 Action/Adventure: May 30, 2007 Issue [#1737] |
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
-John Gregory Brown
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
-Bill Cosby
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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FATHER'S DAY
Now that we got all those OTHER holidays out of the way, like Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day, it's time for the good stuff: Father's Day! And there's nothing better than seeing Good Ol' Dad relaxing out back in the hammock reading his favorite book or magazine and having all the little kiddies waiting on him hand-and-foot. "Bring me another cold one, sweetie." and "Let's watch ALL the 'Die Hard' movies back to back."
Yes, amidst all the agonizing moans and groans from your loving family, this is the day that dad's everywhere get to choose what movie THEY want to watch. And of course, it’s always an Action/Adventure flick with plenty of car chases, shoot-‘em-ups, and testosterone. Even amid all the brainwashing and the feminization of males across this great country, there are still a few of us that don’t WANT to just Talk-It-Over, or care about how somebody else FEELS. Some of us still want to hunt and fish, drive the family car real fast, scratch themselves where the sun don’t shine, and/or break wind with a smile of total satisfaction.
This is OUR day, and we’ve waited for 364 of all those other days to get it! Now don’t you dare try to minimize it either, no WAY! THIS day is just as important as all the other holidays that you girls get. THIS day is almost as important as dad’s birthday week (and/or month). THIS is a day where dad’s everywhere get to do what they WANT to do!
Now, here is a list of little things you can do for Dear Ol' Dad on this most special of all days.
 We want to sleep in! Don't bother trying to bring us breakfast in bed until we are good and ready to wakeup.
 Don't expect the yard to get mowed, the dog walked, or the car washed. No!  We want to relax, kickback and enjoy the day without having to solve everybody else's problems.
 We don't care about cards or flowers. If you want to give us something, give us the remote to the TV and let us flip until our thumbs fall off.
 We want to eat greasy food. None of that salad and uncooked vegetables you've been trying to shove down our throats all year. We want biscuits and gravey, country-fried steak, french fries, onion rings, and PIZZA!
 We want to sit and look at our beautiful loving family (no talking, please) remembering how they were when they were young, with their pudgy little cheeks and those big innocent wide eyes, and think that all the time and patience spent in raising them was not in vain. Besides, who was it that answered all those important questions you asked: like, "Why is the sky blue?" and "Where do the stars go during the day?" We did, that's who. Dad's everywhere are always taken for granted. Remember us kindly. Though we appear to have a tough outer shell, every now and then we still need to hear, "Dad, I love you."
Well, that should just about cover it for the first part of the day.
Until next time,
Happy Father's Day!
-billwilcox
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My stomach rolled, tossed between a hundred emotions. The fingers of my left hand picked absently at the microdot tattoo on my right. How long had I lived here, taken our weekly rations with a smile and a thank you, ran to school with my friends, laughed and lived like this was a completely normal and proper way to live? Why had I not fought every moment? Why wasn’t I fighting even now that I had watched my classmates and teacher gunned down? When one of my friends had died in my arms?
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Tom opened it carefully and examined the contents. It was filled with rows of porcelain thimbles. He pulled out one to inspect it and gasped involuntarily. The thimble was from the late nineteenth century and bore the likeness of Queen Victoria. It had a small flaw running down one side. He recognized it immediately from every collecting guide he had read as a child. Only a handful of the flawed thimbles were known to exist and a serious collector would pay thousands for one. Tom pulled out the next thimble. It was exactly the same. So was the next one, and the next.
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J.T. opened his eyes and peered into the bright, sunlit skies. The earth felt like it was rumbling beneath him; he was lying flat on his back, yet he was moving. He tried to sit up, but his arms and legs were tied down with leather thongs. A tree limb brushed gently against his forehead. He looked around, but saw no trees that were close enough to touch him. A fly buzzed above his face and he tried to blow it away with a gush of air from his mouth.
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“Shall we get the pleasantries over?” Treize said. “But you’re dead man,” He said to himself. “Really? Because I look quite healthy for a dead man,” He smiled and pulled the gun from his trousers and pointed it at Jacob. “But I shot you in the back man,” He cocked the hammer. “Ah yes but I’m Treize. I have a high intelligence, a steady hand and as an added bonus, invulnerability,” There was a moment’s silence. “BANG!” Treize said loudly and suddenly.
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Her name was Bonney Williams, but she knew that wouldn't do, so she turned it around. It didn't matter much. Few people called her by name anyway. Because of her downy cheeks and diminutive size most people called her kid. Once they had looked in her eyes though, they said it with respect.
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Fine memories like these helped my heart heal in the long years since his death, but the pain never leaves. I miss him even now.
The green fluorescent dials of a clock stared back at him. Cautiously, the moment taking on all the solidity of quicksand, he reached into the bag and pulled it out. The clock was mounted into a black box and duct-taped to a twelve inch square cube of plastic explosive. “Jesus, talk about overkill."
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THE HERO GETS THE GIRL
ehrydberg
Submitted Comment:
I think the 'hero gets the girl' is almost a genre necessity for action/adventure. In this type of story we always expect that the crazy devastation and world-jarring events will all end up happy in the end. Perhaps 'getting the girl' is a symbol that everything works out when all is said and done. Hence, the hero gets the girl. The exceptions being the 'lone-wolf' sub-genre...and occasionally the 'strong herione must give up the guy to achieve all she can be' sub-genre (a lone wolf variation).
An alternative that I've thought for the girl not going with the hero would be if she is strong-willed toward a cause that he runs rampant over. One example might be with a staunch environmentalist. Modern action heroes, with their villain-oriented tunnel vision, typically leave little but destruction and devastation in their wake and that could sit pretty badly with some people. I fear this type of story, in practice, would tend to the comedic, however.
Larone Mckinley
Submitted Comment:
Interesting approach, hero doesn't get the girl and ends up being hated by the girl in the end. I have to give that some thought, also. That is more like real life; no good deed goes ununished.
-Larone
nomlet 
Submitted Comment:
I think you hit on it. If the Hero doesn't get the girl in the end, then you've written a tragedy.
likenion
Submitted Comment:
In most action/adventure stories and every film in that genre the good guy gets the girl, which is so cliched that people should search a new way to present a bit of romance in action/adventure.
Personally my fave is when the love interest turns out to be the evil-doer. It's done many times before, but if written well enough it is a great twist in the story and twists are what I love most in stories.
However there are other ways to refreshen this template. For example the love interest can tragically die, which happens also often enough, but still hasn't been that exploited. Another example is when the romance is more like a one night stand that later on has an important role in the story.
I really think that everything has ben set before, but it matters more how the tale has been told and how the author has put some new details and interesting plots. A good story teller tells a good story.
Thank you for yet another innovative newsletter.
Breezy-E ~ In College
Submitted Comment:
I was going to have the girl not fall in love with the hero (though she likes him as a friend) and, regardless of how they feel about each other, they both have responsibilities that keep them apart at the end.
-Breezy-E
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