Ron Chalice Weblog » Excerpts http://ronchalice.com/blog Brain dumps, rants, and the occasional rare jewel... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:35:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New Toys – Oh Boy! http://ronchalice.com/blog/2007/04/new-toys-oh-boy/ http://ronchalice.com/blog/2007/04/new-toys-oh-boy/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:03:44 +0000 ron http://ronchalice.com/blog/?p=58 We just put up a cool new toy on RonChalice.Com…

It’s a new page that selects and displays random excerpts… Poems from Kiss the Breath of Sunset, additional poetry, hort stories, articles, quotes from characters in the Solace Creek Stories, blog entries, song lyrics and more…

More changes…

Take a look at the new home page… it has a picture of Catherine ‘Case’ Combes and a new tagline for the Solace Creek Project.

The entire site has been given a facelift — along with all the sites in the Solace Creek Stories project –to take advantage of the real estate on most of the monitors out there (no… for those of you still at 800×600 you’ll still see a good chunk of information above the fold with minimal horizontal scrolling).

In addition to the facelifts, Acolytica, Boulder-Springs, Molly Wanna Quacker, and SeemsFree have all been given completely new graphic designs and logos.
AcolyticaBoulder-Springs
SeemsFreeMolly Wanna Quacker
This is all being done in preparation for followup on the Pikes Peak Writer’s Conference in a couple of weeks, and for our presentation “Playing Spider:Enticing Your Web Audience” at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold conference in September.

What I’m reading:  I’m going to make some time this weekend for Robert Crais – The Watchman; looking forward to meeting him in the Springs.

What I’m listening to: Stumbled across “Johnny Winter’s Greatest Hits” in the bargain bin at Borders…

Ron

]]> http://ronchalice.com/blog/2007/04/new-toys-oh-boy/feed/ 0 Character Quote from the Solace Creek Stories http://ronchalice.com/blog/2006/10/character-quote-from-the-solace-creek-stories/ http://ronchalice.com/blog/2006/10/character-quote-from-the-solace-creek-stories/#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:44:19 +0000 ron http://ronchalice.com/blog/?p=25 “If you can’t say something good about someone, you must be a reporter.”  – Detective Alon Jacoby in Love Your Eyes (1989 Screenplay, Novelization WIP)

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Love Your Eyes

Her smile, will bring a man to his knees,
Her style can get her anything she’ll please
One look makes you want to take a chance
There’s a book being written with every glance
She’s so cool, she’s so cruel
Want to escape the stories and lies,
I can’t get away ’cause I love your eyes.

That walk, can make any light look dim
When she talks to another man, you gotta envy him
But watch out, there’s no truth in any thing she says
You’ll find out, she’s a woman of a thousand ways
She’s so cool, she’s so cruel
Want to escape the stories and lies,
I can’t get away ’cause I love your eyes.

She’ll turn her back then she’ll walk on by
She’ll burn you, every night, a new alibi
She’s a teaser, she loves nobody but herself
She’s a pleaser, she’ll bend you ’til you don’t know yourself
She’s so cool, she’s so cruel
Want to escape the stories and lies,
I can’t get away ’cause I love your eyes.

Love Your Eyes Album Cover

 

 

 

 

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Stuck in Telluride

 

Once on a Saturday night not so long ago,
I was feelin’ mighty fine, as those feelin’s go.
I saw a little lady, tried my best to impress,
I thought maybe later I could get her undressed. 

She looked at my clothes, although I tried to hide ‘em
I said it wasn’t really me deep down inside em
I said come on with me girl I’ll show you a good time
She said let me see your wallet son, before I cross that line. 

Sittin’ on the mountain, cookin’ in the sun
Sleepin’ in a bag, when the day is done
Haven’t got a car, can’t afford the fun
I’m stuck in Telluride without a trust fund 

Pinchin’ pennies, while everyone else
Is packin’ their noses with hundred dollar bills
I’m scrapin’ together nickels and dimes,
To buy some diet pills. 

While they are drinkin’ Stoly or Bombay and Roses Lime
I spend a buck and a quarter for some Red Mountain Wine
It’s tough to be so broke, while surrounded by the rich
I’ll puke on the seat of your Porsche, you spoiled little son-of-a-bitch

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Why Bother 

Frankie, Tom, and Leroy thought they knew it all
Like the three musketeers, they were always walkin’ tall
They made it through a rite of manhood
By petty theft and kickin’ butt
They said they were never understood
They just couldn’t make the cut 

Why bother, there are too many rules
Why bother, play along and be a fool
Why bother, ‘cos there ain’t no goddamn jobs
Why bother, that’s why you’re bein’ robbed 

Frankie started dealin’ so Leroy took up smack
And Tom he went his own way, shot a cabbie in the back
Leroy’s sleepin’ in the street
Like a little puppy stray
In prison Tommy was just new meat
So he blew himself away 

Three guys never intended to be bad
Three guys never learned the dance
‘Cos three guys never opened their eyes
Three guys thought they never had a chance 

Frank’s the only one livin’ now, one night Leroy died
Where these guys could have gone, if only they had tried
It’s always easiest to blame
Everyone else who’s livin’ pretty
Growin’ up you hide your shame
In the gutters of the city 

 

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