“WHEN I consider how my light is spent
E’re half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg’d with me useless, though my Soul more bent…”
Roger L. Simon
Blacklisting Myself Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
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1. flenser:They also serve who only sit and type.
May 30, 2005 - 10:25 am 2. lmg:I thought Viagra only caused blindness if you used it alone.
May 30, 2005 - 10:34 am 3. Buddy Larsen:If it causes blindness, there’s sure to be some stiff penalties.
May 30, 2005 - 10:36 am 4. PeterUK:What about halving the dossage and risking one eye?
May 30, 2005 - 10:56 am 5. c:Peter, be careful. Looks like you doubled the dosage–
May 30, 2005 - 11:10 am 6. PeterUK:C,
No,I just put the patch over the wrong eye again.
May 30, 2005 - 12:03 pm 7. Rick Ballard:None so blind as those who did not heed
Four hours – no more!
While caught up in the deed.
May 30, 2005 - 12:11 pm 8. Buddy Larsen:“Stand Back, Eve, I have no idea how big this thing’s gonna GET!”
May 30, 2005 - 1:02 pm 9. Charlie (Colorado):God, I feel so inadequate.
May 30, 2005 - 1:44 pm 10. chuck:“God, I feel so inadequate.”
– short bedtime prayer.
May 30, 2005 - 1:50 pm 11. richard mcenroe:Chuck ó Only for Markus.
May 30, 2005 - 2:24 pm 12. Terrye:I guess the nuns knew waht they were talking aobut.
If Mother Nature had wanted you to remain a horny teenager all your life she would not have invented reduced testerone levels.
May 30, 2005 - 2:28 pm 13. chuck:OT: Drudge has the lowdown on the next hot reality show: link.
May 30, 2005 - 3:35 pm 14. Rick Ballard:Based on that photo, I’d say the pickling process is about complete.
May 30, 2005 - 3:55 pm 15. PeterUK:Chuck,
That is the worst case of Botox abuse I’ve seen.
May 30, 2005 - 4:04 pm 16. chuck:Pretty amazing, huh. I had to check the date to make sure it wasn’t coming out April 1’st.
May 30, 2005 - 4:09 pm 17. richard mcenroe:Terrye ó When do they go down?
May 30, 2005 - 4:29 pm 18. Rick Ballard:When the husband shows up.
May 30, 2005 - 4:32 pm 19. c:“Ocular events” are just another selling point for the pharmaceutical. Aren’t blind men supposed to make better lovers?
May 30, 2005 - 4:39 pm 20. Buddy Larsen:I hope Terry is merely referring to the blessed relief of the end of teenaged tripod hell.
May 30, 2005 - 5:06 pm 21. c:Terrye just forgot that our generation is NOT getting old. We are only as old as we feel, which would place most of us in our mid 20s/ the 1920s.
Will enhancement spam emails now be in braille?
May 30, 2005 - 5:31 pm 22. Terrye:Ahh…. you guys are dreaming if you think you are not getting old.
I thought my tits would stay on my chest where they damn well belong too, but if I played volley ball without a bra these days I would beat myself to death.
I just love those commercials where they say if you have an erection that last for more than four hours seek help…can you imagine going into the ER with an er… penis problem…dick dilemna…..cock conundrum…
ok I am done now.
May 30, 2005 - 5:37 pm 23. Buddy Larsen:Terrye, all is not lost, I got a boost just reading your post! Gravity is a minor problem, you got it going where it counts!
May 30, 2005 - 5:56 pm 24. PeterUK:Well some of us aren’t getting ‘old as often as we used to.
May 30, 2005 - 5:58 pm 25. Terrye:Peter:
You naughty little Brit…..
and Buddy, that was sweet. hey, but once upon a time I was really quite fetching.
May 30, 2005 - 6:14 pm 26. PeterUK:Terrye,Well you keep talking dirty to Buddy,you know he gets excited then passes out due to lack of blood to the brain.It’s been the tragedy of his life,he never knows whether he’s had a good time or not.
May 30, 2005 - 6:31 pm 27. Buddy Larsen:Terrye, make him quiiiit….
May 30, 2005 - 6:34 pm 28. Terrye:Peter:
You leave Buddy alone…. I am sure he can handle things without any assistance from merry ol’ England.
I never knew of a man to pass out… go to sleep maybe but not actually pass out. How rude.
May 30, 2005 - 7:11 pm 29. Buddy Larsen:Ha! Rude, or a high compliment, one of the two.
May 30, 2005 - 8:09 pm 30. Terrye:Well I aim to please.
Time for bed.
I have to get up early.
had you going there, didn’t I?
May 30, 2005 - 8:34 pm 31. richard mcenroe:Terrye ó As I’ve said before, if I last more than four hours, I’m not calling a doctor, I’m calling everybody I know…
May 30, 2005 - 8:46 pm 32. Terrye:richard:
and take some pics too.
May 30, 2005 - 8:58 pm 33. Buddy Larsen:But for God’s sake don’t post them on the internet.
May 30, 2005 - 9:04 pm 34. Charlie (Colorado):Sadly, handling things without assistance is about all the action I get.
May 30, 2005 - 10:11 pm 35. Buddy Larsen:A good rule of thumb always leads to a solution.
May 30, 2005 - 10:59 pm 36. Buddy Larsen:Ever since I saw the Milton post, I’ve had a few fragments stuck in mind, something about losing the power to choose, and having continual fresh hells opening below
so I hadda go find ‘em, lines 66-80, Paradise Lost:
“Hadst thou the same free will and power to stand?
Thou hadst. Whom hast thou then, or what, to accuse,
But Heav’n’s free love dealt equally to all?
Be then his love accurs’d, since, love or hate,
To me alike it deals eternal woe.
Nay, curs’d be thou, since against his thy will
Chose freely what it now so justly rues.
Me miserable! which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;
And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep
Still threat’ning to devour me opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav’n.
O then at last relent! is there no place
Left for repentance, none for pardon left?
HooooWeee! Call me to that narrow path!
May 30, 2005 - 11:50 pm 37. larry:Terrye, do they sell time shares in your conundrum?
I get an eye test every six weeks. Soon as I need glasses, I’m quittin.
May 31, 2005 - 6:35 am