Comments on: Thomas Sullivan: WHO’S THE STIFF, THE GANG OF 5 & AN ADAM ‘N’ EVE SLEEPING BAG http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/ Just another Storytellers Unplugged weblog Thu, 24 May 2012 04:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-669 Thomas Sullivan Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:39:12 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3130#comment-669 Did you leave off the “Do-dah,” Wayne? Must have the do-dah. You are a funny man. Am still laughing over your reference to a sponge bath, followed by the line, “lots of luck getting that out of your head.” But I can’t take your title gratis. Trade you even up. I’m giving you one of my short story titles: BUSTER BEALS, PREPARATION H & THE INTERGALACTIC RELATIVES. Lots of luck getting that out of YOUR head… – Sully Did you leave off the “Do-dah,” Wayne? Must have the do-dah. You are a funny man. Am still laughing over your reference to a sponge bath, followed by the line, “lots of luck getting that out of your head.”

But I can’t take your title gratis. Trade you even up. I’m giving you one of my short story titles: BUSTER BEALS, PREPARATION H & THE INTERGALACTIC RELATIVES. Lots of luck getting that out of YOUR head…

– Sully

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-668 Thomas Sullivan Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:38:36 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3130#comment-668 [This comment is from Wayne of Chicago and was copied from the main blog] Wayne Allen Sallee January 19th, 2010 at 10:11 pm Hey, Sully. Told you I’d be here. You mentioned getting out of Dodge. I always heard it as ‘Getting the Hell out of Dodge.’ I have had a story title, “The Hell Out of Dodge,” for several years now. I offer you this title as I return to the Church of Jesus Christ, Cathode Ray. Oh, yeah. Great post. [This comment is from Wayne of Chicago and was copied from the main blog]

Wayne Allen Sallee
January 19th, 2010 at 10:11 pm

Hey, Sully. Told you I’d be here. You mentioned getting out of Dodge. I always heard it as ‘Getting the Hell out of Dodge.’ I have had a story title, “The Hell Out of Dodge,” for several years now. I offer you this title as I return to the Church of Jesus Christ, Cathode Ray.

Oh, yeah. Great post.

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-667 Thomas Sullivan Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:37:30 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3130#comment-667 Delightful, Carole! I know you wouldn’t “snow” me about that. And the drum thing slides right into my fantasy too. Used to drive people nuts banging out the closing rhythms of Sandy Nelson’s “Teen Beat” on anything hollow, and in particular huge steel sliding walls of a certain swimming pool. Oh, yeah. Death Valley. Reclaimed spam cans. And the acoustics of the far universe. Got it. Thanks… – Sully Delightful, Carole! I know you wouldn’t “snow” me about that. And the drum thing slides right into my fantasy too. Used to drive people nuts banging out the closing rhythms of Sandy Nelson’s “Teen Beat” on anything hollow, and in particular huge steel sliding walls of a certain swimming pool. Oh, yeah. Death Valley. Reclaimed spam cans. And the acoustics of the far universe. Got it. Thanks…

– Sully

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-666 Thomas Sullivan Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:37:06 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3130#comment-666 [This comment is from Carole of Missouri and was copied from the main blog] Carole January 19th, 2010 at 8:20 pm It does snow! We’ve been snowed on several times. Sometimes, you just look out and see the snow-capped peaks in the distance. And one time, when the peaks were white in the distance, we built a big drum set from all sorts of rusted stuff and took turns playing solos. You haven’t lived until you’ve played drums on someone’s old spam cans at the foot of a snow-capped mountain. But I forget what all this has to do with writing… [This comment is from Carole of Missouri and was copied from the main blog]

Carole
January 19th, 2010 at 8:20 pm

It does snow! We’ve been snowed on several times. Sometimes, you just look out and see the snow-capped peaks in the distance. And one time, when the peaks were white in the distance, we built a big drum set from all sorts of rusted stuff and took turns playing solos. You haven’t lived until you’ve played drums on someone’s old spam cans at the foot of a snow-capped mountain. But I forget what all this has to do with writing…

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-665 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:27:15 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3130#comment-665 Lawsy, which way to the desert? I believe you just displaced the Mormon Tabernacle with your own sacred landscape. Does it snow in Death Valley? – Sully Lawsy, which way to the desert? I believe you just displaced the Mormon Tabernacle with your own sacred landscape. Does it snow in Death Valley?

– Sully

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-664 Thomas Sullivan Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:26:13 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3130#comment-664 [This comment is from Carole of Missouri and was copied from the main blog] Carole January 19th, 2010 at 9:05 am Absolutely lovely, Sully! Every line resonates with me and I enjoyed everyone else’s comments, as well. You give the most-spirtually inspiring sermons. I want to sit in your Cathedral and listen to you pep me up all day in the forest of cold white light. The greatest place for me to come unhinged is the desert. Nevermind that I’m pretty sure I staked a claim in a former life, the sheer vastness of the place never fails to take my breath away. I stand on a mountain and I am a speck. Better still, the past is everywhere. In Death Valley, the old-timers have gracioulsy left behind their mattresses for me to jump on, God love ‘em! I return to civilization with a sense of how small and wimpy I am compared to those who came before me, yet I feel reborn for having rolled in their dust. [This comment is from Carole of Missouri and was copied from the main blog]

Carole
January 19th, 2010 at 9:05 am

Absolutely lovely, Sully! Every line resonates with me and I enjoyed everyone else’s comments, as well. You give the most-spirtually inspiring sermons. I want to sit in your Cathedral and listen to you pep me up all day in the forest of cold white light.

The greatest place for me to come unhinged is the desert. Nevermind that I’m pretty sure I staked a claim in a former life, the sheer vastness of the place never fails to take my breath away. I stand on a mountain and I am a speck. Better still, the past is everywhere. In Death Valley, the old-timers have gracioulsy left behind their mattresses for me to jump on, God love ‘em! I return to civilization with a sense of how small and wimpy I am compared to those who came before me, yet I feel reborn for having rolled in their dust.

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-663 Thomas Sullivan Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:52:19 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3130#comment-663 Yeah, but what a way to go! -- Sully Yeah, but what a way to go!

– Sully

]]> By: susana http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-662 susana Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:59:21 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3130#comment-662 Hope your not thinking about sleeping out in the winter cold Cathedral! You will surly meet your maker if you do! Like to think you have more sense than commit hari-kari, even if you do have a parka and a down sleeping bag, it wont stop the cold from doing harm. Would miss your stories. Hope your not thinking about sleeping out in the winter cold Cathedral! You will surly meet your maker if you do! Like to think you have more sense than commit hari-kari, even if you do have a parka and a down sleeping bag, it wont stop the cold from doing harm. Would miss your stories.

]]> By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-661 Thomas Sullivan Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:56:35 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3130#comment-661 A most intriguing speculation about brain function. Must also weigh in the creativity of blind people to balance that, though that may simply be a challenge of imagination over physical stimuli. In any case, I vote yes, and damn the research, that dropping the walls also drops the limitations. Up curtain! Thanks, Amalgam. – Sully A most intriguing speculation about brain function. Must also weigh in the creativity of blind people to balance that, though that may simply be a challenge of imagination over physical stimuli. In any case, I vote yes, and damn the research, that dropping the walls also drops the limitations. Up curtain!

Thanks, Amalgam.

– Sully

]]> By: Bob Jones http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2010/01/15/thomas-sullivan-who%e2%80%99s-the-stiff-the-gang-of-5-an-adam-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-eve-sleeping-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-659 Bob Jones Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:20:32 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/?p=3130#comment-659 Since the embryonic development of eyes and brains are closely related (actually to an extent that some brain-function phenomena occur in eyes themselves before being reported to the brain), I wonder if the creative benefits of leaving the confines of an enclosed, indoor environment, where the range of vision is limited by walls, might be somewhat physically linked to the act of being able to see farther when outside. When walking, and especially when driving, one can, and often must, change one's focus from a few feet, perhaps, (as when setting the focus of a camera lens) to infinity. In a way, a brain might be invited to follow suit. In addition to objects physically seen, such a brain sweep would surely gather and foster the combining of thoughts to form new ideas. I experienced this very phenomenon as I focused on the far-off horizon during an auto trip to Fort Wayne just yesterday. As your ever-more-impressive essay recommends, one can certainly benefit from regularly seeking CPR from their muses. This can help one avoid the deadly advances of the tyranny of the every day. Once again, thank you for a large container full of useful advice from a deep-thinking and experienced perspective. Amalgam Since the embryonic development of eyes and brains are closely related (actually to an extent that some brain-function phenomena occur in eyes themselves before being reported to the brain), I wonder if the creative benefits of leaving the confines of an enclosed, indoor environment, where the range of vision is limited by walls, might be somewhat physically linked to the act of being able to see farther when outside. When walking, and especially when driving, one can, and often must, change one’s focus from a few feet, perhaps, (as when setting the focus of a camera lens) to infinity. In a way, a brain might be invited to follow suit. In addition to objects physically seen, such a brain sweep would surely gather and foster the combining of thoughts to form new ideas. I experienced this very phenomenon as I focused on the far-off horizon during an auto trip to Fort Wayne just yesterday.

As your ever-more-impressive essay recommends, one can certainly benefit from regularly seeking CPR from their muses. This can help one avoid the deadly advances of the tyranny of the every day.

Once again, thank you for a large container full of useful advice from a deep-thinking and experienced perspective.

Amalgam

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