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Bob Russel, Vice President.

Toby Ziegler: In a triumph of the middling, a nod to mediocrity, and with gorge rising, it gives me great nausea to announce Robert Russell - Bingo Bob, himself - as your new Vice President.

Will Bailey: This lapdog of the mining interests is as dull as he is unremarkable…

Toby Ziegler: …as lackluster as he is soporific. This reversion to the mean…

Will Bailey: …this rebuke to the exemplary…

Toby Ziegler: …gives hope to the millions unfavored by the exceptional… Bob Russell: not the worst, not the best, just what we’re stuck with.

(Taken from an episode of The West Wing, the rest is unimportant.)

Butterfly Boucher (Take 435)

Question: (...) are the 2 above songs ["I Can't Make Me Love You" and "Another White Dash"] on the same album?

Answer: Yes, they are. The album's entitled "Flutterby" and it's a personal favorite of mine.

Question: How can I get those wonderful songs and the rest of the album?

Answer: You say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and then press here.

Bird Flu

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Butterfly Boucher - Another White Dash (Video)

Notting Hill (and Marc Chagall's "La Mariée")

Anna Scott: I can't believe you have that picture on your wall.

William: You like Chagall?

Anna Scott: I do. It feels like how being in love should be. Floating through a dark blue sky.

William: With a goat playing the violin.

Anna Scott: Yes... happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.

(Taken from Notting Hill, directed by Roger Mitchell, 1999)

Butterfly Boucher - Another White Dash

Something exciting

about leaving everything behind.

There is something

deep and pulling

leaving everything behind.

Something about having

everthing you think you'll ever need

sitting in the seat next to you.

On and on and on...

Note to self: On December 27th, stay home.

'In Another Country' by Ernest Hemingway

In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. It was cold in the fall in Milan and the dark came very early. Then the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows. There was much game hanging outside the shops, and the snow powdered in the fur of the foxes and the wind blew their tails. The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and the wind turned their feathers. It was a cold fall and the wind came down from the mountains.

(Continue reading here ...)

'The Robert Redford'

After seeing Lions for Lambs, a movie that has the intention but fails to pack the punch it aimed for, I found myself reading the comments about it on the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) when I stumbled upon this sentence by one Michael Connelly from Maine:

"Redford is great on camera - we like to look at him, he has a great voice, and his eyes still have that remarkable, defining quality that makes this guy The Robert Redford - not just another actor."

(And I just couldn't agree more...)

Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Do you cry out in your sleep?

All my failings expose.

Get a taste in my mouth as desperation takes hold.

Is it something so good,

Just can't function no more.

When love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Remember the echoes...

We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail [fail, fail, fail...]. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea [an idea, an idea, an idea...] can still change the world.

(Taken [and altered] from V for Vendetta, directed by James McTeigue, 2005)

Beyond The Hello

Hello! You came early…I still got so much to do.

Hi beautiful. Actually you are not That beautiful at the moment, what are you wearing?

How are you? Still with yesterday’s hangover I suppose!

Now that I’m with you, I’m fine…Fine maybe is not the right word, once my leg still hurts from Sunday’s match! You are not a doctor, so the ache is the same. I missed you so much! After calling you by the name of Julie yesterday I realized that I was not missing you that much…or maybe I dialled your number while I was missing the both of you! Well it happens! I think.

No you didn’t…Right, you were to occupied thinking of Julie. But I did, and you do not imagine how much! That kind of “much” that have killed you and Julie yesterday.

Ah ah…funny! Or not…I really do not imagine how much. Tell me, how was your week? A lot of shopping…Parties all night long…Sleep all day...Did something crazy?

Normal. This weak was great, I had so much fun and you do not even imagine I went to Oporto for three days. If you thought I would be sitting here waiting for you…And yours? Guess what…you were wrong darling!

The same old things, people, places…except Julie!

Nothing new? Not even…hmm…Julie?

No, total boredom! Apart from those three days in Faro with Julie. I really don’t understand how you didn’t notice my absence.

And how about that interview for your new job, how was it? You are so dull that they are only going to hire you if they are really needy or if they do not want to pay much to a new employee…in that case you are their guy!

It was phenomenal, almost for sure that job is mine! They simply love me! If they do not hire me, they are going to regret it. But and if they don’t? I hope they give me the job…maybe I’m not going to make it…she thinks I’m not going to make it, and if she is right?

Really? Don’t make me laugh!

Great…one small talk and I’m not self-assured anymore! Yes…she doesn’t need to know. They looked very impressed with my CV. I’m such a liar! They did not even look at it. I’m doomed!

Hmm hmm…Do you even have one? What is written on it? Your name and phone number?

At least I’m trying to get a job and don’t live on my parents house. You’ll see I’m going to be the editor of that magazine some day! Dreams do not pay income.

Gosh what is that fly doing? Look out for the glass...stupid fly! Wait, what was he saying? I hope so darling! I hope this fits, it usually does.

Well, sorry, but now I have to go…I don’t have to, but I want to. I’m getting sleepy...I’ve so many things to do that I don’t even know where to begin with. Make popcorn and see a movie is probably a good beginning.

Me too! Like get rid of you and sleep until supper!

I have a clue about what you have to do, sleep and eat. See you tomorrow…my “Garfield wannabe”! I’m so funny! Actually you almost have whiskers. She never understands my sense of humour, and once she is the joke, it is better if I shut up. Ok, do not laugh, she is looking at you. Control yourself man! It is time to retreat!

I hope not! Take care sweetie. And say hello to Julie for me!

I need to say something that leaves her thinking. How about…Before I go I would like to say how happy I’m to know we share everything and are free to say whatever comes to our mind. We are one and not two individuals! Did this sound hypocritical? Probably not, she is too smitten with me. Now the big finally…Love you. Or not!

Did he memorize this from a magazine? Try again darling, I know you can do better. I feel the same way. These moments make us grow and be sure that we are perfect for each other! I almost forgot the wonderful cliché…Love you. Do I? Don’t think so, but is better this way, I don’t want to hurt him. Despite the existence of Julie he loves me so much! And maybe she is only his cousin. I’m such a fool! Anyway…who am I kidding? It has nothing to do with the poor girl. Even though our relationship is so honest and pure, I simply do not love him!

My piece of writting

First of all please don't pay attention to the title of my post. I was thinking about something else at the moment... looool :P
What I've written is just the begining of my book.
Please I would like you to read my story and let me know what you think of it. You can send me your feedback to my e-mail: tiago_nunes17@hotmail.com
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Brotherhood of Darkness

Prologue


Everything was quiet at S. Avenue 21 in Los Angeles, USA. But Sarah Connelly, a thirty year-old woman couldn’t sleep. Something was disturbing her. Everytime she tried to close her eyes, she dreamed about her deceased friends, brutally murdered by a group of students of her college. She could see their mutilated bodies with a hole on their chest where once there was a heart. Sarah suddenly woke up:
“Oh my god, please”, she cried, “ when is this going to stop!”
The next morning, Sarah woke up and went downstairs to eat her breakfast. She went to the kitchen and prepared herself a nice bowl of cereals. While she was eating, the doorbell rang.
“Sarah, could you open the door, please?”, her mother shouted upstairs from her bedroom.
“I’m coming!”, Sarah answered.
Sarah opened the door and the mailman delivered her an envelope addressed to her. When she looked at the envelope, she saw that there was no sender. That’s strange!
“Is there any problem, miss?”, the mailman asked
“No, not at all. Everything’s fine. Thank you!”, Sarah answered smiling
After this, Sarah went inside to finish her breakfast. While eating her breakfast, she opened the envelope and inside there was a simple computer written message written on it:
“These walls can’t hold us much longer! Someday we will get out of here and finish what we have started. You must die… You have to die...
The Brotherhood of Darkness shall rise again!”
After reading this Sarah almost choked on her meal. Sarah's eyes widened and the images from the previous night came to her once more. Could it be? Could the assassins of her friends have escaped from prison? Impossible…
The California State Prison, Los Angeles County is one of the most secure prisons in the United States... Sarah was now shaking. She rushed to the living room where her mother was watching TV.
“Mom, let me see Sky News!”, the girl said. “Why dear?”, her mother asked.
“Just do it, ok?”, Sarah yelled at her mother.
“Ok calm down lady!!” This girl keeps getting stranger and stranger.
On the Sky News channel both of them saw live footage of the prison that was holding the five elements of the brotherhood. The reporter said to the camera pointing at him:
“This morning, the guards here at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County found the cells of Brian Phoenix, Michael Phoenix, Mark Bennington, Peter o’Connor and Mathew Redford completely empty as you can see behind me. The warden already gave his men the instructions to follow. The warden also said that….”
Sarah was devastated. She fell to the ground and started to cry and scream. From this moment on she knew it…. She knew that she would die!



Chapter I

Los Angeles, October 10th 2018

My name is Michael Phoenix and I'm thirty years-old. I've been in jail for the past ten years. My brother, my friends and I were arrested for the assassination of our college classmates. Murderers, the judge called us....
The fool doesn't know what he's talking about!! He does not know what it's like...
We were condemned to a lifetime in prison. For crimes that we commited for hatred....and love.


Our story begins ten years ago. We were at the begining of college and Mark invited me and my brother to a party in his place to celebrate the end of high school and the begining of college.