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Bill Nelson
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Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 04:16 pm:

I've got two novels I'm working on. One, an adventure story about a time machine, the other set in the Civil War.

I can't get excited about either one. Every time I start working on either of them, I think of a story line for a stage play and away I go.

I guess I have to admit that's where my interest lies, and focus in that direction.

I seem to be able to picture the action on stage better than with the
broad brush of the novel.

Sigh...

Stephen Lodge
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Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 07:18 pm:

Go for it, Bill - maybe you could become the next Tennessee Williams ~

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Bill Nelson
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Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 09:47 pm:

Hmmm....Texas Nelson. Has a ring to it.

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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 05:08 am:

Ozzie Nelson? No, that's already been taken. Ricky Nelson? Too garden partyish. The Great Bard Nelson! Now, that has class!

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Dennis Collins
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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 05:10 am:

If you ask me, Texas anything has a thud to it.

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Pacwriter
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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 06:13 am:

of course HALF Nellie

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Pacwriter
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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 06:16 am:

Life is always stranger than fiction

How about a play about a woman, twice divorced, three lovers, receives plane tickets to Algeria from internet boyfriend. Winds on the white slave market. Set the play in the dungeon of an old castle. ( my prediction for my daughter's nutty friend who was taken last year for 5 grand by a Nigerian)

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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 06:19 am:

in case you are wondering -- yes she has an offer of plane tickets from the guy to come to Algeria and he will even "SEND" her a passport.

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Bill Nelson
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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 07:36 am:

Wow. How can she pass up a deal like that? I'm waiting for a nice gentlemen
in Nigeria myself. I sent him my checking account number and he's going to deposit millions in it. I can't tell you the details,it's a secret, but I'm
going to be rich, rich I tell you, rich. Mawhahahahaha. What nice people, those
Nigerians.

Dennis, jealousy doesn't look good on you. The green clashes with your vericose veins.Curious, have you ever been in Texas?

Dennis Collins
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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 04:24 pm:

When I lived in Mexico I used to visit Texas regularly. I even spent an evening in Mickey Gilley's Texas Nightclub. In this part of the country a nightclub is a rather upscale place where people get all dressed up and go for a fine dinner, cocktails, and a multi-act floorshow followed by dancing to smooth sounding orchestra. In Texas it seems to be a pole barn where cowboys show up with horseshit on their boots and drink Lone Star out of the bottle. I guess it's all what you're used to.

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Dennis Collins
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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 04:26 pm:

Oh yeah, and I even have a cousin who lives in Texas. His dad was my mother's baby brother and my Godfather. The cousin is pretty famous in Texas. His name is Rick (Goose) Gosselin and he covers the Cowboys for the Dallas Morning News.

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Bill Nelson
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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 04:55 pm:

Dennis, Gilley's was a COWBOY theme honky-tonk. I had a ton of fun there myself.
You should go up to Gruene Dance Hall or to Flores Country Store. They are
really cowboy.

However, I've been in some places that require a tie and some that are
nearly formal in dress-code.

And, by the way, I've been in several "dives" in Detroit! Don't sing that
sophisticated song to me, bub. My son-in-law lives up near Pontiac and all
he owns are jeans and ugly plaid shirts. They're all beer drinking hicks.
I guess you're right, it is what you're used to.

Dennis Collins
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Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 05:38 pm:

Well, when I was younger my dad was a headliner in clubs like the Chez Paree in Chicago and the Roostertail in Detroit. They were five star places in the heyday of nightclubs and the atmosphere was strictly cosmopolitan. I loved going there.

But then I've spent a few evenings at the Polish Sea League and Ted's Tavern too.

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