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That leads into a discussion over internet addiction, which I don't even want to think about. :eek:

Hmmm...I've never been scared to meet an online chum. Though we have always met in public places in broad daylight, people have known where I've gone and when to expect me back, and all those sensible things, I think it's just, having communicated for so long, we knew what to expect so there...

You know...it's a funny thing because it's something I never thought about before. But when I've met friends face-to-face that I'd first met on the computer, I've found their body language, gestures, and so forth, to be pretty much as I've envisioned them. A great deal of personality can come...

I'm one of those that does not make the distinction between "cyber" and "real." I am no so popular that I can afford to devalue a friendship because of where it began. And honestly, I think the friendships I have with people I've met online are stronger than so-called "real" friendships...

Among the many reasons to join this or any forum, one reason is to find people with whom you share common interests. I find that remaining at a forum long enough to get a feel for what it's really like, sooner or later I'm reading some posts with more interest than others. I'll read the...

Hey, Moto, I'll swap you a few of your "personal issues" for my "hidden agenda." But I prefer the ruffian quality of "rabble rouser" to "troublemaker" so I think I'll keep that. Let me know if you want to trade, otherwise I think I may sell my hidden agenda to get some fuzzy dice to string...

Now what about you? Do you have favorite poets? Have you read any Billy Collins (a fine poet I neglected earlier)? Do you ever read plays? Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" is fabulous and Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is sensational (there's a fine film version with Gary Oldman...

Moto, I'm not (really, honestly, no, I'm not kidding) a debater, so I admit, there are some of your threads I (gasp!) skip. However, I think the subjects allow for more expansive responses than a Top 5 List or a link to the latest cyberquiz or who's got the top score on the latest video...

If you find a ditty called "Mulatto Woman" -- think that's my chum's best work. My favorite poem is actually by e.e. cummings, "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond." Of course, I like it best for purely personal reasons. It goes: somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond...

Not a problem. It's nice to have normal conversation. My favorite is probably "Ulysses." Pynchon's "Crying of Lot 49" is one of the best books I've ever read, every one of it's few pages packed with imagery and imagination. I love Faulkner, of course, and I think everyone should read "As I...

Part of the "problem" (if I may), is that this is a very global board. Members from different parts of the world are logged on at different times of day (except the ones who seem to never sleep at all -- that's a joke). Also, there's those annoying things called jobs, that some people feel a...

My suggestions have been made privately. I think it's time for milk and cookies.

She became a mod sometime ago, but I don't believe she still is.

I have tried making suggestions and they have fallen deaf ears. I have two wonderful and very specific recommendations but to state them publicly would be to cast aspersions on other members of the community, which, even though it is not evenly enforced, is technically against the rules. And...

My Warholian image of "Che" (not to be confused with the real individual, who was much more complicated, based on my limited knowledge, than an image on a silk screen) as a joking representation of a revolution for fun, a concept I picked up, via Mott the Hoople, from DH Lawrence ("A Sane...

Yes, hello, the "select group of rabble rousers" here again. Just pointing out that I'm a member in good standing of five other forums, and I've visited quite a number of others. This is the only forum where I've see this sort of ongoing questioning of the moderators and how they do their...

Excuse me, but I didn't start this thread. This thread, I thought, was entitled "Banning and Mods" so what better place? My very first ever post here was greeted with hostility from a moderator, even though it was completely within the rules, on-topic, and tongue-in-cheek in tone. I was...

Looks like it's been another busy morning at TBF! And now....a short story. When chum-in-exile warm enema (yes, that song again) was banned, I gave my word that, should it ever wish to post his views on the situation, I would be the conduit for him. He believes the time has come. And so...

I have posted other pieces before. If you go back through the archives, you'll find most of them. One I know I moved to a safer location than this, because here I'm considered so pretty and popular (that's sarcasm, that is) that I worried for its well-being.

"Just let it go….it isn't worth it," I told myself, shaking off a recurring dream that had visited me in the night. I'd found myself in that same little neighborhood in Baldwin Park, even though I've been back there and I know the whole place has been torn down and replaced with a mini-mall...