tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post4494356166753733254..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: Kate Stine; Elmore Leonard; Blissed OutEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-49823485041330662972008-07-17T07:24:00.000-07:002008-07-17T07:24:00.000-07:00Your antagonist/pest: A desperate man facing his ...Your antagonist/pest: A desperate man facing his own mortality, taking advantage of a captive audience...sad in so many dimensions.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-72288189345624088352008-07-16T17:54:00.000-07:002008-07-16T17:54:00.000-07:00Ed,There is something mentally wrong with anyone w...Ed,<BR/><BR/>There is something mentally wrong with anyone who thinks that a roomful of strangers are entitled to his opinion at the top of his voice. Why would anyone even be interested?<BR/><BR/>You did a nice job on him.<BR/><BR/>TerrieTerrie Farley Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980849018232866773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-35839279371682241042008-07-16T13:38:00.000-07:002008-07-16T13:38:00.000-07:00Great story, Ed, in the chemo ward. I can't take a...Great story, Ed, in the chemo ward. I can't take any of the talking heads.<BR/><BR/>Ed LynskeyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-73431458853222605272008-07-16T12:50:00.000-07:002008-07-16T12:50:00.000-07:00And a less flattering candid Barney found, on the ...And a less flattering candid Barney found, on the SFWA obit:<BR/><BR/>http://www.sfwa.org/news/2007/jhensley.htmTodd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-59084342596172925732008-07-16T12:47:00.000-07:002008-07-16T12:47:00.000-07:00Barney Dannelke, on the Ellison Webderland discuss...Barney Dannelke, on the Ellison Webderland discussion board, notes the following portrait, and that the page's owners can probably offer provenance and rights info:<BR/><BR/>http://www.morgan-nay.com/obit.aspx?id=159Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-17598850327073988242008-07-16T11:57:00.000-07:002008-07-16T11:57:00.000-07:00Your encounter with the blowhard reminded me of a ...Your encounter with the blowhard reminded me of a lot of chemo rooms. Although I work for a cancer charity as an information nurse taking calls and e mails I did twenty years on radio and chemotherapy wards.I can picture the nurses rolling their eyes. I'm sure a few would have to bite their tongues as well. Right wing monomania seems to be international even with our "socialized" medicine {thank God} in the UK.<BR/><BR/>No matter how much you tell yourself that the chap is hurting and scared, that mouthing off is just his way of coping, it's difficult to keep quiet. Especially when you think of all the other people doing the hard work of quietly going through tough treatment. In that kind of situation it was always nice to see someone stand up for the little guy.<BR/><BR/>I'd be willing to bet that your nurses reacted in the same way that my colleagues and I used to. In some quiet corner of that unit, out of sight of the public, you would have received a silent round of applause. More power to you.Bill Carlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05528325646556108216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-18402140071044479052008-07-15T19:41:00.000-07:002008-07-15T19:41:00.000-07:00A great way to deal with the guy, way to go. Altho...A great way to deal with the guy, way to go. Although the Homer Simpson approach would have felt pretty good at the time, too ;)<BR/><BR/>By the way, I'm one of those writers influenced by Elmore Leonard. Of course, I'm also influenced by Raymond Carver and Richard Ford and even Alice Munro and John Updike and Hemingway (have you read his short story "Fifty Grand" lately? Wow, talk about your Elmore Leonard) but because my books have crimes in them, Elmore Leonard's name has shown up in almost every review I've ever received.<BR/><BR/>I understand it. I tell people that with these working-class characters Elmore Leonard has just got them right - the closer the rest of us get to getting them right, the more we sound like Elmore Leonard. <BR/><BR/>For me, these characters are my father and my brother and my uncles - cops and ex-cons and that's what they sound like and how they think.<BR/><BR/>If I had more talent I'd find some other way to get these characters across, but I have to fall back on the way they really are.<BR/><BR/>Besides, Elmore Leonard says a writer has to write a million words before they find their own voice - but he said it was okay to try and sell some books before then ;)<BR/><BR/>Great post, very inspirational.John McFetridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442198820998606682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-8395330198111492032008-07-15T17:58:00.000-07:002008-07-15T17:58:00.000-07:00Good for you, Ed. Too often I let this kind of thi...Good for you, Ed. Too often I let this kind of thing pass. I think most of us avoid confrontation too often, letting guys like him think the whole world agrees with him.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-10806982702605765122008-07-15T17:22:00.000-07:002008-07-15T17:22:00.000-07:00You're a braver man than I, Ed. Most of the Limbau...You're a braver man than I, Ed. Most of the Limbaugh lovers where I live are so bitter and angry(a seeming prerequisite to becoming a "conservative"), that I'm always scared to enter a conversation with them for fear I'll end up in the emergency room. There's a donut shop in this town that's their turf, and a visit to it is either a silent ordeal of listening to their parroting of Rush's lies, or a quick dash for something to go. Flags and slogans on the walls, Bush and Reagan pics, anti-Obama and pro-gun literature near the cash register. I feel much safer in the biker bar down the block. Next time you come and visit I'll take you down there for a Long John or two. Terry ButlerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com