Comments for What Was I Thinking? http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com "If this ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here." Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:39:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Sunday Post by Sometimes Saintly Nick http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/sunday-post-36/#comment-18950 Sometimes Saintly Nick Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:39:06 +0000 http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/?p=1390#comment-18950 The Emperor was right. Now, if some media talking heads would just understand that. The Emperor was right. Now, if some media talking heads would just understand that.

]]> Comment on Sunday Post by William http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/sunday-post-36/#comment-18949 William Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:23:08 +0000 http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/?p=1390#comment-18949 Are they your boots? I dig. Are they your boots? I dig.

]]> Comment on Sunday Post by Squirl http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/sunday-post-36/#comment-18948 Squirl Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:28:43 +0000 http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/?p=1390#comment-18948 Good quote! Even better boots! Good quote! Even better boots!

]]> Comment on Sunday Post by shari http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/sunday-post-36/#comment-18947 shari Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:26:10 +0000 http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/?p=1390#comment-18947 I've never fully grasped the concept of "enemies" because I can't really fathom a disagreement spawning hatred. I understand dislike, preference for other company, setting boundaries and enforcing them, etc., but true 'enemies'? I don't get it. But the puddle-stompers? I TOTALLY get those! In fact, I'd very much like to get them. Where'd you find 'em? ;) I’ve never fully grasped the concept of “enemies” because I can’t really fathom a disagreement spawning hatred. I understand dislike, preference for other company, setting boundaries and enforcing them, etc., but true ‘enemies’? I don’t get it.

But the puddle-stompers? I TOTALLY get those! In fact, I’d very much like to get them. Where’d you find ‘em? ;)

]]> Comment on Sunday Post by kcinnova http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/sunday-post-36/#comment-18946 kcinnova Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:44:55 +0000 http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/?p=1390#comment-18946 I can't decide which I like better: the quote or the photograph! I can’t decide which I like better: the quote or the photograph!

]]> Comment on Sunday Post by Bunny http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/sunday-post-36/#comment-18945 Bunny Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:33:07 +0000 http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/?p=1390#comment-18945 Lovely post. :) Lovely post. :)

]]> Comment on Booty Flies ~ from "My Life in the Stirrups" by infamousqbert http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2005/04/26/booty-flies-from-my-life-in-the-stirrups/#comment-18944 infamousqbert Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:15:45 +0000 http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2005/04/26/booty-flies-from-my-life-in-the-stirrups/#comment-18944 oh, my god. someone linked to this on another website and i'm just trying to hold it in at work. you are cracking me up!! oh, my god. someone linked to this on another website and i’m just trying to hold it in at work. you are cracking me up!!

]]> Comment on Booty Flies ~ from "My Life in the Stirrups" by Shauna http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2005/04/26/booty-flies-from-my-life-in-the-stirrups/#comment-18943 Shauna Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:06:43 +0000 http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2005/04/26/booty-flies-from-my-life-in-the-stirrups/#comment-18943 I just wanted you to know that, 4 years later, you brought tears to my eyes :) I just wanted you to know that, 4 years later, you brought tears to my eyes :)

]]> Comment on Ode to Edward: One Mom’s Dissent by Rebecca Whitney http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/ode-to-edward-one-moms-dissent/#comment-18942 Rebecca Whitney Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:05:04 +0000 http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/?p=1017#comment-18942 I have 4 daughters, 2 of them are fans of this book series, but not to the point of obsession. I am a huge fantasy fan, as is my husband, and I am eagerly anticipating the next movie coming out next month. I agree w/ some of your points about Edward being a poor choice as a boyfriend/ role model-type yet I am at ease w/ my own girls reading about his relationship w/ Bella for a number of reasons. #1, it is a great introduction for them into the realm of "what if?"/fantasy. Einstein used to hail that the greater of the two, intelligence vs. imagination, was by far imagination. Vampires, ESP, clairvoyance, werewolves and the like couldn't be more "outside the box" for imaginative sparks to fly. #2, it has made reading "trendy", which I haven't seen in my entire 36 years on this planet. The popular kids, the cheerleaders, the brains, the everybodies are reading for once, and the same book! Can't you see what a huge accomplishment this is?! They have an equal ground for conversation that might just well break down some stereotype barrier walls. #3, yes, the relationship between Bella and Edward is a bit creapy in many aspects like stalking and passive-agressive behaviorisms, Edward's bipolar'ish personality and the constant presence of death as an overtone, BUT: thinking back to the "ideal" or romanticised couples from my youth and even before and we get the unrealistic (love at first sight) Romeo and Juliet that of course ends stupidly. We have Bonnie and Clyde from the 30's that were a cult phenomenon; hundreds of Halloween trick or treaters dressed up as the murdering, robbers. If you want to mention the sexual overtones then you have to remember Flowers in the Attic, a book every little girl in my class obsessed over in the 4-6'th grade that had incest (not to mention child murder by the grandmother), Judy Blume's "Are you there God, it's me Margaret" (I'm not entirely sure this is the exact book I am remembering reading at the age of, oh, 12, but I remember a bathroom floor intercourse portion of a book by that authro between the main character and her boyfriend and they were both teens). I remember reading to the end wondering if she was pregnant. Pick a book, and you will be able to tear it apart, heck, look at the bible, it has beastiality, polygamy, murder, incest, homosexuality, genecide...I could go on...Yes, I do see your points regarding Edward stalking her and his violent dendencies and posessiveness to be disturbing, but the sad reality is that you will find that on every single block in every single suburb and city worldwide from the beginning of time to it's end. What you need to do as a parent is be informed, which you did and I applaud you for, but then to also be a good role model in your own relationship(s) and in your verbal instruction to your child. A kind and attentive parent will empower a girl to grow up and expect that exact same treatment from her boyfriend. A book isn't going to be able to make that type of impact, ever! .....even the bible. I have 4 daughters, 2 of them are fans of this book series, but not to the point of obsession. I am a huge fantasy fan, as is my husband, and I am eagerly anticipating the next movie coming out next month. I agree w/ some of your points about Edward being a poor choice as a boyfriend/ role model-type yet I am at ease w/ my own girls reading about his relationship w/ Bella for a number of reasons. #1, it is a great introduction for them into the realm of “what if?”/fantasy. Einstein used to hail that the greater of the two, intelligence vs. imagination, was by far imagination. Vampires, ESP, clairvoyance, werewolves and the like couldn’t be more “outside the box” for imaginative sparks to fly. #2, it has made reading “trendy”, which I haven’t seen in my entire 36 years on this planet. The popular kids, the cheerleaders, the brains, the everybodies are reading for once, and the same book! Can’t you see what a huge accomplishment this is?! They have an equal ground for conversation that might just well break down some stereotype barrier walls. #3, yes, the relationship between Bella and Edward is a bit creapy in many aspects like stalking and passive-agressive behaviorisms, Edward’s bipolar’ish personality and the constant presence of death as an overtone, BUT: thinking back to the “ideal” or romanticised couples from my youth and even before and we get the unrealistic (love at first sight) Romeo and Juliet that of course ends stupidly. We have Bonnie and Clyde from the 30’s that were a cult phenomenon; hundreds of Halloween trick or treaters dressed up as the murdering, robbers. If you want to mention the sexual overtones then you have to remember Flowers in the Attic, a book every little girl in my class obsessed over in the 4-6′th grade that had incest (not to mention child murder by the grandmother), Judy Blume’s “Are you there God, it’s me Margaret” (I’m not entirely sure this is the exact book I am remembering reading at the age of, oh, 12, but I remember a bathroom floor intercourse portion of a book by that authro between the main character and her boyfriend and they were both teens). I remember reading to the end wondering if she was pregnant. Pick a book, and you will be able to tear it apart, heck, look at the bible, it has beastiality, polygamy, murder, incest, homosexuality, genecide…I could go on…Yes, I do see your points regarding Edward stalking her and his violent dendencies and posessiveness to be disturbing, but the sad reality is that you will find that on every single block in every single suburb and city worldwide from the beginning of time to it’s end. What you need to do as a parent is be informed, which you did and I applaud you for, but then to also be a good role model in your own relationship(s) and in your verbal instruction to your child. A kind and attentive parent will empower a girl to grow up and expect that exact same treatment from her boyfriend. A book isn’t going to be able to make that type of impact, ever! …..even the bible.

]]> Comment on Biscuit Friday: Art Imitates Bad Dog by here today, gone tomorrow http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/art-imitates-bad-dog/#comment-18941 here today, gone tomorrow Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:33:47 +0000 http://whatwasithinking.wordpress.com/?p=1373#comment-18941 Oh, Biscuit! *smooch!* Oh, Biscuit! *smooch!*

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