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When I checked you were #29.  Sorry.  I guess once you peak, the only way to go is down.

Still.  You're number 1 in my "anal + guzzo" searches, and always will be.

I love getting slag for Christmas.  Sure beats all them Hotwheels!  

And speaking of hasty conclusions...who implied I'm human?  I'm (at least) part squid.

Which part?

Ask Mods.  

Thanks, I'm glad you all liked it.  

I'm probably going to do a New Year's one, as well.

In case you couldn't tell, Guitarman cartoons will become a regular feature of the site...so look forward to many longer ones...as well as some more shorts.

But anyway, this project of mine really IS AGS related...because...remember how I've forsaken the PC in favor of the dignified Macintosh?  Well, AGS doesn't run on Mac, but obviously Flash DOES...

So I do have plans to resolve the Larry Vales story, just in a different media.  Yet I'm not sure if Larry is to be integrated into the Guitarman universe, or if he will just get a series of cartoons on his own.

But I'm very glad you all liked it.  It was my first project with Flash so it's not perfect...but all in good time, eh?

Hello everyone.  As some of you know I've been devoting a lot of free time lately to pooping around with Shockwave Flash (version 4.2; only the best for Mr. Vales!) and...well...

Long story short, Guitarman:  The Animated Series is now under construction.  

So I present for you, you who have inspired my creativity through Vales feedback, and helped with my website, and even integrated Guitarman into the RON universe...

Here is my Xmas offering to all of you; Guitarman's first animated short.  www.phil-reed.com/xmas.swf

I hope you all enjoy.  And clod best us, every one!

Okay, as I said, I got this from Pete's website...and I have something to say.

Pete's solution was this:
"If I were God, and I wanted to be fair, I'd feel I must cancel the train altogether.  God, I think, must be a little more creative than that, otherwise he'd never have thought of the need for irony in the first place."

And I must say that, DG, your solution was definitely more creative...right down to the Dalek.  Absolutely lovely.  If anyone else was in the room, I'd stand up and applaud you.

So long story short, you're my new God.  Want me to sacrifice anything?  I'm new to all this.

Okay, DG, riddle me this.

Two guys are heading for the station.

One is praying for the train to be on time because if it is late he will miss a vital flight connection and surely miss seeing his dying father in another country.

The other guy is praying the train will be late.  He is racing in a traffic-bound taxi to the station, travelling to see his dying father in a hospital and if he misses the train, he will not make it.

What does God do with the train?

(I borrowed this question from Pete Townshend's website, but I want to know your take on it, great and knowledgable one :-) )

So who wants to find me a free mac version and be a hero?

I can't run it on my new computer...but my brain is already re-addicted to the thing.  God bless TIM.

Hey, wait up...

Let me explain my "take that pedro" above.

Chris Jones had replied to the black/white penis questions with a handy dandy chart that mapped the average lengths of caucasions, african americans, asians and hispanics...hispanics being ranked favorably low...

So WHERE did the chart go?  Is Chris embarrased of his knowledge of minority genitalia?  Don't be, we're all friends her, and I want to needle some asians.

Take that, Pedro.

Maybe we should take up a collection.  If each one of us sends Rode ONE dvd, then he'll be back up to his collection of 50 in no time.  What's more, we can send him ones we don't like, so that he won't feel so bad if they get stolen again.

I'll contribute Raising Arizona.  It's not very funny and there aren't any special features, and if you like I can spill coffee on the snapcase.  Let me know.

If this is successful we can start a Pog-drive for Panda, too.

Many kisses!

Dear DG,

I used to visit these boards frequently, but have had a recent extended absence.  I've returned, but one of my old friends is asking me about turning one of his posts into a weekly Competition-like thing in the Comps and Activities thread.  I know that our forefathers died so that I'd have the right to vote, but I'm not sure what to do.

How should I vote?

--Mister P____

What are the chords to Cracklin' Rosie, and why am I always inaudible above the music when I sing that deep "Oh I love my Rosie child" part?

Part B:  Balls?

Thanks for all the feedback.  :-)  I am still around...in a way.  I lurk periodically...but since I haven't contributed anything to the AGS community in 3 years or so, I kind of shied away, not wanting to overstay my welcome.

And, as LGM mentioned, I'm a regular "Mac" daddy now...and I'm quite impressed by it.  I don't think I'll be swinging back toward the dark side any time soon...and I doubt there'd be much incentive for Chris to create a Mac-based version of AGS.  So I guess I can pretty much be counted out of the creative loop.

I'm glad you all seem to like the CD...I put it together so I can play at coffee shops around here.  Even though I've been playing every month at my college before an audience, they still need to hear a sample before you can come in and rock out.  I might try Borders and other places, too...but maybe not.  There's only so many people in the world who react favorably to Chickentrain, and three of them are on this forum.

The guys look old, I'll admit, but they still move like kids.  It's great to see a man in his late 50s still slamming away at the guitar like it's nothing at all...

Yeah, Entwistle's death hurt me a lot.  I thought it was a joke because I never got to see the Who, finally had tickets, and a friend tells me he died...it seemed too horrible to be real.

But the show was indeed fantastic.  And as far as favorite albums go, Quadrophenia is numero uno, followed maybe by Story of the Ghost and Blonde on Blonde.

This post may be a bit premature, I realize now, because I'm taking a lot more time with my chapters than I had previously.

But I'll still make it known when they're up for the viewing.

One of my literary styles, petaglair, is claw explode.

Good, I'm glad to see some volunteers.  It means a lot.  I'm looking for a pretty wide range of honest opinions, and I really doubt many of you would lie to me to spare my feelings, so this should work out pretty well.

By next week I should have a handful of chapters up and I'll post the link here.

The idea of "different styles," Larien, actually came from a small idea to parody Ulysses at one point in the book.  But then I realized I could open the novel up to a very wide range of satire by acknowledging other works of literature.  

The Catcher in the Rye chapter was, incidentally, amazingly fun to write.

Then I just figured I'd go the whole hog and make every chapter distinguishable in style from every other.  Or so I hope.  That's where you come in.

The plot is hazy.

The action of the novel takes place entirely within a concussive mind.  The main character has injured himself in a car accident and the book itself is a meandering log of his thoughts as his vehicle is buried under a heavy snowfall.

It's comedy, of course, satirising (in turn) Finnegan's Wake, A Christmas Carol, The Catcher in the Rye, A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man, Pale Fire, The Picture of Dorian Gray and so on.

The chapters are also done in a variety of different styles, including a legal document, a travelogue, a restaurant menu, an epic poem, a dialogue, a television script (with commercials), scripture and symbolic logic.

It's much, much different (and twice as pompous) as my previous effort, and would really love to assemble it as best I can.

<continuation of title constitutes opening sentiment> any interest here in reading sample chapters from my next novel?

I'm about a third of the way through, and I've actually gotten a small press (but traditional this time!) to take interest in my query.

Next step is sending sample chapters.  If I posted some to my website (as I did with Her Life Will Be Set to Music very early on), would anybody here be interested in combing over them and being overtly brutal?  To my face this time.

I want to polish up the sample chapters as well as I can.  

OR if you're not interested, do you know of any open-minded groups for literary criticism that don't consist entirely of gentlemen who quote themselves in their signatures and romancing their masturbation instead of offering proper guidance?

Depends on my mood.

Bob Dylan for contemplative wit.
Pete Townshend for brash and choppy.
Trey Anastasio for winding and elegant.
Neil Young because he's too damn cool to leave off of any list.

What "VSc" means is a ponderance that has brought me so much joy that it's only perpetuated my keeping it a mystery.  Some of my favorite assumptions so far are "Very Special Child" and "Vegetarian Society of Colorado."

With luck, when I die, my tombstone will be bare entirely with the exception of the cryptic initials, and also I'll be buried with a hot girl.