Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: Gunpowder, guillotine, dynamite with a laser beam

hang inWCD

2007-06-15T07:42:00.000+01:00

hang in

WCD

Great opening, I know just what you mean about the...

2007-06-13T22:14:00.000+01:00

Great opening, I know just what you mean about the days just sort of "going" - particularly if you have medical appointment a lot and then when you are writing a check and have to ask what month it is, people think that is a joke.

Bummer about the swearing, I sometimes have "F" nights - but less and less now - Linda told me several nights ago while writing my "I am going to exact revenge on the entire human population" blog entry I gave her the "finger" - "Really?" Yes. "Oh, sorry about that." (How could I forget that?)

Yes, people who put up with random swearers are angels, or slightly deaf, or both.

Gunpowder, guillotine, dynamite with a laser beamG...

2007-06-13T21:15:00.000+01:00

Gunpowder, guillotine, dynamite with a laser beam

Great song!

Went to see Queen twice in the 80's - fantastic :-)

In the middle of two bad days I hope won't become ...

2007-06-13T18:49:00.000+01:00

In the middle of two bad days I hope won't become three...so this was heartening

Hello GoldfishThank you for your review of my nove...

2007-06-13T18:29:00.000+01:00

Hello Goldfish
Thank you for your review of my novel Skallagrigg posted 2005 which, belatedly, I have just read. I am interested in your (and Lady Bracknell's) comments on my style as being 'old'. I know what you mean. It is pretty much natural and unconscious but derives, I suspect, from the first serious novels I read and was influenced by being by Conrad and Patrick White (both somewhat labyrinthine story tellers) and Dickens. I'm not sure if this blog publishes email adresses but if you feel like replying you can reach me at the email address on the website for my latest novel which is www.darkheartsofchicago.com
William Horwood

Materteral is a wonderful word--don't think I was ...

2007-06-13T16:53:00.000+01:00

Materteral is a wonderful word--don't think I was reading you when you first posted it.

I think of avuncular as being a particularly masculine kind of gruff/rumpusy kind of care, so I'm all for the gender-specific in this case.

Another vote for the crap couple or three days, ma...

2007-06-13T15:03:00.000+01:00

Another vote for the crap couple or three days, maybe it's the weather.

I don't know how wide the usage is, but we used to call a question mark and an exclamation mark together, an "interrobang".

I was enfogged for much of last week into this one...

2007-06-12T23:30:00.000+01:00

I was enfogged for much of last week into this one, but got out in the garden today. No energy to post, until my sentences make sense anyway :-'
Enjoy time with the cutest kid (bar one) ever.

The unrelenting / phases are the worst for me. It...

2007-06-12T18:04:00.000+01:00

The unrelenting / phases are the worst for me. It's usually just when I think that I really can't do it, that something else, worse, happens and then I realise that I can afterall. Glad you're still getting some bright spots.
best wishes