tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16106043.post1430619297319698833..comments2023-09-01T05:39:51.888-07:00Comments on the last noel: Literary Long Agothe last noelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883917612366394420noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16106043.post-80773440213775521412008-05-30T10:01:00.000-07:002008-05-30T10:01:00.000-07:00Very interesting. I was just listening to a podca...Very interesting. <BR/><BR/>I was just listening to a podcast of Fresh Air last night in which Terry Gross interviewed Michael Chabon about his novel, _The Yiddish Policemen's Union_. It's about a fictional time/place in which a part of Alaska was set aside as a Jewish homeland right after WWII. In it, Chabon apparently addresses the divisions in the Jewish community between various levels of orthodoxy and secular Jews.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, this sort of thing is really fascinating. The ways we group and the ways we define ourselves within groups. I put that Chabon book on my to read list, and I'd read this story too.Sundryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11395065569691894697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16106043.post-362766047869017492008-05-30T07:30:00.000-07:002008-05-30T07:30:00.000-07:00Cheryl makes such a great point. Things change so...Cheryl makes such a great point. Things change so quickly that your setting now seems like a slower-paced, friendlier version of the near Eastside.Liz Dwyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17794296990587989214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16106043.post-34572218117488861932008-05-28T15:59:00.000-07:002008-05-28T15:59:00.000-07:00Great and intriguing beginning. And I like how 199...Great and intriguing beginning. And I like how 1994 now feels like a part of L.A. history--I read that passage trying to remember <I>Was that what Hollywood was like in 1994? Pre-Hollywood-and-Highland?</I> Yep, I think it was.Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07554329549665664616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16106043.post-47622616858164109202008-05-27T09:31:00.000-07:002008-05-27T09:31:00.000-07:00I love it, as well. I hope you continue/finish the...I love it, as well. I hope you continue/finish the story--it's such a specific time capsule.<BR/>I like that part of it is based on how spaces are created for those that do not feel they fit in the "normal" spaces.Peter Varvelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04521795044554538286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16106043.post-19878873116616536862008-05-27T08:29:00.000-07:002008-05-27T08:29:00.000-07:00Very nice. I'll have to pick this up. It's inter...Very nice. I'll have to pick this up. <BR/><BR/>It's interesting, my version of Mugi ened up being called "Incense." I use a highly fictional version of it extensively in my novel and in my short story "Kama."Paul Bens, Author of "Kelland"https://www.blogger.com/profile/11475251835524558738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16106043.post-72646852500281509862008-05-27T07:52:00.000-07:002008-05-27T07:52:00.000-07:00Yeah, Jeff, I hear ya. For those who don't know w...Yeah, Jeff, I hear ya. For those who don't know what FOB stand for: Fresh of the Boat.<BR/><BR/>Don, yeah, it'sw funny reading the person I used to be. It hurts my sensibilities now, but it was so unabashed before. I enjoy it as well.the last noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11883917612366394420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16106043.post-7609550006400030762008-05-27T03:27:00.000-07:002008-05-27T03:27:00.000-07:00I love the old stuff.Bring on the old stuff!It's a...I love the old stuff.<BR/>Bring on the old stuff!<BR/><BR/>It's always laid out there so straight up....<BR/><BR/>With its untrained voice. LOVE IT>Don Cummingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05906705792248172718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16106043.post-85775964122855904162008-05-26T17:36:00.000-07:002008-05-26T17:36:00.000-07:00Hmm, well, at least now you're not a... health wor...Hmm, well, at least now you're not a... health worker? :-)<BR/><BR/>Not sure much has changed. I know one of the bars in SF is still considered to be where the FOBs go, and most of the Asian-Americans go elsewhere.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11527927474075790091noreply@blogger.com