Comments on: THOMAS SULLIVAN: FROG SEX OR JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS

By: Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:53:02 +0000

You and I like to bitch about signing 500 copies of a special edition, but I have to tell you that it isn’t a whole lot different for a rock icon. The blogs yesterday were saying that Glenn coming was the biggest thing that ever happened there, but Crosslake is tiny and remote. We slipped quietly into a table at Manhattan Beach Lodge to talk early the day BEFORE the concert, and by the time we were finished the tables next to us were piled high with guitars. At the house, the concert promoter had sent over another pile along with packages filled with CDs for his friends. Getting away after a concert is even more problematic. It’s a virtual dead run instantly from the stage and a car ride like something out of The French Connection. The man is besieged, and like everyone around him, I try not to make it worse for him. Will e-mail you later, amigo…

– Sully

By: Dave Wilson

Dave Wilson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:51:45 +0000

Sully, I’m willing to bet the difference is that Glenn could afford one of my signed books, but guitars are expensive (lol) If I mail you one of mine, will you get him to sign it?

By: Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:48:39 +0000

After the diet I go for the menu that only lists nectar and ambrosia, the food for the gods. A sip and a nibble go a long, long way, and if perchance the muse serves it up every day, it’s never adds useless weight or freight. That’s the thing about quality control, if you don’t compromise it, it maxes out everything else for you. I’ll never regret going for the best I can do, and I’ll always regret doing anything less. You’ve lived the same dreams, Janet, and I thank you for adding support to the standard.

– Sully

By: Janet Berliner

Janet Berliner — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:26:21 +0000

Spot on, my friend, but what happens after the diet? Does foot begin to look and taste good again? I do hope so. –Janet

By: Robert Jones

Robert Jones — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:17:58 +0000

…and what did I just tell the folks about your powers of description? I rest my case.

The next time I go to Petoskey, I’ll make a point of proceeding northwardly a few more miles to check out Cross Village.

Amalgam ” ” ‘ ‘ — &

By: Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:45:01 +0000

While Cross Village is nowhere near as picturesque as Cross Lake, Minnesota, it has a reputation for enchantment. Driving around Cross Lake this past weekend, walking its woods in the middle of the night — which I just had to do — catching its storm cells gusting in from the west with rumbles and flashes, standing in the wind on a dam whose concrete fingers billowed up silver water in the moonlight, and discovering gossamer mists and foxfire in its hollows at dawn just put me in mind of the strange lights and sounds of another town (Cross Village) I knew with its similar name.

– Sully

By: Robert Jones

Robert Jones — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:30:46 +0000

Having been to Petoskey numerous times, I know where Cross Village is located, but I don’t recall any connection with it. Did we invade it at some time in the past?
Amalgam

By: Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:47:20 +0000

BTW, Amalgam, Cross Lake at night under a nearly full Moon has some of the same haunting mood as Cross Village in Michigan, if you remember that. And Davey, Glenn Frey signs guitars like we sign books…

– Sully

By: Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:27:01 +0000

LOL… you guys always answer me in kind and leave me thinking I should have used something you used. Thanks for the kindness and the lesson. Frogs never fail to inspire me. One of my fave characters is the obsessive-compulsive Mr. Toad (close enough)in “Wind in the Willows,” and another is that high-topper, strut-footing Michigan J. Frog, or whatever his name is, in the Bugs Bunny cartoon. They are just so full of energy and optimism that it kick-starts my soul. The three days at Cross Lake, MN, couldn’t have been better, and the Frey kids are a delight on and off the stage. If I can distill even 10% of what went on this past weekend, it will be featured in next month’s newsletter and column.

– Sully

By: Dave Wilson

Dave Wilson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:47:29 +0000

Well writ, my friend. I have actually seem works that authors have run through the wringer one or two too many times and squeezed the life from their own creations in the attempt to be more perfect…I guess it is similar to super models becoming TOO thin…you have to know when it’s “right” and accept that “right” and “perfect” will never really be synonymous.

And as always, I’m jealous of your weekend at the lake…very cool that the young freys are following in their father’s musical heritage…