Comments on: Stone cold.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:16:08 +0000

Umm…. yeah, I’ve still got nothing.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:09:57 +0000

OK, I miss Hamburger Hamlet.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:27:22 +0000

I grew up in Pittsburgh. Uh, that’s all I have to say about that.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:02:39 +0000

I was going to write an “I miss the Valley” comment, having grown up there, but it seems I don’t.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:15:22 +0000

It’s also where approximately 80% of the recording studios are. There’s some good vegan food too.

And NO THERE WILL BE NO PUBLISHING OF THE UNPUBLISHED. Trust me on this one. It’s the right thing for everybody.

By: Allie

Allie — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:36:53 +0000

Wow. That sounds awful. Why on earth would anyone then arrange to meet up in such a place??

Unpublished drafts – I’m with Scott! It pains me that all of these unpublished EB manuscripts are curling up with age in the hard drive. Publish! Maybe you need a separate blog for such items – or an ” “unpublished” ” category.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:31:41 +0000

I’m glad Scott got to that question before I did, because I could not have summed it up so succinctly.

Scott, I get what you’re saying about Unpublished Drafts, I really do, but these particular ones would just freak me out if I set them free. They’re not just subpar. They fall into three categories: the ones that sound all “you kids get off my lawn” even though I’m trying to write something positive with no complaining; the ones where I go on for like 12 Word pages trying to explain why I like, say, a record, and fail to do so anyway; and the ones that are both. It’s not pretty.

By: Scott C.

Scott C. — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:14:55 +0000

The best way to really experience the Valley is to be driven through it, preferably at a high rate of speed, and absolutely without stopping, regardless of the disruptions to normal traffic flow, property damage, human carnage, and impromptu action movie set pieces which will necessarily result.

By: Allie

Allie — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:30:41 +0000

I used to be EXACTLY THE SAME until I started the low-dose thyroxine. now I still get weirdly cold, but it’s not as bad and doesn’t involve wearing QUITE as many sweaters to bed. ANYWAY this is my first summer on it, and when it gets hot I feel really miserable!! Success! But I’m confused! Being warm is so weird…It’s a totally alien feeling, and, well, let’s face it, it’s still hot for like 2 days a year here anyway. So I’ll stay on the thyroid pills.

“The Valley” is a mythical place for me. I have never been there, although I think I’ve been driven through it. I think that counts, as there isn’t actually much there, right…? I feel very British right now.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:06:03 +0000

Your body is apparently the carnal equivalent of Narnia (“always winter, never Christmas,” although in your case it would be more along the lines of “always summer, never…” I don’t know …”Labor Day Weekend?” It doesn’t have quite the same punch, but it *would* mean you’d never get to enjoy those major household appliance sales at Sears and Best Buy).

I’m philosophically — hell, fundamentally — opposed to the Unpublished Draft. Send it out into the Universe, I say! The worse you’ll get is a “meh,” but you never know. A lot of the stuff I’ve almost deleted before hitting the Publish button has turned out to be the most popular, so I guess the lesson here is People Will Surprise You, or I’m a Lousy Judge of My Own Work.