[QUOTE=ahpook]I think his best work is the Western Lands trilogy: Cities of the Red Night, The Western Lands, and The Place of Dead Roads.QUOTE]

Thanks AHPOOK. I'll have to give them a whirl.

I'm taking off the studs today everyone! :D

[QUOTE=ahpook]I think his best work is the Western Lands trilogy: Cities of the Red Night, The Western Lands, and The Place of Dead Roads.QUOTE]

Thanks AHPOOK. I'll have to give them a whirl.

I'm taking off the studs today everyone! :D

Hey, I'm not the only one. Some kids in a Civic yelled something at me and chucked a beer bottle which cracked me in the forearm. Managed to hit the bone then shot in front of my bike, smashed on the pavement in many pieces which I then chose to run over since it happened too fast to do anything about it. Front tire popped and I went from 18mph to 0 in 10 feet. Wife had to pick me up. Damn kids.

<= This reminds me of my carefree youth.

Koffee, you had one of my favorite avatars. It looked like a Dorothy Dandridge in a publicity photo.

Slvoid's creeps me out too.

Mine's purely about privacy. I use it wherever I don't need to be my real self online. It first happened when I was filling out some web form and was thinking "Don't you wish" when they asked me for my personal info. That became 'Don Chuwish' and an email address of donchu@writeme.com - "Don't you write me". It stuck.

-Don (well, not really)


(EDIT: Talking about my nickname obviously since I don't even have an avatar. But now, oddly, I'm thinking I need to pick one out!)

I hope you let us know what you choose for your avatar, DonChuwish.

This is my cat, Muffy, inquiringly looking at me. He is elegant and refined (enhanced by an aristocratic moustache-like black patch), yet wild and fierce if need be, quiet, supple, self-reliant, independent though at times rather nonchalant, and knows how to let himself be loved (and stroke-rubbed)... all qualities I find desirable in general, and (apart from the stroke-rubbed thing) as a bike commuter or utility cyclist in particular.