A lone Indian Gurkha soldier armed only with his Khukri knife fended off some forty armed robbers on a train when they attempted to rape the 18 year old girl sitting near him.

Full story here:
http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index....s_id=27100

So I watched Going The Distance and Dinner For Schmucks this weekend and both provide enough laughs to make them watchable IMO. Of the two I liked GTD a bit more because I enjoy rom-coms. Justin Long and Drew Barrymore provide enough chemistry and his two buddies enough raunchy humor to make it worth a rent. DFS tries a little too hard at times but if you like Carell, you'll like this.

Not to be picky but< in re-reading Ground Zero I stumbled upon a slight error.
When Weezy is asking Jack to fly to LA, he thinks to himself that he had flown only one other time.
I'm sure he remembers his flight to see his Dad after his wreck but maybe he wants to forget about his aborted trip to become Mirko Abdic.
Am I being a tad anal?

I pose these questions to Mr. Wilson, of course, and to all other writers on the forum as well:

How do you go about choosing names for your characters?

Is it more important for the name to be meaningful, cool sounding, or just plain easy to read?

Or does the name have to match the character's personality?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this subject.

Thanks,

John

Today I saw "RED" starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren. What made this movie so much fun is these casts!

They are three ex-CIA agents, and one ex-MI6 agent. Now they retired. But once somebody tried to kill them, they gather again to fight enemy.
Action scenes were superb and sometimes funny.

What surprised me was Ernest Borgnine. "Holy crap! He's still alive!"

Yeah, he is 94...:eek:

I had forgotten about the My So-Called Life feature so I read through a few months worth last night and found several things of interest.

First and foremost is "Night Dive". It says its being reprinted but I don't remember this one at all. Where was it initially published?

Second: very cool news about the YA books getting the graphic treatment-any idea who the illustrator might be.

Third: I liked "Run Away" by The Hollow", "The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore" and "While My guitar Gently Weeps" so thanks for those and I'll be hunting for both The Hollow and The Walker Brothers.

Fourth: ordered the Fear anthology with my amazon Christmas money.

And finally those were some good interviews.

SPOILERS!!!

The premise: A mad doctor that specializes in seperating conjoined twins decides to use his awesome talents to go the other way and attach people together into one creature. Unfortunately he attaches them butthole to mouth making them into a human centipede.

I haven't actually seen this yet, my oldest nephew lent me the DVD but I think I'll take a pass on this one. The whole concept makes me want to vomit. The blurb on the movie poster claims that the procedure is 100% medically accurate.

Has anyone actually seen this?

I don't post too often these days - stop by, just don't post - but have been moved to make a post after reading Draculas.
What a thrill ride! Thoroughly enjoyed this book and well done to all concerned. Books don't seem to turn my stomach much these days but there were many, many times in this book where I was kinda grossed out.
So a double thumbs-up from me!

Hi, first posting!

Anyway, I was thinking, what do you think would be the scariest/most disturbing scene in one of FPW's novels? For me, personally, it was in Reborn, when Carol Stevens is in the church, and envisions/hallucinates Mary and Jesus talking to her. The line "Would you undo all He suffered for?" chilled me to the bone.

Any opinions?

I don't know if this was already posted, but I found an audio file of an FPW interview from 1990. You have to scroll down to find it.



http://www.thevoicesoffandom.com/history.html