Comments on: THOMAS SULLIVAN: 3-LEGGED STALLIONS HOPPING TOWARD HOPE BETWEEN THE GARDEN AND THE VACUUM

By: Sully

Sully — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:25:00 +0000

Thanks, Wayne. Yo, on Loren. Was Best Man at his wedding — #2, as his brother was Best Man at the 1st. Second wedding took wonderfully. He is a happy guy now, and so is his bride Debi, going on something like 12 years hitched, I think.

ARGH! is good. Unless you give a half-letter credit for the exclamation point. Thanks for all the good words and write on…

– Sully (Thomas Sullivan)

By: Wayne Allen Sallee

Wayne Allen Sallee — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:06:00 +0000

Hey, Sully. You know Estleman? Way cool. Christ Almighty, such a long post. I think when the 28th rolls around, I’ll use the four letter word ARGH! (if the exclamation point can count). As everyone above have said, great words, as expected.

By: Sully

Sully — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:01:00 +0000

Thanks, John.

"Love the simile about the three-legged stallion and the plastic mare. The mare represents (1) success, (2) big sales, (3) reader acclaim, (4) critical acclaim. Am I right?"

I'm glad you asked that. Actually, when I was writing, it represented my own awkwardness and the impossibilities I aspire to. Plastic mare just seemed to make the challenge more impossible and me more ridiculous. After I saw it, I thought it was one of those adjectives in which everyone would see something different. Universal interps are great, but that one will get me in trouble. Well, when you live bigger than life, seeing poetry and metaphors everywhere, you rely on the good faith of whomever you share them with, I suppose. It's a matter of pedestrian living vs. sparkle. I just hate flat conversation. Passion and romance should be mandated at least once every three hours.

Chartreuse sands. Oooh. I want to visit that island. I'll bring my own company, though...

-- Sully (Thomas Sullivan)

By: John B. Rosenman

John B. Rosenman — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:31:00 +0000

Now I know why I've had such difficulties in what I laughably call my writing career . . . I keep writing novels about GAY albino dwarves who fall in love and get washed ashore on the CHARTREUSE sands of a deserted island. Editors keep telling me I'm not quite what they want.

Love the simile about the three-legged stallion and the plastic mare. The mare represents (1) success, (2) big sales, (3) reader acclaim, (4) critical acclaim. Am I right?

I like your effusions. Very philosophical, and I'm reminded of someone who said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Obviously your life has been a journey and you've learned quite a bit along the way. I'm very happy about your son.

By: Janet Berliner

Janet Berliner — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:14:00 +0000

Brian. Please wish him a happy birthday from me.
Thanks. Hope he received my ugly present. Have fun at the party. –Janet

By: Sully

Sully — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:53:00 +0000

Vegas?…Superstition?…There you go again! Rabbit, Rabbit, anyone seen a rabbit?

– Sully (Thomas Sullivan)

By: Brian Hodge

Brian Hodge — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:48:00 +0000

>I am absolutely 100 percent guaranteed to pick losers. ... I'm the kiss of death for their bottom line.<

Heyyyy, waitaminute...

Didn't they make a cool Las Vegas movie about you, called The Cooler?

By: Sully

Sully — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:21:00 +0000

Now you’ve gone and made me superstitious again, Brian. I am absolutely 100 percent guaranteed to pick losers. Could collect a fortune of monthly stipends just by threatening to buy corporations’ stocks if they don’t pay me off, on account of I’m the kiss of death for their bottom line. Once made this fabulously clever buy based on thinking out of the box. The CEO had actually sailed a raft through an inland waterway to prove a lawsuit that would’ve made billions. Hung up in corrupt Florida courts. And the next buy was equally smart. Except I didn’t count on that CEO having a heart attack in the middle of the annual meeting, which he did.

I’m going out in the yard and catch me a rabbit’s foot…

– Sully (Thomas Sullivan)

By: Brian Hodge

Brian Hodge — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:07:00 +0000

Rockin' column, as ever.

In that eternal vying between optimism and pessimism, and all the fears that come to naught, I'm reminded of the economist who, as the saying goes, predicted 14 of the last 5 recessions. And what do all those investors who panicked their way out of the market have to show for it? Generally, a whole lot less than those who steeled their nerves and stayed in.

Janet: I can't wait to ask Ed what hideous things you managed to find for him. Just saw him this past weekend, and probably will next month, for his annual birthday gathering.

By: Sully

Sully — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:25:00 +0000

Hmmm. The Valentine’s connection would be that the Desert Don Juan’s heart was also exposed?

– Sully (Thomas Sullivan)