The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Am I the only one who cares about the season premiere of 24 on October 29?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Yeah. I kinda stopped watching the first season a few episodes after Dennis Hopper showed up. It went downhill from there.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I'll be curious to see if it holds up to a second season. I really enjoyed the first.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>He didn't actually join the cast until about 5 episodes from the end.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I saw like 8 hours of the 24 hour marathon on FX a few weeks ago and that's all it took for me to get hooked. Unfortunately I think it airs opposite Smallville. Must get TiVo....</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Eh. Kiefer's cool, but I can't get into the show...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The first season is on DVD, you can get it for like 40 bucks.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>The last episode I watched was the real time one. I thought his Russian/Mexican accent was pretty funny at first, but I soon lost all interest in the show.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I dunno, I thought the last few episodes were really cool. Shame my VCR fucked up and I never did see the last one.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I have the entire first season in VCD format...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I thought the first season was not only unique, but brilliant. I can't wait for the second, I just hope it doesn't suffer from FF7 Syndrome</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>... totally off subject. You're Arabic, right? Nationalitywise or lookwise or I don't know how you want to say it but you look like a middle eastern dude? What's life been like after 9-11 for you specifically? Do you look "arabic":Dark hair, beard, brown eye's, beat women to a pulp if they look at you, burn American flags, own a Quiky Mart, OK I'm getting way steroetypical and insulting but seriously how's life been? And if you don't mind telling us, what do you look like (I can't imagine you have a beard and that women beating thing is a joke (hoefully obvious...) but have you gotten any strange behavior toward yourself from "white" (trash <wink> <wink>) cacasian folks? And if I'm being an asshole, well... if it's a duck then call it a duck. Errr... I'm trying to be profound but I clearly am not.

Sometimes I think I would like everyone to post their picture here but I seriously prefer not knowing. I posted a pic here once that had me in it. I didn't really want to do it, but I did. The only person I really really want a pic of is G-Man. And that's because I know he won't do it and second of all I know I would shit my pants. I think that he's a great guy but the thought of me ever actually meeting him (seeing him) would be the definition of awkward (I totally spelled that wrong, I think) G-man and I hanging in a bar could be a poster for diversity, IF he looks like I think he does: asian looks(philopino (once again sp?), short (embarassingly short compared to me, I don't know if he's got an accent or not but those few things I think I could handle. It's the coke bottle thick glasses and his clothes though. Those things I think I would have a hard time with. Sure he has a cool car, he inspired me to get one after all. But man... ;)

All kidding aside, G-man is the only person here I have an actual curiosity about.

P.S. OK jackass' here is my opportunity to delete the previous sentence because, at least to me, it's WIDE OPEN for a billion jokes. But I didn't. Your mission, if you so choose, is to come up with the best joke...

Have at er.

OH yea, just to fill you in quick about recent events for Slappy: I quit my job, I'm moving to CO., I'm going back to school for something in the film industry, most likely digital editing at this point, but we'll see. The moral? Life is short, you age fast, do what you enjoy, it's not about money, if you're unhappy - make a change, don't be afraid, it's never to late, take a risk, do what YOU want to do.

I've been posting here on and off for what... 4 or 5 years. G-man is the one that pointed me here and I can definitely say it's a unique environment. We rarely get "new" members. We truly are a little family, IMO. and I care about you all in some way. Strange isn't it? I've never met any of you but I feel like I know some of you so well. And to think if I did actually meet one of you face to face it would be ackward. Why? Because it just would be. So much is based on looks in our world, it's sad. I would like to think I wouldn't be the person to judge on looks, but I would. The internet rules. Here, in this forum, we're all ambiguous: age is irrelevent, looks are irrelevent, money is irrelevent. We're all just spirits with thoughts and attitudes. Our little corner of the web is a unique and special thing. This place truly is a "shrine". I'll be 32 in November, a few of you just turned 20, if not for here would I be your "friend" or would I be able to comfortably talk to many of you in "real life", I would like to think "Sure! Why not?" but the reality of it is that it would be strange. I could babble more but I won't. This is enough rambling for one drunk "old man". HA!

I love you guys!

If any of you ever need help, just ask me. I have some excellent "life experience" in a few subjects and can be a good source of info for the following subjects:
Drugs: I've tried em. What have I tried? Anything that you do not inject. You got a question? You ask me. Of course it will be my opinion but the only reason I have tried some things is so I have an informed opinion on it so I can give factual advice and information instead of hear-say (sp?).

<b>Spoiler Message:<b>
<span style="background: black; color: black;">You caught me. I'm drunk. BUT (for those of you that drink) don't you think people get the most honest and straight forward truthfull when they've been drinking? I do. It's called Liquid Courage afterall.

WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow. I just went back to read the original thread and I go way into left twilight zone by the time I finish...</span></div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>It shall be mine.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>You're moving CO? Which part, Denver? (heh, like there's a lot of other options). Good luck in school. And you should post drunk more often. And I didn't know you had a thing for G-man...I'm not suprised. ;)</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>......I'm better looking. =8^)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Pretty much the same situation with me. People think I'm Hispanic because of my name and slight tan, yet I've been told that I look vaguely Asian. No one's ever said that I look like Lou Diamond Pillipps, thank god.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Bah! You're too ugly to look anything like him. =8^)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm Arabic, yes, but I look just like any other Italian, Greece, or a number of other cultures. Also, don't forget, this is Canada, EVERYONE is foreign here or has close foreign relatives, so the backlash was nothing like it was in , say, Long Island. All that bitching you hear me talking about in regards to the "real" American foreign policy and crap? There are a LOT of people up here who believe that because we all still have close ties to our native cultures, so we get to see the "other" point of view. It's not a small contingent and we're just one of them. Yeah, we had some backlash after 9/11. We are Arabic and we do own a chain of convenience stores, so we had some idiots comment and some threatening phone calls the day of, but that was the extent of it. We were never really bothered more than that.

As far as the pics are concerend, I would like to do the same someday. Just to put faces to the names. I met Derithian and I know The Gray, and I've seen a pic of Wolfie and Max's wife, but that's it really. I need to find a cool pic first, I'm not very photogenic.</div>