tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20399985.post5123071465160680596..comments2023-09-03T07:40:17.178-07:00Comments on you didn't hear it from me, but...: Seventeenkdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04742191344612664986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20399985.post-30544196354267740192010-03-17T14:03:44.448-07:002010-03-17T14:03:44.448-07:00beatty said...
you got some more to learn, friendo...beatty said...<br />you got some more to learn, friendo.<br /><br /> " ... much of my recent writing has been devoted to a pseudo-memoir, a piece of creative non-fiction that details our tortured relationship by having the character of the son ... spend all of father's day meandering through a series of seriocomic reminiscences ..."<br /><br />no one asked, yet you felt obligated to tell and so now that you've opened the box, next time you set yr ass in the chair, the writing won't be the same.beattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394286811031430602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20399985.post-41451695674770214492010-03-17T13:54:50.401-07:002010-03-17T13:54:50.401-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.beattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394286811031430602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20399985.post-89454122040908247762010-03-08T19:24:44.011-08:002010-03-08T19:24:44.011-08:00Lord, what a godawful comment (see above).
Tim O...Lord, what a godawful comment (see above). <br /><br />Tim O'Brien differentiates between "story truth" and "happening truth," even while suggesting that the line between the two isn't as crisp as we'd like to believe. When I read your original post (years ago, it seems) on this "unspirited" play, I found it brazenly confessional. It sent the strong message that you were not in the business of dissembling. That this may have been one or two intellectual moves beyond what the average reader of your (or any) blog might be able to accomplish is not a surprise, even if it is a pity. I always find your attitude toward the past to be inspirational, in that even when you are not proud, you are accountable, forthright, and unsentimental. I'd settle for being any one of those things.<br /><br />(I have, on the other hand, burned more than my fair share of bridges, so we have that in common.)<br /><br />A former teacher of mine (who has since become famous and no longer has the time to issue such pearls of wisdom) told me that writing was the hardest job on earth and that anyone who could quit, would. He also told me that most writers, nearly all of them really, were so terrified of the truth that they were destined to write crass Hollywood bullshit to the end of their days. This may be inspiring, or it may be depressing, or it may just itself be a part of that same difficult truth. <br /><br />I'm always glad to read these posts, and hope that pseudo-memoir continues to move forward.DHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13311155663640753767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20399985.post-42381694878355186442010-03-07T06:48:18.523-08:002010-03-07T06:48:18.523-08:00If i may answer for henry....."its because he...If i may answer for henry....."its because he's a spirit zealot". Plain and simple, nuthin more, nuthin less. ya see, as a desperate and insecure spirit zealot one resorts to(fishes for AND USES) anything and EVERYTHING they can to help preserve the very flawed sotg philosophy......and thus thwart the progress of ultimate as a "normal" sport. Its kinda like hydrolics in that the preasure it will take for ultimate to evlove(into a normal reffed sport) is the same negitive presure that will ultimately kill off sotg/refless ultimate.<br /><br />Now, as for you, if i may be so bold as to answer the question of why you stripped guido......"its because you can(could)". Its the same reason steve dugan called a bogus foul call in crunch time at worlds semis against an up and coming japan team when the marker contacted him AFTER he had released his throw.....which is "because he could". Its the same reason we all cheat....."because we can". The rules enable it.....so what does anyone really expect? we are all human after all.....flesh and bones, right? How does that saying go again...."the spirit is strong but the flesh is weak". How would this concept not apply to humans that play ulti?<br /><br />I had an untraditional psyc teacher in college that had a weird twist on "candy stores and shoplifting".....his take was that its the candy stores own fault for the shoplifting that may occur in a store due to the fact that the store owners make it both so tempting and so easy to steal by displaying their candy in the way they do. He had many other unconventional and interesting philosophyies but this is one that i definitely filed away and always used it as an analogy with the whole idea of the self policing sotg meathod. <br /><br />Fortunately that kind of cheating isnt allowable in reffed sports.....in which, thanks to the uoa, ultimate seems to becoming one.......finally. If only we would have had those uoa style rules(specifically with active travel calls) back in 1990. better yet though, if only our team had of learned the sideline trap with our standard zone D.<br /><br />oh, and sorry for singing the same ole song ("the times they are a changin") and hitting that unpleasing note over and over. I guess, luckily for dylan, beauty is also in the ear of the beholder, cause lets face it, that dude couldnt hit a note if his life depended on it. So maybe i will have similar luck(with some "ears"....or, at least enough to make a difference) as bobby d did. So on that "note"(pun intended) guess i should also appologize to ken directly for using his induction as a platform to further wage my war on the upa and spirit zealots in general (which are one in the same to me). Because, in reality, as much as i truley believe that Ken should be in the ultimate hof AND be a 1st timer......i dont "really" care that he isnt. I guess i see it as there being a much larger issue at stake here than just kens hof status. So, sorry for prostituting your hof canadacy out like this ken.....but i gots to do what i gots to do.....i'm sure you of all people would understand.<br /><br />i AM diein to hear henrys reply though......lets get ready to ruuuuuummmmmbbblllleeee.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11487308883670986008noreply@blogger.com