoying something ironically is still enjoying something. Therefore, to enjoy something ironically is the same as enjoying something unironically.
Shadow the Hedgehog can legitimately be enjoyed as a game and guro is the second absolute most bottom of the barrel shit tier fetish in all the omniverse only surpassed by diapers.
>I fully embrace the "survival of the fittest" mentality. To survive you have to be strong, and you get stronger with conflict and violence.
One problem with this is it leads to a kind of justification of isolationism. Is violence necessary as a means of survival where you live? I'm not trying to ask facetiously, but if you have the luxury of chatting on an anime message board I would assume you don't live in quite a survivalist, cutthroat environment. As for conflict, well yeah I admire anyone who has courage to face "conflict", but conflict is an extremely broad term and we need to make use of our cerebral cortex every now and then to see it's not worth it (like getting into a petty fight with someone when the only issue at stake is pride).
>Lazy ass normalfag dont have this impluse or think negative of them because they are normal.
Well, I think you're arbitrarily dividing yourself from others here. The "us and them" mentality is definitely not usual but doesn't do much more than fuel prejudices.
Oh shit
in response to
>Have you ever heard the phrase "a cure worse than the disease?"
Normal people will often avoid pain and conflict, but for those who get it, pain really is a cure.
I wouldn't argue seriously about Saw beside its idea though, because they really did take it too far with the gore
>they enjoy them because they get to see a person's insides become their outsides, repeatedly, in many varied ways.
of course. It was fucking hilarious if you ask me.
>any doujin artist female
Yeah we have alot fucked up people in the world. Da hootch being one of them.
Choking is fine within its limits, but skull crushing? Seek help /a/nons.
>Normal people will often avoid pain and conflict, but for those who get it, pain really is a cure.
Please. I bet the most pain you've ever experienced personally is stubbing a toe that was already stubbed.
Can't say I'm a fan of vomit, but I like the way a big hard log of shit gapes a lady's rear.
>not the most pathetic fetish in the history of mankind
Isn't this just the guro equivalent of the ancient, debunked loli=pedo belief?
I'd take vomit over shit any day.
>debunked loli=pedo belief
I find both quite erotic and lewd but vomit gets me diamonds like no other.
>stubbing a toe that was already stubbed
Seriously, you guys are really crossing the line now.
I hope you actually bought his doujin, OP.
He seems like a cool guy.
Not enough vomit works out there, its been fantastic.
Figures DaHootch would give it a bad end. I was hoping for something good, but now I know to avoid it like the plague, thanks Anon.
>Is violence necessary as a means of survival where you live?
no, but i do martial art. Not that i need to hurt anyone, it just that i need some good stretching after sitting 8 hours a day at work.
It's simple to discipline the body and the mind.
>The "us and them" mentality is definitely not usual but doesn't do much more than fuel prejudices.
If anything, i've already been judged because i watch chinese cartoon on lunch break.
I like how he doesn't fuck around, second page and link got brutally raped.
>that image
Holy shit. It takes things like this to remind me just how vanilla my tastes really are.
So can anybody answer this? Why on earth is glasses considered one of the most deviant of fetishes in japan?
I don't get it.
This is something I will never, ever, get
>last page happy ending
>oh well, at least it got a happy ending
To me, it corresponds to this >>100942902
ExLinks ain't found shit, can you help me out?
I met not one, two translators (one in all sorts of deviant stuff like the op thing) and a vanilla as fuck one, neither will touch meganekko.
Why? I ain't got a fucking clue.
There's something satisfying in overcoming overwhelming odds. Like Taimanin Asagi. Holy shit man, under normal circumstances, there's no way I would enjoy something like that. But hey, happy ending? Fuck yes, good stuff now.
That's why I don't like RanSem, no fucking happy ending.
>Shibuya Rin
Yes. Even in the darkness of ShindoL, Vanilla still shines through.
Although, I did like Shins Emergence douijin.
Wow, so those anime where the MC has porn mags with glasses girls are considered super hardcore? Do glasses represent purity or something?
>If anything, i've already been judged because i watch chinese cartoon on lunch break.
Hah, well I'll give you credit for enjoying your chinese cartoon hobby in public, much better than hearing about anons having mental breakdowns from their parents/siblings finding out.
I am honestly not sure whether this is just a longstanding cultural running gag, or if people who like glasses are really considered that weird.
I mean isn't it natural to like something that accentuates someone's eyes, which is arguably a person's greatest feature?
I always use Comic Sans when want to imply a "fuck you" to the reader.
Wish he could do one with Satsuki from Kill la kill. I'd bet tons of peps would get turned on by it. Make bank
>that gif
What is this from? I'm feeling randy tonight
>handpicked, purchased and archived 135+ volumes of glassed girl picture
>Just plain glasses picture, not even nudity
do you go to this extreme length for your fetish ? I dont fucking think so.
What part is this from?
IIRC the terribly shocking thing in a LS scene was that Konata said aloud that her email was "Meganekko".
I think it might be the tennis episode where she gets flipped upside down on the spikes.
It's one of the early episodes I'm sure.
No, the camera perspective is wrong. It has to be from the tournament.
No serious scientific evidence as to what you're implying, just like there's no evidence that playing violent videogames or watching violent movies will actually make you act violent in real life.
Long story short, that's one hell of a long rationalization you've got there.
Reading through this thread was interesting because I always wanted to know what the appeal was in gore scat vomit and shit like that.
I personally cant stomach nor get aroused by any of those things.
What I truly find incredibly sexy and one thing that gets me really hard is when the girl/guy in question is enjoying it all, he or she may not at start but slowly giving in to his or her body... that transition is very important and imo and can make or break it for me.
I fap daily so needles to say my orgasms don't feel as powerful as when I hold it in for a couple days, that's why I appreciate it when the artist takes his time and doesn't just rush things.
This aspect can be found in many fetishes, ntr mindbreak femdom etc etc
it is everywhere but it rarely is done ''right''.
Some examples of artists that do it right imo are Carn, Kotobuki Utage and lately I've been really enjoying some of Freehand's works.
>What is this from?
I honestly don't know.
I wish there was more than 2 episodes of that show
It's so fucking lewd without being straight up hentai, it has the right amount of production with gratuitous sex stuff.
>yfw more animation budget right there than in the entirety of most KlK episodes
They blew all the budget on rainbow dicks.
>Kaitou Pink
Mind if I have some video proof of that? For science.
>tfw large dick worship fetish
>tfw have it because you have a big dick and not because you are a beta cuckold fag
>tfw ball worship fetish
>tfw have it because sucking and kissing balls looks super fun
You mean the guy that has like a 20in dick and then receives a blowjob from his girlfriend's mother while he gets a hot kiss. Fuck I'm hard already.
>how do people feel about meme50 going off the deep end with all the scat and vomit?
W-What? I'm sad now.
wut da fug
Is Hootch a Murrikan?
>Draws hentai for a living in Japan
>Extremely skilled at it
>Better at Ahegao than most japanese
>Sexualizes Yotsuba and doesn't afraid of anything
>Really cool with the fans and isn't a bitch about piracy
>Sexy blonde with enormous tits
Is there anything Shindo L aka Da Hootch can't do?
Wait, what?
What, wait?
Kids who don't follow releases, didn't see his DMC Lady doujin and now act surprised when they went for Precure and found what was already common for meme50.
>he doesn't know ShindoL is American
newfags general
Anon pls, that stuff was light in the Lady series. These Kancolle whores puke like they have an unlimited well of stomach acid to draw from.
It was not only gross but looked fucking retarded
>Shitty shoop using ugly porn star
Anon, please stop lying
I always read the first half of his doujins that cater to.. extreme fetishes.
Usually they're fairly vanilla till then. Really wish he did more vanilla shit. Fuck you weird fetishists.
she's at least 7.5/10
There's edgy, sharp edgy, edgy edgy. At the end of the day, they're all the same shit.
>At the end of the day, they're all the same shit.
Yeah, words bastardized by the internet to mean "things I don't like"
No, fuck you normalfag scum.
I read doujinshi for the story.
>All these tryhards acting all deviant so that they can fit in
How pathetic. You guys couldn't even handle Quzilax' loli rape
>she's at least 7.5/10
What's average according to your tastes then?
>These Kancolle whores puke like they have an unlimited well of stomach acid to draw from
Where can I find this?
>gross but looked fucking retarded
Opinions, friend. Opinions.
I really can't get into the more extreme fetishes no matter how hard I try. Like this http://exhentai.org/g/554988/604253a11a/
When I read that, I just felt so shitty inside and I was downright depressed for the rest of the day. Maybe it'll come to me someday, but for now I try to avoid it.
I absolutely adore exhibitionism but I read this more for the story and it pains me to see shit like that happening.
How? She was into it and there wasn't even NTR considering the guy is just friends with her.
Did you read the previous chapters?
since there is no sadpanda thread Imma link this here
Read 2 previous and then the ending.
I'm now more confused especially since they talk about ending their "relationship" when the guy finds a girl but then there's talk of them getting married with another girl being the mistress.
Other than that the girl just seems to like masturbating in front of people and being coerced into sex.
If ShindoL is from New York, then why doesn't he release english versions of his doujins as well?
Who's gonna buy them in Japan?
Folks on vacation during Comiket?
Americans stationed at Airforce Bases?
/a/nons living the dream?
That's sure to turn a profit...
I almost broke my dick when I first downloaded that one.
Goddammit Suwako makes me diamonds by herself, but throw in Sanae. Its ogre.
>mfw I read it, everytime.
>tank full of shit I've already cum at
>not even in english
The one is for some color shit out of photoshop.
Go read a different artist, dumbfuck.
Feels great not being a fucking pleb.
Has this been uploaded anywhere besides Panda?
My plugin stopped working like a month ago and I'm a lazy fuck.
>Needing a plugin to access sadpanda.
I'll never understand this. I could even access it easily on my phone.
Going through a few now and there was 1 decent vomit scene but then she does it again and it just feels forced. Read the KanColle one and all the vomit scenes there felt forced as well. He needs to learn some moderation. Is he losing fans and trying to cater to a niche or something?
man what the fuck did I just fap to?
Dat line at comiket for Hootch's new shit. That reaction on the web later on.
in my opinion, it would be better if zelda busted out, killed Ganon, and vanilla female link
Anyone here all ready commission someone to translate it? Anyone know if a circle is in the process of translating it?


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Some may call 2011 a weak year for film, and as any good film fan knows, this is false. It was a weak year for the blockbuster, with hardly a single standout. However, from a different perspective, 2011 was an incredible year for film. The independent and foreign scene delivered us some true classics that will be remembered for years to come. It is also from the independent and foreign scene that we had a genre stand out, and that is, surprisingly, the horror genre.
Of course, it would be easy to glance over 2011's horror output and see nothing remarkable. The great horror films this year did not come from the major studios but rather from some of the most unlikely places.
Critics, audiences and studios alike have a tendency of re-categorizing critically acclaimed horror films as anything but. It is an issue with the genre, and has been one since the early days of film. The genre is not respected alongside the other major genres, and is often mislabelled as to help it out during the awards season. This can mask the great pieces of cinema being made within the horror genre, some more obvious than others.
This happens typically with auteur filmmakers, who working within any genre push the boundaries and make films so different that they are hard to classify. Auteurs who work under the horror genre have an even bigger issue, as horror more than any other genre seems to have a strict set of guidelines. When a film pushes those boundaries, critics and distributors often label it as another genre. This happened with Darren Aronofsky's 2010 critically acclaimed film, Black Swan.
Three of arguably the best films of the year fall under the category of horror, but due to both the content and the filmmakers behind each film, they have been categorized as dramas, thrillers and so on. Pedro Almodovar's brilliantly-twisted The Skin I Live In is an example of a horror film that due to style and approach, is ignored as a true horror film. Featuring a story more disturbing than most horror films, The Skin I Live In is a horrifying film. It does not jump out at you and say boo, but rather like most good horror films, it creates a mood that slowly unsettles you until it unwraps entirely.
Like The Skin I Live In, another of 2011's best horror films has the subject matter of a typical horror film, but delivers the story in a much more effective, original and disturbing way. Lynne Ramsay's We Need To Talk About Kevin has the basic horror concept of your average "evil child" film, however, this film is unlike any horror film you will ever see. Told in an entirely nonlinear fashion, Ramsay crafts a story about paranoia and a bad seed that has haunted me ever since the credits rolled. The naturalistic shooting style of Ramsay combined with the great performances adds a level of realism to this film that has made many argue it is not a horror film.
Realism and horror are two elements that rarely mix, and they will often throw viewers off. This is one of the reasons why Ben Wheatley's Kill List is often mislabelled. The film opens like a British kitchen sink drama, that feels almost documentary-like in its depiction of a broken household. However, it slowly descends into a film so full of tension and discomfort that I left the theatre completely and utterly horrified. It was one of the few films that have left me a complete mess and is a true testament to why working outside the box can lead to true originality under genres often labelled as repetitive.
Horror, like any genre, has its ups-and-downs. It is a shame that audiences so rarely embrace the great pieces of the horror genre and instead eat up the cookie cutter crap that fills the cineplexes. Some may argue that if critics and audiences embrace a horror film, it does not matter whether they label it as such. And while that is true to a point, it is still disappointing to see an entire genre so regularly dismissed as is horror. It is our job as both film fans and horror fans to label these films correctly and give the genre the respect it so clearly deserves.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post6041131757612110425..comments2017-12-04T23:17:36.423-08:00Comments on Notes from a Common-place Book: "Are We Rome?" DiscussionJohnhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-23817061557861130932007-10-04T10:32:00.000-07:002007-10-04T10:32:00.000-07:00Brian, I agree with most of what you say. There w...Brian, I agree with most of what you say. There was indeed considerable transformation of the Empire between Constantine's time and the reign of Justinian. But the people viewed themselves as the unbroken continuation of Rome--though their self-image may have been as delusional as our own!

I do disagree about Byzantium being just a regional power after the 7th century. In the mid 11th century, they were bumping up against Armenia--and of course their disaster at Manzikert in 1071 was in far eastern Anatolia. In the mid 12th century, they had a presence in southern Italy, and almost a successful reabsorption into the Empire. Also during this century, they still retained Bulgaria, were able to call the shots as far away as Hungary, and had great influence in Rus. The Emperor's opinion still carried weight throughout Europe, and they remained a major player in European affairs. For example, Manuel I Komnenes and Henry II of England were great correspondents. Admittedly, much of this interaction was a by-product of the Crusades. I would not assign them "regional power" status until 1204.

I am in total agreement with your last paragraph. I don't expect any sudden collapse. We have great staying power. But you are exactly right--our policies and actions have consequences. Like you, I do not expect our territorial integry to last the century, nor perhaps our particular form of government. Both are considered inviolate in this country. But unless you have a tight-knit, homogeneous population, living on an island, then history just doesn't work that way.Johnhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-26282203663338038052007-10-04T07:57:00.000-07:002007-10-04T07:57:00.000-07:00Even if we consider the Byzantine Empire as the co...Even if we consider the Byzantine Empire as the continuation of Rome, that Empire still never regained the hegemony of the former state centered in Rome proper, though briefly under Justinian it captured much of its former territory. Also, the old Roman polity was essentially exhausted long before that time, and ultimately was replaced by the theme system,.

By the time of the Arab advances in the 7th century, Byzantium was thereafter limited to being a regional power whose core territory was the southern Balkans and Anatolia. By the 13th century, Byzantium was a minor state well on its way to oblivion.

Parallels can be drawn with Spain and Britain, still-prosperous states which have only a tiny fraction of their previous influence. Who knows how long they will last with their eroding native populations?

I don't think many expect the USA to collapse into a facsimile of some African feral state any time soon, but clearly hegemony such as ours is fleeting, and the dawn of the 22nd century likely will bring to light a chastened, diminished USA. Our political and cultural choices have consequences, and the day of reckoning is bound to come. In addition, there is no guarantee our Constitutional form of government will endure, nor even our territorial integrity will remain unsplintered. When these things are taken for granted is when their seeming impenetrability is firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-33947143850793645782007-09-30T20:40:00.000-07:002007-09-30T20:40:00.000-07:00Ooooh, Theron, thank you for that link. I shall be...Ooooh, Theron, thank you for that link. I shall be listening to them.Mimihttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-91496772095185045462007-09-30T16:59:00.000-07:002007-09-30T16:59:00.000-07:00ad orientem, of course the secular POV is the only...ad orientem, of course the secular POV is the only way one would ever consider the US a "4th Rome." As you note, there have been other world empires that have had 300-400 year runs. I guess my main point is that the Roman Empire, didn't really "fall" in the 5th century. It had already shifted to the East, where it carried on for another 1,000 years. And the Wes, went through a rough, turbulent transformation, certainly, as it absorbed the Goths, but didn't really totally collapse per the popular perception (as depicted by the 2 over-the-top paintings in the original post.)Johnhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-4130350088557293302007-09-30T15:25:00.000-07:002007-09-30T15:25:00.000-07:00I think the 4th Rome concept is a bit silly. The ...I think the 4th Rome concept is a bit silly. The concept of Third Rome (Moscow) was more of a religious idea based on Russia being the only major Orthodox Christian nation after the fall of New Rome in 1453. A lot of Russians still rankle at the canonical status of the Patriarch of Constantinople (with maybe a few thousand Christians left in his dwindling flock) as Primus inter Pares among Orthodox hierarchs. America just does not fit into that picture.

From a more secular POV we are ignoring other great empires that have come and gone, sometimes in the historical equivalent to the blink of an eye. The Spanish Empire lasted until the end of the 19th century. But the British Empire really came and went in less than three centuries. All of them had their own peculiar characteristics in their imperial rise and fall.Ad Orientemhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-77494373614572964032007-09-28T19:13:00.000-07:002007-09-28T19:13:00.000-07:00Good point, scylding. We hear much in our public ...Good point, scylding. We hear much in our public discourse about our greatness. If a civilization is truly great, it will be largely self-evident, and there will no need to constantly proclaim it.

lucian--that's apparently what some would have us believe...Johnhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-58123660202164815212007-09-28T15:39:00.000-07:002007-09-28T15:39:00.000-07:00So ... "The Fourth Rome Theory", huh? :-)So ... "The Fourth Rome Theory", huh? :-)firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-85900578090201122672007-09-28T14:35:00.000-07:002007-09-28T14:35:00.000-07:00My own favourite (tongue firmly in cheek?) comment...My own favourite (tongue firmly in cheek?) comment is that all civilisations go through 3 stages: Barbarism, Greatness, decadence. America missed the middle stage.....The Scyldinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-55357060884550509082007-09-28T09:34:00.000-07:002007-09-28T09:34:00.000-07:00Thanks, theron. I look forward to listening to th...Thanks, theron. I look forward to listening to them.Johnhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-26475130340646495952007-09-28T04:54:00.000-07:002007-09-28T04:54:00.000-07:00John,You may have found these already, but here ar...John,

You may have found these already, but here are several well-done podcasts on 12 Byzantine Emperors.

http://www.anders.com/lectures/lars_brownworth/12_byzantine_rulers/Theronhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-84012276210899942092007-09-27T19:03:00.000-07:002007-09-27T19:03:00.000-07:00I'm feeling a little better every day. Thanks for...I'm feeling a little better every day. Thanks for asking.Johnhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-56293928125218489162007-09-27T16:06:00.000-07:002007-09-27T16:06:00.000-07:00Hum. That's an interesting question, and I have to...Hum. That's an interesting question, and I have to say I agree with your answer.

Off to put that book on my Wish List at PBS.

How are you feeling?Mimihttps://email@example.com