tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post3352204535468349241..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: Dead Lines, New LinesAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-81913897360153593522011-11-18T22:29:32.823-05:002011-11-18T22:29:32.823-05:00I can think of several towns i still associate wit...I can think of several towns i still associate with nausea and loss.<br /><br />Hey - have you written a story about this poor guy yet? Surely you must.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-17963322410373069172011-11-18T14:32:04.157-05:002011-11-18T14:32:04.157-05:00Garce, this is hilarious. It reminds me of a worse...Garce, this is hilarious. It reminds me of a worse-than-fiction true life incident in<br />which a famous transgendered person (FTM) & performance artist came to my town for an event called Queer City Cinema, held only once every 2 years. Famous Person reacted badly to local food and/or local hard water and spewed in a public toilet, accidentally spewing out a valuable gold tooth. Panic! I watched as several admirers of Famous Person plunged their arms into the toilet to find the tooth. I ran to plumbing co. to get help or at least advice. Nothing worked - tooth was never recovered. I'm afraid Famous Person will always associate my town with nausea & loss. :(Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-53343960177746036842011-11-17T18:03:18.082-05:002011-11-17T18:03:18.082-05:00Hi Kristina! Thank you for reading my stuff and t...Hi Kristina! Thank you for reading my stuff and thanks for the little shout out on your blog too, I appreciate that very much. We need to get more people reading OGG. Good luck with your book project. I have yet to write a novel. The story fairy still gives me short stories.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-40390681968854055402011-11-17T18:01:15.314-05:002011-11-17T18:01:15.314-05:00Hi Lisabet!
You see - we've got history going...Hi Lisabet!<br /><br />You see - we've got history going on between us. We're becoming old friends. You remember me when I was bummed out. I still get bummed out but not like before. Getting better. Still thinking about stuff too. I got the Haruki article you sent me, I've tried reading his stuff a few times but couldn;t get it. I may not be mature enough to read his stuff yet. Sometimes you come back to a writer after a few years and suddenly you get him. I am rediscovering Anais Nin's "Little Birds" though.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-37544535472829284722011-11-17T17:58:03.367-05:002011-11-17T17:58:03.367-05:00Hi Goddess!
Very good, ever and always. Thank yo...Hi Goddess!<br /><br />Very good, ever and always. Thank you. And I'm still waiting to find out what that mysterious thing you noticed that worried you is about.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-56415656912203689342011-11-17T11:52:03.184-05:002011-11-17T11:52:03.184-05:00I love this, Garce. It's funny and poignant an...I love this, Garce. It's funny and poignant and so true. Beautiful and timely and just... wow. I love it. Thank you.Kristina Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07206629885091637673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-72500311999381765552011-11-17T04:44:21.398-05:002011-11-17T04:44:21.398-05:00Oh Garce!
You've come a long way.
"It&#...Oh Garce!<br /><br />You've come a long way.<br /><br />"It's a goner. It sags in my arms like a dying comrade."<br /><br />This is hilarious and I'll bet it all really happened, too.<br /><br />BTW - we have a smartphone that the university bought for us, for a software project, and I'm terrified something is going to happen to it. I don't mind carrying around my $75 Nokia, but a phone worth $600? What if THAT phone bounced into the toilet!<br /><br />(And maybe it's just my generation, but I find it kind of obscure,too!)<br /><br />Thanks for another wonderful post!Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-24101906925399397502011-11-16T22:38:37.309-05:002011-11-16T22:38:37.309-05:00So it was a good thing that I called you, yes, swe...So it was a good thing that I called you, yes, sweets? <br />xoxoGoddessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-73203454662275537712011-11-16T18:20:57.390-05:002011-11-16T18:20:57.390-05:00Hi Fiona!
You lift up my day too. Thanks for rea...Hi Fiona!<br /><br />You lift up my day too. Thanks for reading my stuff! Truly. I'm so glad to know you;re out there giving my stuff a chance. I'm lurking around on your blog too -<br /><br />Free plug! Check it out everybody:<br /><br />http://www.fionamcgier.com/<br /><br />I could go off about the economy and why it is mom and dad have to work so many jobs to get by, and I know the reasons for it too but it is what it is. Sometimes we just have to look at our life and love what there is to love. If your children love you and you have a man in your life and your bed who loves you and desires you and gets it up with you when you;re not both exhausted - you;ve got the hard stuff beat.<br /><br />Think of it this way - think of your problems and ask yourself how many of them could be solved with money alone. If most or all of your biggest problems could be solved if you just had some money to throw at them it means you;ve probably got the really important stuff under wraps. And your kids will remember you for your devotion someday.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-52267720072993168972011-11-16T16:56:17.803-05:002011-11-16T16:56:17.803-05:00Wow, Garce! Just, Wow!
Ima gonna print this an...Wow, Garce! Just, Wow! <br /><br />Ima gonna print this and reread it every time I get depressed about working 2 dead-end minimum wage jobs. I do so to help my 4 kids get an education because I feel I owe it to them because I love them. So I have children to love. And they love me back...not just a-peck-on-the-cheek-at- holidays, or because they have to...but they really, really hug me and tell me they love me, even when others are watching! And I'd still marry my husband in a heartbeat, and he smiles at me sometimes and says, "Sometimes it feels so good to be you and me." <br /><br />I guess what you are saying is that when we count our blessings instead of our shortcomings, the future looks better and the present feels more comfortable.<br /><br />I'm off to my second job today in a minute, but thanks for sharing. You may have decided not to become a conventional holy man, but sometimes I feel like you are speaking right to my heart, as if your words are meant just for me. It's a gift for which I'm grateful.<br /><br />P.S. I don't have an I-phone either, or a Blackberry! Nor do I want one!Fiona McGierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495707848048468428noreply@blogger.com