tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post4198656184849860918..comments2023-10-17T14:31:52.102-04:00Comments on Est Quod Est: Readings from a book I got at a garage sale: Week 22Paulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-21548450206900211232014-04-02T17:47:30.205-04:002014-04-02T17:47:30.205-04:00Well, Pik, I wouldn't necessarily call dipping...Well, Pik, I wouldn't necessarily call dipping old Crank for mange a whirlwind weekend romance, but I may well be a sort of parochial traditional guy and not up on the latest in big city dating. And if I proposed that to my girlfriend I think she'd just shoot me and call the sheriff.<br /><br />But it's not really unusual to see Dreher front and center in this series, is it? That was the MO with TLWORL, and it will be the MO with this - in fact, the whole conceit of this vulgar little book proposal is that Dante is a self-help nostrum, like a copper bracelet, and step right up and git yer healin' right here.<br /><br />I do think Dreher's on to something I might borrow if I ever deteriorate into the sort of repulsive little male pig who couldn't get date that Dreher apparently was with women in his pre-married years.<br /><br />No, really, he <b><i>chose</i></b> chastity, it wasn't forced on him by default as some Darwinian doom, like the little wart hog who wasn't gonna get the girl, ever - no really, he chose it. The same way everyone in solitary can triumphantly declare themselves "clean and drug free".<br /><br />So when Darwinian chastity shuts down your grunting, Heatmiser game, turn to the proven, age-old remedy: seduce a disturbed and impressionable young woman 10 years younger than you.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-72086754260776345272014-04-02T17:07:09.450-04:002014-04-02T17:07:09.450-04:00Well, Keith, Dreher just raised the bar for this s...Well, Keith, Dreher just <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/purgatorio-canto-xxvii/" rel="nofollow">raised the bar for this series of yours</a>. We'd better see a re-telling of the whirlwind weekend romance between you and Crank in your next installment. <br /><br />pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-52549024774003704912014-04-02T08:38:37.270-04:002014-04-02T08:38:37.270-04:00And once you change the POV to that of Ruthie'...And once you change the POV to that of Ruthie's daughter, a whole Pandora's Box of sub-plots become available. We've got the blood-soaked aunts in their cabin in the woods (and their effect on vicious uncle), ghosts, exorcisms, pants-pulled-down, the gay bar scene in N.O., . . . imagine the possibilities.pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-56382145053087262752014-04-01T16:49:40.926-04:002014-04-01T16:49:40.926-04:00Pik, your rewrite, in addition to being the way th...Pik, your rewrite, in addition to being the way the Hollywood studio meat grinder really works, is breakthrough brilliant: through the character of the middle or youngest daughter - one of the ones not bought off - the story of the good works of Ruthie are still told, this time truthfully, against a background of serpentine psychological Southern Gothic machinations. And who wouldn't green light James Franco - straight out of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2312718/?ref_=nv_sr_1" rel="nofollow"><i>Homefront</i></a> - as the deeply flawed, psychologically manipulative, Sonic-the-Hedgehog-haired Dreher? I can already hear that wistfully sad female voiceover. If only Uncle Rod had been able to...<br /><br />Cruel vixen, that Fame.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-86146757150718647102014-03-30T22:26:12.271-04:002014-03-30T22:26:12.271-04:00I can see why Sela Ward would be drawn to TLWORL, ...I can see why Sela Ward would be drawn to TLWORL, based on her <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Homesick-Sela-Ward-ebook/dp/B000FC126E/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396232555&sr=8-1&keywords=sela+ward" rel="nofollow">memoir</a> (which Dreher claims some credit for in the piece you linked).<br /><br />But Dreher better be careful if Sela runs with the TLWORL movie project. It could be "adapted" to have one of Ruthie's daughters as the protagonist. With the ill-tempered ungrateful uncle with an axe to grind as the villain. <br /><br />Lifetime Movie Network, baby!!pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-60669552905728683562014-03-30T01:44:42.450-04:002014-03-30T01:44:42.450-04:00Pik, it probably says something about the sort of ...Pik, it probably says something about the sort of person I am that I was sort of hoping Kanye West would offer Dreher a cool 2 million for the rights, casting Kim Kardashian and himself as the respective leads. We would then know whether French oysters talk and what language they speak.<br /><br />With the paperback hitting the shelves just 2 weeks from now, expect some hot TLWORLing in the run-up.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-38650345735328536012014-03-29T23:40:04.339-04:002014-03-29T23:40:04.339-04:00"Steel Magnolias for a new generation." ..."<i>Steel Magnolias</i> for a new generation." No comment. <br /> pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-35013321428219152422014-03-29T13:24:41.256-04:002014-03-29T13:24:41.256-04:00Pik - Sela Ward
KeithPik - <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/look-who-else-loves-little-way/" rel="nofollow">Sela Ward</a><br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-36135906629620960752014-03-28T18:14:41.140-04:002014-03-28T18:14:41.140-04:00Black truffles instead of Italian white tonight......Black truffles instead of Italian white tonight...it is Lent, after all. We must suffer through, carrying these heavy crosses...Käthenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-11783531363435619302014-03-28T13:36:25.051-04:002014-03-28T13:36:25.051-04:00Oh my gosh. I can just see it now. Even sappier th...Oh my gosh. I can just see it now. Even sappier than The Christmas Shoes, if that's even possible.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-34230900182957097082014-03-28T13:21:41.249-04:002014-03-28T13:21:41.249-04:00That same piece hints at some potential action tow...That same piece hints at some potential action toward the movie version of TLWORL. Noted television actress!! pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-11801991041202940302014-03-28T13:18:04.385-04:002014-03-28T13:18:04.385-04:00He's sacrificing for lent because he really wa...He's sacrificing for lent because <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/view-from-your-table-323/" rel="nofollow">he really wanted the lamb chops.</a>pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-37790584411950406382014-03-28T10:45:49.703-04:002014-03-28T10:45:49.703-04:00I must not be spiritually macho enough to get it.
...<i>I must not be spiritually macho enough to get it.</i><br /><br />Dittos. Paulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-57317219191419058032014-03-27T19:54:21.213-04:002014-03-27T19:54:21.213-04:00I read that menu last night and spent altogether t...I read that menu last night and spent altogether too much time pondering what would have to happen inside a person's mind before they could describe a meal that included lobster in two different courses as being part of a "fast."<br /><br />I must not be spiritually macho enough to get it.Käthenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-91178088115152398672014-03-27T19:13:54.996-04:002014-03-27T19:13:54.996-04:00[NFK: Oh, gosh, what an honor or something.
But n...<i>[NFK: Oh, gosh, what an honor or something.<br /><br />But now I have to ask: when you reach up and stir the old idea pot in order to produce one of those psychotically random thematic mashups - I'll confess right here that </i>"In Ancient Judea Miss Piggy Would Have Dated a Lizard: Post-modernity, cross-swinging sub-species, and the collapse of moral standards" <i>- is one of my favorites; when you heap out a big old dripping new helping of idea stew...what kind of spoon do you use? Because spoons matter. - KH]</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-77562492614949159722014-03-27T19:11:05.850-04:002014-03-27T19:11:05.850-04:00[NFK: Diane, I'm hardly an expert on these thi...<i>[NFK: Diane, I'm hardly an expert on these things, but I don't think Hank done it this way. -KH]</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-12212589844027634472014-03-27T18:02:13.119-04:002014-03-27T18:02:13.119-04:00Yes, I know that was your point, Keith, and I am p...Yes, I know that was your point, Keith, and I am pointing out the obvious, but I guess I didn't quite believe that that was really his idea of Orthodox Lenten fasting. Too funny!Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-49083381656938205762014-03-27T18:01:02.716-04:002014-03-27T18:01:02.716-04:00Oh my gosh, I went to the dreherrhea site, and sur...Oh my gosh, I went to the dreherrhea site, and sure enough, he <i>did</i> eat that. And then he has the noive to tell us how manly and muscular his form of Christiantiy is, because it demands all this rigorous fasting stuff in Lent? Bwahahaha.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-36268562167860476562014-03-27T15:03:17.762-04:002014-03-27T15:03:17.762-04:00You are an inspiration, Keith, and incredibly fort...You are an inspiration, Keith, and incredibly fortunate to have found such a treasure in your garage sale journeys. The best I have ever found at a garage sale was a slightly used copy of "Uncle John's Fully Loaded Bathroom Reader", which I found entertaining but hardly of the caliber of your extraordinary book.<br /><br />Truly we are blessed! Thank you for sharing. I've contacted my investment advisor and asked him to sell everything and pre-order as many copies of your upcoming book as possible. I am confident that their value will only increase once word gets around, and if not then I and the other residents of Lake Okoboji Sanitarium and Rest Home for the Opportunistically Afflicted will enjoy many days of discussing your ideas. I tried to get something going with my book, but so far the best they seem to be able to do with it is prop one leg of the old player piano seat in the corner so Eustacia can play for afternoon sing-along without falling off the seat. <br /><br />RodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-30621922429130641542014-03-27T14:53:12.396-04:002014-03-27T14:53:12.396-04:00[NFK: Aw, Kathleen, as they say in the small South...<i>[NFK: Aw, Kathleen, as they say in the small Southern town of pious, humble folk I come from, someone has to eat the scallops, a layered salad with lobster and avocado, and a sort of seafood curry with lobster, shrimp, and scallops, over rice for Lent. It might as well be me. - KH]</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-74222479980909754002014-03-27T14:05:31.756-04:002014-03-27T14:05:31.756-04:00Keith, please don't be embarrassed, but I mean...Keith, please don't be embarrassed, but I mean it when I say that YOU are "our ¢¢g$$*/NY W". kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760546833628880462noreply@blogger.com