Comments on: garlic, activism, interview with a bat

By: sobriquet67

sobriquet67 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:50:04 +0000

To Holly (sorry, I couldn’t find the URL for her blog to post there):

Great to read that you all will be expanding your garden plot! Thanks for your feedback. Maybe the garlic tip exposure method is good for hardnecks…? We’ve just planted softnecks. Who knows! Either way, best of luck! Happy restful winter,
sobriquet67

By: Hetero genus

Hetero genus — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:57:04 +0000

You have the best videos, Alison, loved the owl too, though hope it went somewhere else to eat. I too thought garlic, unlike irises, should be buried deeper.

By: Jay H.

Jay H. — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:33:07 +0000

You say you feel you’ve made DTWOF obsolete, because the movement has had so much success–but as an avid, heterosexual reader of your work (though I have to say, Toni might be able to convert me), I promise you your work will absolutely never be obsolete! The memoir form is something you do so beautifully, and it’s exactly the right art form for middle age, but I hope that one day you feel inspired to start another strip that allows you the freedom to comment on ongoing politics and social issues. We really can’t face the future without you…

By: The Cat Pimp

The Cat Pimp — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:26:01 +0000

Coming in late from the peanut gallery, I’m hoping if AB gets time in the future, maybe she could do a yearly dtwof calendar. 12 episodes per year instead of 20-mumble.

Just sayin’

BTW – this isn’t showing up in my rss feed lately on LJ. Hm.

By: makky

makky — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:13:50 +0000

The garlic video is reminicent of the Fun Home scene in which Alison and her father are planting bulbs and her father instructs alison to plant the bulb “pointy side up”. If I’m remembering right, alison then says that she hates flowers.

By: June

June — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:23:08 +0000

Yun Jin Joo’s talk of translations reminds me of one of my favorite episodes from Doonesbury. Someone was talking about how, after Mao’s stroke, Honey was the only person who could understand his speech. As such, she was the one who ordered the Cultural Revolution. “Well,” she admitted, “I think that’s what he said.”

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:15:43 +0000

sobriquet67: Planting with the tips just showing is something that was told to me, so we’ll see how it goes. But the garlic bed will definitely get a blanket of leaf mulch. And hey, we’ve just made plans to expand the garden!

By: Ginjoint

Ginjoint — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:29:20 +0000

bh, those are my dead Mormons. Alison took care of ‘em for me.

By: bh

bh — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:59:17 +0000

have you chicks buried a whole lot of vampires in your backyard? Those garlic garden mounds look weirdly human shaped …

By: Alex K

Alex K — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:58:20 +0000

Clippings service: A respectful and approbative review of STATE BY STATE leads this week’s “Books” section of THE SPECTATOR. Philip Hensher is, as always, wittily perceptive – “David Rakoff makes [Salt Lake City] sound just like Pyongyang with better supermarkets and stranger underwear”. No mention, however, of AB’s work.