Comments on: Into The Wild, And Out http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/ I go many places Tue, 22 May 2012 03:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: MikeZ http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64584 MikeZ Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:42:35 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64584 This may warrant a "Yikes!", maybe two. I've gotten stuck like that. Not fun. We had Noel remnants inland up NH way, but not nearly as dramatic. Good to hear you're alive and kicking! - M This may warrant a “Yikes!”, maybe two. I’ve gotten stuck like that. Not fun.

We had Noel remnants inland up NH way, but not nearly as dramatic.

Good to hear you’re alive and kicking!

- M

]]> By: Malcolm http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64503 Malcolm Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:17:37 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64503 Yes, we're pretty good ghost detectors. A little <em>too</em> good, even. Yes, we’re pretty good ghost detectors. A little too good, even.

]]> By: Horace Jeffery Hodges http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64494 Horace Jeffery Hodges Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:08:25 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64494 Those are just the ghosts in your machine... Jeffery Hodges * * * Those are just the ghosts in your machine…

Jeffery Hodges

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]]> By: Malcolm http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64489 Malcolm Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:07:42 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64489 Just a little poetic license, fellas... Actually, I have as many hobgoblins in there as the next guy. They just irritate me more. Just a little poetic license, fellas…

Actually, I have as many hobgoblins in there as the next guy. They just irritate me more.

]]> By: Horace Jeffery Hodges http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64488 Horace Jeffery Hodges Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:01:45 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64488 I also stumbled over the word "malevolent" but quickly righted myself and decided not to contest it, for I rather enjoyed my trip over the geography of Malcolm's residual inconsistency. At least, there are no hobgobblins haunting the landscape of Malcolm's deeply skeptical mind... Jeffery Hodges * * * I also stumbled over the word “malevolent” but quickly righted myself and decided not to contest it, for I rather enjoyed my trip over the geography of Malcolm’s residual inconsistency.

At least, there are no hobgobblins haunting the landscape of Malcolm’s deeply skeptical mind…

Jeffery Hodges

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]]> By: Malcolm http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64483 Malcolm Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:13:17 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64483 Hi Bob, Yes, as mentioned above, "sulfurous muck" it was. It's interesting that you focus on that word "malevolent". I dithered about it a bit -- added it in a revision, took it out, put it back. You are right, and I should have left it out. It's hard, when one is surrounded by such destructive power, not to see it as acting quite determinedly against one's interests: property, physical comfort and safety, etc. And that innate human tendency is in plain view, for example, in the Odyssey, where the winds that blew Odysseus off course again and again were indeed sent with conscious and maleficent intent. But you're right, of course: this storm bore no purpose, good or evil. And that I, who have railed against religious beliefs as wired-in agent-detection gone amok, still yielded to the temptation to impute a belligerent intentionality to a patch of bad weather just goes to show how deeply rooted these habits of mind are. Hi Bob,

Yes, as mentioned above, “sulfurous muck” it was.

It’s interesting that you focus on that word “malevolent”. I dithered about it a bit — added it in a revision, took it out, put it back. You are right, and I should have left it out.

It’s hard, when one is surrounded by such destructive power, not to see it as acting quite determinedly against one’s interests: property, physical comfort and safety, etc. And that innate human tendency is in plain view, for example, in the Odyssey, where the winds that blew Odysseus off course again and again were indeed sent with conscious and maleficent intent. But you’re right, of course: this storm bore no purpose, good or evil. And that I, who have railed against religious beliefs as wired-in agent-detection gone amok, still yielded to the temptation to impute a belligerent intentionality to a patch of bad weather just goes to show how deeply rooted these habits of mind are.

]]> By: Malcolm http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64481 Malcolm Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:00:58 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64481 Thanks all! (Sorry to disappoint you, Kevin.) Thanks all! (Sorry to disappoint you, Kevin.)

]]> By: bob koepp http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64478 bob koepp Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:24:12 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64478 I think the technical term for what Malcolm has endured is 'muck.' It sucks. Storms are wonderful. However terrible, they are never malevolent. I think the technical term for what Malcolm has endured is ‘muck.’ It sucks.

Storms are wonderful. However terrible, they are never malevolent.

]]> By: Charles http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64422 Charles Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:52:54 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64422 Glad to hear you made it out alive... (anything that costs Kevin two hundred smackers is a good thing in my book). Glad to hear you made it out alive…

(anything that costs Kevin two hundred smackers is a good thing in my book).

]]> By: Horace Jeffery Hodges http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64399 Horace Jeffery Hodges Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:12:00 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64399 Right you are, Kevin. Pay up! Jeffery Hodges * * * Right you are, Kevin. Pay up!

Jeffery Hodges

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]]> By: Kevin Kim http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64398 Kevin Kim Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:02:44 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64398 <b>Readers may be pleased to know that we did not in fact perish in this weekend’s storm, and are once again safely back in Gotham.</b> Shit. My buddy's going to be happy to hear that I now owe him two hundred bucks. Kevin Readers may be pleased to know that we did not in fact perish in this weekend’s storm, and are once again safely back in Gotham.

Shit. My buddy’s going to be happy to hear that I now owe him two hundred bucks.

Kevin

]]> By: Horace Jeffery Hodges http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/comment-page-1/#comment-64395 Horace Jeffery Hodges Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:03:58 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2007/11/04/into-the-wild-and-out/#comment-64395 That was touch and go ... or, rather, touch and not go! I'm glad that you came unstuck and that the tide wasn't coming in quickly. But look on the cheery side -- it gave you something more to blog about! Jeffery Hodges * * * That was touch and go … or, rather, touch and not go! I’m glad that you came unstuck and that the tide wasn’t coming in quickly.

But look on the cheery side — it gave you something more to blog about!

Jeffery Hodges

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