Comments on: Go Read Wonkette and Then Have Pie. . .

By: robena grant

robena grant — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:15:03 +0000

Had to forgo the Cherry get together at National as my knee gave out for a day or so. Will look forward to meeting everyone in D.C. next year. Loved that Krissie won the Rita in RS. Yay! Also, she gave me a bumper sticker for Dogs and Goddesses. I will be sporting that all around town, it will look very snazzy on my car.

Hope the writing is going well, Jenny.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:31:17 +0000

Understand you’re busy with everything else…Lord knows I support clearing the way for Wild Ride so that we greedy readers can enjoy another wonderful treat from you two. However, please don’t give up on doing the HWSW book together sometime in the future. The blog (which I am kicking myself for not printing out) not only contained awesome individual advice from both of you, but it blended together to create an amazing whole, much like your joint fiction work.

Just two cents from a kid who’ll pay a lot more than two cents at a bookstore for treats by either/both of you.

By: RfP

RfP — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:33:43 +0000

we’ll either write one together or, more likely, do separate ones using our own posts.

You both give excellent advice, but HWSW had a unique draw from the interplay of two different types of writers and personalities. On the other hand I imagine that could be a challenge to flesh out into a book: it’s unusual for nonfiction to reverse itself quite as… pointedly… as you two.

By: jessica

jessica — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:21:18 +0000

re: Neil Patrick Harris (of Dr. Horrible fame)

http://defamer.com/5028453/nph-sweeps-the-clouds-away-as-the-shoe-fairy-on-sesame-street

he sings, he dances, he bestows shoes on people…

[as my children are no longer watching sesame street, i would have missed this!]

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:01:10 +0000

On the HWSW blog: Nope, it’s gone for good.
And the HWSW book is kind of up in the air now, too. We just got swamped. But we’ll either write one together or, more likely, do separate ones using our own posts. We’re having a scheduling nightmare getting together to do Wild Ride, so a non-fiction book is very low priority right now.

By: Melissa Blue

Melissa Blue — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:45:00 +0000

I saw Anne last night at the Literacy Signing. Just fyi she dressed normal, which is a shame. This years conference won’t be the same without a kerfluffle. And who better to create one than Anne.

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:06:15 +0000

Hey, I have a random question that I wonder if anyone here can help me out with…

This summer I finally read Don’t Look Down and Agnes and the Hitman, and I really wanted to reread some of the old He Wrote/She Wrote blog from when Jenny and Bob were touring the former and writing the latter.

However, none of the links to the archives are working at the old blog (http://www.crusiemayer.com/blog/). Are they ever going to be put back online, or have I missed the boat completely?

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:13:01 +0000

“Is there some sort of genetic link between bigoted jingoistic Amurricanism and an inability to use the English language correctly?”

I don’t think so. I’ve run into plenty of liberals who oppose jingoistic Amurricanism and hate George Bush primarily because he says “nukular”, but who still make plenty of grammatical and spelling errors. But they’re still better than you or me.

Me, I’m with Susan D on “lots more people who find the bad spelling more appalling than the hatred.” I’m in an odd place, because on one hand I’m a grammar-neurotic who gets spasms over grammar/spelling errors — I’m currently reading Joanne Passet’s new biography of Jeannette Foster (the author of the classic Sex Variant Women in Literature), and among many other offenses she uses “pneumonic” for “mnemonic”, TWICE! Oh, the humanity! On the other hand, I know that I’m neurotic about it, that standard English is a dubiously arbitrary construct, and that people who confuse “discreet” and “discrete” are Belial’s children every bit as much as I am. I also know that people who get overwrought about “hate” are generally capable of considerable hatred for people they disapprove of, though they’re often more passive-aggressive about it.

And the trouble isn’t that people are ignorant (because everybody is ignorant about important things), it’s that they (we) know so much that ain’t so.

By: talpianna

talpianna — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:30:10 +0000

Perhaps this site will help Jenny and those like her to reform their wicked ways:

http://www.geocities.com/petpu4/

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF PUMPKINS

By: Diane (TT)

Diane (TT) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:01:53 +0000

Jeepgirl – lucky you! I love blackberries and raspberries and just about all kinds of berries. Now I just need to find a U-pick or two, so I can get lots. I got a blueberry kuchen at the Farmer’s Market with 5 cups of blueberries on an 8×8 crust – almost as good as my pie, but with no gingersnaps. Since they sold it for $4.50, I asked about U-pick, which was, indeed, how they managed that price, but at 1+hours away, it doesn’t make sense while I’m in the process of packing to move. Rats. High hopes for Ohio, though!

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:00:06 +0000

McB – with ice cream of course…

By: McB

McB — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:37:53 +0000

Breakfast is the best reason for having pumpkin pie in the house.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:37:32 +0000

Speaking of amazing folk artists like John Hiatt, Jenny, I think you might like Fionn Regan. “Be Good or Be Gone” is probably his most well known song.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pj66XgK3NvE

but my favorite is “The End of History.” It’s on the album of the same name.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:08:45 +0000

I am not ignoring you. I just finished a two hour brainstorming session in Campfire with my two favorite people and now I’m going to clean the kitchen and work on a book and then get to bed at a decent hour, none of which would be very interesting as a blog post.

However, I will be on the road week after next, so something interesting might happen there. You never know.

Carry on chatting. Didn’t mean to interrupt.

By: Jeepgirl

Jeepgirl — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:40:24 +0000

Diane, I don’t know about blueberries but blackberries grow wild on my property in southwestern Ohio.
I make cobbler. Yum, especially with vanilla ice cream.

By: G and T

G and T — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:19:19 +0000

Pie is like the reverse of danish: mostly fruit, little pastry.

By: talpianna

talpianna — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:24:39 +0000

Apple pie for breakfast is the best. Especially Dutch apple pie. Especially hot Dutch apple pie.

By: robena grant

robena grant — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:32:42 +0000

I just read Wonkette, interesting stuff but the comments are sad. There are so many ignorant people around. Like Michael Savage who commented a week or so ago on autistic children and their families.

Anyway, my favorite word of the day was aquaintends. I’ve been using it in sentences. A quaint ends is something I desire. Or. Aquaint ends, you never know what will happen. Aqua intends itself as a thirst quenching drink. I could go on, but I won’t. Jenny breathes a sigh of relief. Heh.

By: Diane (TT)

Diane (TT) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:45:28 +0000

Tal, I love the definition of a Yankee! Having spent 3 years in MS, I got “Yankee’d” a lot, which is weird for someone from California. It mostly seemed to mean “not from around here”.

I would rather eat blueberry pie for breakfast all summer, and pass on the pumpkin. I can’t afford to make my 6-cup blueberry pie (with a gingersnap crust) unless I pick my own. Maybe when I move to Ohio. Does anyone know a good place to pick blueberries in southwestern Ohio?

By: Charlene Teglia

Charlene Teglia — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:32:00 +0000

Back from reading Wonkette. Mrs. Malaprop has nothin’ on some of these comments. “An Abolition!”