Comments on: Monday Mailbox #4 and #5, Wednesday Style

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:07:57 +0000

You know you can go to the library(public) and they have the editions of most books that you can check out for free. It might turn up some good books for you and you don’t need anything but a library card.
I’ve been impressed with Catch 22, also Norton’s Anthology of Greek Methology, One Flew over the Cookoo’s Nest, Fear and Lothing in Las Vagas. Even though those are from my college days, many moons ago, I still like that I have read these.

By: Bob TuYu

Bob TuYu — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:58:49 +0000

Aw gee!…do you Still feel bad? It just sucks when you don’t talk to us. Do you need some chicken soup? A skillet of gingerbread? Maybe Jake should give you a dose of salts! We’ll see if you go waltzing across Tennessee then!
Maybe it will help if you know we all worry about you and miss you terribly. Besides, you best feel better fast — Jake’s courage is growing.

“Nobody knows…de trouble I’m in…”

By: Zander

Zander — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:27:04 +0000

I’m quite fond of southern writers,esp,Flanarry O’connor(great short stories,very S.gothic,Strange/wWeird & wonderful,also Carson Mccullers-read “the Member of A wedding”T”he heart is a lonely Hunter” films on V or DVD,also like Truman Capote,strange,sweet,weird,Gothic,Sensitive-Homoerotic,aslo Tennessee williams,mainly a playwrite,yet some short Sts,read some Faulkner,also like Thomas wolf_who died too young, Eudora Welty have read some(funny),know what U mean about teh south,it’s so diff,from other areas,i’m fr. the Northmyet have traveled/read.take care.truly enjoy Ur Blog,honest,fun,well-written,sexy,etc,aawe shucks too much flatery-Will give U a big head! Ha he,he

By: Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:19:25 +0000

I concur with the other posts. You are a writer. Even though you area painter by trade, your heart’s desire is clearly in the writing. Of course, I haven’t seen your painting, but I imagine it’s as well crafted as your prose. It takes some time to segue from one profession to another. There have been several blogs that have been converted to published form. Joe My God, Gay Haiku by Joel Derfner, Clubland, etc..

I’m ending a fifteen year career as a network geek to finish a degree in art history and enter grad school by the Fall. For years, my heart’s desire has been in art. It has taken me almost four years to finish the degree at night, but I’m doing it!

Favorite Topics? I enjoyed reading about your interactions with clients and your co-workers. Obviously the stories about your family and in particular your grandma. Life with the Fantasy Jake husband are awesome! The vignettes about life in TN remind me of my youth in Oklahoma.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:33:51 +0000

btw.. i’ve re-read the book about 7 times. the only other books i’ve re-read as many or more times is Tolkien’s LOTR trilogy. Too bad those movies were not as well adapted.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:32:08 +0000

I first read TKAM when I was 11 or so.
I saw the movie on tv and was so taken up in it that I had to have more. I had to read the book, come hell or high water. My mom had a 1st edition that she read when recovering from an operation in 1961 and I devoured the book. Since then I’ve seen the movie many many times. Whenever it’s revived on the big screen see it. I saw it last year with Mary Badham and Phil Alford sitting 2 rows in front of me. That was cool! That Elmer Bernstein score gives me goosebumps just thinking of it.
The screen adaptaion is regarded properly as one of the best, a blueprint for how to adapt a book to film. I’ve always been sorry that we never got to see the Jem/Mrs Dubose story, or Aunt Alexandra/Francis. But I also know, being a film historian, that any book to film adaptation must practically have omissions and consolidations due to time constraints.
If you havent already, read and see “The Grapes of Wrath”

By: TllBlndgy

TllBlndgy — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:10:31 +0000

PERFECT choice and rationale (tho Tom was shot by prison guards while trying to escape..killed). A new question…Do you ever fantasize about an LTR with a man? What does that fantasy “look” and “feel” like? Day-to-day life? Arguments? Make-ups? Skidmarks?

By: Bob TuYu

Bob TuYu — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:49:54 +0000

I’ve told you more than once that you take words and weave them into the very fabric that is our lives. The plaids and patterns that you create show us All who we are, because we need only to read your stories to identify with them.
You ARE a Writer, and you’re just as capable of writing the profound as either of the authors discussed. And Yes, I really believe this.

I agree with Rayrayj. It would be sublime to read more stories about Granny: like the one you told about the Tennessee Waltz. I think everyone was moved by that story. You know, I accused her of marrying your grandpa just so she could get off with his furs. Surely there’s a story in all that?! What would Granny tell us about: ghosts?

And, if you don’t Feel Better, I’ll tell Jake what he can Do to get his picture on the cover of TIME as “Man of the Year.” Hahahahaha

By: chris

chris — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:25:40 +0000

i dont have a particular one since i usually do read and reread the books i like; currently drylands end by picano. id have to say that i could read and reread the lord of the rings trilogy. yes, i am a geek!

By: rayrayj

rayrayj — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:02:17 +0000

I agree with Cooper, you are a writer; and a writer I look forward to reading daily. Regarding your request for questions, I’d like to read more about time spent with your granny and grandad when you were young. What are those childhood memories?