Comments (16)

1. 

   gail says March 3, 2005 at 4:42 am

   Jeff, That was positively lyrical.
2. 

   Jeff Goldstein says March 3, 2005 at 4:46 am

   Thanks, Gail. But I’m afraid I was going for “ironic” and “surprisingly disturbing.”
3. 

   gail says March 3, 2005 at 4:54 am

   Nope. Definitely lyrical. With a touch of elegiac.
4. 

   JWebb says March 3, 2005 at 5:14 am

   Nope. Jeff is right. Definitely satirical. With a touch of Ipecac.
5. 

   gail says March 3, 2005 at 5:27 am

   Dude, don’t even say the word Ipecac. I’m just getting over the flu.
6. 

   gail says March 3, 2005 at 5:28 am

   Because it’s onomatopoeic.
7. 

   Sean M. says March 3, 2005 at 5:29 am

   I dunno…something about Martha’s personality tells me she’s wanted, at times, to have her way with herself before ever heading off to the slammer.
8. 

   gail says March 3, 2005 at 5:30 am

   Ipecac, that is.
9. 

   fidens says March 3, 2005 at 5:39 am

   Don’t fight it Martha… feel it.
10. 

    gail says March 3, 2005 at 5:44 am

    Yes, Martha.Nothing is unnatural when it’s covered in chocolate.
11. 

    cthulhu says March 3, 2005 at 7:15 am

    As someone who has spent the last 18 years in Silicon Valley, I can say that Jeff has done a great job of capturing a special something about those who start their own companies…

    Turing: “because”—how does he do that?
12. 

    CraigC says March 3, 2005 at 8:33 am

    Well, as someone who has spent the last five years in Silicon Valley, I can state categorically that I have no idea what people who start their own companies are like.

    And Sean, yeah, I was gonna say that that’s the full circle, huh?
13. 

    Sean M. says March 3, 2005 at 10:46 am

    Yeah, Craig.  It’s the circle of…something.  Is there a circle of self-regard?  A circle of self-love?  A circle of chocolate-covered [physical] self-love?

    Only Reg Dwight knows for sure.
14. 

    McGehee says March 3, 2005 at 3:55 pm

    I once wrote an onomatopoem. It sounded just like a dog barking. Which isn’t what it was.

    I really suck at writing poetry.
15. 

    Percy Dovetonsils says March 3, 2005 at 4:38 pm

    FYI:  today’s (March 3rd) Wall Street Journal has a big front page article on Martha’s interactions with her fellow prisoners during her sentence.

    Funny thing is, though, there is no mention of Martha’s true adventures behind bars, as we’ve come to learn from her journal – no Saphhic hijinks, no smashed skulls, no arts & crafts projects using common prison items like shoe polish and rubbing alcohol… hell, not even any mention of tongue studs.

    The traditional media is clueless about what we readers actually want.

    (Turing word:  “foot” – as in what Martha is going to put up all our asses if she finds out about this.)
16. 

    CraigC says March 4, 2005 at 1:43 am

    McG: Now, that’s comedy.

    Keyword, “probably”…how does he do it?  It’s witchcraft, I tells ya.