Comments on: Dave Skaggs http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: vertigone72 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8301 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:02:45 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8301 There has to be a Dave Skaggs-Lodi / Boz Skaggs-Lido joke around here somewhere, but I can’t find it.

btw, I like the new home.

]]> By: Ken Arneson http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8263 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:17:29 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8263 Yes, they do work. Sadly, no more numbered comments, though.

]]> By: Ken Arneson http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8262 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:16:48 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8262 Just testing if the comments work in the new digs…

]]> By: 68elcamino427 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8246 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:04:50 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8246 9.  Skaggs ran out of time and money

]]> By: sansho1 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8245 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:23:23 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8245 8.  ”which I guess by the normal rules of nature he will now have to do”

I don’t believe this has stopped Robert Ludlum….

]]> By: Slimbo http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8244 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:08:40 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8244 7.  You know, with a little more stubble, Skaggs might even resemble those vacant eyed Russian soldiers as they were transitioning from one oblivion to another. An interesting and unsettling time for you to have been in that pocket of the world.

]]> By: Bob Hendley http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8243 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:40:19 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8243 6.  Josh, love your work. I must be at least a couple of generations beyond you so I grew up with Updike. If it still translates (it probably should, since I was a West Coast product with nothing in common with him), you are in for a real treat.

]]> By: sb1902 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8242 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:49:51 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8242 5.  John Updike wrote a short piece about caddies in golf, and why he was against them, that was just fantastic.

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8241 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:02:26 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8241 4.  3 : Yeah, my first thought was shock. I didn’t know he was sick, plus he was such an unstoppably prolific writer it was somehow unthinkable that he would ever stop writing, which I guess by the normal rules of nature he will now have to do.

I can’t say I read that much of his stuff (not for any reason in particular), but I want to check out the Rabbit novels now, something I’ve been meaning to get to for years. He did write two of my favorite shorter pieces, the Ted Williams story and the short story “A&P”.

My brother once proofread one of Updike’s novels for the paperback version and got an appreciative note from the author for catching some errors that hadn’t been caught in the hardcover version. Anybody who’s nice to proofreaders is OK with me.

]]> By: Ennui Willie Keeler http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8240 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:56:04 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2009/01/30/dave-skaggs/#comment-8240 3.  Josh, did you have any thoughts on Updike?

]]>