Highs in the 70’s here.

Cruel.

Once I got on the roads, I found that it wasn’t so much that snow was everywhere (although it continues to snow), it was more like water with isolated clumps of slushiness and the occasional snow patch.

It’s a very wet day in Denver, although I would guess that it’s a very snowy day in the mountains.

Ah, snow…

High in Pasadena today is 89. Blech.

You say it as if that’s a bad thing.

There’s a reason for that, Z.

I hate snow.

This gives me an enormal sense of foreboding.  The past three years (all of the time I’ve lived in Spokane) I have been told we’ve had “mild” winters.  Not nearly as much snow as “normal.”

Of course—now that DH™ has a longer commute and we’re expecting the baby in February—well we’ll be tit-deep in snow.  *siiiiigh*

I like snow.  As long as I don’t have to get OUT IN IT.  This desert flower freezes easily.  Heh.

Stay warm and be careful, Z.  Luv ya.

Snow is only good in the mountains and only good if it results in a snow day.

Mmm. Hookey.

Anyway, thanks for the happy thoughts, and I’ll have my fingers crossed for you that you have another moderate winter. Gotta keep the baby safe.

We got 6 inches at mid-mountain here in Vail.  Just stopped snowing about 30 minutes ago.  Tomorrow, I get to go work outside in the White Blanket of Death &trade

All my whining aside, I really hope we have a snowy winter. Keep the resevoirs topped off, you know?

crappy? i woke up all excited about it.

very nervous for my little youngsters, though. (those would be my outdoor plants. the limits of my paternality. brought in everything but the tomatoes. is a blow dryer on them both too much and too little?)

btw, note that i’m now IDing myself with my brokeback mountain (worship?) page. heeheehee. i’m in love, finally. unfortunately, it’s not with a boy, just with a story, and hopefully soon a movie. i can think of little else. even in wonderful weather like this.

I’m hoping the movie lives up to the trailer. I’d be really disappointed if they get this one wrong.

It’s amazing how little snow I got in my neighborhood compared to all the other pictures I’ve seen from other parts of the city. I feel pretty lucky.

Excuse me for threadjacking ZB and this is last I’ll mention it but I wanted to let Mr. Cullen know that I admire his work on Columbine.

Now back to your regularly scheduled snowy goodness.

He’s a nice guy, too (for a commie liberal type), even if he never comes to our parties anymore.

me too, zombie. the trailer is amazing, but then the Shining recut trailer looks pretty good, too. (hahaha. if you have not seen it, go here, immediately: http://www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING FINAL.mov )

i have a feeling it will, though. the story is great, the reviews so far have been great, it won the golden lion at venice . . . and ang lee is nearly always wonderful.

trench, you can hijack any of zomby’s posts you want with comments like that.

hahaha. (just catching up.)

checked out your site, good stuff. that guy praising dylan and eric, though, ugh. i had a whacko like that as a regular on mine for awhile. gave me the shivers.

i don’t think you guys actually invite me anymore z. and i spent most of the last year in chicago, but i’m mostly resettled here now. but SO behind on my book. my editor has been calling. making good progress now, but behind.

Mr. Cullen, unfortunately guys like that are an everyday occurence at my site. I’m looking forward to your book by the way.

ugh. sucks to be you. glad i only get them wandering in now and then. usually briefly. mostly i get emails from high school kids doing reports, which is kinda cool. (i get prolly one a week.) one girl entered a contest and made it to the state level, and her family flew her out here to interview me and frank deangelis, though i was out of town and had to do mine by phone. makes me feel much better than the angry ones, though i do empathize with where they’re coming from sometimes.

thanks on the book. i’m looking forward to finishing it! hahaha. but seriously. am really enjoying the writing of it, but it’s kinda love/hate. just hired a research assistant, finally--two part-timers, actually--should have done that ages ago.

oh, and please, call me dave. (and i switched to my Columbine Almanac link, since i’m suddenly not a swoonging gayboy in this discussion anymore. hahaha.

ZB, I’m with Margi.  I missed this thread, but interestingly enough, posted something last night about craving a cold night to drive in.  Snow always comforts me...when I’m not driving in it.  Although, I must say that my new Honda does elevate my confidence.

Mr. Cullen, very interesting stuff....Z, you have a celebrity commenting :D

When I was a kid, I liked snow. But back then I didn’t have to drive in the stuff, it didn’t make me late to meetings, and I guess it just wasn’t an inconvenience. Now is different.

Yeah, I was thinking about that as I wrote it, Zomby: I rarely leave the house (apartment, actually) these days, so it’s easy for me to bask in the beauty of it.

Although I did rush out suddenly to investigate dishwashers, as I just couldn’t bear the thought of washing one more freaking glass by hand, but it was an optional trip, and the joy of and end to soapsuds overcame any annoyance with the commute.

I also enjoy the snow so much more here in CO than I did growing up in Chicago because it melts. I won’t be looking at it all winter.

(Thanks Rae. A long way from celebrity, but someday. If authors still get to be celebrities. Seems like airhead newsmodels have higher profiles than real writers today. Much higher. Checked out your site--very interesting.)

Oh no.  The “He’s Just Not That Interested in You” manual says “very interesting” translates to:  “nice, but nothing here for me.”

Heh.  Thanks, Mr. Cullen.

Uh!  I just read “Who I am and Why I Can’t Write My Own Titles” and I guess my above surmise is...correct to a very certain degree.

Oh no.  The “He’s Just Not That Interested in You” manual says “very interesting” translates to:  “nice, but nothing here for me.”

Unless you are Heath Ledger or Jake Gylaenhaal (or have pictures posted of them)then there actually is nothing there for him.

Golly, Mr. Cullen, had I known that someone published and gay was coming over, I would have not only put out my best writing, I would have put my pearls on, too.  :D

hahaha. just got all these messages. laughing my ass off.

yeah, rae, i was actually quite taken aback when i saw the photo on your site. very hot. for a chick. heeheehee. and especially for a writer or intellectual of any kind. but even for anyone. anyone female. hahaha.

just nothing i could . . . use. hahaha. but gayguys are excellent judges of beauty in women. (because we can be more objective?) though i tend to be missing most fragments of the gay gene somehow, but i think i got that one. i could not dress you to save my life, but i could do very well at assessing how well you dressed yourself.

and if you had crossed my path during my (extended) straight period, i would have asked you out in a heartbeat. or wanted to, but would have actually prolly been intimidated to. which would have been much better for you in the long run, i guess. (i know a few closet cases whose wives are still in for a very rude awakening. that has got to be one of the most immoral things you can do, sticking to your closet. does james dobson have any idea how many of the wives and daughters and sisters in his flock he is screwing? or leaving unscrewed?)

hmmmmmm. see how gayguys always manage to bring it back to the gay thing?

no, wait, you brought it up. gayguys actually never bring it up. except in their profiles. and . . .

and that’s enough silliness for one night. i’m tired. but i have been writing about those killers. and i swear the cops mis-ID’d dylan’s TEC-9. any gun nuts around here. it sure doesn’t look like all the pix i’ve found on the web. appears to be either a 9M or a 10. (and the difference matters, cause the latter is not covered by the assault weapons ban, but the 9M is. just the manufacture, so either one was legal to own, but i’ve still got to get it right. even if the cops did not, and every freaking publication in america seems to have taken their word for it.)

Ooooh, Patrick, very nice choices (imo).

yes, very nice choices.

now please please please forgive me if you already know this rae and i’m being a know it all asswipe, but he was referring to them because in two months minus three days they’re going to be making out and simulating sex on american screens in the great big gay love story of our time that i’m obsessed with, Brokeback Mountain.

http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/stories/2005/09/25/brokebackMountain.html

maybe you should make a roadtrip to denver to see it with us before it gets there.

though god knows when it will get here either. opening just in ny, la and sf on dec 9, i believe. no word on the rest of the rollout. christmas day, perhaps? maybe i could drag my big irish catholic family, right after mass.

zomby, is it ok that we highjacked this thread? (nobody else seemed to be using it. hahaha.)

and quit calling me mister. dave, if you like, or my family calls me dru. sometimes when i drink i’m vid. and i’ve got one other name, but it’s unmentionable. any of those will do.

In Brokeback Mountain do the cowboy’s eat pudding?

(Sorry, couldn’t resist. South Park reference in case anyone didn’t know.)

Thread-jackers.

Of course I don’t mind, although it does make me laugh to see a post like this (all of a few sentences long) generating this many comments.

hahaha. been there. u just never know which ones. (though the comments on mine don’t work on a lot of browsers, so i never even know. but that will all change soon, very soon. hey, which maybe you’re the right guy/crowd to ax: i’m about to convert, which means setting up a new template on (moveable type?) which mike ditto is going to do for me, but the question arises, should i overhaul the thing? jerri (from talkleft) has been telling me for ages that i need to redo it, but she’ll never say what to change, exactly. she just says it’s to big too amateurish looking . . . ok, but what about it makes it that way. never get much constructive stuff from her. so tell me. let me have it. any and all of you.

now then. pudding. hahaha. metaphorically, only. (and don’t even tempt me to go graphic, cause i will, in a heartbeat, and i understand this might be a family site.) i had forgotten that reference, but mike reminded me a few days ago--rattled off the entire scene, practically--and we’ve been riffing on it ever since.

Hmmm, thanks for the heads-up, Dave (gosh it seems so...intimate to already be calling you by your first name).  I, indeed, did not know that film to which Patrick was referring.  And I highly doubt it will be showing here.  We couldn’t even get The Constant Gardener to show up, so I don’t think that a film that shows two men kissing it going to be shown, nor would it be warmly received by this city.

Z, I think it’s funny when your sparsely worded posts generate so many tangents.  See, that’s what’s great about this place:  diversions.  They make the best of friends and conversations.

Speaking of diversions (with acumen, of course), where’s McGehee?

On one of my blogs I posted that I was going to invent the bacon filled donut. That’s all the post said. I think that post got at least 50 comments.

Trench!  If I had known, I would have commented.  That! would be the perfect invention.  I must have salt with sweet.  I’d be first in line.

bacon filled donut...

Now, that’s a disgusting thought.

How about bacon pudding?

my mother is a fish.

What kind of fish?

now i’m WAITING for that free advice on my blog layout, damnit!

what seems to be the holdup? why can this not all be about me?

(and also feel free to chime in on the url. i’ve had davecullen.com for ages as my sort of basic author site, which i think i want to keep that way--updated layout also, and lots of books featured someday--with my blog at maybe davecullen.com/blog, and with a good sized window to it with the three most recent posts or something on the main (aka, davecullen.com) page. what do you dink?

(the other choice is just to put it all on one site, but i picture that as the worst of both worlds: the blog overwhelming my other stuff, and the blog also getting squeezed.)

yes. all about me. much better. heheehee.

Dave, instead of going with davecullen.com/blog I’d go with blog.davecullen.com but that’s just me. I’m a big fan of subdomains. You may want to look into using ZB’s blog tool of choice Expression Engine instead of MT. It’s a commercial product but it will cost you $150. I’m not a big fan of MT anymore since MT blogs are usually the most spammed.

If I get a chance to give you a real critique, I’ll send you something privately. Since I don’t have a ton of time to devote to it right now, though, I probably wouldn’t be able to do the subject justice--I’d just give you the same kind of general stuff that Jeralyn did.

Trench is right, though: I’d suggest going with Expression Engine even though it isn’t a free product. I really do like the tool (even with its quirks).

Z- the reason the bacon appeals to me is that I always have a piece of bacon or sausage with a pastry (and ALWAYS with coffee and cream).  So, a cake donut lightly sugared and with tiny bits of bacon inside would be just perfect.  That green smiley was funny, though.  I could just imagine your face filled with disgust :D

Dave-I know absolutely nothing about templates, programs, etc. I have MT right now, but will soon be off of it for exactly the reasons Trench mentioned.  Your mother is a Pisces?

Did someone say something about makin’ bacon?