Comments on: Sid and Nancy. Mostly Nancy.

By: coozledad

coozledad — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:12:52 +0000

Thank you. I had fun writing that.
I don’t have the attention span for a short story
right now, but we’ll see what happens in November.
I’ll either be feeling creative or in need of strong drink.

By: archangel gabrielle

archangel gabrielle — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:12:31 +0000

When are you going to write a novel? Damn, you’re funny! I love the descriptions of Sid and Nancy’s first family. What a hoot.

By: coozledad

coozledad — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:16:33 +0000

Sue: I wish the aunt in question had been a food critic, instead of a provider. She was forgetful, and would leave the hamburger casserole she always prepared out on the countertop, culturing bacteria and native yeasts for a few hours before she remembered to refrigerate it. Either that, or she was just trying to chum up more corpses so she’d have something to do.
When you were selecting food at the post-funeral dinner, she’d make sure you got a heap of the stuff, sitting in its little pool of gray oil.
I was a lot leaner in those years. I think my guts were in a state of revolt.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:01:32 +0000

Everyone has an aunt/relative who attends funerals as though they are social events, but I think the south just has more. That’s why you folks have your own brand of literature. You forgot to mention the ongoing critique of the menu after the funeral. What we seem to have around here (WI/IL) is odd ministers. The ones who can’t figure out what to say because they’ve never met the old lady or whatever, or the ones who let out the family secrets (“Dorothy was such a fine woman that she never said anything when her sons brought their future wives home”).