. Them: "So we want you to do 15 minuites of materail" "Poems and stuff" . Me: "EASY!" "I have hundreads, maybe even thousands of options" . Them: "And it has to all be family freindly" . Me: ".....Errrrr??" "By family freindly...?" . Them: "No!" "We do not mean the Charles Manson 'family' cult" . Me: "Ok" . Them: "No!" "Not the House of Borgia of the Italian Renaissance, either" . Me: "... ok I just...." . Them: "The sort of family that might have a big bright balloon with them!" "Who offers to do nice things for strangers" "Who likes clowns and stuff" "Yeh know" "Something that will be attractive to people and draw them in" . Me: "No problem!" "Thats easy" <I smile happily, suddenly confident and cheerful> . Them: <Thinking for a bit, gettng worried - then turning back t...

  . UNDERTSTANDING HOW CRUSHES WORK! By Ross E F Lombardi . FUCKING CRUSHES! They are not magical They are not mystical They are just the brain being lazy. There is a reason most people have ‘a type’ . . TRY THIS! Make a list of all the similarities good and bad between your present crush and the all the last emotionally charged relationships you ever had. It does not matter whether the relationship was good or bad, only that is was emotionally charged, In fact, past toxic relationships get double points when you make you similarity with your present crush list! Dull or less emotionally powerful experience barely count at all! - IF at all! – Even if those experience are good positive ones! The brain is lazy and the whole human body is designed to reduce any resource use. . When you have a series of strong emotional experiences, especially the bad ones, it creates mental pathways, not unlike Pavlov dog conditioning. Carving these hormone trenches is a he...