Noble Dust

Thirty is pretty impressive. I haven't had that Tony's, although I think you might mean Knickerbocker and Greene. For old school slices my favorites i...

That's cool. Off the top of my head I know of three different Chinatowns in NYC, but a quick google search tells me there are actually nine. I'm not s...

Nah, I'm trying to make NYC style pizza. Basil is good on a margarita pie with fresh mozz, but otherwise for me it's a bit overrated as a topping. I s...

Tonight some friends and I are having a pizza making party. I made dough last night which will have fermented for about 24 hours once the festivities ...

We call those Heirloom tomatoes in America, although I'm sure there are specific names for specific ones. On the east coast they're only in season fro...

Oh right, I see that now. Obviously I accepted all the story entries, so implicitly thought they counted as stories. This one is certainly a story. It...

I'm not the right person to ask. I guess theoretically it's just a series of events, hopefully told in a way that's interesting to the reader.

I'm enjoying this more on a second reading. A couple notes: The shift in tense here threw me. I think it's a good idea to describe the memory of the m...

I agree, but on re-reading I like how short and weird it is. This one has really grown on me.

I don't have much to add to the comments here. Although I very much liked the story, it felt a bit too brief for me. I agree with @"Vera Mont" that mo...

I can't pretend I enjoyed this one that much. Maybe because the character reminds me a bit of my own dad (still living). I suppose it's interesting to...

Piano music can get pretty complex, but there's also a running joke that pianists are just "button pushers", meaning the technique is pretty easy. Gui...

No, technically a piano! But first percussion instrument was snare drum, I think.

:up: I like that you like my coordination! Percussion was my first musical instrument; Coordination is my thing.

I wouldn't get too mired in MU's personal language.

@"javi2541997" in NYC, Dominican bodegas carry plantain chips. I like them better than potato chips. :up:

I'm not sure how to say this, but I think for native English speakers who are avid readers, and probably literature nerds, the sort of writing found i...

Personally I found the writing style to be very effortless. Some stories are easier to read than others, and for me this was one of the easiest to rea...

To clarify, a mod has to close threads in order to close polls, which @"Baden" will do at the deadline. Once poll numbers have been counted by @"180 P...

I don't know if I respect your respect for my disagreement with your comment because I don't know what that means.

I don't think trying to write a period piece is akin to writing in a "bubble gum genre". It's really hard to try to write in the style of a specific t...

Huh? As others mentioned, this is a period piece. It's clearly a writer trying to get in touch with a time and place and embody a character that exist...

If your attitude and lack of respect is indicative of the atheistic world you want to see become a reality, I want nothing to do with it.

I've been told this is one of my strongest assets. I just dump and dump, and eventually people tell me they feel bad, or that I'm a gifted writer, or ...

I would describe the evolution of your shoutbox jokes as overwhelmingly bewildering. It's either that or I'm too tired to come up with a witty respons...

Sounded great until the end here. Not sure what that's doing in there.

Now that I think about it, I don't know that I do either. But I think some fancier fries (chips) are coated with a batter, fried, then coated again an...

I would say Beer-battered onion rings are more common in America. So if the chips are beer-battered, does that mean they're double dredged or somethin...

Cumin and smoked paprika were present. I honestly don't think the beer does anything, it just makes me feel more uh-MER-ican. It does add more liquid ...

Anyways, meal prep this week was chili. No, I won't give out my secret recipe, but suffice it to say I'm a firm believer in "more is more" when it com...

I agree it's been neglected. I plan on re-reading and commenting more...as I do with most of them...I suppose I need to put my money where my mouth is...

The "results" button you clicked turns into "poll" when you click it. Just click it again.

Just click on "poll" and you can vote.

That's a good point, her POV is out of place in the narrative. If anything, I guess not having a Lord POV helps keep him distant from us in all of his...

:fire: You go, girl.

Maybe I'll start referring to Google as Funk & Wagnalls. "Hold on, I'm not sure, lemme Funk & Wagnalls that."

As good a place to start as any.

I see now that I didn't really use it correctly either; I meant it more as "acceptable" but it seems to be more positive than that. Spooky indeed. Per...

Nah, I just went to bed, it was late. I get hyper-focused when I smoke, though, music is always a good choice.

I hope this is copacetic to talk about, as it's legal where I live. I rarely smoke marijauana, but last night I smoked a fat joint and let me tell you...

Ne're min' ai gout it

Yes, "Liberal Christian" is ultimately another way of saying "future apostate". I would know.

I'm just not a visual person, so I don't generally absorb these details until a second reading. I think the author enjoys the visual and tactile, whic...

That's a fair point, I think I probably had the same mind-snag initially.

It's cool. I still don't know how to articulate my mixed feelings about progressive white folks obsession with the ethnicification of western musical ...

I would like to present you with your Shoutbox Scholar diploma, good sir or madame. Congrats, now get off the podium.

Yes! There's more to be explored here. There's not much about this story that suggests any pre-occupation with scientific veracity, though, is there? ...

Not to be lazy, but you've basically said most of what I was feeling about this one; I've been meaning to go back over it and get into a more detailed...

Yes, the hallmark of a good nights sleep is those blissful few moments as you're waking where the weight of the world is momentarily lifted from your ...

What a shock.