tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post9199735795621479428..comments2023-10-11T02:43:45.437-07:00Comments on CASAMURPHY: Walking MomLaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11202742050661813668noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-50049113635919145872010-09-13T13:41:36.606-07:002010-09-13T13:41:36.606-07:00So you still get the drug telemarketers too? I am...So you still get the drug telemarketers too? I am constantly fending off East Indian callers who cannot pronounce either my first or last name hustling me to re-order some med I bought online 10 years ago....Do you think I'll EVER get off that call list? Oy.My own Damn Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04699618498157378648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-82003242364370546992010-08-03T15:04:37.636-07:002010-08-03T15:04:37.636-07:00Yeah, Patty, I don't know anyone whose path ap...Yeah, Patty, I don't know anyone whose path approximates mine so closely. And thanks for the kind words too, high praise coming from a writer I admire.Laynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11202742050661813668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-70281202899894450662010-08-03T08:45:43.640-07:002010-08-03T08:45:43.640-07:00Layne,
As usual the commonality of our experience ...Layne,<br />As usual the commonality of our experience leaves me breathless -- from a son failing the driver's test, to fending completely for yourself in college, to interviewing old hippies with clunky video cameras in college (my senior project was on lesbian food co-ops!) <br />Lovely writing,<br />PatPat Sapersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11301459337765753609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-52900871657499925542010-07-30T17:38:46.668-07:002010-07-30T17:38:46.668-07:00Paul Murray in "Skippy Dies" sums up bei...Paul Murray in <a href="http://fionnchu.blogspot.com/2010/07/murray.html" rel="nofollow">"Skippy Dies"</a> sums up being 14. He takes 660 pp. to do so, but he does it well. "At a point in life in which the lovely nurturing homes built for them by their parents have become unendurable Guantánamos, and any time spent away from their peers is experienced at best as a mind-numbing commercial break for things no one wants to buy on some old-person's TV break channel and at worst as a torture not incomparable to actually genuinely being nailed to a cross"--well, even the boarders at a failing Dublin boy's school are envied their domicile by the local lads. <br /><br />I think our two feel that way. Odd as we too longed to escape our domiciles. We did, as young as we could. I wonder if they'll be able to do so now? Or if they really want to? <br /><br />Murray also sums up being 28 and already feeling worn out. The knowledge of "de-dreamification," that this is as good as it may get. There is wisdom as well as satire in such observations. Which I know you and they understand. xxx meJohn L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"https://www.blogger.com/profile/16616876266772470719noreply@blogger.com