Comments on cafe selavy: Manly?

R, No, no. Absolutely not. I'm just a hillbi...

2012-01-14T08:49:42.419-05:00

R, No, no. Absolutely not. I'm just a hillbilly and come from a place where you don't get applauded. If you do a good job, you just don't get beaten. I like not taking beatings.

Do you want us to be mean and critical?

2012-01-13T12:14:23.261-05:00

Do you want us to be mean and critical?

I'm not used to people being nice to me.

2012-01-13T08:54:36.706-05:00

I'm not used to people being nice to me.

I so enjoy when you write stories...

2012-01-12T17:29:41.001-05:00

I so enjoy when you write stories...

I agree whole-heartedly with SQ6. I also want to ...

2012-01-12T09:57:35.042-05:00

I agree whole-heartedly with SQ6.

I also want to hear more about the "literary coup."

Finally, your not knowing all that was going on, both of them hitting on the girl, reminds me how different my wife's and my experiences are at parties. I'm just a dumb guy talking with his friends and having too much to drink, or sitting in the corner and avoiding people; but she gets and sees it all: did you see the way so and so was on Susie's husband? (NO.) You know that V and M are a couple (NO, V is married), they just haven't announced it yet because V's mother-in-law is sick and she can't leave W now. And on and on, it's always as if we've been to two separate parties and I can't wait to leave to discover what all I've missed. Intuition? Snooping and gossip? Both.

This post is fantastic. Not to disparage it by com...

2012-01-12T08:38:38.036-05:00

This post is fantastic. Not to disparage it by comparison, but there almost seems to be a dance between Fitzgerald's and Hemingway's respective styles here. Honestly, I could read many books full of this writing. I am jealous.