I love this story. During my Carbondale days, I saw some deer but I was never menaced by any, thankfully. Those years were plenty crazy enough, thank you very much.
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The Da Vinci Code wasn't bad, though I was about eighteen steps ahead of it most of the time. And Alfred Molina really bugged me: he seemed to radiate a completely inauthentic vibe as the priest. I never believed him. I mostly thought about his little priest costume being ill-fitting.
But, that said, I liked it ok. A really crazy director probably could have made something incendiary with it, something potent, but Ron Howard, well, he's Ron Howard.
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Feeling good. New poems soon. At least I hope so.
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
3 comments:
Crickey! That deer story comes at a great time, as the Croc Hunter is in need of a new schtick. He's just troppo enough to do it.
-cK
I'd be down with a, um, Deer Hunter show set in Carbondale. Seems perfect.
And Alfred Molina really bugged me--
Me too!
And I hadn't realized that it was *that* actor, I had myself convinced it was that TV actor from Spin City and Mad About You. I just kept saying, "He doesn't look right."
No, he didn't work for me either.
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