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I have been married once.  I feel in love fast, hard and completely.   I believe it is genetic.  All of my maternal and paternal parents and grandparents were romantics.  Hard and fast.  My great-grandmother died of pneumonia before antibiotics in her earl… Read full post »

Now I know why I stopped posting on OS.

Trolls.

They have multiplied to the point where I believe they wait in unison and it becomes a virtual sport that is addictive.

I am tired of Trolls.

They are unproductive and the language is more obscene than ever.

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In my previous response to this open call topic, I took issue with Open Salon because I find SBC to be offensive and his work repulsive and not worth discussing as an open call topic. I also took issue with his fans who I find misguided in their eagerness to spend good… Read full post »

 As Bush 41 would say,"Won't see it, wouldn't be prudent."  I agree with 41. I didn't see  SBC's  first farce and will not pay good money to encouraged this over-grown pre-pubescent idiot's latest effort, Bruno.

As we all learned in sixth grade there was always a class clown. More… Read full post »

Spent a couple of weeks in LA.  My Mom is staying at a home in the Hollywood Hills next to P. Diddy's Playhouse, yes, Playhouse, and Malcom in the Middle's family home.

It is a beautiful home.  She is a great Mom.  Hot-tubbed my self to a wrinkled prune, and sat… Read full post »

Q: What is your favorite post on your own blog? What prompted you to write it? What did you learn from the comments others posted on that blog?

A: I was pretty happy with "Shamwow? Shamnow! or What the Hell is a Head Stain". It seemed to pretty much write itself -… Read full post »

We all grew up on Stg. Rock, even after Vietnam.

All of these wonderful young men and women that serve in Iraq and Afghanistan...HOOO Fucking RAH.

To all that you have seen, heard and witnessed, on our behalf in Iraq and Afghanistan, do not be silent.  Let us hear, let us… Read full post »

 

I fought for twelve years to get my husband service-connected for PTSD regarding his service in Vietnam in 1968.  It was a grueling adversarial process that most vets don't get through becuase:

1. They don't have an advocate in the family who can take the time and
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Fortunately, for Verbal, and all of those writers on OS who truly appreciate how hard it is to write horrific prose(it is exhausting)...I submit for your review the following courtesy of the following institute of higher learning:

 

Dept. of English & Comparative Literature
San Jos

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Dear Janie:  Some peonies for you on this Saturday from your friends at OS.

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Since Joan is having a hard time, and freaky has already changed her hair, this is an opportunity to vote on some funky new hats for Joan.  Below are 20 samples combed from various places.  Let's Vote Funky Hat For Joan!

 

 Funky Hat 1   Stylish and Sophisticated… Read full post »

The arrogance of youth is only eclisped by the staggering beauty of young lives and the stupidity of the short experience that they have. 

In the summer of my Junior, or Third Year as the like to call it at the University of Virginia, a group of us decided to… Read full post »

 

 The White Spot in Charlottesville, Virginia, and it's delectable delights will always have a special place in my heart.

First, you must always be in your early twenties, completely toasted and ready to eat anything at three in the morning, that helps.  (We had a friend who ca… Read full post »

It is clear from this community that you are truly loved.  As it has been said, " life is a terrible thing to do to a person."  I will take some of your pain today and send you some joy. 

I send you sunlight through your window that will pool… Read full post »

The first thing we need to understand about PTSD is that it is never cured.  Just as an amputation, a bullet fragment, and the loss of vision or hearing is never recovered, PTSD never goes away.  It is as constant as nerve damage, and as painful as the phantom pain of… Read full post »

That endless thrumming in my chest.  I've been told that it is my heart.  The rhythm is constant and reassuring.  My mortal timepiece.  One day it will just cease, it will probably thrum and bump around in my chest in an uneven protest at the end of it's long labor, but… Read full post »

Kalvin, our OS community member needs some love.

His mission of baiting everyone who posts anything is a remarkable and unrelenting passion.

Kalvin, I know you have mentioned how much you love this baiting of people who are posting basically anything.

My challenge to you is to write an inte… Read full post »

 I understand that Open Salon is committed to the First Amendment, and I believe that this is what they need to do.  Open, as Larry pointed out in his latest blog, is about everyone.  But where two or more are gathered, it is a community, and I believe Open also means… Read full post »

 Homosexuality, all of the other acronyms regarding men and women with same-sex attraction is nothing new.  This has been a part of every society on the face of the earth since the beginning of time.  What explains it?  I don't know, but any man or woman that I have ever&nb… Read full post »

 I love long walks in the rain, Oats with Crunchy Peanut Butter, Pina Coladas and little Fillies named Skanky Hanky Panky.  Call me.  Let's play a prank on the stable boys.  My name is Dandy Randy III. 

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  My grandmother was born on November 4th in 1898 in her mother's home in Columbia, Missouri.  She lived until July 4th, 1991.   Her ancestors came to Virginia in 1654.  James and Letticia Bowling were married in Amherst, Virginia on April 4th, 1777, before he mar… Read full post »