Just as a small data point--it was Fred Phelps who--with his "congregation" burned my book BRIAR ROSE on the steps of the KC Board of Education building. The reason? There was a gay character in it.
You meet the nicest people these days bonding over a book!
Jane
Thanks, Patrick. I couldn't read it on the 11th.
Jane
I heard this morning when I opened my email. And now I realize I can never go to dinner with Charlie again, or sit on his lap in a car (a bizarre story) again, or argue with him when he wanted to tell me how I should write my next book, or. . .
Yes he was funny, dear and annoying in equal measure. And a great drinker-in of life. That's why thinking of him dead is simply not possible.
Jane
Teresa--have I told you recently that I love you? And I mean that in the most catholic, sincere, and genderless way possible. Throwing stones indeed.
xxxJane
I got one, too. Put it in the PO's revolving file.
No dog and knew no one involved in the book.
Jane
PNH said "Ian McKellen as the fire-and-brimstone pastor of the Trembling Brethren is worth the price all by himself."
"There is no butter in Hell,"is one of those family favorites pulled out with fervor on many an occasion.
Whosh--I never heard or saw that before. My gawd, sir, you have so defined--I say, I say--defined language so as it never has to be defined again.
It is indeed nappies and panzers and cobwebs and everything you say.'
And yet, and yet, you have not even touched upon
the soul's depth charge, the light brigade of truth, then inevitable iterations of the mindless hordes taking a toilet plunger to our ears.
Well done. Well done. And I say again, well done.
Jane
Charleston? CHARLESTON? I have a son, daughter-in-law, and twin grands in Charleston. I didn't know Charleston had a major quake. Not bad enough I worry about hurricanes every summer. Now I have to worry about earthquakes there?
Jane
Holy Schimoley--glad you two are safe and out of the region.
And that photo, Giacomo, is truly horrifying, the buildings leaning every which way.
Jane
Neil on his FaceBook page, before the award was announced (but immediately after he'd been called) wrote "I am so fucking over the moon." And I had two simultaneous thoughts: Congratulations, Neil, and you are such a bad boy jumping the gun like that.
It was a matter of minutes, really, and understandable. In the old days (before Internet) he would have been on the phone with friends.
Jane
About slave owners. . .unless you expect us to track back to Biblical times, it would be hard to point to Jewish shetetl folk from the Ukraine like my father's family, or Latvia like my mother's, to find any slave owners.
First (if you are even reading these comments, which you shouldn't be!) I fellowfeel. I have learned that the delete button is my friend.
Second, maybe this two weeks will also be as time to answer what is shouting loudest.Dump the rest. Don't worry. If it's truly important, they will send you another email.
And who knows, maybe you will find the next Rowling writing furtively in the jury box next to you.
Made my sore throat and hurting ears feel much better just viewing those pix. I hadn't seen an update on Scraps in quite some time and was afraid to ask.
Jane
Dear T--virtual chicken soup and love. This has been a rotten year for you on the health front and the sooner it has gone, the better.
Especially since you need to be healthy to come to Boskone to celebrate my Big Birthday.
xxxJane
#83 now that--"Margins are elastic."--would make a great bumper sticker.
Jane
OMG--we are Unworthy.
A drum, a drum, McCain doth come.
Along with all the weird posters of sea and land.
You are good, my son. Go the Masses are over.
Jane
I have always loved Red Mike's movie reviews. They are MUCH better thank watching paint dry. And you can quote me on that.
Jane
I hadn't really spent any time with him in years, but always liked (and respected) him. Too...damn... young. God, I hate this.
Jane
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