Eccentric Flower talk:200906/January 2000

Peebles:

I have been having a blast reading your old entries, personally. I only read your journal sporadically in those days (mostly because you were internet-famous, and I was totally intimidated), and it's really nice being able to put those fragments into context.

-- 22:08, 15 June 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

Pft. If I was internet famous back then it was only because the internet was so small. (I do wonder what has become of some of these people; I feel like I should be making a "where are they now" list).

However, that aside, I'm pleased you're enjoying the old entries! Some of them are pleasing me too; others - well, they're still enlightening to read, but pleasure is not the word I'd use.

-- 22:15, 15 June 2009 (BST)

Iain:

You know, I'm going to be very glad when you can finally get the Mouth Organ archive up and running. I have not the slightest memory of any of the stuff in "Game of Boy and Girl". It's the first one of the entries you've brought back where you mention our correspondence that's left be going, "Eh? What? Huh?" And there's no way to tell what the Tribune magazine article was.

"Bullwinkle's Eyes" is creepy yet annoying.

"War and Illusions" is, indeed, damned good prose.

-- 22:23, 15 June 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

I am amazed at the number of times the journal entries from this time period reference mouth organ - and I can't remember what any of them were about, either. Rereading those is going to be ... interesting.

-- 22:29, 15 June 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

By the by, Iain, I think the content of the Tribune article is at least adequately summarized further down the entry. Pity the link's dead, though; I'd have liked to go reread it.

-- 22:31, 15 June 2009 (BST)

Joy:

Those pictures are gorgeous.

-- 02:33, 16 June 2009 (BST)

Jette:

The archives are interesting to me because sometimes you talk about me and I can't remember the context. There's a Nov. 1999 entry where you talk about something you don't like about my life, and circa 1999, I have no idea what that would be. My continuing hopeless crushes on the wrong guys? My work as a desktop publisher? My reluctance to leave Austin? I guess I could go read MY archives but I had enough sifting through the past recently when I cleaned up my paper files, and am not yet ready to do it again.

-- 03:09, 16 June 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

Often I don't remember either. As in this case. Are you sure you aren't thinking of my ambivalence about houseguests? Because you came to visit in November 1999.

-- 03:53, 16 June 2009 (BST)

Jette:

The sentence in question: "I have some gripes with the way she's living her life which I had no right to mention to her, no right to fuss about ... and I did it anyway."

I can't even remember this. Heh. I do remember going to Eric's for Thanksgiving this year and I thought it was funny to see you characterize me as being relaxed and having a good time, because although I may have looked that way, it took an immense amount of effort.

-- 17:00, 16 June 2009 (BST)

Emily:

The alt tag that I briefly saw while the photos were loading made me laugh out loud in surprise and amusement.

(A nit-picky navigational preference -- any thought to duplicating the next and back links at the very top or very bottom of the page? When I get to the end of the comments I have to shift-space back up a few times, and that is not very efficient.)

-- 02:00, 25 June 2009 (BST)

Columbina:

I've avoided it because I fill in those links by hand and it means editing two sets, but I have the very same problem you do and I'm starting to wonder if it would be worth the pain.

Also, welcome! Sorry it took me longer than usual to approve you, I only FINALLY just got my email computer back together tonight. I was waiting on a replacement video card.

-- 04:15, 25 June 2009 (BST)