tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767146.post111728358552087429..comments2024-01-28T02:19:04.562-11:00Comments on Michael Fountain: Blood for Ink: Friends of Ormondroyd's Official Graffiti Wall and Commonplace BookMichael Fountain: Blood for Inkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05636180492565972504noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767146.post-1130364754979294742005-10-26T11:12:00.000-11:002005-10-26T11:12:00.000-11:00Sent to the doctorShot full of holesNurse cried,"S...Sent to the doctor<BR/>Shot full of holes<BR/>Nurse cried,<BR/>"Save his soul."<BR/>I'm a back-door man<BR/>I'm a back-door man<BR/>What the mens don't know<BR/>The little girls understand.<BR/><BR/>-- T. Model FordMichael Fountain: Blood for Inkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05636180492565972504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767146.post-1124460580445048182005-08-19T03:09:00.000-11:002005-08-19T03:09:00.000-11:00We hate faux cool in our video games. We hate mark...We hate faux cool in our video games. We hate marketing departments, image consultants, shit games with Underground or Street in the title, and computer science majors from Germany tackling hip-hop "culture". We want to roll them all up in a rug and beat them with a hammer.<BR/>-- "Geeks on Stun" weblog at http://www.geekonstun.com/mt/archives/2005_05.htmlMichael Fountain: Blood for Inkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05636180492565972504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767146.post-1122964224069431512005-08-01T19:30:00.000-11:002005-08-01T19:30:00.000-11:00I never tell the story of having been bullied, exc...I never tell the story of having been bullied, except as a case study for the guidance of others...When American students asked me many years later what I thought about the Columbine massacre, I horrified them by saying, “We’re shooting back now.” I didn’t condone mass murder, but I understood it.<BR/>--Les Murray in The Paris ReviewMichael Fountain: Blood for Inkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05636180492565972504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767146.post-1122609963865480852005-07-28T17:06:00.000-11:002005-07-28T17:06:00.000-11:00WEARING KITTY EARS: One of my best scores at Book ...WEARING KITTY EARS: One of my best scores at Book Expo America was not, in fact, a book, or any sort of reading material whatsoever. Instead, it was a pair of kitty ears, a cheap little plastic headband with felt feline protuberances that turns me instantly from sad, depressed, lonely girl into fun-loving, happy-go-lucky-wannabe-extra from Josie and the Pussycats. That may be overstating the caseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767146.post-1122235402899804472005-07-24T09:03:00.000-11:002005-07-24T09:03:00.000-11:00I don't know what is up with people who have found...I don't know what is up with people who have found God, but they seem really insecure about God's continued approval, like He is their quasi-abusive boyfriend or neglectful Dad or something, so they have to keep thanking Him every five seconds. Klosterman thanks God for helping him to write a shortish, go-nowhere, cutesy book about a brief road trip he took to rock stars' death sites. This is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767146.post-1121516097026554642005-07-16T01:14:00.000-11:002005-07-16T01:14:00.000-11:00Don’t be that boring guy at the comic shop who say...Don’t be that boring guy at the comic shop who says “Yeah, I had that idea 10 years ago.” Be the guy who can say, “I had that idea 10 years ago and it was rejected by every comic company in the world and that’s why I am the hopeless alcoholic you see before you.” <BR/>- Mike SangiacomoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767146.post-1120407691655241792005-07-03T05:21:00.000-11:002005-07-03T05:21:00.000-11:00"The Semites' idea of nationality was the independ..."The Semites' idea of nationality was the independence of clans and villages, and their ideal of national union was episodic combined resistance to an intruder. Constructive policies, an organized state, an extended empire, were not so much beyond their sight as hateful in it. They were fighting to get rid of Empire, not to win it."<BR/>-- T.E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of ArabiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767146.post-1118755507093868892005-06-14T02:25:00.000-11:002005-06-14T02:25:00.000-11:00I realize this will sound snarky and "shrill", but...I realize this will sound snarky and "shrill", but I'm becoming convinced that conservatives do this kind of thing because they have trouble dealing with situations and institutions that they don't completely control.<BR/><BR/> -- quoting a blog writer, "Linnaeus" at http://mousewords.blogspot.com/2004/09/college-republicans-continue-to.html<BR/><BR/> "Down these mean streets a man must go who isMichael Fountain: Blood for Inkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05636180492565972504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11767146.post-1117383402250382702005-05-29T05:16:00.000-11:002005-05-29T05:16:00.000-11:00The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. I...The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - Groucho Marx <BR/><BR/><BR/>“In one hour of operation, the average gas mower emits the same amout of climate-changing hydrocarbons as a 1992 Ford Explorer driven over 23,000 miles.” Co-op America's Real Money, June/July 2002, adapted from The Organic Suburbanite by Warren Schultz, Rodale, 2001.<BR/><BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com