Quite retired now

"She sipped her coffee, like a big shot professional coffee drinker. She was the strange bird outside his window, and as she drank, he watched her elbow extend from her body as she leaned into the cup. It is a clumsy gesture, but not ridiculous."

-- from "Everything Beautiful Is A Torpedo", by Scout Thompson

>You are standing in front of a river. There is nowhere to go.
-- TheDeadGuy in This is the hardest thing you will ever do

I like this and I wrote it. I like this and this and this and this and I didn't write them.

There are a lot of excellent nodes re September 11th. Here are particularly good ones. longwinter | Jennifer (okay these are obvious but they're so so good)

E2SS2K5: Wow. I'm a starving college student now, so I guess that's the best knowledge about myself that I could impart. I've yet to get anything I didn't like, so do whatever you'd like? OK.

Kicked off the site: Twice (so far)