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Re: A $40,000 Mistake

Amy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:16:51 -0000

Chris - I would buy one of those bumber stickers!!!! I've been stuck many times on Mt. Road even with a 4wd car and have taken hours trying to go on every street in Wilton just trying to get home. Don't feel bad, when the roads are bad around here, you can't get home even with a 4wd car! Your a great hubby and greta still loves you even if she is right all the time (which of course she is!!!!).

Re: Sometimes My Brain Attacks Me

jorge — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:09:16 -0000

that was awesome... i hate when i get that similar experience...

Re: Sometimes My Brain Attacks Me

John — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:25:25 -0000

very interesting, especially the part about everyone pursuing their passions and the problem that might create. thanks for sharing!

Re: Sometimes My Brain Attacks Me

Christopher Herbert — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:25:51 -0000

Me too. Great book. Looking forward to checking out your blog...

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www.herbietown.com

Re: Sometimes My Brain Attacks Me

Sjpidgeon — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:13:40 -0000

We have very similar memes. I actually have the Stephen King one too. I've read 'On Writing' three times, and I still haven't ever written a chapter of anything.

Re: A $40,000 Mistake

Kinnis Pledger — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:16:16 -0000

I wasn't questioning the quality of the work in any way, I was merely commenting on how that absolutely shut down all aspects of your life.

Re: A $40,000 Mistake

JoeSpin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:40:18 -0000

When it next snows, try putting 3 or 4 large bags of sand in the back. Maybe the extra weight will solve the hill problem.

Re: Ice Skating in Wilton, CT?

Christopher Herbert — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:04:09 -0000

Still looking, by the way. Would love to get out there this weekend.

Re: A $40,000 Mistake

jorge — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:38:47 -0000

i got an A- on that screen play, biotch. granted, my teacher was rizzoed while grading.

Re: A $40,000 Mistake

Christopher Herbert — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:27:30 -0000

Just for you, Trevor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Re: A $40,000 Mistake

Kinnis Pledger — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:23:03 -0000

I know.... Jorge, fork it over. let us see it. And Trevor is a dick. But Kinnis has a big one. Chris knows. He told me.

Re: A $40,000 Mistake

Christopher Herbert — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:09:41 -0000

Trevor is a dick. Jorge, I can't wait to check out what you're up to.

Re: A $40,000 Mistake

Kinnis Pledger — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:59:23 -0000

AH HA!!!! My boy is back. No more dinosaur and kid babble. I like. Especially the image of you in your minivan and the landscape driver thinking about how much of a yuppie vag you are. Good stuff.

Re: A $40,000 Mistake

Trevor — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:57:36 -0000

OH GOD! Jorge. NO NO NO. For Katie's sake at least. Remember the 'screenplay' you worked on. Do you? I do. Your writing process is agonizing for everyone around you. She should monitor it. Though, I am happy you are writing again. And now, I think we should collaborate. One absurd blog called the The Chronicles of Dunmore.

Re: A $40,000 Mistake

jorge — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:45:51 -0000

p.s. maybe buying the odyssey was a mistake, but the videos you took arriving at home with the new vehicle was unreal. greta and the kids' reactions... unbelievable. you should do a video spinoff of your herbietown blog...

Re: A $40,000 Mistake

jorge — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:43:30 -0000

yeah, but now when greta reads this post she'll know that you were going to get the water without her asking so you'll be a hero again. do bloggers blog to be heroes? is that what it's all about? i just began a secret blog that i doodle on and i won't tell anyone about it until i get a chance to edit it and refine it and settle into it a bit. b/c katie knows how i can never let anything go, she's been monitoring my blogging and doesn't allow me to edit an older post until i've posted a new one.

Re: Statue Delivery Bell

Christopher Herbert — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:09:05 -0000

If I were a good father who talked to his kids every day, maybe I'd have enough material.

(Though maybe we wouldn't be able to afford to live in Wilton...)

Re: Statue Delivery Bell

Jcormier — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:59:41 -0000

love those dialogues with the kids... you could do a whole blog with just those...

Re: I’m Not Like You People

Kinnis Pledger — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:03 -0000

I am assuming this is some inside joke to someone and that you are trying to be a giant ass to one person, and not to all of us as you make wildly over the top the assumptions about how we spend our vacation time for some shock value that will drive up your site stats. While you began in some pathetic attempt to differentiate yourself from the materialistic masses you so despise, by the end, it is so clear that what you really just hate yourself for being one of them. This post is riddled with inconsistencies. What exactly is an "an authentic experience" in St. John? Your version of authenticity? The middle aged couple from Connecticut, who gets a mid sized rental car, stays in accommodations a little less opulent than the referenced picture, but not so low as to offend your upper middle class sensibilities, and then uses any number of your apple products to google "out of the way beaches" that "tourists" don't go to in a failed attempt to connect to the wistful freedom of your untethered early twenties. You are yuppie 3.0 and I fail to see much difference between the "authentic experience" you yearn for and the cartoon version you rail against. You are full of shit and you know it. You are writing about your vacation options and your noble and authentic decision to spend 2,000 dollars vs 5,000 dollars; while the overwhelming majority of authentic people don't have this concern because, you know, a trip to Mohegan Sun is a vacation, if they can afford to take one at all.

If you are after an authentic experience, then I think you should roll into St. John, strut your white-land owning ass down the street and enslave the first black person you see then convert them to your "superior" way of thinking.

Posts like this are a sure fire way to ensure that your audience never grows beyond the .01% of the world who gives a flying fuck about where you go on vacation. Furthermore, it undermines the good writing you actually do. Stop wasting your talent on this type of shit. You are better than this with all due respect.

My apologies Mrs. Herbietown. You are kind and loving. Your husband, however, possesses a capacity for assholery that astonishes even this certified asshole. In the words of Mel Gibson, another giant asshole, I hope he gets raped by a pack of N's while in St. John.

Sincerely,

Rudy

Re: I Wish I Was a Jew

Joe Dudas — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:17:33 -0000

I may be marginally off here, but I don't think the concept of an afterlife is a Jewish belief?

Which actually makes it pretty darn awesome vis a vis many other religions that hammer down: being good = post-mortem benefit. Judaism suggests being good = the right, respectful thing to do...so do it! That's a great tenet.

Re: I Wish I Was a Jew

Doccabrera — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:56:36 -0000

Great note!. Chris, life is a journey and we have a lot of door in front of us, some are opened for us, as life goes on, we open our own doors. Choices are right in our head at the time and is good to know we can do better with our kids and future life. It is not easy, kids will say I did not want that door. Just be there to close the circle. Thanks for including me in your facebook friends. Ernesto

Re: I Wish I Was a Jew

Wunda — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:49:39 -0000

Welcome aboard

Re: Incasaurus & Ookoff

Christopher Herbert — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:44:28 -0000

MoC?

Re: Incasaurus & Ookoff

Acid Burn Face — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:52:24 -0000

Jack's preternatural intelligence is a bit creepy. I love it. The original story (and book) is something. MoC.

Re: No Resolutions For Me

IenCheng — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:48:25 -0000

Nice. Those things are not the secrets to happiness, though they are often its prerequisites. The secret is to know what to use your health, saved up resources, and competently organized life for -- and to actually use them for that purpose. Sounds like your year of "resolutions" in 2011 has set you up for a 2012 of true resolve.