Comments on: “While I’m alone and blue as can be…”

By: Aud

Aud — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:55:10 +0000

wait, i forgot why i originally started posting.YOU NEVER HAD THOSE DREAMS BEFORE BECAUSE YOU NEVER LEFT SCHOOL.for gods' sakes, man, everyone else in the WORLD has those "naked in public and usually in school" dreams. i particularly love the one where i'm back in grade school and i'm wearing my mom's ancient nylon robe but for some reason the tie is missing so it's trailing behind me and my clothes are somewhere in my locker and if i'm REALLY lucky i can make it there before anyone sees...if you got out more, you'd have weirder dreams. just saying.

By: Aud

Aud — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:51:56 +0000

Pat, if that IS your REAL NAME (which it is), Cookies dipped in nacho cheese sounds good. I'm still waiting for my shirt.Don't worry...I won't let you forget. But I worry that your scruffiness-osity will overwhelm your brain as your beard grows inward and into your head and twists up all thought.wait...maybe that's what happened to me. ho hum (i hate when vonnegut says that in that one book of his).

By: maarten

maarten — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:09:53 +0000

It's funny to see how many reactions you get on a blog like this and how many of those describe the dreams of your readers. I believe dreams are like a sort of "mind cleaners". Maybe not all, but when I dream (and like you, that's not a lot) it usualy is the kind of dream that seems to put all kind of memories, fears, hopes and fantasies in one big blender and than spits out something none realistic.Exept for one dream that, for a long time, defied my theory.I had an anxiety dream. And the thing about it always was that it was a dream without images. How weird is that!? It always was the same dream, it always woke me up in some sort of half awake/half sleep state and it always scared the holy crap out of me. It was a dream that made me experience my deepest fear, only by letting me efeel that emotion. Pure and raw fear. Believe me when I say that the "naked in your classroom" dream is a lot better.Don't mind critics. Just think about this. I, the guy on the other side of the world, loved your book! It got translated in Dutch and now even in Italian. I wish that, one day, I can say something like that about my book (Novel...).Cheers!

By: sparafucilli

sparafucilli — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:54:32 +0000

Aha! Next book jitters. The subconscious knows.

By: Caate

Caate — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:10:58 +0000

Pat,I have bouts of insane dream dwelling. I have had just about every kind of dream. Sometimes I wonder if I'm really going around being a superhero/villain all night and part of the catch is that I won't believe it when I wake up. Or maybe I'm just bipolar like the doctors say... Heh. I am sad I didn't make it to OddCon. Perhaps this summer will bring a road trip...-Caate

By: fairyfree

fairyfree — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:33:04 +0000

Ha ha ha Pat. Thank God I’m not the only one who has the occasional crazy dream like that. Unlike you though, mine are more frequent. Screw the reviews. In life you don’t have to be in competition with anyone but yourself unless you choose to be. Do what you do. Do it as well as you can, and if you are happy with your work, then be proud of it and who cares what anyone else thinks. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You’ll never be able to make everyone happy. So don’t sweat it. As for me, I love the book. I love the story. I love the way you write. It takes a good writer to make a person reading it see it like a movie in their head, and when I read your book, I see it. Keep it up. xoxoxo

By: m.q.zed

m.q.zed — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:02:46 +0000

“…dream a little dream of me”

By: a cat of impossible colour

a cat of impossible colour — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:14:58 +0000

It must be so tempting to read the low-starred Amazon reviews, even if you know you’ll regret it … like that strange urge to look in the tissue after you blow your nose (just me?). But I think the 2-star readers very simply just didn’t get it. Did they miss the ‘Day One’ bit? Also, a lot of the negative reviews sound like they come from people who sit back and say ‘entertain me’ when they open a book. That is, of course, one of the book’s functions, but the readers you want are those who actively engage in the book rather than wait for it to turn somersaults and blow party poppers.

By: Steven Weyerts

Steven Weyerts — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:00:30 +0000

I have to say, Pat, that’s the most hilarious dream I’ve ever heard of. This just goes to prove that your mind is brilliant even in your sleep.

By: Dynishra Shin

Dynishra Shin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:52:20 +0000

Yeah I've heard the nightmare stories that come about from combining cookie and cheese. Apparently not all things starting with C blend naturally together. There is a theory that the chemical compounds of Cookie and Cheese releases a hyper-subawareness, and there is even a race of Poor Student that takes this potent combination in an attempt to fight the hunger demons. This has yet to be published in scientific journals.Either way, was I was reading your dream I had the peculiar notion that it was like reading a review collumn in some fancy doohicky literature mag. I'm not going to bother psycho-anazlysing your dream, I'm sure you know what it means, or if you don't you'll work it out in your own way. Though it does seem to me that you were certainly correct in your assumption it had something to do with some of the mediocre reviews you recieved on Amazon (honestly, Amazon? don't take that seriously...it's Amazon), also there will always exist jerks who have different opinions about things like literature, art and politics.And thats the beautiful nature of the world, for with out those jerks we would not strive to prove them wrong.(and once again, sorry for the long comment! Also all that mumbo-jumbo about cookies and cheese...yeah I was just being creative, re: lying)~Dyn~