Is anybody else getting a "Error 503 Service Unavailable" message? I haven't really tracked it but it seems to happen around this time (1 AM CDT) when it does happen. As far as I can tell it goes away fairly quickly

Tornado two miles from me, on the ground. Anybody wanna play Twister!

I just ran across this on the EGS forum and thought some might find it useful.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/websitename

So BC would be: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bigclosetr.us

I'm trying to find a story I'm pretty sure is a Whateley tale. All I can remember is a class is on the firing range shooting blanks. Then one student's gun makes the sound of a real fired shot. The range instructer stops everything and is headed to check out what happened. The clueless idiot swings the gun around in spite of being told to put the it down and shoots the protagonist.

Sound familiar?

Looking for a story about a teen boy that has refused to cut his hair. He ends up making a deal with his mom that if he can properly take care of his hair and keep it off his collar for the month/summer she will let him get a scooter he wants badly. This of course means he starts learning how to do updos from his mother's hair stylist. He is spotted by a couple of girls from school and it goes on from there.

A Texas state appeals court has overturned a county court ruling that the widow of a fallen firefighter wasn't entitled to to his estate because she is trans, not GG.

Texas Appeals Court

Found this really cool piece of art and immediately thought "This is what Gaby will look like when she's all grown up.

Gaby - Hell On Wheels

If you do go look at it be sure and say something nice to Wernope, the artist. She deserves it!

The stories listed under the "More Like This" section, how are they chosen? (Drove my parents nuts always asking for explanations!) I've seen a couple that the recommended stories were not anywhere close to the story chapter they were appended to.

Perhaps I missed the notice, so what's going on with FM? I haven't been able to access the site in several days. All I get is a Content Encoding Error, something about the site using an invalid or unsupported form of compression. Can I please buy a clue here?!?!

To all my Canadian brothers and sisters, the ones I know and the ones I don't, allow me to express my sorrow and sympathy over the events in Ottawa today. I wish I could give each and everyone of you a big hug. Especially those who have a loved one involved in this crime.

Y'all take care now, ya hear?

Is anybody else having difficulties with the "Remember Me" aka "Persistent Logins"? I've tried a laptop with Vista, a tablet with Android and a phone with Android, and the same thing happens. I log in on the home page, select something I want to read, and click on it. But when the next page loads I'm logged out again. When I'm reading a long story like "Whisper" it gets annoying. My account page says I have one persistent login, but I see no way to toggle that setting to test it.

So, anybody?

Okay, I don't have a clue how to share something from Facebook to here so I hope a cut and paste works. This was posted today by David Gerrold, a noted author best known for writing the all time best Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles". It seemes it might have some relevance to certain on again/off again conversations here on Big Closet.

David Gerrold

So a guy I don't know plonks down in one of my threads and promptly starts criticizing.

I've noticed that different stories appear differently on my cellphone. Just for the record: I have an LG Quantum (just released with Windows Mobile 7). I'll use two examples that are currently on the BC front page: "A Fortuitous Adventure: or, how I got my first job" by Louise Anne and "The Experiment: Part 10" by Donjo. Please note, I'm not singling out these two stories for any reason other than I looked at them on my smartphone.