Lisa's comments (member since Dec 29, 2007)

Lisa's comments from the Constant Reader group.

I read that, too, and found it provocative, and perhaps, a little too true. And very very interesting.

Candy.... I like your post. But I wonder. Do you see the irony at all in what you wrote? The "average" American wouldn't understand half of what you wrote, would never pick up that book, and if he did, would never get it. It takes a person of some education to do all of those things.....however he or she gets that education!

Ah, but Andy, Obama is one of the best educated and smartest men we have ever elected as president. There goes your argument. Anti-intellectualism is a bad road to go down. WHY does beng educated have to be equated with being anti-heart, anti-good? I don't see that as a Republican versus Democrat issue, except as the Republicans, in an evil, unthinking way, have made it so....dishonestly, too. As if THEY are the party of Joe the (uneducated) Plumber. AS IF. I am a highly educated, very well read woman, with a hugely compassionate heart: a writer, a reader, a volunteer, a woman of faith. A Democrat. A democrat. AND most importantly: a thinker and intellectually curious. Which, is what makes all the difference, doesn't it?

I hope we have, finally, elected a leader, who thinks before he speaks, and listens to others before he acts, and is also intellectually curious. Intellectual curiosity often (but not always) comes from having one's mind opened by education...

Here is a word I MADE UP:

Slickery

A combination of slick and slippery.

You all may steal it if you like.

I don't know. It SOUNDS interesting, the mix of sweet and sour.

Myself, I just put the cranbeeries, an orange, a little sugar, into a food processor and pulse, and get a great cranberry relish.

I try not to guild the lily, so to speak.

I concur. I have always said I want someone smarter than I am leading the country (and that's saying something:)). This idea of having someone lead us who we'd like to have a beer with is, frankly, ludicrous.

I do, however, like the idea that Obama is more of my generation, however, internet and Blackberry savvy, tuned in, and relatively "young," (okay, he's five years younger than I am)...but the idea of a 71-year-old president who was so tuned OUT seemed really a bad idea.

That said, I certainly don't need to have a president who I would have a beer with, were I the kind of person who had a beer with people, which I am not:)

Well, there IS that old joke:

A waitress comes to a table of people.
She says to one of the customers, What are y'all having?
One of the guys says, Are you talking to all of us?
And she says, If I was talking to all of you, I would have said What are all y'all having?

Y'all is southern. They stole it from us. And I have no plans to every stop using it.
Sorry.:)

Thia has NOTHING to do with the book you are reading but I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommed Roth's latest, Indignation. It is brilliant. Amazing. Wonderful.

I know. I looked at my husband and said: Historocity? And then we both broke out laughing.

Sometimes people use big words because they think it makes them look smart but NOT if they use them wrong.

And I also particularly hate the extra TA in words, too.

Irregardless.... hahahahah. Oy.

I think people sometimes read words and have no idea how to pronounce them. Or they hear them from others, used wrong, and then use them othemselves, and then it just sticks.

I never know whether to correct people or not. I hate to be a "snob: but, on the other hand, I also don't want them to keep using the word incorrectly because I suspect they really don't want to do that, either.

I really hate At This Point In Time. It is so comnpletely redunant. How abut one Or the other? You don't need both?

Also, various AND sundry? Don't need both of those, either:)

Hi, here is my column on working the polls on Tuesday. Enjoy. It was QUITE a DAY!!!!!

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/11/...

Thanks, Barbara. I am just trying to help get us out of this mess, like millions of other Americans.... :) I just hope whatever any of us is doing works. I guess we will know on November 4th.

I WISH we could hire people like Richard to be part of an alternate think tank, which is one reason I was so moved to write that story. I think there are dozens and dozens of Richards out there. Ordinary men and women, forgotten by the world. Smart people, perhaps not completely educated, but thinkers, who WANT still to be part of the system but can't get a leg up for whatever reason. Yet they haven't given up. It's amazing. He really got to me.

yeh I know. It's a shock, isn't it?

Hey. I don't know if I've been missed but I've been reading y'all--just haven't been posting. BECAUSE I have been totally immersed in this little thing that has been going on lately called The Election. I've been canvassing, working and writing for the Huffington Post (among others, but that is the most notable) and it's taken up most of my creative time and all of my mental time: the novel sits, the essays sit, the house cleaning sits, and.... most everything else sits. I'm even going to be working the polls from 5 a.m. till whenever come election day. If anyone is interested, please check me out at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-solod...


I am particularly proud of my latest piece:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-solod...

Some of the pieces have, I admit, a partisan slant. Ohers are straigh reportage.

Anyway, hope to be back to "normal" after November 4.

Cheers.

I am so sorry. I thinkj Auster is a genius.

OH NO. You always read the book first!!!!!!

I ADORE Defending You Life. So glad to find another fan. I always think that that is what the afterlife should be.

When I was small, I imagined that it would be fascinating to see a videotape (yeh, it was a long time ago) of my whole life. Until I realized that it would take my whole life to watch the darned thing.

I would like to recommend a weird and wonderful old Christian Bale film called Equilibrium, and a superb film called Moonlight Mile with Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon and two young actors you will quickly recognize has having gotten very famous.... and a wicked good sountrack!

I write down things I want to read or movies I want to see on post it notes, then I add them to a notebook I keep. Then, years late, I look at the notebook and realize that I read half of what I wanted to and now don't want to read the other half. As for the movies, I usually try to add them to my netflix queue. Oh, and music. I am so woefully behind on updating my ipod I can't even tell you, sigh.

In other words, I am so organizedly disorganized it is laughable.