Comments on: Also

By: Katy_A

Katy_A — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:23:07 +0000

Yeah honeymoon and house demolition!

By: K

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:43:06 +0000

I’ve been reading since 2004! Too many favorites to name. I am still totally freaked out about the arm wound photos, maybe I shouldn’t have looked at them. I really liked reading about your time in LA. Bird! Oh and the New Yorker entries! Did you once have a boss that gave you an ipod in a brown paper bag?

By: RCH

RCH — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:29:37 +0000

That story about the psychopathic children was awesome. My favorite parts were when the child calmy told his mother “you didn’t think through that very thoroughly, did you,” and when he was at the special camp, how he would be screaming L’s name when he was dragged away to punishment. L!!!!! I DID IT ALL FOR YOU!!!! That L. must be some kind of child….

By: kerry

kerry — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:51:54 +0000

First off. Arm scar picture for the lord’s sweet sake, we need to be seeing that shit! And seconding you need to throw those deathbowls the fuck away!

Bird still makes me want to weep uncontrollably, not so much for sadness that he left but for the beautiful jam you guys had together when he was in your life, and how he was just such a centered, peaceful kind of dude, and who knows what he has seen with that little eye? I like to believe Bird is out there bringing that kind of zen to others (or perhaps “takin ‘er easy for all us sinners”), like that is his purpose, he is a wandering sage with his one wise eye looking into people’s souls and seeing what they need and also if they are suckers who will give him fish paste.

HOUSE DEMOLITION STORY!! I have retold this story many times to other people. I can’t remember, was this a story someone told you or an article? Whatever it is, it’s unbelievable. REPUBLISH, RELINK.

Frenchy honeymoon story–giant cheese plate! (Also perhaps Japan stories–are those still around on the internet somewhere??)

By: Drea

Drea — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:34:02 +0000

Third vote for eliminating the bowls.

Also, you had a holiday season entry one year about a cabin in Arizona(??) where some strangers prayed at you and then a trip to Texas where you and A sat around the dinner table with your relatives pretending it was the 17th century. I’d like to read that again, if you’re taking requests.

By: RCH

RCH — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:23:10 +0000

I concur with J. You need to get some wooden bowls and be done with it.

By: yelena

yelena — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:51:54 +0000

Epic Xmas house demolition/raid story is definitely my favorite. Also, the one about what it smelled like in the Romantic times. And all the practical ones about how to file things, how to get on with writing a dissertation, how you like to get things done immediately, etc. And what Mary R. said above.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:41:44 +0000

Jesus, you still have the other bowls?

Get rid of the bowls!!

By: mokin

mokin — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:02:19 +0000

Some of my favorite entries are the ones where you talk about your childhood. Living in Texas, and then moving to Colorado and not having electricity and being afraid of the dark. And the ants in the maple syrup thing and all that. Also any stories about Telluride and the boarding school you went to. Specifically I remember a story about watching JAWS in a pool, which seems crazy to me and maybe I made that up?

Also any entries that are about your travels: Paris, Phoenix, etc. If you love a place or hate it, it doesn’t matter, it’s always funny and entertaining.

AND OF COURSE, any entry that reviews a book/film/TV show. Those are probably my absolute favorites.

By: Mary R.

Mary R. — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:05:27 +0000

I’ve been quietly reading and admiring your posts from afar since probably around 2005. Even now, I am a rare commenter. That being said, having followed the events in your life for so long, I really wish I could send you a list of my personal faves. Like ALL OF THE LISTS, or the Shakespeare word post, or the one about the Mitford Sisters, or the one about the Snoopy running with the leaf over his face, or some of the sentiment ones about searching for Bird, in addition to the Epic IKEA Bowl Gash Story. Really, there are so many. Sometimes I read one of your posts and I think, “NO, THIS ONE IS DEFINITELY MY FAVORITE” only to have you write something the following day that becomes my new favorite. I respect that you want your internet privacy to not really co-mingle with your “straight life,” as you called it, but I guess I really just want to know why you are not a paid blogger making millions and writing books, though I am sure you are a fine professor.