• Welcome home!


    Welcome home. No, I mean it. This is our home, and we’d like it to be yours as well. A lot of time, energy, and heart have gone into making this place. Hopefully you’ll find its someplace you want to hang your hat and stay a while. Fantasy abounds here and is the key, but we still have a touch on reality as well. So, come in and chat with the locals, be it about the new hot book on the market or the new blockbuster at the corner Cineplex. But, even more important are our people. That’s what truly makes this humble place a home. We have an incredible cast of characters in our family, so won’t you cast your lot with us?

  • The Front Page

    Re: Should you find yourself in...BERLIN 

    by
    Eyreplenh
    Published on July 26th, 2010 15:45  Number of Views: 21 

    For starters, let me just say Schønefeld is a very simple and I'm guessing young airport, because it's facilities are really not top notch and it's a petty damn long walk away from connecting infrastructure. That being said, for us, young people, travelling in the summer, the walk was not such a problem, but when it's cold or if you're not that into walking, you are pretty much forced into grabbing a cab -which is quite expensive in Germany.

    That being said, once you're aboard the train you're on a part of a great interconnected web of transportation. Trains, trams, subways and buses, Berlin has a lot of them all. Figuring them out is another matter, but overall it's a decent system. This too, is pretty expensive, which is pretty well illustrated by the fact that in the course of the weekend I was accosted by a total of five beggars -three of which where asking for tickets with hours left on them rather than money. Figuring the transportation system is paramount -Berlin is a huge city spread out wide, and even though we walked our shoes off most days, we'd have no chance to see all that we wanted to see without the weekend transportation pass.
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    Gadgetry and Distractions? 

    by
    Buck
    Published on June 2nd, 2010 21:25  Number of Views: 83 
    Categories:
    1. Article

    These words are what start off Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous work. Published well over a century ago (1845 for those that care to know), I remember reading this poem for the first time when I was a teenager. I found the text disjointed and foreign. Hell, I’ll even go as far as to admit that I only paid minor interest in this poem due to a Simpson’s episode. Am I an uncouth heathen? Perhaps, but that’s another article.

    A quirk of literature in general is that it is open to interpretation. And despite what an author may have originally intended, a poem can have a completely different inference and can even draw new meaning. A song can mean something completely different after that first kiss behind the bleachers. And so here we are, 165 years later and rapping at my chamber door has new context.

    In this day and age, everyone is plugged in to some degree or another. We can text, tweet, blog, forum post, instant message, digg, and that’s only mentioning what I did this afternoon. The list is practically endless. Is it a bad thing? Absolutely not, it brings us more options to communicate.
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    Halloween Poem 

    by
    sir archely
    Published on April 25th, 2010 17:52  Number of Views: 48 
    Categories:
    1. Poetry

    the pale red leaves fall
    a prelude to winter snows.
    red swirls on the ground
    dance as the wind blows.

    there's cold on the air
    you can smell and taste
    makes you fear to breathe
    lest your last breath you waste.

    you look up from where you lie
    into the unforgiving sky
    and think the pale orange moon
    laughs as it passes you by.
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    Daybreakers 

    by
    Anita Blake
    Published on April 25th, 2010 10:34  Number of Views: 93 
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    1. Article
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    Daybreakers

    Good concept, alright execution. Basically it's about the future where almost all humans have been ...
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    Welcome to the new CMS. Read me first. 

    by
    Mike
    Published on November 6th, 2009 00:00
    Categories:
    1. CMS
    2. Article
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    Welcome to the new CMS. Here's a quick guide of the different areas of this page.

    1. Section Navigation Widget. This widget allows you to go to different sections. The "plus icon" means that this section has sub-sections. Clicking on the "plus icon" will display the sub-sections.
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    Managing CMS Section and Content 

    by
    Mike
    Published on November 10th, 2009 00:00
    Categories:
    1. CMS
    2. Article
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    Here's a quick Visual Guide on how Manage Sections in the new CMS.

    1. Editing a Section: If you have permissions to manage a Section, as you hover over the Section title, a pencil icon will display.

    After clicking the pencil icon, you will be taken to the Section Edit page. Here's what you will see:

    2. Section Name:     Enter the Section Name
    3. SEO URL Alias: This is the SEO Friendly URL. By default, if this is blank, the system will automatically copy the section title.
    4. Section Layout: For each section you can define an individual section layout.
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    How to Create a New Article 

    by
    Mike
    Published on November 6th, 2009 00:00
    Categories:
    1. CMS
    2. Article
    3. Insert Images
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    Here's a quick visual guide on how to create a new article with the CMS.

    1. Create New Article Button: Navigate to the section you want the article to be published in. Click on the "Create a New Article" button. This will open an article form.


    2. Article Title: In the "Add/Edit Article" screen, enter the title of your article in the "Title" textbox.
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  • Recent Forum Posts

    Mike

    Re: Random Stuff & Nonsense

    Stupid Australians?! ~covers DF's ears~

    This is all sir archely's doing!

    Oh wait, he's an American, that explains it...

    Mike September 7th, 2010 Go to last post
    Arianna

    Re: Random Stuff & Nonsense

    a lot of the Europeans I have met who have encountered some 'stupid Americans' discover later that they were in fact stupid Australians. just sayin ;)

    also I really love Disney's Aladdin. what...

    Arianna September 7th, 2010 Go to last post
    sir archely

    Re: Random Stuff & Nonsense

    i was expressing no such directed commentary or thoughts. there is no deeper meaning to my post.

    sir archely September 7th, 2010 Go to last post
    AquaFizz

    Re: Random Stuff & Nonsense

    Everyone already thinks we're stupid and ignorant. Might as well have fun with it?

    AquaFizz September 7th, 2010 Go to last post
    Amelia

    Re: Introducing: The Bean

    I like my sister now, but growing up I would wish to be an only child and once my mother told me that my personality was that of an only child.

    Amelia September 7th, 2010 Go to last post

  • Recent Blog Posts

    C'mon! Just one more!

    In an unlikely (I think) twist of fate ('s knife in my back), one of my OTHER favorite bands will be on this side of the pond at the same time as Mumford & Sons. Not only that, but they will tour...

    September 7th, 2010 14:24

    Fireworks

    It's been a while since I last shot some fireworks. There's an "international" fireworks festival here every year, so more then enough opportunity. I simply watched last year, no camera there. And...

    August 18th, 2010 11:15

    And So It Begins (Again)!

    The Spring was insane for me. My divorce was finalized the day after what would have been my two year marriage anniversary. A couple weeks later, I packed up a duffle bag and drove north to two of...

    August 13th, 2010 11:44