Posts by David Haywood
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You also made me think about my Grandpa story again.
Yep, that particular essay of yours is a favourite of mine. And, by the way, I reckon it'd make a good opening piece for your book.
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I'd be hard pressed to judge whose account was more wince-inducing: Russell or Joanna. It's giving me post-traumatic stress disorder just reading this stuff.
Very glad you're on the mend, Russell.
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Very glad that people have enjoyed this piece. And it's great to hear about other families and grandparents.
I'm willing to sign an affidavit to the effect that Bob is not the result of a cloning experiment on my part. But, I admit, there is a resemblance -- although, unlike me, Bob will hopefully retain his good looks into adulthood (a kind-hearted comment, though, Emma). My mother said it gave her quite a turn the first time she saw Bob after we'd returned to New Zealand.
Ian MacKay wrote:
... and the age that she and dad survived in was remarkable like all those who were their peers. Wars, influenza, flight, TV, depression and so on. Boy do we have it easy!
Yeah, that rather ran through my mind as I was reading my grandfather's memoirs...
ChrisW wrote:
So you'll be encouraging your grandfather to work on volume 2?
Doing my best -- but my grandfather isn't too keen right at the moment. Says he needs a good long break from writing.
Jono wrote:
My dad died five years ago so all I have of his popa for wee Charlie are memories and photos, the ring on my finger which he likes to gum, and the old Laz-E-Boy which he is currently nursed in, bright orange polar fleece over tatty brown velvet.
Nice to think of that same chair giving comfy-ness to three generations...
giovanni tiso wrote:
My sister calls me Sebastian but I actually know why (it's not impossible to work out).
Hopefully not a reference to Brideshead Revisited...
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'Discuss' button now fixed -- sorry about that...
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Am suddenly realising I'm not even clear what an elk is
'Elk' is just the North American word for boring old 'red deer'.
Did you get that waking-up-feeling-like-you-can't-breathe thing on the first night? I had that in spades when I was in Elma, Colorado (altitude over 3 km) -- but one of my fellow engineers had blood actually coming out of his eyes, which was way cool.
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Craig Ranapia wrote:
Ann Coulter is thin, blonde and fuckable...
I strongly suspect that one of those three facts is wrong, Craig. I think you'll find that most of humanity has certain minimum standards.
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Whew... it's a relief to know that Jolisa is a doctor.
Without her reassuring presence as a medical professional, I can see that some people might misconstrue our new look.
By the way, as I see it, the new look is mostly about getting out of doors and being comfortable with your own body.
Or, to put it another way, it's nothing more than healthy and normal people thinking about other healthy and normal people from a medical/scientific/taxidermic (and, in Graeme's case, animal husbandry) perspective.
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Rex Widerstrom wrote:
I once tried this (writing like Lhaws) many years ago when reviewing one of his soon-to-be-remaindered 'books' for NBR. By the end of it all I felt like my neurons were so scrambled I needed to be strapped into some Joe 90-type mind-altering device and spun round at the speed of light in order to regain the ability to order breakfast, let alone write coherently.
Yeah, I had to read waaay_ too much Laws to write this piece. Now I'm sitting here trying to compose a serious book review, and I keep inadvertently dropping into Laws's prose (lack of) style. Oh, the pain. Strap me into the Joe 90 device, please.
Geoff Lealand wrote:
I read the news* today, oh boy! Snap!!
Michael Flaws "The Worth lesson" don't get caught", in the Sunday Star-Times, A8
My heart lifted when I saw your comment -- alas it really isn't classic Laws.
The column more-or-less makes sense. Not his opinion, of course, but -- comparatively speaking-- it does have a logical flow. I blame the sub-editors. They've ruined it for everyone.
Never mind -- there's always next week.
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Grant McDougall wrote:
David, did you apply eye shadow when you wrote this, just to make sure you really got into character?
I slathered my eyes with mascara until I looked like a giant sexually-ambiguous panda.
Mind you, all pandas look sexually-ambiguous to me.
philipmatthews quoting Iain Sharp wrote:
Nor is his depiction of lesbians as vicious, dildo-wielding loonies likely to win him much popularity with gay women.
That's the problem with lesbians -- they have no sense of humour about being portrayed as vicious, dildo-wielding loonies.
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81stcolumn wrote:
BTW. Brown Owl reference....LMFAO
Just a little joke for those familiar with the hierarchy of the Girl Guide movement (my sister was a Brownie). Glad someone got it.
Emma Hart wrote:
I am experiencing the kind of indignation that manifests itself in hysterical laughter.
Hey, note the asterisk in my original comment, dude.
Caleb D'Anvers wrote
I had the misfortune to hear a few minutes of Laws on breakfast yesterday morning, and this is scarily accurate...
[Sigh...]