tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6085733071096386316..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Kent Week #5: Dumb dad discovers terrible truthNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-19208654010094470152015-06-20T08:25:58.416-05:002015-06-20T08:25:58.416-05:00Sorry about jumping to conclusions, NS. I'll b...Sorry about jumping to conclusions, NS. I'll be more careful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-61052481990024760552015-06-19T16:14:38.424-05:002015-06-19T16:14:38.424-05:00Sorry, you guys have to stick up for yourselves in...Sorry, you guys have to stick up for yourselves in that regard, in general. I try to ignore him; you can too. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-44081134946031747982015-06-19T15:41:01.593-05:002015-06-19T15:41:01.593-05:00NS-too bad you didn't have time yesterday to p...NS-too bad you didn't have time yesterday to protect some victims here from the attack of the Anon not Anon monsterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-58121644884867525402015-06-19T15:39:39.073-05:002015-06-19T15:39:39.073-05:00Just be sure that critical, arrogant, know it all ...Just be sure that critical, arrogant, know it all beast, A/N/A doesn't see the vacation tome, lol.<br /><br />Anyhow, at least put up one installment.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90423816338266664772015-06-19T15:37:49.794-05:002015-06-19T15:37:49.794-05:00Paul, you sound fine.
And Mr. S, I think quite a ...Paul, you sound fine.<br /><br />And Mr. S, I think quite a few of us would like to read your vacation stories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-68184883559371276412015-06-19T15:12:36.139-05:002015-06-19T15:12:36.139-05:00Or it's someone who is, thinks and speaks like...Or it's someone who is, thinks and speaks like a granny.Grannynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-20118025509410483102015-06-19T14:51:48.932-05:002015-06-19T14:51:48.932-05:00Nikki, I agree. I can't believe women who clai...Nikki, I agree. I can't believe women who claim they want respect or equal rights would go in for that in book or movie form.<br /><br />If someone tried to tie me down or hurt me in some way as an adult, I'd have my shovel ready or bat to bop them upside the head. Forget about just calling the police. Talk about lacking self esteem for any one who allows that in real life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-35026635372136913222015-06-19T08:43:24.207-05:002015-06-19T08:43:24.207-05:00Glad it worked. I thought, for a professional writ...Glad it worked. I thought, for a professional writer, being put in a bag with Charles Lamb and Max Beerbohm couldn't be all bad.<br /><br />TEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-42397433750825378072015-06-19T06:47:55.210-05:002015-06-19T06:47:55.210-05:00Kudos. There is already a surfeit of such people. ...Kudos. There is already a surfeit of such people. Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-70431774615511053652015-06-18T22:27:50.165-05:002015-06-18T22:27:50.165-05:00Keef is long gone. I think he's in California....Keef is long gone. I think he's in California. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-86546127291181383222015-06-18T22:27:27.226-05:002015-06-18T22:27:27.226-05:00Not everything is for the paper. And both their mo...Not everything is for the paper. And both their mom and I are raising them not to be the sort of people who think they know how to raise other people's kids better than they do , based on a handful of filtered facts and stories and their own self-regard and set attitudes. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-46963737397654418002015-06-18T22:25:10.819-05:002015-06-18T22:25:10.819-05:00Don't get your hopes up; my gut tells me not t...Don't get your hopes up; my gut tells me not to.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-24551023154735710082015-06-18T22:09:00.015-05:002015-06-18T22:09:00.015-05:00Such vivid descriptions-
This autumn has been ext...Such vivid descriptions-<br /><br />This autumn has been extra colorful. The big maple in my front yard is a glorious universe of warm yellow. The burning bush, a heart-swelling rich maroon.Normally this is the time of year when I pause to realize that the summer is gone and, again, I blew it, chained to the oar of daily newspapering while the soft June mornings melted into spicy July afternoons and hot August nights.<br />Barinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-27535891079055364832015-06-18T22:04:57.503-05:002015-06-18T22:04:57.503-05:00Well it's still more interesting when you join...Well it's still more interesting when you join in, when you have time for more discussion.<br /><br />And no, you are not a dum dad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-25432173459127212322015-06-18T19:25:21.078-05:002015-06-18T19:25:21.078-05:00The 30 installments in August sounds perfect!The 30 installments in August sounds perfect!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07655372320505017102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-15312535849574577262015-06-18T19:17:47.367-05:002015-06-18T19:17:47.367-05:00Thanks.Thanks.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-22570876482325383702015-06-18T19:17:25.896-05:002015-06-18T19:17:25.896-05:00I read Mr. Evans generous assessment earlier, and ...I read Mr. Evans generous assessment earlier, and couldn't think of a reply beyond, "Works for me." Which hardly seemed worth saying. I'm trying not to enter into the comments unless necessary. I've had my say, above. This space is for you to have your say.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-55040653475311233132015-06-18T19:16:22.046-05:002015-06-18T19:16:22.046-05:00Working.Working.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-16779183991196321872015-06-18T17:41:16.299-05:002015-06-18T17:41:16.299-05:00Well where is our blog host today?Well where is our blog host today?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-78672434451903718222015-06-18T17:10:50.810-05:002015-06-18T17:10:50.810-05:00Yet they publish another installment of 50 Shades ...Yet they publish another installment of 50 Shades of Crap. Couldn't you just self publish w ebooks?Nikki Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-51236658805244921112015-06-18T17:10:37.880-05:002015-06-18T17:10:37.880-05:00Great idea. Sometimes when you say that something ...Great idea. Sometimes when you say that something has run its course, I want to scream out "No! Give us more," but I defer to the professional writer and his decision. Your accounts of being a family man - as well as the honest and self questioning "what have I done" - is somehow life affirming. Especially to someone like myself who raised children (and now, in my case, grandchildren) with little or no positive parental guidance or memory to rely upon, to know that we all face the same challenges and have the same feelings and questions about the job entrusted to us by society, due to the biological pressures and demands of being Human. <br />To be clear: I enjoy it. So, at least you have an audience of one. <br />I look back on my posts and realize that a lack of intelligence and education tends to make me long winded and obscure. Paul Fedrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384556977324071639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-64864715459425638112015-06-18T16:42:37.487-05:002015-06-18T16:42:37.487-05:00I did write a book about the vacation. But nobody ...I did write a book about the vacation. But nobody would publish it. Not a nibble. I thought about posting it here, in 30 installments, in August. I'm not sure if it's a good or bad idea. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-3654596228643506712015-06-18T16:27:58.459-05:002015-06-18T16:27:58.459-05:00The column is a good example of why many of us rea...The column is a good example of why many of us read Mr. Steinberg, even every Goddamn day. The Sun-Times has many facile scribes, but he alone writes in the tradition of the personal essay, serving himself up to readers as a plausible person; plausible because flawed and constrained in recognizably human ways. He used to be fat and drank too much. He indulges his kids. He suffers being reigned in by the wife when necessary. Although it is too early to dub him "the incomparable Neil," what Virginia Woolf wrote about Max Beerbohm, quoted in a recent New York Review of Books article, seems pertinent.<br /><br /> "What Mr. Beerbohm gave was, of course, himself. This presence, which has haunted the essay fitfully from the time of Montaigne. had been in exile since the death of Charles Lamb. Matthew Arnold was never to his readers Matt, nor Walter Pater affectionately abbreviated in a thousand homes to Wat. They gave us much, but that they did not give. Some time in the nineties it must have surprised readers accustomed to exhortation, information and denunciation to find themselves familiarly addressed by a voice which seemed to belong to a man no larger than themselves....Once again we have an essayist capable of using the essayist's most proper but most dangerous and delicate tool....we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word he writes."<br /><br />Kent seems like a nice young man, even if a chip off the old block, but Neil is probably wise to now grant him anonymity until he is in a position to toot his own horn.<br /><br />Tom EvansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-4496784128875686502015-06-18T15:12:48.989-05:002015-06-18T15:12:48.989-05:00Amazing photo of the buffalo.Amazing photo of the buffalo.SandyKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-41503165185365152142015-06-18T13:24:16.169-05:002015-06-18T13:24:16.169-05:00Mrs. G: I was a fine and helpful stepdad, or tried...Mrs. G: I <i>was</i> a fine and helpful stepdad, or tried to be, with varying degrees of success. But their mother and I divorced long ago.<br /><br />By the same token, I wrote those columns many years before the Intertoobz. But I appreciate your interest.Bitter Scribenoreply@blogger.com