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I feel it necessary to break my monastic silence in order to speak the truth about Ian Pike, who is not a "sour" guy, but rather more a sweet-and-sour guy. Goes to show what you learn second-hand; better to realize you've met with the best you can right now, Mr. Mahmood, and that 80% of the review could be tacked up above the bar as is, not to mention that it will most certainly draw in business. So you've been informed that Pike is young in years; that has nothing to do with the integrity of intellect of his writing, and to claim that you wrote at his level of rhetoric in seventh grade is laughable. You certainly wouldn't be in the restau biz— December 19, 2013 1:58 a.m.
Get Married (At Least Once)
russl, deary, writes me. I'm on a loooooooong grading stint...— August 15, 2010 2:53 a.m.
Get Married (At Least Once)
Cheesy enough? I forgot specific recommends! Refried, you too. For our alleged lunch--which is now looking more like fiction than an occasion to discuss it--I would read a book of your choice if you would read a selection of Beckett, trying a couple of the plays and maybe attempting some of a novel? Short drama: "Eh Joe" "Not I" Longer Drama: Endgame (absolute best) Novel: Watt (choosing this later novel over the trio of Molloy, Malone Dies, and Unnamable because that's a lot to read without being originally self-motivated to do it, and because Watt is a mature development of his writing style aned voice (well, one of them ;) That's enough!— August 15, 2010 2:52 a.m.
Get Married (At Least Once)
re: #1: Beat me to it, refried! Select sentiments of others echoed as well. ;) So, we're on book recommendations? I'll mix well wishes with my usual drumbeat on Beckett: So congratulations on your "I can't go on. I'll go on." That's the way. For those reading who are not familiar with a close read or with Beckett, there's a double entendre there: "to go on" physically, and verbally, as we readers would wish for Brizz. The talking cure? No cure--no one ever claimed that--the talking, like the disease (insert your disease here, or just write "life"), is interminable until it just stops. Beckett is your best friend, whether you know it or not. Dare I be really annoyingly presumptuous and insist, he’s the one you were reaching for in those ‘Bye John’ letters of previous columns? Do I really have to write a book jacket, then? Ok! Here goes: Beckett turns that soulless cry in the night into a philosophical giggle; he strips the decadents of their excessive frippery and returns the incessant chattiness of existentialists right back over to them with the turn of a bicycle wheel, and a spasmodic narrator never failing and ever falling to rest in a ditch--or to start talking again. Last I personally saw, you understandably chose Whitman’s bear hug over Beckett's boniness. Let your non-textual friends give you the bear hugs, and put the old yawpster down a bit, for one whose prickliness will be closer to your own heart.— August 15, 2010 1:30 a.m.
Recipe for writing a successful neighborhood blog
Ok, Grasca, I promise to uphold the five rules of the Cat Coalition for Cleaner Blogs for Fun and (Non)Profit. Only problem is that some of us keep getting in trouble with #5: "...be clever about what you do say." ;) And a2z, that was 2 funny ;)— July 10, 2010 8:35 p.m.
Keeping Secrets/ The Ties Which Bind
Beautifully written, Grasca, and much appreciated during a time when apparently being a female who owns a cat and writing to a group of female acquaintances with cats constitutes membership in a cat "gang" or "clique." Guess we should appropriate the term and embrace it; no one could do it in a lovelier way than you have here. Brava! Made this cat-lady's day. Purrrrrr. ;)— July 10, 2010 8:29 p.m.
Simple Oven-Barbecued Ribs
Can you please adapt this recipe for vegetarians?— July 8, 2010 9:10 p.m.
General Announcement, Please Read
Oh,,hooo girls just wanna have fun! Nan, if you stay with me, I promise you'll have fun, girl. xoxoxo— July 6, 2010 11:10 p.m.
General Announcement, Please Read
re: #18: Lifesbeengood, nice post. I have only posted here and at CityBeat, so am interested in your experiences on so many different sites. I was led to believe that this site has been about down the middle, in terms of tolerating "controversial" topics, and pretty lenient when it comes to self-expression. I hope that things do not change too much; recently I hear that a blog entry was removed for mentioning incest. That much censorship is intolerable to me, and if that is to be a harbinger of things to come, I'll probably depart. I post rarely, but when I do, I have to be able to reference any human phenomenon I want...— July 6, 2010 2:42 p.m.
General Announcement, Please Read
Hey Grasca, you can write, you know! To quote from "The Idiot," "Methinks" it ironic that one who agitated for lawlessness ended by bringing stricter policy down on all of us. (Thanks a lot, Pete...hope the little tempest in a teapot was worth it) :( CF, I think just being oneself, and respectful, allowing others to be themselves, is the way to go, as far as this new climate permits. I truly appreciate the warning about racial epithets and "abuse of others," but don't know if I can live with as much censorship as is suggested. Talking about site content obviously leads to talking about each other, because we post a lot of site content. Am I missing anything here?— July 6, 2010 11:23 a.m.