Greetings

I have never really used this kind of thing before and am having some trouble learning this new language of "HTML" and "CSS" but I am enjoying it. I am not one for technology, but I could see myself using this more. There are certainly many people on this "internet". I suspect some kind of strange magic or pact allowed this to enter the world. It seems too abstract for mankind to have stumbled upon it.

If you want to contact me to ask about anything, my Yahoo Chat screen name is doggy_dog.

Since I was a kid I always thought movies were really cool. Especially the detective ones. I liked watching the French ones but I didn't understand anything because I couldn't read quickly enough at that age. With these DVDs that you can buy, I might finally get around to doing that. When I was a teenager, I worked in a movie theater as a projectionist apprentice/helper for a couple years. It was cool because I could sneak girls in to watch movies for free. The owner let me do it, but I made the girls think we were doing something not allowed, which got them worked up!!!

This is a list of my most FAVORITE and CHERISHED movies from my childhood and young adulthood:

• Paper Moon - It reminds me of my wife and daughter. I miss them
• Star Wars - I still need to watch the new ones, although they seem the topic of much debate on here
• The Thing - can't bring myself to watch this one anymore for... reasons, but it was really cool as a teenager
• Alien - so cool
• Westworld - my mother covered my eyes during the naughty bits of course, but let me see the violence
• Serpico - the world HATES an honest man
• Midnight Express - one of the reasons I never have been outside of the country
• Rollerball - the coolest sport that doesn't exist, but probably cheesy these days :-)
• Jaws - awesome when they killed the shark
• Mad Max - saw this one when I was a little older and thought Max was so cool
• Le Cercle Rouge - one I couldn't follow as a youngster when I saw it on TV
• Platoon - when men could be MEN
• Highlander - there can only be one!!!!!!!!!!!
• Conan the Barbarian - Arnold isn't the best actor but otherwise this one rocked!!

Now for the WORST movies I've seen!!:

• Clue - what a horrible and unfunny movie. the weird communist guys always liked this one
• American Beauty - a friend showed me this one recently, what a bunch of nonsense!
• Eraserhead - didn't understand it
• Mean Streets - Taxi Driver was cool but this Scorsese picture is just weird
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - way to ruin an AWESOME series of movies...

Life after the hedge

If anyone needs some help or support, I can put you in contact with the right people. Especialy if you're angry about what happened to you.

Here are some tips I picked up along the way

• Get connected
• Join a Court - The Courtless run in to lots of trouble. Finding like-minded individuals keeps you protected.
• Find Allies - Find people you can trust, or at least predict. Establish contracts too.
• Deal with your fetch, any way you can
• Establish a steady flow of resources (joining a Court helps with this)
• Don't attract attention

Don't be afraid to ask for help. We bicker and fight amongst ourselves, but at the end of the day, we don't have anywhere else we can run to.

In Memoriam

I miss you two. Your smiles most of all. We will meet again.