Recent content by Iain Aschendale

Hybristophilia is the phenomenon characterized by sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes.

Mostly used amphetamines, but I've never heard of him not taking something.

Hmm, yeah, I'd thought about the shirt being sliced open. Used to work 9-1-1 and I know those medics love their scissors. Not going to dispute your knowledge of where the belongings go, but as long as it's not  completely implausible for them to be in a bag hanging at the end of the bed... it...

"History will not wake you from your ignorant slumber gently." -Mike Brock

Excellent, thanks to all! Having him just wander off is going to affect his documentation and future insurance/healthcare needs, I'm glad to see that I'll be able to at least give him his clothes back. He spends the rest of the night in a homeless shelter, and if he was in just a hospital gown...

As the title says. A middle-aged man, warehouse worker, is electrocuted at work and his heart stops. He ends up first in the ER (USA, Los Angeles if it matters). The medics/doctors (unimportant to the plot which ones) manage to restart his heart. He's put in a... room? Ward? Shared room? for...

I think Trinity is my favorite of his novels. The followup I didn't like so much <googles> Redemption (1995). Can't remember why specifically, but I may not have finished it.

If my math is correct, I am the exact same age, to the day, as my father was the day I moved to Japan (for "a year to eighteen months) almost twenty-five years ago. I am violently, passionately ambivalent about this fact. He had achieved many things by that age that I haven't. He made about...

I like Trish. There are a number of members from the old board who don't seem to have made the jump (yet) whose presence I don't miss so much though. They'll remain nameless for the sake of forum unity, especially if we drift near an island where they washed up and they make it aboard.

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur. Sort of a companion book to The Good Place, and a really nice entry level primer to moral philosophy.

Whenever a kid shows up in a "vintage" band shirt I play the music in class. Hope to either turn them on or break that stupid fashion trend.

Read that one too but don't remember much. I went through a Uris/Roth phase in my early 20s where I kinda overdid the American Jewish Experience (not, as far as I know, Jewish myself, just rabbit-holed the topic) and then burned out on it. There are scenes and lines that stuck with me, but a lot...

Giorgio Armani will soon be rocking an absolutely stunning shroud.

Hobart! I remember the cheese grinder from Taco Bell in the late 80s! That and the deep fryer were the only things you had to be 18 to operate. Some of our shift managers were still 17...

Man, I resd that ages ago. Early 90s. Did it have the recurring phrase "Hurry up please, it's time" in it? Some USMC Pacific novel I read around that time did and I'm damned if I can remember which. You're my only hope, Obiwan Petra4!