Comments on: we live in interesting times

By: Rosa

Rosa — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:12:46 +0000

I just want to thank you all for being here. The Catholic side of our family visited from the suburbs this weekend and I am awfully glad to be able to come and have my reality reset this morning.

I will say that for every birthday and Christmas we go to Amazon and buy books for all those Catholics, and they go to B&N and buy us gift cards. It’s depressing, but predictable.

Also – C., are there still school-owned book stores? My experience is only with Big 10 colleges (Iowa & Minnesota) but I was under the impression that most colleges had switched to leasing space to big college book store corps. I’d be glad to hear that wasn’t true.

By: ksbel6

ksbel6 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:19:42 +0000

shadocat…no, I didn’t no that about KC…my mom lives in Independence currently…yuck. I have a much fonder appreciation for Columbia since it is a short jump from Kirksville (where I have now lived for an amazing 18 years) and I spend lots of my fun time there.

By: C.

C. — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:47:34 +0000

In the same EW issue as the essay, Fun Home has been declared the 68th best book of the past 25 years.

By: Kate L

Kate L — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:40:01 +0000

No, I’m not in Johnson County (suburban Kansas City), but my sister is. Amazing as it may sound, rural Riley County had the second highest “No” vote against the anti-gay marriage amendment to the state constitution, where it was almost defeated. I did live in the city of Lawrence in Douglas County while I was getting my Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, though…

By: C.

C. — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:07:52 +0000

Are school-owned College bookstores that also sell general titles “independent”?

By: kiki

kiki — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:22:59 +0000

I loved your piece in the new entertainment weekly! What a great surprise.

By: shadocat

shadocat — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:22:42 +0000

ksbel6…Columbia would be cool too! But did you know that KCMO also has an anti-discrimination law? I found this out the hard way, when I lost a job in Independence for my “lifestyle”. I went to a lawyer who said to me, “If only you had worked in Kansas City…”

By: ksbel6

ksbel6 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:12:45 +0000

Shadocat…funny, my dream is to move to Columbia, MO when I retire…the only city in the state where there is a policy banning work discrimmination based on sexual orientation, AND, carrying less than 2 joints worth of pot is legal Go big college towns!

By: Alex K

Alex K — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:41:17 +0000

@Andrew B.: To be president is to be central, yes. Objectively viewed, that excludes Obama from a role as “mystical Negro”.

But who among us view our lives objectively? Who doesn’t believe that she is truly, essentially central?

Around whom else is it all SUPPOSED to revolve, anyway? (No YOU shut up.)

“There may be people who are sufficiently egotistical to see a presidential candidate as a supporting character in their individual dramas.” That’s all of us, honey. Every last one. Heaven is high, and the Emperor is far away.

By: Aunt Soozie

Aunt Soozie — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:23:40 +0000

Love that dream… did you remember the content of the strip when you woke up? I hate those dreams where in the dream you have this great idea and when you wake up you can’t remember what it was…