Comments on: Tim Redding http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ramblin' pete http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-9539 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:19:51 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-9539 Tim Redding happens to be the nephew (grand nephew?) of the actress Joyce Randolph, who played Ed Norton (Art Carney) ‘s wife ‘Trixie’ on the Honeymooners.

Uh… doesn’t seem to really help him get anybody out though.

Yeah.

Homina.

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6050 Tue, 13 May 2008 19:50:00 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6050 17.  16 : Thanks a lot for the advice, Basilisc. What’s missing from days like yesterday is an ability to laugh at my various predicaments. It’ll come back soon enough and I’ll keep a-goin’ wherever the cards lead.

]]> By: Basilisc http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6049 Tue, 13 May 2008 19:13:19 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6049 16.  Josh, you’re a talented and interesting writer. You’re prominent among my daily reads, along with the Drums, the Marshalls, the Sullivans. You’ve had some interesting life experiences and have described them in a heartfelt and compelling way. And even though I read your blog, I obviously don’t know you as a person.

So you can feel free to totally reject my suggestion, which is this: stop putting so much pressure on yourself. It sounds like you’re trying to write the Great American Novel, and killing yourself out of fear that you won’t or can’t. Maybe take a break from writing for a while, & focus on your job, your hobbies, your wife. Or maybe take on small, short-horizon projects, like essays or reviews (I’ve really enjoyed the book reviews you’ve written & linked to). The novel, if it’s there, will come, whether you try to force it or not. So give yourself a break.

]]> By: Ennui Willie Keeler http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6048 Tue, 13 May 2008 18:28:57 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6048 15.  12: The one thing I remember distinctly from Steve Goldman’s Forging Genius (a bio of Caset Stengel) was a line about barfly/pitcher Joe Page and his brassrail acquaintances. I’ve been using that construct ever since.

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6047 Tue, 13 May 2008 17:04:07 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6047 14.  13 : Redding wasn’t the only one to get the three-piece treatment. I think the original owner gave a second blind rip to some of the cards.

]]> By: Brent is a Dodger Fan http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6046 Tue, 13 May 2008 16:57:13 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6046 13.  8 I learned it all from you… :)

Man, the tear-er of these cards must have had it out for Redding: once across the width, and then, for good measure, tearing one of the halves in half again…

]]> By: Hythloday http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6045 Tue, 13 May 2008 16:47:06 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6045 12.  5 That is likely the line I was thinking of. Now whether good = true we’ll leave to the philosophers.

When I read books I often dog ear the pages where I find the “true” sentences. Even in books I love I might only dog-ear 10 or 12 pages. The last one was Henderson the Rain King and there were definitely less than 10 dog-ears. Your word count may not have been what you wanted, but I suppose the thing I was getting as is that line and the explanation following cut to the quick as well as anything I’ve read.

So 400 words, 1 dog-ear. Your rate stats are through the roof.

]]> By: Ennui Willie Keeler http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6044 Tue, 13 May 2008 14:19:16 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6044 11.  Click on the card and zoom in. The flag is near the top left corner.

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6043 Tue, 13 May 2008 11:56:20 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6043 10.  9 : I guess it’s impossible to see in the reproduction posted here, but in the upper left-hand corner of the original card I can just make out what seems to be the colors and design of the Canadian flag.

]]> By: berkowit28 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6042 Tue, 13 May 2008 03:28:33 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/05/12/tim-redding/#comment-6042 9.  8 Canadian flag? Where?

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