Temple Stark - Latest Comments

Re: Book I Ordered – The Genesis of Modern Horseracing

horse_racing — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:14:25 -0000

thanks for sharing you insight :)

Re: Verb: Hate

Fertility Drugs — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:00:44 -0000

Decabinated, verb, definition: the process of breaking cabin fever) So you could definitely see that the kids have to get some rhythm back... But it's nice to be back in action. Amen? Greetings CJ, we welcome you to the Top 4. ...

Re: #TeaGasm – Choice Organic Rooibos Superfruit Tea

Perry de Havilland — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:11:00 -0000

My other half drinks gallons of the stuff (she particularly likes Dragonfly Rooibos Vanilla) but I am not that keen on "Red Bush" myself... I find it has a strange twig-like top note taste that does not appeal to me at all.

Re: Foursquare Elections

Kitten — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:25:43 -0000

In places like Montana they don't need that sort of thing - you just drive by and recognize who's at the local bar by the trucks out front.

Re: These WP Themes, Too

Kitten — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:25:28 -0000

dude, not even active links? /dies

Re: Eddie, 5, Read Red Tractor

Kitten — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:31:46 -0000

you are too cute for words.

Re: Latest iTunes agreement 6/21/2010

Thos003 — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:50:06 -0000

Thanks. ... No Really. Much easier to read here. Plus now I know where to find it... just in case I ever need this resource.

Re: A Different Kind of Birthday

Kitten — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:50:03 -0000

happy birthday, Daddy.

Re: Few hours with contact lenses

Kitten — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:19:13 -0000

Only 20 min this time - next time should only be 4.5 min at that rate of improvement.

Re: Masturbation – It’s What’s For Dinner

Temple Stark — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:54:50 -0000

Not sure you have to argue that last point.

Re: Masturbation – It’s What’s For Dinner

Kitten — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:40:45 -0000

Good points in that article. Works for most women I know - the more sex they get, the more they want. And vice versa. But the question about the dysfunction relating to a later loss of virginity... did they have dysfunction because they lost their virginity late, or did they wait to lose their virginity due to some dysfunction? (And I'd argue that viewing masturbation and sex as sinful is a dysfunction in itself.)

Re: Flight, Sherman Alexie, Words

Da Goddess — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:06:22 -0000

Sherman Alexie is a magnificent writer and he speaks volumes about any number of subjects.

On fathers...he gets it right. It's not just fathers alone. It's parents as a whole. It's also brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles. It's amazing what the people we love and who are supposed to love us can do to our hearts.

(Playing catch up, obviously)

Re: Playing Cards, Antique Like So Last Year

Da Goddess — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:59:42 -0000

Okay, so here's the deal (get it? DEAL!), I like crappy non-coated decks. Not the new ones. The old ones. I think they're fantastic! I have a couple older Old Maid decks like that. Sigh. I can't wait to get them out of storage!

Re: Legal Download - Music, Minibosses

Phil Burmeister — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:41:44 -0000

Nice brief and this mail helped me alot in my college assignement. Thanks you on your information.

Re: Flight, Sherman Alexie, Words

Kitten — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:10:46 -0000

And the what-ifs are stronger with the failed fathers than with the good ones.

Re: Flight, Sherman Alexie, Words

Temple Stark — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:07:54 -0000

The ghost of what one doesn't have is there before the actual man is gone." Beautifully put. Sadly true. I do fine these days, but it tugs a little every now and then and brings the thoughtful, the what if? out.

Re: Flight, Sherman Alexie, Words

Kitten — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:46:20 -0000

I think the violent, flawed, absent ones may leave a bigger hole in their wake, not because their loss was greater than a caring, present father, but because they created a hole and a loss before they were ever gone in the first place. The ghost of what one doesn't have is there, before the actual man is gone.

Re: Still Stuck On

Da Goddess — Sat, 29 May 2010 08:02:45 -0000

I can't believe you actually bought a copy of Rolling Stone. They jumped the publishing shark so long ago, it was a megalodon the last time they reported anything worth reading.

As for online news, it the papers would use online as a supplement to what subscribers get in print, they might actually still make a go of it. However, they'll never do it. And I'm with Kitten on that whole "I don't even want to sign up for a free account" thing.

Re: Still Stuck On

Temple Stark — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:42:23 -0000

I'm ruminating and dwelling on things there, naturally. My slide into the advertising part is, that yes, that is the way to go but people's disdain for it - rightfully so in some cases - is going to hurt companies and themselves. I do like the Twitter model and Facebook model - or the App model for that matter. I've clicked through more things in Twitter and on my Runway game app because they're things I use. I think I may have even bought something, but can't remember what at the moment.

People should expect things to be free - like free magazines and rags - but there's a breaking point, where the nature of news does in fact change; where the willingness of people to fight through poor wages damages actual information. And another edge of that coin, if not the flip side, is that government and companies get more brazen about not quite caring what the public thinks, because the likelihood *they" get caught lessens. And the outrage lessen, too.

Think of it like this (he says speaking to anyone reading). the way people treat their home or their car compared to the way they treat rentals.

Re: Still Stuck On

Kitten — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:28:15 -0000

Read this yesterday but had to let it percolate. Right now there is so much free content on the web that I won't even sign up for a free account somewhere (hello NYT) to read an article, and hell no, I won't pay for it either. I can generally find, if not excellent coverage, at least the bare bones of what I want to know from the aggregates, and then go hunt down the rest of the info as I need it.
If I had to pay for news, I dunno what I'd do - I tend to read about stuff in multiple places since not all of them get their facts straight. Pretty sure I wouldn't pay for online access to a great many sources, so I might indeed be less informed, or at least, more shaped by the one or two sources I did choose to pay for.

Re: Traffic Pains

Da Goddess — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:05:31 -0000

Well there's another fine mess you got us in to.

Re: Traffic Pains

Temple Stark — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:18:53 -0000

I took all these in the Desert Hills area of Phoenix. It's what made me later than planned to Tucson 5/1.

Re: Traffic Pains

Kitten — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:03:43 -0000

yikes. ugly.

Re: Coming Home from Home: Tucson-Phoenix playlist

Da Goddess — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:39:07 -0000

I heartily endorse Homeless from Paul Simon. Can't believe you didn't have ANY blues on that list. Shame on you! At the very least, you should have been boogying to the Insomniacs or Aunt Kizzy'z Boyz.

Re: Sonics Gate Documentary Watch Here

david gorelik — Sat, 01 May 2010 11:45:50 -0000

i truly wonder how much the media[ESPN] which has a right wing ethos, had something to do with underplaying the sonics situation, given that they were being bought out by a right wing group to a conservative state. on the other hand,i do not think that the burden of supporting a pro team should be dumped on tax payers. the whole structure of this draconian corporate welfare system needs to be reformed or perhaps abolished. the structure as is current forces a zero sum proposition on the citizens of a metro area. if you [seattle] dont subsidize my team ill get oklahomans to.
i guess basketball is more important than healthcare to some. we can have socialized sports but no medicine. give me a break!