Comments on: Blocked No More!

By: Molly

Molly — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:21:41 +0000

Wow. That was an amazing piece of writing for a blocked writer! I love the thought that Depression is just a sublimated case of Must-Punch. Totally makes sense.

By: Lollipop Goldstein

Lollipop Goldstein — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:03:25 +0000

This might just be the most perfect phrase ever: "the chief executors of My Silence."

Mulling, chewing, processing the rest, though I have to admit that the Peeps costume scared me. Especially if you picture it with the requisite winter coat you'd need to wear trick-or-treating where we live. A Peep in a coat?

By: HeyJoe

HeyJoe — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:25:25 +0000

Don't let the cunts get you down.

By: Leann

Leann — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:48:11 +0000

When I started my blog I used it as a personal punching bag for other people. It hurt them and I regretted it immensely. It has taken over three years to figure out what I wanted my blog to say and the direction to take it in. It is still a day to day struggle.

I love your writing. Please don't stop.

By: Molly

Molly — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:26:32 +0000

Hey, no pressure, but PLEASE don't take down the blog. You're awesome.

By: owney

owney — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:48:09 +0000

Eden, take down the blog if you must -- though so many of us would really miss it -- but please just never stop writing. It is so clearly what you were made to do.

I know what it means for a blog or other writing project to become oppressive, but I'm not sure I agree that there's a bright line to be drawn between "needing an outlet" and "craving adulation," as someone wrote above. There's nothing shameful about wanting an audience to read your work, or about trying to turn your gift for building that audience into cold hard cash. You deserve to make a living off your writing, as far as I'm concerned.

No idea what this Peeps scandal is but I think I don't want to know if it involves exploiting someone exploiting their kid's cuteness in some awful way. Though am I still allowed to dress mine up in ridiculous costumes and take her picture at every opportunity?

By: Spain

Spain — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:27:42 +0000

This has been a trying time for me and a lot of folks I know.
It turns out that it's important to know who you want to punch and why. That puts into words what I have been feeling for the past month or so. So thanks. And I hope you reach a place where you don't feel quite as punch-y sometime soon. Take care.

By: Eden Kennedy Onassis

Eden Kennedy Onassis — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:11:45 +0000

That was brilliant.

By: Xibee

Xibee — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:51:01 +0000

I'm a day late and dollar short, obviously, because I can't make heads or tails of who it might have been that was a punchable peep costume tiara touting pain in the ass. Now I kind of wish I knew who it was [feel like a midget bystander behind a trainwreck crowd]. I pretty much hate most everyone to begin with, and people who are REALLY deserving of my hatred just make me roar with laughter. (And then I try not to punch them just to add to my mirth. One has to have SOME discipline.)
Anyway, re: the parental quashing and damage that goes marching into the future long after they've gone, I thought you might laugh at this, since I did:

http://www.chucklorre.com/index.php?p=259

I will be happy to attend (if a bit late) your rolling on with the punches.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:24:39 +0000

Eden,
Your anger is absolutely justified, totally righteous. I have been angry with that idiotic blogger for some time now. I try to have pity for her and her dysfunction, and that works for a minute, but only a minute. I do hope you don't stop blogging; you're on my "must-read" list and I get enormous pleasure from your writing.