My hero Super Dave is back. He will have a Spike-tacular stunt show November 17. Here is a link to the show.

http://www.spike.com/show/34318

Paula

But, then, I guess it's not supposed to be, is it?

I've been thinking about all the hard work and time that Erin and Sephrena put in on this site, as well as just what the purpose is of our little BigCloset. I say "our" with deliberation. The people who read and write here may not own this site, but it is a home of sorts for us. It is a place that we may come to express a side of ourselves that many in the greater community do not want to hear about. It is a refuge and a bastion, a source of respite and strength.

Or at least it should be.

Exactly 404 years ago, a soldier and explosives expert attempted one of the most audacious terrorist plots ever.

His plan was to destroy the UK's House of Lords during State Opening, during which the building would contain the entire parliament and the King. As we all know, various events conspired to disrupt the plan and arrest Guy before he lit the fuse.

Hired as a man, fired as a woman

I especially loved this quote:
Her boss, Georgia Legislative Counsel Sewell Brumby, saw it differently.

“It makes me think about things I don’t like to think about, particularly at work … I think it’s unsettling to think of someone dressed in women’s clothing with male sexual organs inside that clothing,” said Brumby, in a deposition taken May 11th in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.

Hey Girls and guys.

For those of you that have been keeping track in comments and on Twitter. I was well ahead of the game when I first started the story. So's why the updates were fast and furious.

I was about 8000 words into Chapter 8 tonight, and in a couple of words 'It Sucked'. So, I'm pulling back and starting over from about 3000 words. What a incredible waste of time and effort, but that's how it is sometimes. It's all plotted out and it looks cool on outline but in execution it's choppy, annoying, and even well beyond the realm of realism.

About 300 protesters held a candlelit protest outside a Glasgow (Scotland) theatre over the staging of a play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual.

The protest was held outside the Tron Theatre, where Jesus Queen of Heaven, in which Christ is portrayed as being transgendered, is being staged.

Mike was going to be married to Karen so his Father sat him down for
a little chat.

He said, 'Mike, let me tell you something.
On my wedding night in our honeymoon suite, I took off my pants,
handed them to your Mother, and said, 'Here, try these on.''
She did and said, 'These are too big.
I can't wear them.'

I replied, 'Exactly.. I wear the pants in
this family and I always will.' Ever since that night, we have
never had any problems.

'Hmmm,' said Mike. He thought that might be a good thing to try.

Please note that the latest Changes episode contains a plot that may upset some people and I quite understand if you do not wish to read the chapter.

Unfortunately, sometimes things don't always run smoothly and although the story is in the main happy and sweet in nature, like real life, something happens that pushes our comfort zone.

Hi
I was wondering if anyone has heard from SaraUk.

In response to Fleurie's and others' requests, the first publication of Danny Fairchild Publications will be coming out this Saturday evening (hopefully).

Entitled "Everything You Wanted To Know About Posting In Topshelf And Were NOT Afraid To Ask, But Didn't Anyway," it is a little Adobe Acrobat PDF file that is all about how to spruce up your postings in Topshelf.

It will cover:

* How to make text appear in BOLD
* How to make text appear italicized
* How to make text appear both bold and italicized

it's sweeeeeeeet

Times Online

Exactly what it says... as I'm doing revisions, I'm pulling them down, but don't worry, all the comments and such are still there!

For those of you that are interested.

With last night's outage, a lot of people were not able to read Chapter 4, so I'm not updating with Chapter 5 today. Instead, I will have it out Monday morning, so people will have a chance to catch up. Not to worry, it's already written. Chapters 5&6 are in the can and I'm working on 7 today so it should be ready by the the time Wednesday roles around. Then we'll be caught up.

I'm not telling you all this to be pretentious. I just didn't want you to think that I'd forgotten about you, today.

This usually lives at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America site, at: http://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer-for..., but it's also used by a friend of mine who teaches a MFA in writing. I'm not much of a one for science fiction, but these are pretty good rules for writing anything. Don't feel bad if you've broken several - as far as I can tell Martin Amis has broken at least two of the rules here, and I know I'm a sinner in at least as many ways - I'm definitely guilty of "squid in the mouth" and "pushbutton words".

I want to thank everyone who participated in the October writing contest either as an author, reader and voter. I don't know why I won but thank you. There were a lot of very good stories presented at this contest. Every one of them deserves a hug and a thank you.

Hugs to all,

Paula

No, I have not stopped reading the stories being posted, here.

I have been busy with Kelly's Journey, and penning a story for the November contest.

Yes, it is a lot like Kelly's Journey. I write best in that style, even though I do pen a mean horror story.

After I have caught up on my many stories, I will return to being the avid reader, and commenter that I am.

And the lameness continues. Sorry folks, but I'm not going to be able to get Venus Cursed! up today, either. I haven't been sleeping well lately and it's really screwing up my ability to write anything. I took my laptop to bed with me on the off chance I could finish the chapter (it's half done, but that's two days works!), but it's not happening. So once I get this posted I'm off to sleep. Hopefully I'll sleep better than I have been and will be able to get lots of writing done tomorrow. Cross your fingers!

that you can keep up with things in the Gabyverse by book marking this page

http://www.maddybell.com/page600.html

Mads

Hi folks.

Just thought I'd drop you all a line to say that The Witch's Tarot was only supposed to be a three part story, but alas, my characters have gone and got themselves more complex than I thought they would.

President Obama will finally sign a new federal hate crime law that protects gay and 'YES' transgender people. It is about time that this was finally passed as we come near to transgender rememberance day.

Hugs,

Jenna From FL

For those who either do not read or are aware of Sapphire's List, I am posting here to let the one or two people who do frequent my site that I have been updating the Balcony the last couple of days. Probably nothing exciting and new for some people, however if you want to stop by the Balcony and pull up a chair while enjoying the view here is the link:

Beverly's Balcony

Beverly Colleen

Check this out

Captain Mal is back for a one time shot

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/captain-mal-is-back-cci

Melanie

Masculine Costumes For Your Feminine Son

How to Write Badly Well

Share and enjoy. :-)

You have until midnight Pacific to pull whatever you want to save from Geocities, folks -- about 50 minutes.

Interesting tale of Dr. Marci Bowers and her clinic in Trinidad, Colorado.

http://www.aolhealth.com/health/sex-change-surgeon?icid=main|main|dl3|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolhealth.com%2Fhealth%2Fsex-change-surgeon

Apart from uncertain weather, I've had a very nice if exhausting weekend. Met up with my ex twice and we kept things very civil - my daughter was astonished. In fact we had quite a laugh as my ex went up the ladder to repair a broken clothes line while I held it for her - she was in trousers, I was in a skirt and heels and the ladder was rather dirty.

I just learned to do something new: how to put pictures in my stories!

Yup, I am a person of simple pleasures.

- Bobbie

Well. Just finished reading Skin Horse, from the beginning to the very latest panel, and all in one sitting, too. Can't believe I did that.

Well, what can I say. Seems I gots a new fav'rite comic!

How can you go wrong with a crossdressing psychologist that got turned into a werewolf, a warfreak zombie who chomps on brains, a talking dog named Sweetheart, a wind-up mechanical receptionist, a self-aware swarm of bees, a helicopter with a human brain implanted in it and so many others.

Plus a Doonesbury-esque sense of story and humor.

When I saw that something from Aardvark was up, for a brief moment in time, I thought that he had published another of his stories that make my seat um squishy! I was only briefly saddened to see that it was "Warrior" recycled. I'm in bed with the Flu and between my feverish, coughing times, I think I will read it again. Almost as good as a bit of Chokie Ice Cream!

When I posted Maggie the Kitten's Kitten Tail', I did an experiment.

I deliberately posted my story about her, right behind it. I even used her name in the title, as I had done when I originally wrote it for her.

Result?

At this moment, her story has 514 reads, mine has just 383.
And I'm not upset, because she has written a lot more quality stories than I have, and probably always will be able to do so. Her work is deserving of catching the eye of her fans just because she wrote it.

Holly

The level of quality of the text is quite plain; stories drop like rain from a throng of gifted writers upon BC. The process is twice blessed: to those who read these gifted words and also to the keyboard pounding wretches who enrich their own lives through their hair-pulling efforts.

BC has enjoyed talented writers for as long as it has been in existence. Some who post today have been here for the duration, many others have come and gone, but never in the time that I have been part of this site have there been such a huge number of outstanding writers producing so much good literature.

Subj: In the US, Hope for Victims of Genital Mutilation

As my friend Michelle pointed out when she referred this article to me "Stanley Biber would be proud of her"

http://www.newsweek.com/id/218692

Sorry for my lameness, but I'm not going to get VC up today. I've got a good start on it, but I just can't keep my eyes open to finish it tonight. Sorry!

Saless

Just came back from counseling and found out by my counselor that OHIP (Ontario health insurance plan) only covers transition if you go through a specific trans-clinic. They make you go through RLT for 2 years before you can even have hormone therapy. Yet they have a 90% decline rate. They make you go through 4 years of HRT before the Srs and still can decline you.

If you dont go through the clinic, you can have it all sooner however its more expensive. Either or however Hormones come out of own wallet/purse.

I was really bored and tripped across this site.

http://plot.kitt.net/

Random Movie Plot Generator (See some of the things it pulls up, below.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Sapphire

He was a flame-haired father of 3, who had a a love of Autumn and shoulders of concrete. She was a lovely female soccer star wannabe who was looking for the holy grail and hated it. Together they traveled to another world. Fighting the devil and loving each other.

*I wonder if Sapphire knew this about herself?*

He was She

An Elf in Her Bra has been in Hatbox for about a year and is now eligible for release to the general public.

During the last twelve months I have been inundated with many requests regarding my future intentions for it. Many are those who many have implored, begged, indeed offered financial incentives, in a vain attempt to influence me.

In spite of all such, and ignoring all threats, I have decided to indeed release it in the Public Domain here at Hallowe'en. So there!

I was wondering if anyone heard about the dress code Moorehouse is instituting. There's the typical no baggy pants, doo rags and so on but as part of this list wearing Women's Clothing is banned.
Gah can you be so closeminded?! You educated MLK and you're being so intolerant here! X-( It's a piece of clothing you phobic people!

Has anyone ever heard of this story? It was about a kid that crashed his bike in the woods and found an old Celtic ring that was slowly turning him into a girl. It has vanished from my collection.

Here I go agine, somewhat emboldened by Angela Rasch. I posted a story five days ago. The first two days 500+ hits, 50 votes and half a dozen comments. OK, not a stellar success. I can live with that, but for the last three days, 300+ hits and virtually NO votes and not a single comment.

I wish that someone would tell me if I'm wasting my time posting here, that I don't gibe with the BC vibe, that there's little interest in what I post, that I'm a lousy writer, anything but this deafening silence. Indifference; disapproval??

Hey all, been doing some overview of my storie 'The Girl in Me' accessing the many of mistakes, tribulations and problems regarding my storie. So I have came to the conclusion that I will revise it, re edit, add and change some things.

Firstly as from the start I wanted to make it as a series, of cronicles and Thus it will. I will be naming it "Morwen's Legacy: The Girl in Me".

Secondly The editing is going to be slightly difficult for me so if there is anyone that would like to volunteer to assist in the edditing of my storie, please let me know.

Anybody hear how`Sephrena's latest surgery went? I hope it went well and she is recovering.

Being ill in bed with the flu, I was not sick enough to sleep but not well enough to do anything meaningful. So, I started searching my old name. OMG, I found a database that lists me as the author of "Yeksim and the Jungle Planet". It was probably about my first effort at story writing, but how it got on the internet, I have no idea. I think that by '87 the amber screen was gone, but was it time for the 386 yet? It is reall chilling that this work lies in a data base somewhere.

http://ftp.resource.org/copyright/hids/hid_16/hid_16960000-1...

Now that many of us have had a round or two of "votes" added to all or most of our stories I'm left with perplexing questions.

Since it appears this had to have been done mechnically and is not the work of some super-appreciative speed-reader I'm no longer troubled that two of what I consider to be my best stories (An Affair of the Harte and Carl's Eyes) received no votes.

What bothers me is the overall question -- Why?

Yesterday someone voted for thirty-eight of my stories. The person had (1) vote so it wasn't an author. That person didn't leave a comment on any of them so I don't know how to say thanks except in an open blog.

If this mass voting was meant to be some sort of lifetime achievement award, I accept the honor under the protest that I'm not that old.

On some of the older stories it was the first vote the story received other than sympathy votes from me. I hate to have my stories feel completely unloved so I vote for them so they don't think they were totally scorned.

Jill