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Comment on Ritual and Melancholia by Anna

Anna — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:31:05 +0000

Lovely, Erin. This almost makes me want to see the film, in spite of my deep Von Trier hatred!

Comment on Impossible Loves: Essays by uncomplicatedly

uncomplicatedly — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:59:00 +0000

thanks so much!

Comment on On Violence and Dreaming by uncomplicatedly

uncomplicatedly — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:56:22 +0000

thanks and welcome!

Comment on Impossible Loves: Essays by BJG

BJG — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:51:30 +0000

This is awesome! Congrats!

Comment on On Violence and Dreaming by allenstrouse

allenstrouse — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:36:42 +0000

the La jetée/12 Monkeys comparison is really sharp!

I’ve always been bothered by how markedly West Side Story departs from the original. Shakespeare’s story of how kids redeem the sins of their parents becomes this insipid story about kids who are a bunch of hooligans.

by the way i discovered your blog after reading and enjoying your poem in Imaginary Syllabi.

Comment on The Wise Have — Impossible Loves by D.

D. — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:27:49 +0000

This is a tangent given your point of emphasis, but Grief’s definition of sex as a “bodily process that…is free and universal” was so reductive of human experience that it really turned my stomach. Try looking up any information at all on sex variance, or even asexuality, for Christ’s sake…’universal bodily process’ my ass.

Heteronormativity may be society’s greatest ill when it comes to the sex act, but it frustrates me that the same people whaling on heteronormativity often simultaneously impose their own normative sexual ideals. For them, regardless of sexual orientation, sex is always somehow the same: they simply want to erase gay/straight value judgments, and conventional genital sex is still the be-all and end-all of human physical/emotional relations, and any other form is either invisible or doesn’t ‘count’ because that’s not what ‘everyone else’ (in truth, about 95-98% of the population) does.

Comment on The Wise Have — Impossible Loves by dsc

dsc — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:17:31 +0000

I think Grief would say, if you’ve chosen to have or adopt a child, you are choosing to restrict yourself into a small variety of modes of living and loving of which marriage might be the best choice. That doesn’t mean (1) marriage is good; (2) we should defend it as-is; (3) structuring society to maximize freedom and choice is bad (especially since, as you concede, *choosing* to have a child is the operative point).

As for who to love, it is rightly a *terrifying* question, as its main difficulty is in overcoming the fear and disorientation that comes with exploring. Again, this is not an argument against it (or the freedom to do so), but rather an argument in favor of mastering fear and engendering a state of being open to new experiences.

In conclusion, kids are dumb.

Comment on Traffic and Weather Forever by uncomplicatedly

uncomplicatedly — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:36:24 +0000

oh wow, i’m thrilled that you’ve found this and read it! thanks for your comment! i hope all is well with you.

Comment on Traffic and Weather Forever by Pete Tauriello

Pete Tauriello — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:29:08 +0000

I never cease to be amazed by the number of people that remember my name or my traffic reports. My style, while praised by some and damned by others is indeed a sum arrived at by the addition of my own personality and the dictates of the clock.

I am honored to have been a part of so many lives and more honored that I am remembered.

Comment on Traffic and Weather Forever by JR

JR — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:14:24 +0000

agreed. this is really great.