Comments on: Monday Meme (Edited)

By: Louise Cannon

Louise Cannon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:08:30 +0000

Your memes are always so interesting. Your oldest memory floored me. I knew things were bad back then, but if something like that happened today, children would be removed from parental custody pending and investigation.

By: morgan

morgan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:12:40 +0000

Oooh, I loved Beauty and the Beast! Even though I was relatively young at the time, I was strongly drawn toward that love and vulnerability. Both Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton expressed themselves so subtly that it had a more profound effect than something more blatant would have.

And I admire your memory of bringing Auntie to school. I’d like to think I would have done the same for my sister if I had been in that situation.

By: Kizz

Kizz — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:42:02 +0000

For me it’s the strong man with firm ideals thing. Also that he’s funny. And he expresses all that in the deep, chest vibrating voice. It’s delicious. Perhaps he could just talk to me while Charlie Hunnam…oh dear, sorry I’ll keep that to myself.

By: Organic Mama

Organic Mama — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:38:47 +0000

Hearts you!
I am DYING to see Hellboy I and II because of Ron Perlman and I only launch into this straight off the bat because I am tired and otherwise, I might forget. Mind wanders…
Um? Oh yes, if I fill this out and let’s face it, I WILL steal it and use it, but perhaps in a month or two, or for Nablopomo in November, I am pretty sure I will have some similar answers.
I am so happy for you that you have created the life you have always dreamed of: you are happy and yeah, ok, still striving, but happy, you know? And YOU created that. I love that we’re a part of one another’s lives and that among other things, we geek out so spectacularly!

By: Laurie B

Laurie B — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:22:35 +0000

Welcome to your much deserved lovely life. Thank you for saying that you know you have it and enjoy it. Pleasure and joy and safety compound with every mention. May it always be so for you and for all of us.

The saddest thing would be having a good life and not knowing it.

By: mrschili

mrschili — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:19:41 +0000

Sorry, Kizz. You know of my deep, longstanding, and abiding affection for you. I was thinking (uncharacteristically, I might add) of the people I get to see in my everyday life. I actually count you as one of my best friends regardless – you have always -ALWAYS- been there for me, and I never, ever take that for granted.

Bo, I’ve ALWAYS had a thing for Ron Perlman, but it has little to do with his looks (though I do have to admit that he’s strangely attractive in Sons of Anarchy – I must be getting old; the silver hair and square jaw thing are really workin’ for me lately).

No, it’s the voice, I think, and the capacity that this ENORMOUS man has for gentleness and compassion. I fell in love with him as (God, I can’t believe I’m admitting this) Vincent in Beauty and the Beast. I used to have a cassette tape of the show’s score, and on it was a piece of Vincent reading both sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with fortune and man’s eyes) and Rilke’s “You, Darkness” (which happens to be my favorite poem ever). I wanted to be loved that much by someone who was big enough to protect me from everything that hurt. This impression is only furthered with Perlman’s character in Sons. He’s a tough, no-nonsense son of a bitch who, despite a lot of things that would be deal-breakers for me, is genuinely in love with his wife and puts his family (what that means to him, anyway) first.

And really? I’m a sucker for broad shoulders….

By: Bo

Bo — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:39:35 +0000

I want to hear about Ron Perlman, and am curious if your affections extend to Tom Waits, who looks a hell of a lot like him. Offline if you must. Spill it, sister.

By: Kizz

Kizz — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:23:17 +0000

I’ll work on that post but it better catapult me into the best friends answer in the next meme.

Also, why NOT in the bookstore?