tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post113888783370038959..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Tagged, tags, & other weirdnessesMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1143664329573181402006-03-29T15:32:00.000-05:002006-03-29T15:32:00.000-05:00Well, that's a relief! I drove my mother batty in ...Well, that's a relief! I drove my mother batty in a good cause, then, and have no regret for the copy of <I>Huck Finn</I> that plunged into the tub long ago.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1143660966103448692006-03-29T14:36:00.000-05:002006-03-29T14:36:00.000-05:00There is nothing wrong or weird about excessive re...There is nothing wrong or weird about excessive reading, for it is a perfectly wonderful thing. There are so many things to learn from books and reading! Read on, all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139330150279439322006-02-07T11:35:00.000-05:002006-02-07T11:35:00.000-05:00Yes, one does record those failures of a teacher i...Yes, one does record those failures of a teacher in indelible tomato red (my most dramatic such failure being time spent with my first Yankee teacher, who was quite convinced from my slow, drawling way of speech that I must be mentally retarded. I cried with happiness when I learned that we were moving to North Carolina.)<BR/><BR/>I'm very sorry to lose the chance at Oswald and his ilk (Andrew Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139325704881550032006-02-07T10:21:00.000-05:002006-02-07T10:21:00.000-05:00I must disappoint you—Oswald’s adventures have not...I must disappoint you—Oswald’s adventures have not survived… He, and his gang of fruity friends (who, although I don’t specifically remember them, very likely all had similarly-alliterative names) had a new adventure serialised in the exercise-book every week, with a crayon illustration on the facing page. One detail has stuck in my head, about a certain adventure where Oswald & Co were driving Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139318337880020432006-02-07T08:18:00.000-05:002006-02-07T08:18:00.000-05:00Ah, a soul mate on the vegetable rainbow! I wonder...Ah, a soul mate on the vegetable rainbow! I wonder if there's a mainly red-eater out there somewhere. Or purple.<BR/><BR/>And now I long to see <I>Oswald the Orange</I> in his pebbled orange glory on the Giornale Nuovo.<BR/><BR/>***<BR/><BR/>That's at the wondrous address of <A>http://spamula.net/blog/</A>, all you who have strayed here...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139308777163164142006-02-07T05:39:00.000-05:002006-02-07T05:39:00.000-05:00With regard to monochrome food, I have a niece who...With regard to monochrome food, I have a niece who for a few years seldom ate anything that wasn't yellow, thus subsisting largely on custard, bananas, corn, cheese, & the like.<BR/><BR/>As for me, I'm told that the first word I ever spoke was 'bus'. I was writing poems when I was five or six years old, & at the age of about eight filled an exercise book with the illustrated 'Adventures of OswaldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139272192529400572006-02-06T19:29:00.000-05:002006-02-06T19:29:00.000-05:00Please report back on the NC fishing...Too bad you...Please report back on the NC fishing...<BR/><BR/>Too bad you weren't here for a wild, windy day. The snow is blowing sideways past the lamppost.<BR/><BR/>Lemme see. Anonymous describes self as utterly without weird things to confess. Proceeds to confess belief in cross-chesting models in <I>Playboy</I>, fantasies that the rest of us are dead, a penchant for rambling about in blizzards and for Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139264396812130742006-02-06T17:19:00.000-05:002006-02-06T17:19:00.000-05:00I have absolutely no weird things to report. Well,...I have absolutely no weird things to report. Well, maybe that I loved animals so much I cried when my pet toad died. When I was a teenager and first looked at Playboy magazine I was sure that the models were just boys made up as girls because I didn't believe any young woman would be so immodest as to be photographed nude. And sometimes I would wake up early and if the world was silent enough I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139263777685557372006-02-06T17:09:00.000-05:002006-02-06T17:09:00.000-05:00I'm glad you left the boat spam, I'd like to go fi...I'm glad you left the boat spam, I'd like to go fishing next time I'm in NC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139233436351149762006-02-06T08:43:00.000-05:002006-02-06T08:43:00.000-05:00Phil is overdue for the Nicest Novelist Award. He ...Phil is overdue for the Nicest Novelist Award. He got the Shaara Award for his last novel... I've never met him in person, but I find that hard to remember.<BR/><BR/>Yes, it probably saved me from the canned monstrosities of that era! Although my mother has always been a big gardener. Our garden in Louisiana was magical, or is in my memory. And perhaps I should return to the All Raw Diet, as I'veMarly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139190468772698882006-02-05T20:47:00.000-05:002006-02-05T20:47:00.000-05:00How good of you, Marly, to tag Phil so that some o...How good of you, Marly, to tag Phil so that some of us (like me) could read his gentle musings. I also loved Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (and I wanted to be a nun or a ballet dancer or a cowgirl--all because of the costumes). I have been thinking what a very healthy little girl you must have been, with all those vegie vitamins in your system!jarvenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04709417058741577802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139122896609563602006-02-05T02:01:00.000-05:002006-02-05T02:01:00.000-05:00HiNice blog page. Well laid out. If anyone's look...Hi<BR/>Nice blog page. Well laid out. If anyone's looking for a charter boat or fishing guide in north carolina here's a website.<BR/><BR/>Regards<BR/> <A HREF="http://www.uscharterboats.com/northcarolina" REL="nofollow">north carolina boats</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-1139112816527427902006-02-04T23:13:00.000-05:002006-02-04T23:13:00.000-05:00When I was a kid, I mostly sat still for long peri...When I was a kid, I mostly sat still for long periods of time and thought about things. I could be quiet for a very long time. I liked to walk to the woods and climb a tree and just listen to the wind.<BR/><BR/>I think I cried too easily for a boy. I fell in love with classical music when I was 9. I was always awkward and slow, but I loved to laugh. I read anything I could find, but I especially Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com