Comments on: The Wisdom of Madmen http://toddkeisling.com/tk/?p=161 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jon http://toddkeisling.com/tk/?p=161&cpage=1#comment-3739 Jon Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:42:38 +0000 http://toddkeisling.com/wordpress/the-wisdom-of-madmen/#comment-3739 Read a book called "The Writing Life" by Annie Dillard. Also, if you haven't, that Pressfield book "The War of Art" I've surely previously recommended. Then write. That's all there is to it. It's a surreal little process, eh? The marriage license. We had all this trouble with borders and suspected illegal immigration, then I finally got across and at the records office they were like "you two getting married? cool, sign here." You know who's the worst person to take wedding planning advice from? A wedding planner. People who sell wedding things. It's their business to make money from you. That's no fault against them: it is their job, and I'd expect them to do it as well as I do mine. But mine, and yours, is not to pay for the decadent, the exorbitant, the grossly unnecessary. "Simplify, simplify," said Thoreau, and I've always been inclined to agree. Read a book called “The Writing Life” by Annie Dillard. Also, if you haven’t, that Pressfield book “The War of Art” I’ve surely previously recommended. Then write. That’s all there is to it.

It’s a surreal little process, eh? The marriage license. We had all this trouble with borders and suspected illegal immigration, then I finally got across and at the records office they were like “you two getting married? cool, sign here.”

You know who’s the worst person to take wedding planning advice from? A wedding planner. People who sell wedding things. It’s their business to make money from you. That’s no fault against them: it is their job, and I’d expect them to do it as well as I do mine. But mine, and yours, is not to pay for the decadent, the exorbitant, the grossly unnecessary. “Simplify, simplify,” said Thoreau, and I’ve always been inclined to agree.

]]> By: Matthew http://toddkeisling.com/tk/?p=161&cpage=1#comment-3724 Matthew Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:30:48 +0000 http://toddkeisling.com/wordpress/the-wisdom-of-madmen/#comment-3724 Two things here, the Indigo Children thing looks interesting, though I don't know if I can agree with it. Second yes I've heard about the bus incident, I feel sorry for the guy, and I'm pissed that the man who did it wont get the justice he deserves. After all up here in Canada you can get away with pretty much anything. Two things here, the Indigo Children thing looks interesting, though I don’t know if I can agree with it.

Second yes I’ve heard about the bus incident, I feel sorry for the guy, and I’m pissed that the man who did it wont get the justice he deserves. After all up here in Canada you can get away with pretty much anything.

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