Posts by Jolisa
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Oh, Emma. Heartbreak. Grief is a weight. And a wait. Take your time with it.
And I hope you keep talking to your Mum. For comfort, and because sometimes, she'll answer you. In your head, or in dreams, but she will.
I think I may have told this story hereabouts before, but:It was a couple of months after my father died, and a certain literary brouhaha had just broken. I'd dropped the boys off at school and daycare and was driving home with no idea how to start picking my way through the moral and practical labyrinth in front of me, in the few hours before I had to turn around and fetch the kids again.
I found myself saying out loud "What do I do next, Dad? WHAT do I do?"
Clear as anything, and completely unexpectedly, came the answer :
"Invoice for the work you've done already."
(Perhaps you had to know my dad, and me, and our respective levels of business acuity, to know why I was suddenly laughing as hard as I was crying.)
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
From Paul Holmes's Palinophiliac eructation:
She was out there working hard endorsing 34 candidates. Only 15 won, but some of them were giant killers.
A right-thinking person would hyphenate those last two words.
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Can we use TC as the short version for bad drivers and stupid politicians?
That would of course be TC gone mad.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to richard,
Followed by a romantic breakfast for two at the police station.
Well, it solves the "your place or mine?" conundrum.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
God, Craig, you could have warned me about that horrifying eau-de-nil tie as well!
Note to self: the phrase "rape as we know it" is no prettier in an Australian accent.
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This might come as an amazing shock to some PAS commentators but waking up, feeling frisky and trying to initiate sex with your partner is standard behaviour amongst sexually active adults.
But following through without consent or previously agreed-upon contraception/protection isn't.
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either an Assange inflatable love doll, or the voodoo effigy version with needles.
Marketing department says you could save money by just having the one product and two optional accessory packs to choose from: the tiny prick kit, or a packet of needles...
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Good lord. The bit on the etymology of the word cad was, well, I don't know the word, really. Germane?
But the diet & exercise advice is exceptionally useful. I shall tame the lobster and take up long distance running immediately.
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Busytown: She loves you, YA, YA, YA!, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Totally agree much of the best writing today is in YA category. I think one reason is most literary fiction is scared of ‘too much emotion.’ It’s all so ironic and self-referential not only do the basics of story get lost, but the basics of emotionally connecting to a story go west as well. Strenuous efforts to avoid the sentimental seem to suck all sentiment out.
You know, Rob, I think you're onto something there. I'm trying to think of the last time an adult novel made me really feel something.
Emma Donoghue's Room certainly took me places I hadn't been before, emotionally (even though it was a bit of a conjuring trick, and I'm not sure if it would survive a rereading).
Maurice Shadbolt's Season of the Jew made me weep. I'm a little scared to reread it, in case it makes me cry again. Or, in case it doesn't.
Hmm... Thinking, now. Thank you!
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Whatever the emoticon is for refreshing the page avidly to see what new wisdom has arrived, goes here => .
Tui, I may have to designate you honorary YA consul for PAS, if that's all right? You have the Knowledge.
Meanwhile, I am pondering the merits of a comics-based defensive art. Like Ecky Thump, but with rolled-up comics instead of black pudding...