Comments on: whatever, whenever http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/ "Well, after this I should think nothing of falling down stairs." - Alice to the Cheshire Cat after falling down the rabbit hole. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:49:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: admin http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-1060 admin Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:10:58 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-1060 Hey everybody! So sorry the blog is wonky! We're wrapping up the new site changes, and Jeff swears he'll have them up by Monday. So: -There will be an actual discussion board, with threads. Like a normal website. ;) -There are some cool new pictures. -I'll be posting a regular blog, with a post about once a week. -There will be a BRAND NEW PAGE about Madness: A Bipolar Life. It's got a few quotes about the book, a passage from the book, an interview with yours truly, and the book's reader's guide. -My schedule will be updated every time I get a new tour date set. You'll have to make a login name to read the blog, but it's obviously free etc. Monday! Jeff promises! Happy New Year, all! M Hey everybody!

So sorry the blog is wonky! We’re wrapping up the new site changes, and Jeff swears he’ll have them up by Monday. So:

-There will be an actual discussion board, with threads. Like a normal website. ;)
-There are some cool new pictures.
-I’ll be posting a regular blog, with a post about once a week.
-There will be a BRAND NEW PAGE about Madness: A Bipolar Life. It’s got a few quotes about the book, a passage from the book, an interview with yours truly, and the book’s reader’s guide.
-My schedule will be updated every time I get a new tour date set.

You’ll have to make a login name to read the blog, but it’s obviously free etc.

Monday! Jeff promises!

Happy New Year, all!

M

]]> By: Celia http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-982 Celia Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:49:28 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-982 Marya, do you know when you'll be in Chicago? Marya, do you know when you’ll be in Chicago?

]]> By: Mike http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-875 Mike Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:51:26 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-875 Sad note this Christmas. Oscar Peterson died yesterday at the age of 82. Here he is playing "You Look Good To Me" at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1977 with Ray Brown & Niels Pedersen both on double bass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKpoCy0a5Y&feature=related :] Sad note this Christmas. Oscar Peterson died yesterday at the age of 82. Here he is playing “You Look Good To Me” at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1977 with Ray Brown & Niels Pedersen both on double bass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKpoCy0a5Y&feature=related

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]]> By: Tree http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-841 Tree Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:25:30 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-841 marya --- you could publish some of your poems.... i bet they're good. marya —

you could publish some of your poems….

i bet they’re good.

]]> By: Shelbie http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-828 Shelbie Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:53:49 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-828 congradulations cat! i love reading posts where people talk about how wonderful they feel. it makes me feel good about myself too :) hjappy holidays everyone :) congradulations cat!
i love reading posts where people talk about how wonderful they feel. it makes me feel good about myself too :)

hjappy holidays everyone :)

]]> By: cat http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-783 cat Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:25:41 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-783 Hi all. I just wanted to reiterate Marya's comment about actually eating and enjoying Christmas...after 11 years of Christmasses spent overeating, vomiting, not-eating, crying, feeling absolutely, utterly alone....this year, I have spent time with friends. I have been out for meals. I have eaten meals at the homes of friends. I have drunk wine. I have bloody well enjoyed myself. All those years and years spent listening to well-meant advice and not taking it...I only wish I'd listened sooner. But I'm certainly going to make up for those eleven years!!! Merry Christmas everyone. Recovery is possible. And wonderful. Not easy. But wonderful XXX Hi all. I just wanted to reiterate Marya’s comment about actually eating and enjoying Christmas…after 11 years of Christmasses spent overeating, vomiting, not-eating, crying, feeling absolutely, utterly alone….this year, I have spent time with friends. I have been out for meals. I have eaten meals at the homes of friends. I have drunk wine. I have bloody well enjoyed myself. All those years and years spent listening to well-meant advice and not taking it…I only wish I’d listened sooner. But I’m certainly going to make up for those eleven years!!! Merry Christmas everyone. Recovery is possible. And wonderful. Not easy. But wonderful XXX

]]> By: Cypres http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-767 Cypres Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:14:21 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-767 Marya- For three years I have been looking for a way to contact you and say THANK YOU for the amazing work you have done, and for being brave enough to do it. I read Wasted when I was thirteen and it was such a... a treasure. Really. What an amazing thing to find. Proof that truth is stranger than fiction. And then The Center of Winter. Again, amazing. I cannot wait for Madness to come out. Really. I think you are such an excellent writer. I cannot wait to see what you have to say this time. ~Cypres Marya-

For three years I have been looking for a way to contact you and say THANK YOU for the amazing work you have done, and for being brave enough to do it.

I read Wasted when I was thirteen and it was such a… a treasure. Really. What an amazing thing to find. Proof that truth is stranger than fiction. And then The Center of Winter. Again, amazing.

I cannot wait for Madness to come out. Really. I think you are such an excellent writer. I cannot wait to see what you have to say this time.

~Cypres

]]> By: allison combs http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-720 allison combs Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:35:46 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-720 hi marya happy holidays to you and yours as well. also for posting be bigger than the monster.....it does suck. i am gonna try my damnedest. hugs! hi marya happy holidays to you and yours as well. also for posting be bigger than the monster…..it does suck. i am gonna try my damnedest. hugs!

]]> By: admin http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-719 admin Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:33:07 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-719 Totally forgot—upcoming on th 24th, a dialogue (whatever) between myself & a visual artist on the role of mental illness & creativity will be posted on: mnartist.org. Also, I'm thinking that I might put up a new page to keep abreast of what other stuff I'm publishing /writing these days. Will try. And I think I'll be in D.C., and no dates yet for D.C. West coast dates coming soon. Sorry, nothing in the south/southwest this time out...maybe for paperback? I'll tell the powers that be. M Totally forgot—upcoming on th 24th, a dialogue (whatever) between myself & a visual artist on the role of mental illness & creativity will be posted on: mnartist.org. Also, I’m thinking that I might put up a new page to keep abreast of what other stuff I’m publishing /writing these days. Will try.

And I think I’ll be in D.C., and no dates yet for D.C. West coast dates coming soon. Sorry, nothing in the south/southwest this time out…maybe for paperback? I’ll tell the powers that be.

M

]]> By: admin http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-718 admin Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:28:46 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-718 Hey kids, Ok, looks like it's time for a new post-yer-writing page. Cool. Jeff insists he's going to get the new blog up this weekend; don't hold your breath (he's also supposedly wrapping about 40 million & 11 presents & doing a whole variety of mysterious things he seems always to be doing), but the new pages should be in place by the 1st. They'd better, because on the 2nd I'm bailing out of the city and going up to the lake to write in peace (and eat at the eternally fascinating Main Street Cafe). Because, yes, I am so terribly put-upon, sob sigh fling self on couch. What a nitwit! All's basically crazy. Somehow it seems I am always saying that. Perhaps I should Look At This Issue. I have a killer therapist, she hates the word Issue as much as I do, it's so nonspecific. What about concern, complex idea, crappy feeling/experience, muddle, knotted up thing, gnarly beastie, old bullshit I should have dealt with by now but must now deal with it because I'm so fking sick of it I could scream? That's what I think. The holidays are awesome and very very complicated. Family. Need I say more? Love them in their weirdness, is what I say, after I finish screaming at how weird they are. Lately listening to: Julia Owen Youngs (so awesome; look for her spectacular song F**k Was I thinking, for a nice blasting angry song) Damien Rice (melt) Eleni Mendell The Weepies Mike Doughty and a little Ella Fitzgerald & Sarah Vaughn. Of course, having just discovered (as I said) i-Tunes, I am now the proud Mix Mistress of Serious Skill. You ought to see these mixes. Maybe I will get my shit together and post them on i-Mix. Because I am, as I said, just sitting around here with nothing better to do... Galleys of Madness coming this week!!! I don't want to look at them. They will freak me out. But the prep for pub chugs along, and I guess I go chugging with it... More soon. Happy Christmas to those of you who celebrate it. Don't forget to fking eat & not barf & actually enjoy it. Be bigger than the monster. It sucks. Love to all, M Hey kids,

Ok, looks like it’s time for a new post-yer-writing page. Cool. Jeff insists he’s going to get the new blog up this weekend; don’t hold your breath (he’s also supposedly wrapping about 40 million & 11 presents & doing a whole variety of mysterious things he seems always to be doing), but the new pages should be in place by the 1st. They’d better, because on the 2nd I’m bailing out of the city and going up to the lake to write in peace (and eat at the eternally fascinating Main Street Cafe). Because, yes, I am so terribly put-upon, sob sigh fling self on couch.

What a nitwit!

All’s basically crazy. Somehow it seems I am always saying that. Perhaps I should Look At This Issue. I have a killer therapist, she hates the word Issue as much as I do, it’s so nonspecific. What about concern, complex idea, crappy feeling/experience, muddle, knotted up thing, gnarly beastie, old bullshit I should have dealt with by now but must now deal with it because I’m so fking sick of it I could scream?

That’s what I think.

The holidays are awesome and very very complicated. Family. Need I say more? Love them in their weirdness, is what I say, after I finish screaming at how weird they are.

Lately listening to:
Julia Owen Youngs (so awesome; look for her spectacular song F**k Was I thinking, for a nice blasting angry song)
Damien Rice (melt)
Eleni Mendell
The Weepies
Mike Doughty
and a little Ella Fitzgerald & Sarah Vaughn.

Of course, having just discovered (as I said) i-Tunes, I am now the proud Mix Mistress of Serious Skill. You ought to see these mixes. Maybe I will get my shit together and post them on i-Mix. Because I am, as I said, just sitting around here with nothing better to do…

Galleys of Madness coming this week!!! I don’t want to look at them. They will freak me out. But the prep for pub chugs along, and I guess I go chugging with it…

More soon. Happy Christmas to those of you who celebrate it. Don’t forget to fking eat & not barf & actually enjoy it. Be bigger than the monster. It sucks.

Love to all,
M

]]> By: fedex xanax http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-717 fedex xanax Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:17:49 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-717 Cool site. Thank you!!! Cool site. Thank you!!!

]]> By: Mike http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-695 Mike Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:19:36 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-695 Its nice to see people sharing their poetry on here. I tried writing a haiku the other day about brushing snow from the rocks so that i could climb on them, but instead i managed to distract myself with the wikipedia page on haikus. facinating history there. :p Its nice to see people sharing their poetry on here. I tried writing a haiku the other day about brushing snow from the rocks so that i could climb on them, but instead i managed to distract myself with the wikipedia page on haikus. facinating history there.

:p

]]> By: Bryan http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-660 Bryan Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:19:07 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-660 Have the Los Angeles dates yet? :) Have the Los Angeles dates yet? :)

]]> By: Kate GC http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-659 Kate GC Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:59:11 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-659 thanks allison I will!! thanks allison I will!!

]]> By: Kate GC http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-658 Kate GC Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:58:40 +0000 http://maryahornbacher.com/wordpress_blog/2007/09/30/whatever-whenever/#comment-658 One other short but sappy romantic one, about a long-distance relationship (guess I've been watching too much Sleepless in Seattle again!): Two contrails cut across the sky tonight And met each other in a V of smoke like Transient shadows in the gathering dark And as I traced them with a finger I remembered you and smiled Thinking of how our vaporous voices met across endless blue So many times Even as the moon-rise burned our tired souls away We’d start again Always to find each other Meant to collide. One other short but sappy romantic one, about a long-distance relationship (guess I’ve been watching too much Sleepless in Seattle again!):

Two contrails cut across the sky tonight
And met each other in a V of smoke like
Transient shadows in the gathering dark
And as I traced them with a finger
I remembered you and smiled
Thinking of how our vaporous voices met across endless blue
So many times
Even as the moon-rise burned our tired souls away
We’d start again
Always to find each other
Meant to collide.

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