as per order by The big man!

I know I bailed out on it when I lost track/it got too long to keep up.


um...hmm...something off topic....CHICKEN GREEN TURNIPS

Sometimes it's better to start fresh!

I missed your hilarious comments all summer Shark!! How's my twin doing anyway? Are you ready for a whole new season of prop analysis??

OH HELL YES.

I love how the kitchen appliances have already been discussed just based on the preview.

Between work and paramedic school, it's a little busy here. But there is always time for prop analysis. Kind of like how there's always room for dessert.

Haha, no kidding! You'll have to catch us up on some of your crazy EMT stories from the summer!

Hey all! This is my first time on here in a VERY long time. But I'm back. I had a very rough August but things are getting better now! Really getting excited about Oct 4!!!

We needed a new one? Awww! I like the other title!!! Oh well as long as we have one!

Hey, I *heart* your icon! Yummmm!

spook

Does anyone know which disc the Homicide episode "Subway" is on in the DVD set? I want to get it from Netflix...

I can't remember exactly but if no one else knows, I will check my copy the next time I go home. I just don't have it in front of me.

Oh, um I totally forgot to say what I originally got on here to say. I'm probably not going to be around till the weekend because I'm moving this week and I have to turn my cable box and modem in today (sad) so I won't have internet at home for a few days. So if you guys don't see me, I'm not MIA...and I should be back in cyberland in a few days.

Oh and BTW I really hate moving. Stupid roommate has to get married....

Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 6: Vol. 1 This disc includes the following episodes: "Blood Ties (Part 1)," "Blood Ties (Part 2)," "Blood Ties (Part 3)" and "The Subway." Extras include commentary with writer James Yoshimura and director Gary
Fleder
Actors:James Earl Jones, Lynne Thigpen, Toni Lewis, Mekhi Phifer, Hazelle Goodman, Brian Tarantina, Jeffrey Wright, Zeljko Ivanek, Ami Brabson, Marc John Jefferies, Clayton LeBouef, Tim Carr, Vincent D'Onofrio, Bruce MacVittie, Kristin Rohde, Wendee Pratt, Lisa Matthews

Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 6: Vol. 2 This disc includes the following episodes: "Baby it's You, "Birthday," "Saigon Rose" and "All is Bright."
Additional Actors:
Benjamin Bratt, Carey Lowell, Jerry Orbach, Maureen Anderman, Sam Waterston, Alison Folland, Toni Lewis, Hazelle Goodman, Ami Brabson, Helen Carey, Granville Adams, Sean Whitesell, Camille McCurty Ali, Vanessa Brown, John Tran, Dion Graham, Ellen McElduff, Kathryn Erbe, Peter Maas, Carol Kane

i love you icon that says it's not a party till someone
calls the police that's pretty funny

Yes, that's very inconsiderate of her, to agree to spend the rest of her life with the man she loves! How dare she wrong you like that! (jk)

lol! My cousin being married in 2 weeks! i'm so happy, Only problem is it's the same weekend as thanksgiving up here, and my Brothers Graduation from Highschool, and the Canadian CI premier... In other words, HECTIC!!!!!

Anyways we'll know what happened to you then gbcalienrlakdfn, and know your not ignoring us! lol!

Jryan: Thanks a bunch for the info!



It was a a wallpaper, but in PAINT I fixed into an icon then into the whole banner. I will NEVER do that again... PAINT is so gimpy that it made my head hurt and took 4 times as long as it would have taken me in Photoshop, and doesn't look as good. Stupid pixely artifacts from compression of the image... I really wish I could get my desktop working properly again.

However if you want the wallpaper I threw it in my Photobucket. Enjoy.

Can anyone recomend a good Icon making program? One that you can make the ones that change with different pics. Like I don't spend enough time on the computer as it is. But being home with my daughter I have a lot of free time.

Thanks Bubba!!

Thanks Spook! He's my dream husband! Even my boyfriend knows that!!!

yeah sorry if this is on another thread and i missed it but if anyone knows a good site where there are ci stories on it please tell me cause i just love reading them

fanfiction.net has a lot of stories under the TV shows category, but some of them are better written then others. I'm reading one called Saving Graces on there right now, which is a Bobby/Olivia romance and very good.

This is just a quick post to say that I'm all right. I'm still at the old job because I'm not getting a lot of hours right now, but come December, that will change, and I can go back to having one job again. Oh, and if I don't post for the next couple of weeks, that's probably because I will be busy with school. I'm either doing nothing or I have three or four things in a week and a half.

For making regular icons, any image editing software will work. I'm a Photoshop addict, but there are other programs available. Corel Draw comes to mind off the top of my head.

For the changing ones, that's a .gif file. You'll need a program that can compile .gifs into an animated file. There are some free ones available online, but I don't know how good they are as I've never used them.

Good luck, and I look forward to seeing your work.



Fanfiction.net can have some of the most amazing stories you've ever read and some of the worst trash you can imagine. Sadly there's no way to separate them except by reading...
Self-insertion stories, Mary-Sues, and horrible slash-fics & lemons will assault your eyes, though slash writers are usually kind enough to warn you. While L&O might be spared from as much slash as anime, I assure you it's there.

PS. For those not familiar with the lingo "lemon" means sexual content.

I'm only double posting cause I'm talking about 2 different things...

Is there anyone in the South Florida area who wants to try and make a get together out of premiere night? That way we can all fangasm together and have the strength of numbers against those who would ridicule us...

Random thought I had.

How far south are you?

Palm Beach County

I'm in Brevard. No way at 10 pm Thursday! Good idea though!

wow thanks a bunch
cause i love reading the stories

Hey, self-insertion isn't so bad...it can be quite theraputic...after all, there are no support groups.


"Hi my name is (state your name) and I would like to have intimate relations with (name of fictional character)."

Whats a Mary-Sue?

*bug*

There is some good reading and some crappy content at fanfiction.net, you're so right. I usually find a few authors I like and "favorite" them, so I know I'll probably at least be able to make sense of the stories. (Typos, grammatical (sp? errors and horribly-out-of-character characters really bug me).

InfinityStar and blucougar57 write good, solid G/E fic, as a rule. I have a couple stories there myself, under spookycc. I specialize in G/E hurt/comfort, but am not a "shipper", just a "friendshipper". ;-)) Sorry if we're not supposed to rec our own work. ;-P


spook

Reading them is the only way to find the good ones. What amazes me is the variety! I thought I had an imagination.

Like you, I "favorite" the authors who are consistent with good writing. Though I have stumbled on some writers that may have had 'stinky' earlier stories, and write a gem of a one later on. I make sure I submit them a review to let them know whether or not I like it.

I, myself, have written a few, and the reviews have allowed me to re-evaluate how/where the story is going and what might or might not be pleasing the readers. Some can be pretty caustic, those are the hard ones to get passed (especially if it is a B/A). I've even adjusted some chapters towards the suggestions.

Never thought of myself as a writer (and many probably think that way about my writing ), but I do it out of sheer joy and to see 'if it works'. Working with numbers all day, it's kind of nice to 'work with characters/people'. It keeps me off the streets and kind of out of trouble.

That's worth a roflcopter. It CAN be, but most times it's clunky, obvious, and painful. Self inserts are also often Mary-Sues as well.



A Mary-Sue is generally a perfect character, male or female. No real flaws, all the main characters instantly make them their best friend, and they are better than the main characters in almost every way. No problem too big, no emotional barrier too wide for the Mary-Sue to easily triumph over. In cases of romance, the Mary-Sue will get their partner of choice no matter what the canon storyline says, or even what's believable for the character.

The other version of a Mary-Sue is an overly cliche character. Playing into the cheesiest of cheese.

Heard of Peggy Sue. I stopped reading fan fiction, too many writers are shippers. I like a little romance, but seems to many on the romance is between Eames and Goren, I just don't see it. I see them more as a brother-sister relationship. Was reading a great story once and it went THERE, and it was like ewwwww, ruined the whole story to me.


Also watched some of CI's competion last night, didn't catch ER decided I would give up on that show. So Watched Big Shots, and Taped Without a Trace, will have to decide which one I will chose out of the two. Since I can only tape two programs at once. And CI will be one of them. Big Shots, shows some promise. Without a Trace I don't know seems same stuff didn't victim. Was really disappointed with CSI last night, so guess Sarah signed her new contract, lol, thats all I thought when she opened her eyes at the end.

This is kind of OT, even for the OT thread... But i didn't need it's own thread, and it didn't fit on any other one so...

I'm just curious, how long has everyone been watching CI? Like on a mostly regular basis? It dosen't have to be the new seasons, just as a regular viewer.

I'd say i became a regular viewer about 2 weeks before the season six opener. So just over a year now.

How about the rest of you?

I really can't remember, I started as a SVU fan first, watching CI now and then, but don't remember when, I think some time in Season 3 or 4. Became a die hard fan in season 5.

I became a regular viewer about February of last year.

Dang, I can't remember? My husband turned me on to it, I think last March, but my mind wonders. LOL!

I've noticed that too! When i came here last year, there was mostly a couple people, but not many, and it was like a small town feeling. Now there's lots of people! Even in the last 2 months or so, a LOT of people have joined! Which i'm fine with!

I've been watching CI since season 2, I think. I really enjoy it and try to tell everyone at work about it whenever they see my VDO wallpaper on my computer. LOL Kinda sounds like I'm trying to recruit new followers.

A fan of CI since day one of season one. The show had good promotion when it started here in Australia.
First aired in our ratings off-season,summer, on a Sunday night if I was going out my kids taped it for me. sad but true.

HI! I'm new to this forum. Could someone give me a shoutout and a 50 cent tour on what is going on right now?

I started watching it from the beginning...I watched all the L&Os from the beginning of the mothership....

Hello! And welcome! Okay so right now (on this thread) we are talking about how long we have been watching CI. This is the Off Topic thread though, so feel free to talk about anything on here!

since your new, here are some helpful threads to help you get to know the board!

New Member Welcome Wagon Board Etiquette

If you have other questions, feel free to post them on either of those threads, or this on, or feel free to pm me, and i will be happy to answer any of your questions that i can!

I posted on here more times today than I think I ever did...lol...

It has been insanely busy! A whole bunch of new people joining! The Marathon seems to of drawn in a whole bunch of people! Which is a good thing! Now we have more people to talk too! And CI has fans to help support it for another season!
......Now if we can only get them all to read and follow the rules....lol! Nobody shoot me!


You should come more often, it's a nice little haven after the insaneness of the SVU board.

No kidding...talk about a board that is cluttered with junk...and you get yelled at when you ask for threads to be combined...they have two shipper threads, at least three OT threads and a non-SVU related game on the first page....sorry for the rant...lol...and lets get back to CI...I am flipping back and forth from the marathon to the football game...GO STEELERS!!!!!!

...and you're on your computer! Talk about multi tasking!

What's showing on CI right now?