Nah, just something to look forward to....
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2005 8:11:58 am PDT #3890 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2005 8:36:38 am PDT #3891 of 10001
brillig
[link] Picture Number Nine drabble
Detective Sullivan studied the picture they'd pulled from Ginelli's pocket as the mobster had cooled and stiffened on the sidewalk. Ginelli and a kid, both dressed fancy, like respectable people. The kid watched Ginelli, maybe thinking "I'm going to be just like him."
Sullivan told himself it was just a neighborhood kid, a "hero"-worshiping nobody. In his gut, though, he knew that somewhere a kid was about to find out that his father was dead, that he'd fallen to the cops. Somewhere a kid would look at his weeping mother, would look for his father's weapons, would join his father's cronies, and keep the whole sick wheel turning.
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2005 8:55:15 am PDT #3892 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Connie, I love that last paragraph.
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2005 9:03:06 am PDT #3893 of 10001
brillig
I've got another gangster drabble percolating. It's good to feel the writing loosen up again.
What's the difference between a mobster and a gangster?
erikaj - Sep 08, 2005 9:10:23 am PDT #3894 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Not all gangsters are mobsters. Mostly, now, it seems to break down ethnically with mobsters being more likely to be the old-school neighborhood Italian, Jewish, and Irish wiseguys. Gangsters can be black and Hispanic... Maybe actually it's an organization thing...gangsters not being able to trace back to the Five Families and such. Dude, I'm "Rain Man" with brass knuckles and a bag of chronic.
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2005 9:14:31 am PDT #3895 of 10001
brillig
Dude, I'm "Rain Man" with brass knuckles and a bag of chronic.
You are a font of arcane and specialized knowledge. People get paid for that sort of thing.
erikaj - Sep 08, 2005 9:31:29 am PDT #3896 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Except for...I'm not sure that I'm right.(There goes that job at FEMA. Dag.) But I think you can't be a mobster without being able to trace your bona fides. And you're only mob-connected till you take the oath and get "made", which some close mob associates never can because they're not fully Sicilian.
Deena - Sep 08, 2005 9:49:46 am PDT #3897 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
There goes that job at FEMA. Dag.
I don't think a job at FEMA requires you to be right, only confident.
Deb, got today, have eaten three. Am in chocolate bliss. Thank you and my anonymous benefactor muchly.
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2005 9:52:00 am PDT #3898 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hee! Will do, Deena.
I'm not going to get anything written until tonight. Neighbours on both sides are doing construction projects. Fucketyboo.
Kristen - Sep 08, 2005 10:00:26 am PDT #3899 of 10001
I think you can't be a mobster without being able to trace your bona fides. And you're only mob-connected till you take the oath and get "made", which some close mob associates never can because they're not fully Sicilian.
You don't have to be specifically Sicilian. But, yes, you do have to be fully Italian and able to trace your roots back. Until you get made, you're just an associate.