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664. webfeet - 5/11/2006 7:39:19 PM The other bizarre part, which I can't even get into today or ever maybe, was that after leaving Starbucks, there was a dad wearing some kind of plaid cap standing in front of the book check-out, pushing a double stroller.
It wasn't clear whether he was actually on line, getting on line, thinking about getting in line--or what.
So I turn to him and ask, "Are you on line?"
He's about to answer, when I notice his beautiful green eyes and then I realize, desperately, madly, psychotically--all these emotions rising--that I made-out with him, stoned, in the women's room at the grimy sailor's tavern in our hometown when I was twenty! Then a second later, he realizes the same thing and we both kind of scattered as if someone sprayed napalm, in opposite directions.
I would have drunk supermarket sherry when I got home, but I took an advil instead. 665. webfeet - 5/12/2006 4:39:43 PM Having endured all that to get Black Swan Green, it was worth it. I began a few pages last night--and was relieved that I didn't have to wade through strange dialects and tongues as in Sloosha's Crossin'--one of the chapters in 'Cloud Atlas' that is an exhaustive but mind-bendingly brilliant read.
The style in BSG is similar, even if it's the slang of british teenagers in the 80s instead of Hawaiian islanders in the post-nuclear age.
For example, "Moron grinny-zitty as ever. His bumfluff's getting thicker, mind." Or, "He pongs of gravy" --which I take it means he (Moron) is poor. Anyway, I like it. Mitchell is incredibly funny. 666. webfeet - 5/16/2006 5:31:18 AM This is sort of feeling like vaudeville...now is this a book club, jen? Look me square in the eye: or, have you abandoned Black Swan Green for The Prada Murder Mysteries?
Since living inside Black Swan Green, and Mitchell's poetic, pastoral Lord of the Flies adolescence, I am starting to feel like an adolescent reading it. L'oreal hair gel, Thatcher, the Faulklands War, Reagan and Haig, the "dusty flute" from that Men at Work song..today I read it on the subway en route to my doctor's office while I ate from a bag of cinnamon hearts, like a seventh grader discovering Judy Blume. Oblivious.
667. Jenerator - 5/16/2006 7:24:23 PM Don't be so gay~! 668. Jenerator - 5/16/2006 7:26:41 PM We are a bookclub - a ya ya sisterhood of the Mote. I, too, am having flashbacks to parachute pants and Human League and am having fun with it. Just wish I could have more interruption free time and less screaming children! 669. arkymalarky - 5/17/2006 12:12:08 AM Jen are you teaching now or are you still home? 670. webfeet - 5/17/2006 2:56:37 AM Here, you wanker :Interview with David Mitchell
671. alistairconnor - 5/17/2006 10:12:28 AM I'm not sure who the "wanker" is for, but I'll take it. (I can take it.) I'll take the Mitchell anyway. Next time I order some books. 672. Ulgine Barrows - 5/17/2006 10:16:46 AM i'ts cold out here and rough 673. judithathome - 5/17/2006 12:37:00 PM Yep, it's hard out there for a pimp, that's for sure. Or so they said at the Academy Awards. 674. Jenerator - 5/17/2006 10:10:11 PM Arky,
Still teaching. How about you? 675. Jenerator - 5/17/2006 10:11:08 PM Webbie,
Great interview.
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I love how subtle he is with the relationship between Mum and Dad. 676. arkymalarky - 5/17/2006 10:28:26 PM I'm out for the summer after next week, but I didn't know if you were still on maternity leave. We've got three or four pregnant teachers, so next year's going to be a real juggle for the district trying to cover for them. 677. Jenerator - 5/17/2006 11:10:53 PM I didn't get maternity leave - I had to take my once a life supplemental leave and that was for 6 weeks.
It was hard going back to work so soon.
I'm ready for summer, how about you? 678. arkymalarky - 5/17/2006 11:15:00 PM Oooh. We work leave differently, evidently, and I accumulated enough days to take the rest of the year off after surgery in April. I had Mose around Thanksgiving and came back around mid-January, if I recall (21 years ago).
I'm ready for July. I have a 12-day, 12-hour a day seminar in June, as part of my Masters. But once I get it behind me I'll be halfway through and the rest of the summer will be nothing but fun. 679. arkymalarky - 5/17/2006 11:16:17 PM That is the hysterectomy I had last April. I'd accumulated enough between having Mose and the surgery because I hadn't had to take off much in between. 680. Jenerator - 5/17/2006 11:18:40 PM You're lucky you had so much time. We only get 7 days of leave per year and with a young child at home, taking 7 days off per year (or close to it) was easy. 681. webfeet - 5/18/2006 2:06:02 AM Mirror mirror on the wall, who'se the scariest of us all?
Why...it's Ulgine!
Ulgine, instead of your usual vagina monologues why don't you charm us with a story? 682. webfeet - 5/18/2006 4:57:31 PM On second thought, maybe you shouldn't. "If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, :When you're ready." --Black Swan Green
We're all vampires here..come join the dead.
683. webfeet - 5/19/2006 9:44:56 PM NUPLANET-I think what I would really love to read is Chicken Piccata, part III.
I'm not going to critique--I promise. karl has the vapors again and will have to stay on his Louis XVI daybed and repose. I think, as macnas and alistair have intimated, that this might really be deconstructive to this thread.
Getting published for me right now is life or death. M.A.'s depreciate and children grow up and then what? Let's not answer that.
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