Tag: books
member name: Nippy Katz (not his real name) Patriotic Troll of Gather Freedom
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September 25, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
It's actually a blue toilet seat cover. When he comes into the bathroom to watch me shave or whatever he hops up on the toilet and starts chewing on the toilet seat cover. It's . . .
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September 29, 2006 07:07 PM EDT --
I've been looking at people's profiles. I know it's voyeurism but they're freely available. One thing I've noticed on several is that their favorite authors include, as . . .
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October 04, 2006 06:08 PM EDT --
I'm not much on writing poetry. The muse just doesn't seem to like me very well. Here's one I've had for a long time:
Old Procrustes landlord, schoolman had this sign above . . .
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July 17, 2007 07:31 PM EDT --
In this morning's San Francisco Chronicle there was a great column by Jon Carroll. He doesn't always hit the mark but this column on genre fiction was great. Most of the column is a . . .
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October 19, 2006 03:56 PM EDT --
I recently received a comission from a gather member to write a tune about hedgehogs and dead squirrels. Out of the goodness of my heart I threw in a bonus animal.
I came home last night just before . . .
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October 17, 2006 03:37 PM EDT --
As some of you probably know, Jackie L refused my offer of a place on my No Obligation Future Spouse Waiting list. I don't know why she'd refuse an opportunity like this. . . .
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May 22, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
Some cats speak in complete sentences. Others speak in monosyllables. Some communicate solely through body languages. One thing is clear: Cats always have something to say.
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May 23, 2007 03:16 PM EDT --
Everyone who has a cat knows the feline secret shame--shedding. They love to sit on black garments and race for the laundry basket when clothes come out of the dryer. Large tufts of fur appear . . .
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June 26, 2007 01:55 PM EDT --
Yesterday I cashed in some of my points and started climbing the golden stairs again. Today I've reached a milestone of sorts. I'm pretty proud. You can see why.
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July 25, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
The book's been released. People sat down and didn't get up till they finished it. Astronaut diapers may have been involved. Here on Gather there have been articles about naming . . .
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June 15, 2007 04:28 PM EDT --
Somewhere in cyberspace, July 15, 2007
Yesterday another skirmish in the Gather War took place. Your reporter was there, embedded with the troops of one of the sides. Since the details of . . .
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July 16, 2007 06:34 PM EDT --
Are you tired of games that make you have to think of things that begin with the letter E or name things that you might find somewhere? How about those toughies where you have to list things like . . .
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October 06, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
This is a Barrelhouse Solly, yetanother avatar of the schizoid personality sometimes known as Nippy Katz, original. (c) 2006
A bald headed man make a young girl drop out of school. (2)
Make her . . .
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April 04, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
Peetie Wheatstraw was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1930s. He accompanied himself on piano and sometimes guitar. He made over eighty records. He influenced Robert Johnson, . . .
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September 13, 2006 03:28 PM EDT --
Here's a little tune I wrote a while back--it's my copyrighted work, as they say, a protected work of authorship. The tune is probably familiar.
The Sensitive Guy
A new age healer told . . .
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October 14, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
There's been a lot of talk about awards recently. To honor the memory of G. Harold Carswell I'm introducing the G. Harold Carswell Awards for Gather content and miscellaneous real world achievements. . . .
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April 30, 2007 06:09 PM EDT --
There was once a lonely frog. Unlike most of his species he had a strong desire for social interaction. The other males either ignored him or were hostile, depending on the time of year. . . .
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May 01, 2007 12:40 PM EDT --
A Methodist woman from Tejas and a cynical ex-hippie agnostic from the Bay Area? Not a chance. Who would have known that we share a love for T. S. Eliot, James Thurber, science fiction, and . . .
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May 23, 2007 03:04 PM EDT --
Dublin, CA 05/23/07
Opal and Otis have fortified the master bedroom and are now occupying it. Morty and Eva control the rest of the house. The humans are concerned.
Naomi Calamese commented: . . .
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June 01, 2007 02:33 PM EDT --
Some people aren't witless.
Others are. Often
It's not because they're shunned
By the stars or
Born brain damaged.
The plain fact of the matter
Is that
They learned it.
It was . . .
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