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Comment on “Single Dad, Nurse Bride” by Rob

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:52:01 -0700

Rob said:

Excuse me for butting in - just wanted to say I love your Halloween costume idea (on Twitter)!

Comment on “Single Dad, Nurse Bride” by misteele

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:16:12 -0700

misteele said:

Grettir, I know that, as curator of this unrivaled collection, you have a particularized interest in the formulaic nature of the nurse book series. I have discerned from your writings on the subject that you are an ardent student of the contrapuntal “theme and variations” in the collection as a whole.

I must therefore congratulate you on this latest acquisition. It seems you have taken possession of a true marvel of the genre(more like care and custody really, for can anyone truly “own” or “possess” a nurse book? they are ours but for a moment; they belong to forever).

“Single Dad, Nurse Bride” appears to be the apex of the postmodern deconstructionist nurse book oeuvre. For here, the title conveys the entire plot. It is so elegant in its simplicity. It might be our best example of nurse haiku. One might ask, “ok, we can see that the jacket summary fleshes out the title a bit, but why write the other pages after that?” Scholars will continue to debate the question, indeed. While some see the pages after the title as superfluity, diluting the purity and power of the title’s impact, the true student finds herself again immersed: awash in character, theme, and craft.

That this creation has found in you its tender guardian, we can only be humbly grateful. Congratulations.

Comment on “With My Compliments” by tattingchic

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:04 -0700

tattingchic said:

This post was tooooo funny! Thanks for the chuckle. It would be so much fun to see “Pride and Prejudice” on the stage! How totally cool to be a part of it. I just LOVED Colin Firth…Sorry, I couldn’t resist…LOL!

Comment on “Single Dad, Nurse Bride” by jenny

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:18:55 -0700

jenny said:

That’s it: as far as dating prospects, we’re going all nurses, all the time.

You gorgeous dads, you survivors— though at first you may seem arrogant and overbearing —deserve some serious happiness. As do your adorable girls.

I do, however, have a difficult time picturing you being “adamant” about taking ANYONE on a date…

Comment on “The Proud and the Prejudiced” by Grettir

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:05:02 -0700

Grettir said:

More in is on the way, I promise. It has just been a brutal month in the Beginning-of-the-New-School-Year-Time-Sucking-Vortex-of-Doom…and Juice Bar.

Perhaps, this weekend…

Comment on “The Proud and the Prejudiced” by jenny

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:25:54 -0700

jenny said:

Now, Grettir: based on your last momentile (head in hands, exhaustion embodied), you’ve had it for now. But Indian Summer’s just kickin’ in. I hope I’m not the only one who’d like to see some more “comparison” segments involving other aspects of the 4 P&P film versions. Like maybe Lizzy? Or Mrs. Bennett (all of whom I love, but for different reasons)? Or even the Merryton Town Dance sequences.

I mean, whenever you have some spare time…

(Don’t hit me.)

Comment on “The Proud and the Prejudiced” by jenny

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:19:36 -0700

jenny said:

Naw: Dave (Mr. Darcy) doesn’t look 17 when you’re standing closer. He just looks a young mid-twenties. Now, he might act 17 sometimes–— but only in the very best of ways. 17 in a way that makes all of the kids absolutely adore him, and makes all of the “grown ups” remember that they have a goofy sense of humor hidden under any lingering nagging responsibilities and workday hangovers…

Comment on “The Proud and the Prejudiced” by apaperbackwriter

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:17:04 -0700

apaperbackwriter said:

Hmmm…. The actor cast for Mr. Darcy looks about 17. Waaaay too young for Darcy. Perhaps he should be in High School Musical?
Now, this photo of the gal playing Lydia looks just perfect. How fun.

Comment on “With My Compliments” by emily

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:40:38 -0700

emily said:

Oh, Grettir. I’m so embarassed to tell you that I was the one who played Delbert. Yes. My first role was as a male stegasaurus.

This is my shame.

Comment on “With My Compliments” by Kate

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:37:45 -0700

Kate said:

I was going to leave a witty-type comeback for EVERYBODY, but this monitor gives me vertigo. Seriously. And it’s worse because I’m not wearing my glasses. It’s a little psychedelic - and NOT in a nice way.
Hmm. I’ll just say this:
WICKED FINE acting, Kimball. WICKED FINE. It comes from the same dusty recesses of my brain that produced a blog entry (A RELATIVELY SERIOUS ONE, if you can believe it) in which I said, and someone will have to help me decide from whence THIS one came, “GOOD HONK.” Yes, “Good Honk.” Next I’ll be shouting, “My STARS AND GARTERS!” or “HEAVENS TO MURGATROIDE!” - which I cannot even spell. At least I’d know where I’d gotten those.

I really liked Franny and Zooey. Mind you, I don’t have the FAINTEST memory of what it’s about. Wait - NOW I know that secretly it’s about the brilliant, witty Family of Grettir.

Dearest Pamela,
I don’t suspect that I’m to be flattered that you’re “channeling me” with the random conjunction and the run-on sentence, but if you MUST, the phrase is, “Anyhoo.”

Sometimes, when people find out how many books I own (and they seem to have more keen feelings on the matter over the last number of years when they’ve carried box after box after box after box after BOX AFTER BOX AFTER BOX of my books…I think you get the idea - hither and thither and yon), they tell me of a place where one can go and peruse shelf after shelf after shelf after SHELF of books and you may choose some and READ THEM FOR FREE! Then I recover a repressed memory of the possible World-Record Fines I’ve accrued at various libraries. In fact, one of few high points of instantaneous homelessness and moving in with family necessitating a change in valley is that if I DID go to one of these places with all those books in THIS valley, I don’t think they have records of my sordid past (particularly the large sum I owe the Salt Lake County system for a collection of Gaelic dictionaries and language tools. They’re in my boxes somewhere…).
That’s it. I think I’ll go hurl now.

Comment on “With My Compliments” by ames

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:31:50 -0700

ames said:

Oh, Pam. You must never pull a book off the “Librarians’ Favorites” shelf. The last offering I attempted was Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued, which features Jan Brady as Elizabeth Bennett (“Darcy! Darcy! Darcy!”).

You can literally pinpoint the page at which Ms. Emma Tennant decided, “Oh POO! St. Martin’s has already mailed my advance and my carpal tunnel is throbbing like the you-know-what. I think I’ll condense the last 89 pages of my outline into 10 pages of text.”

I defy anyone to read the last chapter without laughing out loud. It is soooooooooo bad.

Comment on “With My Compliments” by Pam

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:41:43 -0700

Pam said:

I just finished re-reading “Franny & Zooey”…mostly because it was on the “Librarian’s Favorites” shelf (with the librarian’s picture displayed next to the book), and I was really curious to figure out why a male librarian with a bowl haircut and a stunned look would want me to read “Franny & Zooey.” So anyway (I’m channeling Kate here), when I got to the end I was really mad about having wasted 202 pages worth of time. HOWEVER, I must say—and this is a compliment, in case you’re wondering—that Grettir & siblings remind me of the brilliant Glass children in the book. Everyone in Grettir’s family is unfairly witty and amusing. My gosh, “The Primary Worker: No Greater Example for Tomorrow’s Gospel Warriors.” Who thinks of that? Y’all are brilliant. Carry on!

Comment on “With My Compliments” by jenny

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:34:20 -0700

jenny said:

…which would prove more than a little awkward when Woman #1’s flabbergasted husband LaMont returns from a Jamba Juice run to find his wife of 26 years skipping about the CougarEat with abandon, singing about “skin that’s soft, and warmth instead of cold,” and a place where “giving of yourself is never wrong.”

All this, and not 10 minutes after leaving a class called: “The Primary Worker: No Greater Example For Tomorrow’s Gospel Warriors.”

Comment on “With My Compliments” by ames

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:45:47 -0700

ames said:

I agree with all of the above. Your performance was so mesmerizing, so powerful, so convincing, that they were afraid to even make eye contact with you—let alone compliment you—for fear of falling under your magnetic spell and, like Lydia, start intoning “Take me to Gretna Green, where a girl becomes a woman overNIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHHT! Take me to Gretna Green! Take me! Take me! …”

Comment on “With My Compliments” by Kimball

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:14:44 -0700

Kimball said:

Grettir: May I be the first to assure you that the complimenters in question are communists. Both of them. There is no other explanation for their unwillingness to acknowledge the magnitude and majesty of your performance. Were they of the freedom-loving democratic sort, they—like us—would characterize your Mr. Wickham as TTTOOOTTTAAALLLYYY WICKHED AWESOME. ‘Nuff said.