Dear Abbott

public transportation is for dirty socialists.

abbott, that's olivier mossett he's a painter that i really like and then i heard he lives in tuscon and i was like huh i wonder how many ppl live in tuscon oh its like half the size of dublin this guy seems like the kind of guy you'd see around in a city of that size i wonder if abbott is one of the ppl who has seen his around. this is the rough chain of events

(ilx change is weird for me, sorry. i still feel like n/a should be in richmond and jaymc's impending marriage will throw me for a loop.)

<3
-m.

― mookieproof, Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:00 PM (Yesterday) Book

LOL i haven't lived in richmond for seven years

my experience w/ tucson is that famous/interesting ppl like that move there to get a dope house in the foothills for half what it would cost in california, and then they just hang there all the time and never leave except to maybe go to a nice restaurant once in a while.

my little brother was grade-school friends w/ this guy's kids but we never saw him:
http://naturalcollection.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/05/breathing_by_dr_andrew_weil.jpg

abbs did you see photos of the deluxe version of your book on your other thread??

LOL i haven't lived in richmond for seven years

i know! wth

Dear Justin3,

I did see those pics andd they are sexy as hell! Did you like the baloney I drew you>

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Abbott

omg i LOOOOOVE our copy!! i need to take pics and post those to the braggin 2011 thread or something <3 <3 <3

Jus I love the blurb for it on the CP site, how you say "why is X happening in the pic? WHO KNOWS", like, WE know, but no one else will haha :D

dear abbott,

a kindred spirit!

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/music-and-motion-at-times-overwhelming/

dear dayo,
Anosmics everywhere live rich lives.

M3

Abbott

I mean <2
I started writing in Cuneiform or something there

You know what I mean.

4\/\/

oh my gosh I'm dying

Abbott-

I have recently undertaken dancing. I am told I am quite good, often by strangers of the opposite and desired sex. This, naturally, has done wonders for my self-esteem and social life. How do you rate dancing on your level of priorities?

Dear R Baezyio,

I am really glad dancing is a dun, exciting thing that you did! It is always nice to have something you feel really good at, that ppl give you compliments on. I love dancing and I do it a lot by myself in my house, but not out w/others much. When I do dance ppl usually say stuff like, "You just kind of do the same thing over & over don't you?" It is fun, tho!

Dabbott (disco + Abbott)

I'm certain you're underrating yourself, Abbott, but, should you be so inclined, I have seen this song inspire amazing feats of dance from the most innocuous people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqwKUZJHZQE

I *guess* I can quit listening to the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack for a couple minutes & hear what is up with this jam.

Ok this song is sweet.

What is my dancinest song, someone wondered? no? Well, it's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhZIfrgDV6w

In case you guys are wondering "does the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack retain all the pirate ship foley"...you aren't?
(I'll tell you anyway, it does keep all the foley)

HIDDEN CONNECTIONS:

Coke Escovedo = brother of Sheila E. (Prince protege)

Prince connects all!!

Dear Abbott,
I did this comic when I was a sophomore in college and I found it (and like a lot of other cartoons from junior high and high school) and I wanted to share with you.
http://forksclovetofu.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3554297568/1/tumblr_lhaxt4uZ741qzyx8y
forks

Dear FROKS<

Haha, that's awesome. "The Bible?" Also that apology is totes undue, I think, as you are a good drawer of portraits!
It is my favorite thing in the world when someone shares their comics with me!
I still need to mail that pen to you. If you can make it work, you are like the Annie Sullivan of inky.

Illustrabbott

ur hot dog is badass btw

dear abbott:

what are your thoughts on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSlbuli7HM

Dear gr8080,

I think a lot more damning would be a video of the daily Mormon grind & how anesthetizing it is. Tho lol "Mormon Jesus" & endless celestial sex. I think everyone who sees this vid sends it to me.

dear abbott

you are a dear darling, there i said it.

e<3

That cartoon is from a movie called The God Makers. It is pretty fucking notorious. For Mormons watching any anti-Mormon media is like tantamount to or worse than watching porn – see how it is handled in the movie "God's Army," like it is a strangler fig crushing this one kid's soul. He gets addicted to it & can't stop reading it. So, I've never seen the God Makers, not the whole thing. It is kind of stupid how you can't get a v accurate story of Mormon history from most non-Mormon sources, or from most Mormon sources.

My parents spent their 30th anniversary fighting about some stupid book my dad had bought about Muslims that said they all want to convert America to Sharia or some dumb bullshit. Just some bigoted shit. He was reading it at breakfast & my sister pointed out – isn't that basically the same thing as anti-Mormon lit? My mom sided with her & my parents spent the whole day fighting. I guess my mom both tore the book up and burned it in front of him. Goood stuff.

estela,

You are the best & you warm my heart with your kind compliment.

I guess my mom both tore the book up and burned it in front of him.

Fahrenheit 45LOL

'strangler fig' !

My parents burned my copy of Ed The Happy Clown when I was in high school, saying it was "Satanic."

traumatic!

abbott, what do your parents make of 'paradise lost'?

Daerest Abbott: I started the Beverly Cleary thread just now partially because I thought you would like such a thread to be.

Dear t'other JD,

Good question!! They haven't read it but my dad wants to & he was grilling me constantly when I read it. My sister read it for a class at BYU-Idaho, so I will tell you what she thinks about it. Her professor really believed Milton's line that it was divinely inspired, and she decided that was true, too! Bcz Mormons have a pre-existence & so did Milton. But Milton's pre-existence is totally different than that depicted in The Pearl of Great Price. Also Milton's angeology suggests a bunch of shit that is so not like what Mormons believe about spirit bodies. Their takes on Eve aren't entirely dissimilar tho (if you feel confident you can pin down a motive for her in PL anyway!).

I asked my sister if she thought it was doctrine & she said not officially but basically yes! SO why wait until the 1840s to start the Mormon Church when Milton did it for us? That's what I want to know. Fucking crazy.

xp

Dear Ned,

<3! I talked to someone at my job who lived on Klickitat Street and I practically fainted!

Abbott can you explain this more? There's a connection between Milton and Mormonism? I don't know about this. Even just link me to something if it's a lot to explain?

I don't think there is an official official connection that any official church leader would cite officially. That is why I thought my sister was kind of nuts in claiming that. But Paradise Lost is about Lucifer's moral shittifying & the subsequent war in heaven BEFORE humans were created, which makes Mormons freak the fuck out because I am p sure they think they have the 'pre-existence' market cornered.

Mormons believe that before we came to Earth, Jesus & Lucifer had differing thoughts about free will v determinism that lead to a war where ultimately 1/3rd of the spirits in Heaven chose to side with Lucifer & tempt humans who followed God & chose to get tried by coming to Earth & having lives/flesh bodies. Milton also talks about a pre-existence but it's more Lucifer just starts getting prideful & gets rebellious. This is the main diff I think: Lucifer in Mormon doctrine was saying humans should have a flesh body trial but not be exposed to sin (that's why I say 'free will v determinism,' Jesus was offering free will in a really Rush wort of way*). Lucifer in PL did not seem to give a fuck about robbing humans of agency.

*If you are interested in more literary/Mormon conflations by my family, I always thought Brave New World resembled the world Lucifer fought for in Mormon doctrine

ALso a link by a MOrmon who takes this more srsly than me: http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/11/07/mammons-wisdom-in-milton/

Ah that link reminds me: Milton is not a trinitarian, instant Mormon appeal!

Oooh thank you! BTW one of my friends is an ex-Mormon. You'd like her. If you ever come here I'll invite her on the train riding festivities.

btw the writer Mormons really have a boner for is C.S. Lewis, who has been quoted by Mormon prophets & leaders in an official capacity more than any other non-Mormon, ever.

Abbott i am sending you jim woodring's new book but i will get u a replacement copy of ed the happy clown if u would prefer

Abbott have you read Under the Banner of Heaven? I heard its a good read.

forks ––– that is v nice of you! I will find a replacement of the Ches book someday, it's ok.

gr8080, that is the only Krakauer book I have read, and the rumors are true. It is very good. As whiny as I am abt growing up Mormon, FLDS is 1000x more fucked. At least my uncle wasn't claiming God said he could marry me.