Comments for Molly Says

Comment on 7 don’t kill yourself tips. by noodle

noodle — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:04:49 +0000

thx for reminding me not to die

Comment on congratulations on my new job. by David Grove

David Grove — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:13:44 +0000

I read “Black Dog, White Rhino” and thought it ended with the black man saying There’s a duck in your pocket. (Aren’t ducks white? Black man, white duck?) I thought that was a beautiful unresolved ending, at once funny and menacing. Later I went back to the story and realized that I hadn’t scrolled down far enough, that the story ends with Keep it up, Brian, we can do this all night. The sexual connotations occurred to me. Now I can’t decide which ending I prefer.

Comment on congratulations on my new job. by Helen

Helen — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:05:05 +0000

Old people who are hazy make me terribly sad. I’m a sap and probably a patronising one.

Also on the cry list: women past their youth looking determined in pretty scarves, the New York city subway, getting headbutted by a golden retriever.

Comment on congratulations on my new job. by Ann Kiehnle

Ann Kiehnle — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:36:12 +0000

I say, Fuck it (fake it) Until You Make It

Comment on congratulations on my new job. by David Grove

David Grove — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:56:34 +0000

My visits here have been interspersed with forays into Just Kids and Inferno, both of which are about young female artists subsisting on low-paying day jobs, so your voice is melding with Patti Smith’s and Eileen Myles’.

When I was thirty I’d had an MFA for six or seven years, and I was washing dishes in a bar and doing odd jobs at a sorority. I lived in a veggie coop and had no car, no computer, no TV, no phone–”just some rags and a radio,” as the barfly says. I walked or Grayhounded everywhere.

Comment on congratulations on my new job. by heather

heather — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:42:05 +0000

total stranger here. is this going to turn into dispatches from the old person’s home? because i would read that regularly. and frankly, i feel like it’d be good for that to be in the world. our culture relegates old people to the sidelines and we don’t get to know what they’re like or what it’s like to grow old.

i fully plan on living into my 100s and i have no idea what i’m in for because i don’t see it or experience it. keep writing!

also, i’m unemployed w a master’s in ethnomusicology and crap tons of experience doing lots of bi meaningful stuff. you are not alone. i’ve finally decided to throw myself into web design (and substitute teaching next fall if they’ll take me)—hoping the ends meet by the end of the year.

Comment on congratulations on my new job. by Sara

Sara — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:27:56 +0000

1. I really like your blog
2. These days, anyone making cash, money, and/or cash money is doing better than most
3. I really like your blog, and should probably say that on a more regular basis instead of quietly reading, lurking, and then scuttling away

Comment on congratulations on my new job. by Chuck Nelson

Chuck Nelson — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:13:42 +0000

I’ve been in restaurants for 10 years. It’s not where I thought I’d end up either. Hopefully it’s just a temporary setback, and best of luck in your endeavors.

I don’t know what I want to read, that’s why I read whatever you write. I have no idea what I like to read.

That’s sad. I know.

Comment on congratulations on my new job. by sean

sean — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:31:47 +0000

I vote for more stories about old people.

Also, Thomas Bernhard wrote in one of his novels that instead of committing suicide people go to work. So there’s that, which maybe fits in with your post about why we shouldn’t kill ourselves .

Comment on congratulations on my new job. by Mark Folse

Mark Folse — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:37:53 +0000

Hell, I think of Molly as a charmingly old fashioned name. I could go on in a humorous vein about the Mollys they’ve probably forgotten but that would just be wrong.