Comments on: Fake Empire

By: nicopolitan

nicopolitan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:39:00 +0000

It may be perverse, but I love how terrible gray skies look out here. It makes this city gritty, dirty, sordid, challenging, and real. When it’s sunny here, our empire is a fake since we’re in the business of faking for the screen.

And maybe the brief patch we’re having of gray skies is appropriate allegory for this year’s first month. Let the water pour in and wash away the caked on dirt and dust. Get ready to shine.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:27:08 +0000

Oooh! Christmas romance!

Is that like a summer romance but… colder? Ironically hotter?

You loosened up the writing a little here. It was almost prosey. I enjoyed it a lot. *flicks your cowboy hat*

By: Momma

Momma — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:31:31 +0000

Sometimes I feel intrusive here…….

I miss you more than words
Love,
Momma

By: clowncar

clowncar — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:48:36 +0000

Sweet second paragraph. How it all comes in a rush there at the end.

By: Kristan

Kristan — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:27:10 +0000

I love what Hannah said about the hats and emptying.

By: Spud

Spud — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:31:10 +0000

I will bring my rainbow umbrella and we’ll learn to love the rain together.

I promise.

By: Antagonist

Antagonist — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:41:59 +0000

Eric: Pff.

Also: I think there is a lot of kindness in your life. Don’t forget how to see it.

Noel: There’s truth to those words, however distressing it may be. I’m glad you can at least step back and know LA for what it is.

By: Noel

Noel — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:24:00 +0000

Again, it’s as bad as when Kevin and I were driving and we saw 4 billboards, all in a row, 3 on one side of the freeway and 1 on the other–all for the Lap Band surgery featuring a too skinny woman holding her fists up in victory over a scale.

This is something you can only see here, where looking like you’re about to die is a victory. Maybe you and Kevin were what I needed–to show me that I’ve become to complacent here. That I need to get out before it kills me.

By: Hannah Miet

Hannah Miet — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:50:38 +0000

I wish you didn’t apologize for writing about yourself.

We wear different hats and this can be a place where you take all of the hats off and just write, afterthoughts that pours from fingers. An emptying place. I think I like your writing best in this place, when it’s closest. I’m not saying to write only about yourself. We come here for your words…whatever words you wish to share.

“I regret that I didn’t tell her to warm her car up before going.”

My favorite line.