Comments on: On Juno’s…whatever.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:38:53 +0000

I know what you mean about feeling compelled to write. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers gotta write. Or as Tom Lehrer sang, “Sharks gotta swim, bats gotta fly.”

The 45-minute rule is a good one. I try to do something similar — otherwise, you can spend your life polishing a blog entry that pays you not at all.

I know you’re a big fan of James Lileks (ahem), and he writes something he calls “egg-timer” posts — he writes for 15 minutes, and at the end of 15 minutes, he quits.

Hmmm … have you thought about writing nothing except entries about old postcards, film noir, the war on terror and visits to Target with your daughter?

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:33:09 +0000

My favorite is when Atia is preparing to send over the well endowed slave to Servilia, remarks to her daugher “Everyone appreciates big penis”.

By: nancy

nancy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:08:11 +0000

My all-time favorite “Rome” line was Titus Pullo’s, as he’s negotiating the prostitute’s price for young Octavian’s deflowering. It is, of course, very high, and he hesitates a moment, then pays it and says, “All right, but she’d better f*ck like Helen of Troy with her ass on fire, or I’ll know the reason.”

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:01:05 +0000

My favorite from last week’s Rome: Mark Antony tells Cleopatra: “Your son will eat sh** and die before I make him legal.”

By: Scout

Scout — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:28:41 +0000

45 minutes of you is better than hours and hours of most anyone else… so thanks for whatever spare change you can toss our way, whilst composing the magnum opus.

By: joodyb

joodyb — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:07:04 +0000

wow. she really is pretty. doesn’t look like tv material.
why can’t i get on board with “Rome”? i love the subject matter. i loved “Deadwood.” i do find the accent thing very distracting. beyond that, the dialogue is not interesting to me. especially when you have to strain past the noncredible brit. but maybe i should give it another shot.
Did anyone watch “Dexter”? i saw little press on it. it was good and creepy. and such a crime-based show is not my cup of tea, either. i liked Hall very much in Six Feet Under; maybe that’s why i attached. Was a huge fan of “Dead Like Me.”

i would like to echo the daily dose comment above.

By: Maryo

Maryo — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:55:20 +0000

OK, Rome it is. My favorite line of the season (OK, it’s still young, but still) is Brutus, after killing Caesar and facing his allies and mother tormenting him about now going to kill King of Goats, turns to his mother and says, “You, too, Mother?”

That was priceless.

The thing that keeps me going is watching the tag team of Pullo and Lucius. They play off each other so well.

And Atia. What a broad. I want to be like her when I grow up.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:57:04 +0000

So presumeably the $19 google-bucks was remitted to NN-enterprises because of click-throughs, or some other trackable browsing, eh?

Somewhat amazing, really. If a daily newspaper could harness dollars that way, then the Sentinels and J-Gs and USA Todays that lay around in every Burger King and McD (etc) in Fort Wayne would be little cash cows!

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:42:27 +0000

Most days you are my daily dose of sanity, Nance. I’m grateful for whatever time and insight you are able to grant to us! Keep on keepin’ on!

By: nancy

nancy — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:16:13 +0000

Harrison left Michigan two or three years ago, although I think he still returns regularly. He fled the increasingly turista-infested Leelanau peninsula (and the U.P. cottage) and built a house in Montana. (Both his daughters live there, and he has grandchildren he wants to be closer to.) He spends winters in southern Arizona, as the NYT story points out.

But yes, I’m amazed he’s alive at all. He wrote a fairly insufferable column for Smart magazine for a while in the ’80s, where much of “The Raw & the Cooked” first appeared. He described a meal at Jack Nicholson’s house that included an enormous bowl of pasta dressed with a pound of beluga caviar and a cup of heavy cream. It sounded repulsive, and I’m not a girl who objects to a big meal.