Comments on: literary jennifers

By: flip

flip — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:13:45 +0000

And if I may add, Kath, upon hearing a reading of your encomium to her ALMOND ROCA smiled a brief, serious smile, which is about the closest anyone is ever going to get to an acknowledgment that she may have done something positive and pleasing and helpful to/for someone with whom she has no concrete, direct, certifiable genetic or economic ties. Not that I see any parallels with that businesslike frown or those 131 unanswered emails, but definitely, she's in the same boat. Whereas I am blissfully, blissfully, immune to the call of duty. As the angelic Lawrence Ferlinghetti put it in JUNKMAN'S OBBLIGATO: let them come / and take it away / whatever it was / we were paying for / and us with it http://www.angelfire.com/oh/BringUsAnotherBeer/junkman.html yr lefty bud, F

By: flip

flip — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:19:58 +0000

Dear Literary J: You did thank me right there in this post, like I knew you would one day without prompting. And if you think you’re not posting enough, may the goddesses preserve me from my own slothlike inanition. As to the confectionary tidbit, Kath & I make about 20 lbs of that stuff every holiday and fling it as far as we can from ourselves, for the obvious reasons. We’re pleased you found it palatable. Now let’s see what we can do about that getting on with living thang.

By: betegrise

betegrise — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:05:57 +0000

But but but … these days why is “Jennifer” such a popular name for an actress? Doesn’t the name signify “glamorous yet user-friendly” (e.g., Beals, Coolidge, Aniston, Garner, Love Hewitt, Lopez, Ehle, Hudson, Jason Leigh, Connelly)? Is there a post-1968 place for the iconic “Jennifer Juniper” of the Donovan song?

And thank you for the light bulb that came on with “the action urge for shame is to hide away from people.”