Comments on: surprises http://alyhawkins.com/2009/09/01/surprises/ Would you like some dressing on that word salad? Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:30:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Cady http://alyhawkins.com/2009/09/01/surprises/#comment-634 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:30:45 +0000 http://alyhawkins.com/?p=351#comment-634 Hey, Aly.
Now I’m wanting to read the aforementioned story.

]]> By: Aly Hawkins http://alyhawkins.com/2009/09/01/surprises/#comment-574 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:13:48 +0000 http://alyhawkins.com/?p=351#comment-574 Carrie – I don’t generally like surprises. (Bryan planned a surprise party for my birthday last year, and it did not go well. That is, the party was super fun, but the hours preceding it were a disaster. He finally had to spill the beans because I was being so difficult.) I think, though, that I need to get more comfortable with them. I don’t control the universe, so there’s bound to be a shock now and then.

]]> By: Carrie http://alyhawkins.com/2009/09/01/surprises/#comment-573 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:07:35 +0000 http://alyhawkins.com/?p=351#comment-573 I like surprises. Well, not when they are about ME, but FOR me or about others are good. Your surprises intrigued me.

]]> By: Doug "Wonderpants" Brown http://alyhawkins.com/2009/09/01/surprises/#comment-572 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:44:48 +0000 http://alyhawkins.com/?p=351#comment-572 Mercury Lounge in Santa Barbara/Goleta serves perfect pints and cool music. Plus, there’s a collection of vintage ceramic ashtrays.

]]> By: Aly Hawkins http://alyhawkins.com/2009/09/01/surprises/#comment-571 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:14:43 +0000 http://alyhawkins.com/?p=351#comment-571 Dive bars in Ireland serve pints just like this one. Not that my story takes place in Ireland, but whatever. :)

]]> By: Rich Goulette http://alyhawkins.com/2009/09/01/surprises/#comment-570 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:48:12 +0000 http://alyhawkins.com/?p=351#comment-570 I’ve been to a lot of dive bars, but I’ve never seen a pint of Guinness look that good. Could it be an Uber-Dive Bar? And do they serve breakfast? Bangers and mash and Guinness! Lord, take me now!

]]> By: Aly Hawkins http://alyhawkins.com/2009/09/01/surprises/#comment-569 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:33:32 +0000 http://alyhawkins.com/?p=351#comment-569 Suddenly my anxiety seems entirely warranted.

]]> By: Doug "Wonderpants" Brown http://alyhawkins.com/2009/09/01/surprises/#comment-568 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:31:55 +0000 http://alyhawkins.com/?p=351#comment-568 Some quick preliminary notes:

I really like where you’re going, but I think it needs some rewrites, take it in a new direction, you know? I’m thinking something like: two iconoclastic truthtellers in a fictionalized Ventura in 2055 use their music to liberate inner-city kids from the chains of corporate art. Sort of “Snowcrash” meets “Mr. Holland’s Opus.”

What do you think?

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