What's new, pussycat?

[raidingparty]

Left work late-ish on Tuesday, hearing the distant hooting of owls. Called grandma on my way up the hill. She started off brusque but we ended up talking the entire walk home, 75 minutes or so.
Friday there was a rainbow, and part of a double, on the way home. D&D ended up being more dice-crunchy than I expected, since the heroes decided to go

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just call me Sleeps With Cancer

[chris_warrior]

i think i need to screen-print a T-shirt that says something like "Macho Cancer: not an oxymoron." there might have to be a frog on it.

Or "the blond to be named later"

[raidingparty]

I remember your saying, one time, something to the effect that you would do anything for someone who got you a signed copy of The Last Unicorn.

Re: Or "the blond to be named later"

[chris_warrior]

this has to go under the heading of "I may have said it, but I'm blanking on when." though i have read my copy of The Last Unicorn, teice, and will probably be loaning it to Dave at some point.

[sentientjello]

Think of Liam Neeson...effortlessly masculine. Doesn't fit into any bro stereotypes of meat, football, or sexism...but can you think of a single thing about him that isn't rather, well...manly? Did he come off at all weak mourning a dead wife and caring for a stepson in Love, Actually? Was he cruel when he tortured people to save his daughter in Taken? Is he the voice of Aslan that you always imagined in your head; the perfect amount of affectionate, wise, and terrifying? In The Grey, all in the same movie, he writes eloquent and poetic letters to a lost love, comforts a friend as he dies horribly, makes a punk-ass swallow some blood, and then rounds it off by fighting hungry wolves bare-handed. Your challenge (and IMHO every man's challenge) is to be more Liam Neeson than The Situation or a bro.

[raidingparty]

Excellent example, although I have a hard time imagining him telling silly jokes or playing D&D or shaking his booty. His dignity is incredible, but I don't know how well it becomes me. And when I'm intentionally trying to evoke dignity I tend to end up haughty instead.

One thing I do especially like are his exasperated or winsome turns, both of which I do see in myself.

[chris_warrior]

i definitely think size is an issue, whether it should be or not. Dave does all those things, is a cook and a Cancer to boot, but no one on earth would describe him as effeminate. he's just too big/husky (unhealthily so, unfortunately). maybe the military bearing comes through as well? i dunno.

i also think clothing influences things quite a bit. in black and with the leather jacket, i would have given you the 'macho' cred.

i suppose i meant to ask... why would you *want* it?

[raidingparty]

Chicks dig it? That's what my dozen or so wingwomen have told me, at least.

There's also the benefit of confidence, when it's done honestly. I could stand more of that.