Comments on: A brief aside

By: Love by the Book

Love by the Book — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:09:07 +0000

A little from Column A, a little from Column B. I suppose out of vanity I didn’t want to be touted around town as a baked-goods-mad, chain-smoking alcoholic with an anger management problem (however funny and true that desciption may be). I was also a little concerned about who it might attract – there are a fair amount of whackjobs out there and I seem to be a magnet for them as is so was a little concerned about what might happen if I went around essentially courting them.

By: Jimi

Jimi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:15:18 +0000

Such a shame. I rather liked what your mate wrote. It’s distinctly non-generic. And interesting enough for me to read to the end without my head turning inside out like a duffel bag in an attempt to amuse myself. I think I know of the site you are talking about and yes… rather dry and unimaginative.

Are you more concerned about keeping up appearances for appearances sake? or what kind of person will be attracted by a reference like that?

In any case, letting your guard down may well be dead against the ‘rules’.

By: Love by the Book

Love by the Book — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:29:16 +0000

Hey man, I’m not denying my tenure in the baked goods department of the grocery store. It was a glorious reign. I’m just saying that, sadly for me and for Price Chopper, my metabolism isn’t quite what it was when I was 17 and nary a baguette passes through these lips nowadays.

You did say football and i was proud of you for that but then you negated it by saying no one who met me now would ever believe I used to play football.

By: Frances

Frances — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:24:57 +0000

Quit yer lyin’. We totally ate entire baguettes. You were the unofficial president of the Price Chopper Baguette Aisle. Right before we ate entire pizzas and then entire cakes. It’s kind of shocking that Price Chopper didn’t go out of business when we went to college.

Do I get partial credit on the description for at least attempting to sound a bit like an Englishperson and not my general Urban-Folksy self? I said “football,” dammit. And I met that sort with the kicking.