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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

"Oh I gave it to them! Potopompos scroton evohe. Like that, hot and strong! Picked up at nightschool- He burst into a wild raucous laugh- free nightschool for glimmer-thirsty wrecks. Potopompos scroton evohe, the soft cock and buckets of the hard. Step out of here, I said, with a stout heart and your bollocks in your boots and come again tomorrow, tell the missus to go chase apes in hell. There were delicate moments. Then up I'd get, covered with blood and my rags in ribbons, and at 'em again. Brats the offscourings of fornication and God Almighty a cheap scent in a jakes."
-S. Beckett

"Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy!"
-A. Bester

"The real war is between those who are turned on, and those who are uptight."
-T. Leary

"For swift and efficient travel, give me Amundsen; for scientific investigation, give me Scott; but when you are at your wits' end and all else fails, go down on your knees and pray for Shackleton."
—Raymond Priestley

"He is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight."
-Sourced from MFK Fisher

"Okay, That's my Outburst for today. Let's hope that it gets Somebody off the dime. And if you don't Do Something QUICK you're going to Destroy a very good idea. I'm in the mood to chop yr. fucking hands off.

R.S.V.P

(Signed)

- HUNTER"

"[D'Este was] a sexual pervert. There are very few things I call sexual perversion, but he liked to fuck goats, and that is technically a perversion."

K. Anger

“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.”

— D. Parton

"The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars"
- J. Cash

Girl Scout to Larry David: Do you like girl scout cookies?
Larry: I find them abhorrent, but come in.

"Real men don't let the earth help carry their luggage, mate." - S. Hans

“Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers.” - Willie Shakes

"In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates."
- Michel Foucault

"...without any previous experience, with practically no equipment, at a moment's notice." —Orde-Lees


"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.”
― L. Trotsky, Literature and Revolution

#19: Never get cook't by a mickerwave.

-Noah

Bad books on writing tell you to ‘WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW’, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

— Joe Haldeman

The life I love is making music with my friends.

- W. Nelson

No hay lobos.