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| Name: | brent |
| E-mail address: | brent.buice@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://buices.blogspot.com/ |
| Comments: | hi!
i just finished 'no touch monkey.' it was very funny, and definitely lit a fire under my ass to buy some plane tix, stat! cheers, brent |
| Name: | scurvyann |
| E-mail address: | scurvyann@comcast.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://scurvyann.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | Hi!
I love reading you in BUST magazine. I especially enjoyed the column where you wrote about not being very good at getting a babysitter. I suffer from the same condition! I am wondering if that particular column is online anywhere? (haven't done any extensive searches yet.) I am a new subscriber to The East Village Inky and couldn't be more excited about it. Can't put it down. Ayun, yer an inspiration! And wicked, WICKED hilarious. All the best, Scurvyann xoxo |
| Name: | Rebecca Missel |
| E-mail address: | rmissel80@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.shtetlfabulous.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | Ayun,
I had seen your column in years past amidst the pages of BUST and not having kids, hadn't read them word for word. Then I spotted your book, "No Touch Monkey," and since I DO travel, I bought a copy. THANK YOU for getting me through my first solo trip, to Cancun, Mexico with a ton of humor, insight and literary camaraderie. Now I've got to dig up all my old copies of BUST to check out what I've been missing all this time. Keep it up and feel free to check out my blog if you get a chance. |
| Name: | Karla |
| E-mail address: | sallybowles1103@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://kitschentable.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | Ayun!
My deepest regrets for failing to attend the Bluestockings reading. Bad migraines--feh. Shine on, you crazy diamond! |
| Name: | Matt Stefanik |
| E-mail address: | jugglermatt@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hey Ayn!
I'm a few miles away from brooklyn and the Flying Saucer these days. Portland Or. to be exact. But thanks for stressing the importance of the canned chipotle. It's such a staple that I need to search for out here. BTW if you head out this way and want meet up for a beverage let me know. -Matt |
| Name: | Rahul Bhatnagar |
| E-mail address: | rbhatna@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://whatyoulookingathuh.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | Ayun!!! I flipped through 'No Touch Monkey' while browsing in the travel section at Borders yesterday and i read clean through the whole book jus sitting there ,periodically provoking glares from nearby fellow patrons when they heard me snickering. unreal! im from your breed of backpackers, and have had a long standing dream of leaving corporate life and bumming the heck outta africa and SE Asia.maybe soon!
happy trails! |
| Name: | Kevin E. Proullx |
| E-mail address: | kproulx@ca.inter.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.torontopolice.on.ca |
| Comments: | I found your book "NO TOUCH MONKEY" in the informal guest library of the Anthony's Key Resort on the island of Roatan off the coast of Honduras. I traded Stephen King's "THE CELL" (ug!) and "COLD MOUNTAIN" (very depressing) for your book -- much more fun, and the cover was well-suited to our trip since it involved close encounters with spider monkeys, and, yes, there was touching. Lots of laughs. Take care. |
| Name: | Stacey |
| E-mail address: | svbloomfield@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://aldersmom.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | I'm sure you've heard this before but Thank You! The Big Rumpus got me through the third trimester of my pregnancy during the 100+ heat wave in Denver (no airconditioning). I grew up in NYC and still know some of my earliest playground friends. I was sad to find that Denver's playground, while pretty, don't have the culture that New Yorks do.
Stacey |
| Name: | Domestic_slackstress Kim |
| E-mail address: | kimedit@msn.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.8centimetersdeluded.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | Wow. I know this is so not original to say but I'm going to take the leap anyway. I felt so high on being able to relate after reading The Big Rumpus. The funniest book about mommyhood chaos that I've ever read. Thanks for keeping it real and telling the whole truth of how it can be for us insano at-home creative working moms. Kim in Long Beach, Calif. |
| Name: | Brian |
| E-mail address: | thatsfresh000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I was looking around the "Travel Adventure" section of Bookshop Santa Cruz last month and saw "No Touch Monkey!" on the shelf. We had planned on going to Bali this summer, but it got cancelled, so I thought I'd read a bunch of travel books to trick myself into thinking I went somewhere. I bought the book and, as it turned out we DID end up going to Bali (along with Hong Kong and Tokyo) and I got to enjoy the book en route to all the Bali locations you wrote about. I even got a picture next to the sign in the monkey forest! I turned my dad (and anyone else who would listen) on to the book and love talking about it. Thanks for writing it and I hope to have my own misadventures (just not life threatening ones) with friends in the future! |
| Name: | Courtney Mills |
| E-mail address: | mylifeinthemovie@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I found 'No Touch Monkey' in the travel section at my local Borders and thought 'wow, what an interesting title' so I bought it and ended up reading it in 2 days. I went right out and bought 'Dirty Sugar Cookies'which I loved as well! Thanks for the wonderful and endlessly funny books! |
| Name: | Mina |
| E-mail address: | mina@telusplanet.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://alemed.t35.com/meridia/ |
| Comments: | Thank You For Creating This Wonderful Resource! Great Work !! Support my site http://alemed.t35.com/meridia/ too. |
| Name: | Kim Askew |
| E-mail address: | kim@kimsaid.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.kimsaid.blogs.com |
| Comments: | Dear Ayun,
It was wonderful to meet you at the May Queen reading at BookCourt! Thanks for the copy of Inky. Loved it! Take care, Kim Askew |
| Name: | Angeline |
| E-mail address: | azulchuva32@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.myspace.com/azulchuva |
| Comments: | I found your book 'No Touch Monkey' while stumbling around my local Barnes and Noble travel section. I wanted something for the flight to and from San Diego. I found it very hard to put down. When I returned home to Seattle we had a few days of sunny 70 degree weather, which is like winning the lotto for us, and I thought I'd go outside and read in the sun for a little while.
Well I got too caught up in your book and have a serious sun burn. I have a few more chapters to go yet. Maybe I'll get a chance to finish it out on the sailboat tomorrow. Since afterall, I wont be out in the sun. |
| Name: | Christin |
| E-mail address: | christinla@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Finally have a chance to peruse your website while I sit upstairs at the computer hiding from my family. I love love love you and your family and EVI!
uh-oh, here they come -- gotta run! c |
| Name: | adriana |
| E-mail address: | imscout2000@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://http://www.myspace.com/imscout2000 |
| Comments: | when are you coming back to chi-town?
we miss you soooo much! ~scout~ |
| Name: | stephanie smith-gieg |
| E-mail address: | stephie@gieg.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.gieg.net |
| Comments: | greetings from fellow brooklyner. (park slope)
laughing out loud at EVI is my new favorite exercise. loved the big rumpus! just read it, pregnant with #3, THE LAST BABY. looking forward to home birth # 2. love the name India, wanted to use it, but we went with lily for my 5 year old. coincidentally, we do have a long-haired 3 year old named milo, though! visit my sketchblog, "mommy notebook" on our family website! much love, and many, many shiny heinies-- s. |
| Name: | Tommy |
| E-mail address: | fisitom@web.de |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.globetrotter.org |
| Comments: | Just read "sarong in my backpack"
Great fun when presently living in Munich (like me) an been to Pushkar in Nov. 2004 All sounds pretty much like true life. Give me a call if you ever come to Munich again (children welcome!) T. |
| Name: | Kira |
| E-mail address: | kirasan@comcast.net |
| Comments: | My condolences to you all.
And to you Jambo, wherever you might be - I raise a slice of ham and a cup of sushi to you. We just read the latest EVI. We shed tears. - Kira, Tom and Declan |
| Name: | peter "the sheriff" yoon |
| Comments: | You rake the surface of my soul; you skim across the synapses of my heart; you dance wanking on my bearded imagination so that, suddenly, I'm left helpless with no where to go but up. I'm breathless thinking of your magnitude; I'm restless in hopes of singing your song with a mouthful of horseradish. |
| Name: | Aimee |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.intergalactic-hussy.net |
| Comments: | Hi Ayun! Long time fan, first time something something. I live in Australia and when searching online bookstores for your stuff (I've got the Big Rumpus but your books can be hard to find here), I keep coming across a volume called "A Sarong in My Backpack". Now, since it's not published by Seal Press, I'm assuming it was picked up by another publisher and retitled, but if you could confirm or deny, that would be great. Enquiring minds want to know, and are sick of writing theses. |
| Name: | Elizabeth |
| Comments: | Hi!
How great to be able to write to you! Am in the middle of The Big Rumpus right now and it's SO great. Am 8 weeks preg. with our second and this timing couldn't be better. You're inspiring me not to make such a big deal about the birth...like the first time. I was a nut. Your writings also make me miss NYC - am doing the domesticated thing in CT now. But they have lousy Chinese food. Best of luck - hope to get around to reading another book. - Elizabeth, Tucker (first born son) and Peanut-on-the-way |
| Name: | lindsey |
| E-mail address: | ivesle@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | hi ayun, your books and your column in bust never fail to crack me up, but i must say my favorite anecdote yet is your piece on all things considered about the melodramatic, broken english phrases that appear on all things korean. i taught english as a foreign language in korea last year, and i always meant to keep a log of these phrases. I was always to busy pondering the meaning of these phrases to actually write any of them down, but there are some phrases i will never forget. The package for my favorite brand of bread said 'enjoy your life with family time bread. cherish the happy time.'(and damned if i didn't feel a little high every time i went to make a piece of toast.) The cover of one student's notebook solemnly reminded me to 'take pleasure in being able to run and jump, not everyone can'. and i couldn't resist mailing my boyfriend who back in the states a notebook reading 'i miss you. we have a lot of time ahead od us, let's keep our love.' how perfect |
| Name: | Mirelle |
| E-mail address: | quinpetone@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi Ayun! we met everso briefly at the yogalab in brooklyn, I was the kiwi kharma yogi behind the desk last year....anyway, love your work, and to let you know i found out about the website thru the reccomendation in my local paper, The Dominion Post, Wellington NZ! Nice to be loved in a global kinda way..... |
| Name: | Randy |
| E-mail address: | rmorrow@charter.net |
| Comments: | Ok...ok. I have to say, I enjoyed No Touch Monkey! Although not nearly as traveled as you, you make it easy to 'insert yourself here'. Although, 'here' can get freaky.
Oh, did i forget to say that 'freaky' is ok? Thanks!!! |
| Name: | Jessica |
| Comments: | Job Hopper is the FUNNIEST thing I have ever read! Sneak-reading it at my desk (to be quickly pushed under a pile of papers should anyone walk into the office) I was busted laughing out loud, unable to control myself, at the Bert and Ernie story. Got busted again reading during a really boring meeting when I couldn't conceal my grins at your modeling stint.
Well done. Keep them coming girlfriend!! |
| Name: | Joan |
| E-mail address: | sloejoe22@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Dear Ayun,
I've loved your column in BUST for many years....after having a baby earlier this year and feeling like I was going crazy in between trips to evil baby superstores, I received an Amazon gift card and promptly bought "The Big Rumpus" with it (it was my big act of self-love- the rest of the card went to several tomes of anti-vaccination research for the baby). Needless to say, I loved it and it saved my soul. Thanks Ayun- you rock! PS I put in a request for it at the San Jose public library-I think it should actually be given to every new mom at the hospital like they do with those classical CDs for new babies in Georgia or wherever.... |
| Name: | ck |
| E-mail address: | ckandrew@juno.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://hometown.aol.com/mrsharkey27/index.html |
| Comments: | In a moment of splurge, i grabbed no touch monkey on saturday at bluestockings. i absolutely love it. i've been reading more and more about vagabonding, and the humour in your book has kept me engrossed all weekend (read: i haven't finished packing and i'm moving on tuesday!).
Thanks for your written words! I look forward to reading more! |
| Name: | alice |
| E-mail address: | ohscience at mail dot nu |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.pornfortheforlorn.com |
| Comments: | oh dear ayun,
i started reading your column in bust, and even tho i am so far from having kids i loved it so much...so i bought "no touch monkey" as (appropriate) travel reading on a european tour last spring. i loved it as well, and lent it to my mom who i met up with in italy...she was staying there longer, and promised to bring it back, but as it turns out there wasn't room in her suitcase so she left it in tuscany with our friends carla and paolo. apparently paolo is enjoying practicing his english with it. when i have more than five dollars to my name, i'm going to subscribe to evi. also, once i had a dream that i visited you and your family, and you fed me undercooked rice, black olives, and chee-tos. i'm not sure what this means, but i guess at least it means i enjoy the writing enough to have dreams about the author! (a note: despite the name, my website is not obscene. it's an illo portfolio which is not entirely up yet) |
| Name: | kira |
| E-mail address: | kirasan@comcast.net |
| Comments: | another brilliant issue of EVI. Many thanks, from my husband as well (who covets Greg's "Drinky crow" t-shirt as slavishly as I covet the Law & Order one).
A toast to you and yours, may your holidays be celebratory! |
| Name: | Regan |
| E-mail address: | moffatr@seattle.gov |
| Comments: | Almost done w/No Touch Monkey. When you only get to read on the bus or in the bathroom - it takes awhile! LOVED Big Rumpus. So true. I have a 4 yr old boy & a 6 mo old boy. I can totally relate.
Seeing the pix of yr travels - has anyone mentioned that Kosiya looks like Rowan Atkinson, aka - Mr. Bean? Keep writing & I will keep hogging the bathroom to read it! Thanks! |
| Name: | Betsy |
| E-mail address: | fisherpai@adelphia.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://hybridvigor.typepad.com |
| Comments: | I loved No Touch Monkey and was thrilled after finishing it to learn you had another book out - lucky me that it happened to be about your kids and that I happened to be about 12 months pregnant, so it was a perfect fit. I'm looking forward to your latest! (And why shouldn't I eat the glazed strawberry pie in Chicago coffee shops?) |
| Name: | Russell Mystiek nee Mast |
| E-mail address: | Nobody@at@Gigsville.dot.org |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.CanyonsInTheSky.com/ |
| Comments: | Ayun,
It's been many years, but I think I've finally come to a place of spiritual resolution about that image of your "bagel" that was burned into my memory so long ago. At the time, I was frightened, confused, and dismayed. Now I'm delighted, amused, and, um, remayed. Blame it on Burning Man. I love seeing pictures of you and Greg and the kids. If y'all ever come down to Texas, look me up. My wife and I bought a house, and so we have guest space. It's great. If we ever update our website, we might put pictures of it there. Don't hold your breath, or anyone else's. "I Know" Russell Mast |
| Name: | kimber |
| E-mail address: | kimber@lindseyartworks.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://lindseyartworks.com |
| Comments: | ayun,
i'm so happy i found your book...Big rumpus..yeh...thanks so much...i will proceed to the others with enthusiasm...do come back to chicago! |
| Name: | Jim Ward |
| E-mail address: | tomcatpolka@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thanks for the tip on pretending to be a tough Israeli instead of a timid Canadian on overseas trips! You should've eaten off the other plate at the Oktoberfest ... your humiliations increase the enjoyment of your home-bound readers! |
| Name: | Bria |
| E-mail address: | briafey@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Ayun, Greg, Inky, and Milo,
Your amazing little family makes me want to have kids myself! Ayun, your No Touch Monkey! makes me so sad that I don't have more money to travel to all of the places I've yearned for, and the places I've already been. What a fantastic and hilarious book. Thank you for existing! |
| Name: | adriana |
| E-mail address: | imscout2000@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://imscout2000.tripod.com |
| Comments: | Been a fan of you all (Neo-Futurist Family), but the three of you (Ayun, Greg, Dave) are ALL know to me well! i follow you all around in my thoughts, recomendations to others and am awaiting a return visit for Ayun's work to the Chicago area *please please*... bring the kids and i'll chase them around Andersonville with my camera and sketch book!
~scout~ |
| Name: | nico |
| E-mail address: | nicosmurf@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.livejournal.com/users/miss_geek |
| Comments: | Ayun,
Just finished reading No Touch Monkey... great book. It made me laugh aloud and ache for travel all at once... I remember meeting you at the hipmama gathering in portland a few years ago... and I heard you talk about writing at the workshops there... after finally getting around to reading more than just the zine, I had to take the time to stop and tell you that you are one amazing writer and a great mother. Rock on. -nico |
| Name: | kelly |
| E-mail address: | myasskills@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://foambedlove.diaryland.com |
| Comments: | this guy i met at a coffee shop leant me your book. i really liked it. your children are beautiful. keep doing what you do. hi to greg. |
| Name: | Trula |
| E-mail address: | trula@MSPpress.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.trula.org |
| Comments: | I love your site, I laughed so hard on the bit about checking your site statistics. |
| Name: | kira |
| E-mail address: | kirasan@comcast.net |
| Comments: | tantrums are new, breastfeeding's getting (really) old, but the EVI always arrives just in time, right before i'm about to pack it in and turn into valium-popping mommy.
you are a true mother's little helper. |
| Name: | Brooke McIntosh |
| E-mail address: | mbcmcintosh@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | Hey Ayun!
I discovered you by shelving another person's hold at the library I work at. I put NO TOUCH MONKEY on hold for myself and as soon as it came in, I tore through it! I too laughed out loud while reading (not something I often do)and went on to plow through THE RUMPUS ROOM immediately after. I do not have children yet, but plan to start a family in the near future. My sister is about the same age as you with an older daughter and younger son the same ages as Inky and Milo. You do such a brilliant job of communicating the insanity she trys to explain to me on an almost daily basis. I am jeopardizing my place in my beloved book club by reading everything you write before focusing my energy on our already chosen book. I am talking your stuff up to all my friends (already Ariel Gore lovers as we all live in her hometown of Portland, OR). Are you planning on a visit to Powell's anytime soon? Your zine is next on my list! Thanks, and take care. Love, Brooke |
| Name: | Amy Short |
| E-mail address: | amidamnit@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://amye.livejournal.com |
| Comments: | Ayun,
I just read The Big Rumpus and like everyone else here, absolutely loved it. I actually picked it up at the city library when I couldn't find a copy of the Hip Mama's guide (never returned? what's up with that?! maybe it went the same way as that library book that mysteriously disappeared..) I'm unashamed to admit that it started out as a "bathroom book" for me, since i have a six month old daughter and my only time to read is.. in the bathroom and before bed. i'm admittedly much more coherent while in the bathroom than before i go to sleep. anyway, it didn't take long before Rumpus was out of the bathroom and being carried around with me everywhere so that I could read it whenever i had a moment. thank you so much for putting into words everything that we mamas go through! I just subscribed to EVI (how many issues do you get per subscription, anyway?) and look forward to reading it as well. I'll definitely be hunting down a copy of No Monkey Touch, and depending on finances this month (single mama) throwing a check your way for my very own personalized copy of Rumpus! I hope you, Greg, Inky and Milo are all well (isn't it odd how people feel that they know you after reading your book?) Take care, Amy Short Salem, OR |
| Name: | Kathie Horejsi |
| E-mail address: | mamamiya@judykat.com |
| Comments: | I was just looking over your selections, reading down the list of museums...the Brooklyn Museum entry about first nights..."Oh crap we fogot to go, that was last night".
I felt so much better when I read that you never made it. We've been once since it has become a permanent part of my calendar. |
| Name: | Christine |
| E-mail address: | pouetcafee@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.webzinemaker.com/pouet-cafee |
| Comments: | Dear Ayun-
I got the new issue of The East Village Inky in the mail yesterday- THANKS! I really enjoyed it, although it made me scratch and scratch! The envelope was already open when I got it though... so if you had written me a letter, I didn't get it! Maybe the mailman is one of your fans and kept it as a collection item! I wrote a review of your zine and will probably send it to a review zine if it's ok with you. Let me know! Keep up the creative energy, Christine |
| Name: | Jackie |
| E-mail address: | jackigood@aol.com |
| Comments: | (From the cover of my Japanese spiral notebook)
POPEYE He makes mistakes and failures, but he never minds them. He is a man of justice, tough and kind. FLOWER-FRESH LIFE STYLE A great failure leads to a great success THE STORY OF HUMOR What he loves are freedom and peace |
| Name: | Mary |
| E-mail address: | ringhoff@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | I was SO EXCITED to hear someone shares my Japanese little girl stationery obsession. I've been collecting and using it ever since I first spotted "PUPPETS...So many happy...These two must have something in common" (featuring a happy frog puppet and a floating--dead?--panda puppet with X's for eyes). My collection has since expanded to include, among many others:
"Letter Letter! I love America! Super Happy! Wao!" "HAMUPANIC 2" ("Titanic" re-enacted with hamsters) "Toilet Panda" Your commentary was really good and made me all squealy. We should start a super-secret stationery club or something. Your New Bestest Friend, Mary Ringhoff |
| Name: | Chen |
| Comments: | I had never heard of you until the chance listening of the broadcast of your commentary yesterday on All Things Considered. I went to middle and high schools in the early 80's, a time when Hello Kitty was very hot among the schoolgirls. I will forever associate that plastic kitty icon with the bubble gum smells of the teenage girls. It makes me sick, really. Your voice is entrancing, and you told your story exquisitely. Hearing your experiences told through your beautiful voice brought relief to and digression from those memories. Indeed, I now feel an inspired urge to read all of your books and to read them imagining your voice telling them. Good thing Google was smart enough to translate "Ann Halladay" to "Ayun Halliday".
Best Wishes to You. |
| Name: | Joselle |
| E-mail address: | mollieclarins@att.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://juvenilia.typepad.com |
| Comments: | After all these years of reading your words, it was so amazingly cool today to actually hear your voice on NPR. Yay! xoxoxo |
| Name: | Mr. Patterson |
| E-mail address: | pattersonwcp@juno.com |
| Comments: | Just heard your commentary on NPT re: Korean..er...poetry by children? Sounds fasinating, is there some of that in your new book ? Then I will buy it...otherwise, put some on your WEB site so I can enjoy more...or is that the third book ? Later. |
| Name: | May Izumi |
| E-mail address: | mizumi@hawaii.edu |
| Comments: | Hey Ayun:
Just heard you on All Things Considered while eating lunch today. Had to laugh about your description of Hello Kitty and all that crazy Korean kid stuff. If you ever get some $$ together and come to Hawaii we're up to our heiners in stores carrying that kind of stuff. Aloha (had to say it) May |
| Name: | Mayra Pace |
| E-mail address: | mayra.pace@t-online.de |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.chinesisch-deutsch-uebersetzung.gemix.de |
| Comments: | enjoyed it very much. Will be back soon. Mayra |
| Name: | Jennifer Lloyd |
| E-mail address: | powerlloyd21@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello Ayun!
I just finished your book, The Big Rumpus, over the past week while my 3 and a half month old baby boy and I stayed in out of the bitter temperatures to recover from our first shared winter cold. It has become our routine to snuggle up together for our late morning nap, Carson and his binky (pacifier) comfortably snuggled over my left arm, your book in my right hand. Today I walked him around our upstairs in an attempt to help him sleep until I realized that he wanted to go to bed and watch me read to perpetuate our routine. It worked like a charm yet again. I am so excited to go to our parenting book club meeting next week to discuss your book. I enjoyed the read and it inspired me to do some of my own writing and reflecting on parenting. Your love letter to Milo brought me to bittersweet tears as does every birth that I witness on the Lifetime network's show Baby Story. Thank you for writing! Jennifer Lloyd Child Development Specialist & New full time mother in Wilder, Vermont. I would love to hear from you! |
| Name: | Ben Stephens |
| E-mail address: | stephens_ben2002@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hello Ayun, Greg, Inky and Milo -- I am a former Chicagoan who did some volunteer work with the Neo-Futurists, so it was all the more cool to pick up the Big Rumpus (recommended by a friend online) and see that there was an oh-so-cool Midwest theatrical connection. My wife and I are having a baby in April (she's doing preggers yoga as I type this, in fact), and are toying with the idea of moving back to Chicago (we currently reside in E. Central IL for educational reasons). Rumpus has been a great reminder of all the reasons to overcome that weird, vague sense that raising children in the city Just Isn't Done. Where does that come from? I was up in Chicago this weekend for a visit, and you could hardly move without tripping over a baby stroller. |
| Name: | Ryan Bailey |
| E-mail address: | ryann@pastimes1.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.pastimes1.com |
| Comments: | Hello!
Don't know if you remember me- i met you out in framingham, mass. last summer (along with my budding artist son Oliver who sketched you and Inky :-) Anyway- I have since seen Urinetown AND read No Touch Monkey. (amazing considering i have a 5 and 2 yr old!) Both rocked!! The structure of the book was perfect. It got me chomping at the bit to travel and drag my husband and kids around on shoestring adventures- but wisely brought me back down to earth with the scotland chapter. Oh, that brought me back to when oliver was a tot and i thought i could still do everything I did before! Those rude awakenings in the wings of theaters or the lobbies of museums. Wandering around aimlessly, getting my shirt yanked up unceremoniously while my friends immersed themselves in meaningful artistic experiences . . .sigh . . . Give me a shout if you are ever in boston. Ryan And by the way that is so cool that Little MoMo is Spencer Kayden! |
| Name: | Stacey Earley |
| E-mail address: | zillaspice@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi, Ayun. I came to see you read at Qvimby's a couple weeks ago and I should've said hi because I'm Vernon Tonges' wife, and you guys know each other, and I don't know if you even knew he had a wife, and I thought your book was hilarious. I bought one and read it and it really makes me want to get a passport. I just have to convince Vern that it would be perfectly fine for us to take extended leaves of absence from our cushy law firm jobs and... Anyway. I sent No Touch Monkey to my sister in law for Xmas. I wanted to send The Big Rumpus but Qvimby's was out. She's a mom. I'm not, but you make it look pretty good. Keep up everything and merry Xmas. I'm sure Vern would say the same, and to Greg K too.
XOX Stacey Earley-Tonges Chicago |
| Name: | Lucretia Anderson |
| E-mail address: | dcreeative@msn.com |
| Comments: | Yipppee yay! Awesome website! I haven't visited half the places in New York you mention. I'll have to move back just to get them all in. Oh, but you forgot to mention the ultra sexy bloned dreadlocked guy with the blue eyes who puts the fire in my food and my lusty thoughts at Brawta's!The pics are great and really make me miss the kids. i'll have to backtrack now and pick up BIG RUMPUS after the awesome NO TOUCH MONKEY. Going to Cleveland soon, ever been? Any suggestions?
-You know who! |
| Name: | rose petralia |
| E-mail address: | rpetralia@cfl.rr.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://home.cfl.rr.com/pbhs83/PBHS83 |
| Comments: | Ayun, you are so, so very fab. I got my first East Village Inky last week and am now carrying it around in my purse, unable to mail it to my sister like I said I would... Just gotta read it one more time. I wish someone would leave a "No Touch Monkey" at a bar in my town, surely I'd stumble on it! |
| Name: | Johnny Thief |
| E-mail address: | jonnythief@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://iam.bmezine.com/JohnnyThief |
| Comments: | Good Lord,..! this website contains more compassion & genuine love than I've experienced from my entire extended family in three & a half decades of hanging on to this stinking spinning ball,... you should have some links to local shrinks & clinics for guys like me who need some radical therapy after vieweing this page,... or at least have some sort of warning before letting us come barging into what we will never have!! Hey, waitaminute! I'm much too fucking cool to be signing a dreambook,... what was I thinking??? Dreambooks, thats so 1999! |
| Name: | CC Shea |
| E-mail address: | surfkitty@att.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://sheashells.com |
| Comments: | Hey there, sort've discovered you through the back door - customer left "Monkey..." at the bar I tend - and after reading it in 2 days and relating to the traveler-you and the serial-monogamist-now-married-you, and as a long-time NYer, I'm kicking myself for not hearing about EVI before. I promise to subscribe and I also promise to actually buy your other stuff.
Thanks for making me laugh out loud in an empty room! Note to person who left book behind: Hee-hee-hee |
| Name: | ellen samimy |
| E-mail address: | erpsamimy@comcast.net |
| Comments: | ayun, i feel i should know you. ellen pittman, NCHS 1986 grad then i bolted the hell outta indy. first read hip mama's guide then had to read big rumpus after the excerpt. have shared it with other mums in states and abroad (japan, guinea) and we all laugh with you. passionate children rule! i also spent time at nora branch and the museum of art - have we met? peace, erp. |
| Name: | Alisha McKinney |
| E-mail address: | alisha_mckinney@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Couldn't be more crazy about EVI and RUMPUS than if I... I... could think of anything really crazy! Love them. Can't wait for MONKEY! I've even gotten my mama in Kansas hooked, regardless of the fact that she needs a magnifying glass to read INKY. |
| Name: | Joselle |
| E-mail address: | mollieclarins@att.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://juvenilia.typepead.com |
| Comments: | I love the sexy, glammy pic on the back of the new book! :) |
| Name: | Glenda |
| E-mail address: | gdeschepper@opportunities.org |
| Comments: | Good job on the book. I'm transplanted to Minnesota from NYC and I miss the excitment so this book brought me home. I am a working mom. But I figure some day my boy will say "my mommy does somehting cool". I find jobs for the disabled.
So carry on!! Mom's everywhere are the real back bones of this carzy world. |
| Name: | kira |
| E-mail address: | kirasan@maine.rr.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://other.org/~coyote/declan/default.html |
| Comments: | the big rumpus swept me up out of serious blues, and copies of the ev inky are strewn around my house - your anecdotes the perfect antidote to a day of sippy cup stress, laundry malaise and the general stickiness of motherhood.
thanks for all the wit, humor and honesty. one question - the correct pronunciation of Ayun? - k |
| Name: | Nina bobina |
| E-mail address: | boomingranny00@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | I loved the Big Rumpus but wasn't down enough to be in on the 'zine from the beginning. I wuz razed in NYC by my transplanted new to ny parents and am glad to see you're carrying on the grand tradition - kudos for not moving to Montclair...only don't hold a true love of flamingos against those Queens folks! (one person's kitsch is another's Da vinci)
Today my kid's first toof fell out - blood and gore, gotta love it. Good for you - keep on, keepin' on. Looking forward to your Travel Book and maybe I'll get around to odoring the back issues of the 'zines. cheers |
| Name: | Joselle |
| E-mail address: | mollieclarins@att.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.livejournal.com/~venusmuse |
| Comments: | Ayun,
#19 is great! The continuing saga of Bitchmother is always a good read. Have you thought of compiling a listing of where all your non-EVI/book writings can be found? I would have loved to have known you have a piece in the March Utne. Can't wait to read the travel book. Take care. XOXO |
| Name: | Jennifer M. Paquette |
| E-mail address: | J3fer@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://Still 'n all, there is something grand and universal in these confessions of you and yours and from one mommy to another, nice going.J |
| Name: | Heather Hoffman |
| E-mail address: | heather@hoffmang.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://huzzah.hoffmang.com |
| Comments: | You are so so so so cool! Picked up The Big Rumpus at the library today and have been alternately howling with laughter on the floor and whinging to my husband that we HAVE to move to NYC because our 13-month-old can't possibly experience a decent life in northern California :)
As a transplanted city dude (Toronto, New York Lite, whatever you want to call it), I crave urban jungle playgrounds and funky restaurants where kids are the least strange customer in a while. Thanks for telling it like it really is for most moms! |
| Name: | Crawford Marginot |
| E-mail address: | marginot3@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Ayun,
Your piece in the March Utne Reader is right on. At first I was a little yuked out by the intimacy of your confessions, but halfway through the article I realized that I feel the same way about the fat, the poop and the smells of my newborn triplets (12 weeks on Friday). The things I love most about our intimacies is the feel of their open lips when I kiss them and of course their various but totally distinct noises. I too have thought about mine and Billy's unconditional love for the boys and like you, hope/pray that they may find it again as adults. Crawford |
| Name: | Jen |
| Homepage URL: | http://phro.diaryland.com |
| Comments: | Howdy! I thoroughly enjoy reading your pieces in Bust magazine, and then I just read your article in Utne. You are always entertaining and insightful. Rock on! |
| Name: | i decline to disclose |
| E-mail address: | spork27@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Listen, so i read your "zine" cos my friend was like, "I'm so addicted! Blarrghhh!!" at a bar and all I could think was, "I hope I don't spill beer all over it!"
Anyway, Seattle is a good place to sell your book and stuff but I think you shouldn't do it soley (how do you spell that?) because Dan Savage is represented by the same agency. Rather, you should do it because we're VERY open minded here, maybe to a fault. People are very pretentious here but in a crunchy, non New York kind of way. My point is...YOUR ZINE ROCKS!!! (but i only read one, and i liked it mostly cos you mentioned Billy Joel, who wrote my middle school soundtrack, although it was about maybe 5-10 years after you--and not cos you're old at ALL, but mostly because I was a huge DORK.) Thanks! |
| Name: | Kate |
| E-mail address: | bruceandkate@juno.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.mirandazine.com |
| Comments: | I lent my Copy of The Big Rumpus to a friend before she had her baby - maybe if I still had it I would actually go into labor, like she did. Must go to the library! |
| Name: | izan in sweden |
| E-mail address: | izan@dymolove.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.dymolove.com |
| Comments: | hi! i just wanted to say that i got the back issues i ordered. thank you and wow, you're the only person that i know of besides myself and my japanese penpal who knows what those asian ear pickers are! ever since i was a kid and my mum's best friend moved to japan and sent us some of those i have been mildly obsessed and i may half proud half embarrassed say that i have a small (read big, haha) collection of those! they're a weird yet practical invention and a funny topic at parties, haha! i've been reading all the back issues in two days and last night i even dreamt about you guys! ...oh don't worry, i'm not super obsessed i am the same way when it comes to playing too much videogames or chatting via icq :)
xo izan |
| Name: | Sonja, mama to the mighty sparkly |
| E-mail address: | sonja.smith@wmg.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.collageoscope.com |
| Comments: | Ayun you know, even attached to every damn email I'm just getting around to visiting your site because I sent someone else here...
What a beautiful world filled with the juciest photos of you and yours! What a wonderful site! How did I miss this? It's lovely. xo! Sonja |
| Name: | Mlle. Pancakes and her everloving brood! |
| Comments: | Ayneeeeee! What a fabulous job you've done here! We love the site, the zine, the book and of course... you!
Best wishes with your new projects! All our love. Danielle, Ez and little baby Micah. |
| Name: | Meg & Jaime |
| E-mail address: | megbergy@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | Wowee! First time we've wandered over here, and what a fab-yoo-lous web home it is. I have skunks spraying under my house right now so this'll hafta be short, but you are one big, blossoming talent, girlie, and all the world should know your name. And say it right, too. Mwah. |
| Name: | ryan bailey |
| E-mail address: | ryann@pastimes1.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.pastimes1.com |
| Comments: | Ayun,
you are the coolest!! I wish I could be as cool as you. I only dream of coming up with such witty and entertaining commentaries as my children stage their elaborate plots to destroy what little is left of my brain. I am 24, the mom of two, and the owner of an interactive theater company. I got big rumpus and an Inky subscription for xmas! i have devoured them both. It is sooo reassuring to see that there are others out there throwing toys in their children's general direction or sticking a boob in a toddler's mouth while desperately trying to be creative, dammit! Yay- keep breaking down those stereotypes for mothers everywhere :-) Come to Boston! Ryan p.s. i can't tell you how disappointed I am that the last tiem I came to New York, I saw "Dance of the Vampires" and not Urinetown. i did however, see "Naked Boys Singing" which I HIGHLY recommend. I laughed so much! Songs like "I Beat my Meat" and "The Bliss of a Briss" all performed by charming, attractive and totally gay chorus boys- how can it miss?? p.p.s. I must know. Is it A-yun or Eye-yun????? |
| Name: | Lee |
| E-mail address: | lsnodgrass@tds.net |
| Comments: | Hey Ayun- As I sit inside on the most arctic day in Wisconsin yet this year, stuffing my face with Keebler's Pecan Sandies while surfing the net and and keeping Kid A from screaming too loudly at Kid B as they take all of the laundry I just folded out of the basket and turn it into a plastic "igloo"...I have to wonder. Will a new EVI be in my mailbox soon to give me a damned good excuse to trod up to my room by myself to read and ignore my own mothering responsiblities further? ;) Love and Peace, |
| Name: | Lindsay Root |
| E-mail address: | rootedit2002@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Sitting on a beach in Bali as communism crumbles, ah those were the days. Glad to see your still the same. |
| Name: | Kayla |
| E-mail address: | kaylap@mindspring.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://i_me_mine.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | Got your book from my husband for Christmas, and I've been reading it every chance I get (which is to say, every time I nurse). I have been laughing so hard at some of the Inky-isms. I've got a 4 year old and a 7 month old and I can relate to so many of the scenes in your book. I look forward to reading more of your stuff!
Kayla, SAHM to two boys one aged four one born at home seven months ago! |
| Name: | Mike Duncan |
| E-mail address: | mduncan@cfmx.com |
| Comments: | Hi!
My partner, Catherine Dorton, recently subscribed to your 'zine, "East Village Inky". I just wanted to drop you a note telling you how much I enjoyed it! I can't wait for more!!!! I am the father of an 8 year old (ah, another child of divorce) (I was her primary care-giver for the first 3 years of her life..the Stay-At-Home Dad!! Hooray!), and Catherine and I are expecting a littel one come the middle of January, so I can certainly relate to a number of incidents in your October issue. I loved it!!!!!! Keep up the great work (both on the 'zine and raising your children) Mike Duncan |
| Name: | Dawn |
| E-mail address: | editor@healingmama.org |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.healingmama.org |
| Comments: | Reading your writing gives me comfort because I know I am not the only mom who has spirited children who don't understand WHY I need the coffee!
Peace- Dawn in NJ |
| Name: | izan |
| E-mail address: | izan@dymolove.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.livejournal.com/users/izan_satori |
| Comments: | just wanted to say that i love your zine and when i saw that you had a book out as well i went and got it right away. it's great and i enjoyed it a lot, as well as the zine, though i am not a parent myself... you should get a live journal (www.livejournal.com) as a compliment to evi then us fans could read about your adventures on the net as well :)
take care and love to your cute family! p.s. what would a subscription for evi cost to sweden? |
| Name: | sarah |
| E-mail address: | izamama@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | hello love,
my only question is, whose stove is the boy really sitting on? ms.inky is quite the big girl! the two of them are so gorgeous and SO BIG ahhhh we took kids mountain biking in moab for izabella's 6th bday. now she's running around saying mama mama i know how to spell moab m-o-a-b. kisses from the right spot xoxoxo s |
| Name: | Joselle |
| E-mail address: | mollieclarins@att.net |
| Comments: | Ayun, I just devoured #17 last night. I usually try to make it stretch but I couldn't put this one down. Loved the Reality Programming and your new veggie status (I'm working on it; tonight I had sesame chicken...so good). I loved it all.
You have such a handsome family. Inky and Milo are just so stylin (good sartorial choices on your part). When I see the pics and read EVI, I want to have like 3 babies. It's really bad! :) Take care. You're an inspiration as always. |
| Name: | kathy b |
| E-mail address: | khblonsky@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Author, author! I've enjoyed your book tons...library copy, I'm poor too.
Now, having worked in children's services for 30+ years, my first, last, constant and only recommendation to you and hubby is, "Lose That Extra Thumb", NOW, while she's still young, BEFORE she hits the age for first grade. She's weathered her storm (post-birth); this type of surgery will only help her...it's a kindness to do for her, not a life-threatening feat. Please. Thanks for the book! Kathy |
| Name: | Ashley |
| E-mail address: | thereynoldsfam@attbi.com |
| Comments: | I am honored to be in your guestbook, Ayun! Your book was a gift to me upon the birth of my first child this past April - It has provided a daily dose of laughter in my newly chaotic life (I can't believe I ever thought it was chaotic before now - whew!). I plan on buying one for all my mommy friends & family!
Thanks for your wit & wisdom - it has helped me realize that I'm not alone in my thoughts! ((Hugs)) Ashley :) |
| Name: | PamelaBirthJunkie |
| E-mail address: | pamela@midwifemama.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.midwifemama.com |
| Comments: | Oh, Ayun! Reading your Big Rumpus has totally impressed me to NO END! You rock!
(By the way, I read aloud portions of your book while at a very, very long birth recently - and suffice to say: the Big Rumpus helps with labor pain!!! Well...it worked for me!) I love you! xxxxoooo |
| Name: | Anna K. Soderberg |
| E-mail address: | princessclown@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.radianttheatre.com |
| Comments: | I keep seeing your name pop up...Nervy Girl, KBOO, Clamor Magazine...so why are you in NYC not PDX??? I have no kids, but plan to, and I'm going to send a copy of your book to ALL MOTHERS I know! Much love to you...thanks for your inspiration...I am 29 and in the theatre--director, actor, creator.... Thank you. |
| Name: | Annika |
| E-mail address: | annika313@mac.com |
| Comments: | I am a new mamma, my baby is 7 months old, and I just read the Big Rumpus. My friend turned me on to it. I LOVED it. And I still think about parts in it all the time. I have vowed to buy it for every mamma friend as a "baby" present, because our generation can really appreciate hearing about mamma-hood from some with such a similar attitude and sense of humor. Thanks for putting it on paper. How did you ever find the time??? Keep writing. I'm subsribing to the EVI right now!
a |
| Name: | sarah |
| E-mail address: | sarahseacircle@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | ayun------>
feel free to drop inky & milo off at my house for a month or so... although i am sure you would miss them way too much.... miss all y'all. xoxoxo,s. |
| Name: | Sugar Magnolia |
| E-mail address: | jozfam86@ameritech.net |
| Comments: | Hey, Ayun! Do you remember me, the boobalogist from HM message boards?
I just got The Big Rumpus! Wonderful, great, funny, true. My babies:Sunshine age 16, Moon age 14 and baby Sage (will be 3 in October.) I missed you since the demise of the above mentioned site. I will subscribe to the Inky as soon as I get some $$$$. (I think I have said that before, but I really mean it.) Give Inky and Milo a big hug for me. (Sage isn't yet weaned, despite the protestations of relatives that "If she is old enough to ask for it, she is too old for it." Who made that up? Is that a law? "Maybe when I'm three.....or four...." she says. Whatever, take your time baby. is Milo still attached?) Keep on mama-ing, Love, Sugar |
| Name: | TMLMTBGB Fan |
| Comments: | I leave the country for just a couple of measly years and I come back for a quick vacaction only to find my favorite Neo-futurists all over the place! In commercials, on Broadway, mentioned in Bust, and now online! Ayun, keep living the New York Dream and keep inspiring us and making us laugh! |
| Name: | Meg iN fLAgStaFF, ariZOnA |
| E-mail address: | reddragonflymama@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://smallmama.diaryland.com |
| Comments: | oh, mama! I just love your stuff! And I must must must get my own subscription to EVI, my hipFairy sent me one and now it is gone. I also owe you a monkey (gorilla, what-have-you) If I want my very own copy of The Big Rumpus (ain't that the truth, love it!) can I order directly from you for a signed copy? or shall I email you - that's probably the ticket. Love your site. Ta!
anyway, love from your gal in Arizona, the late great Anais from hM, meg |
| Name: | Elaina |
| E-mail address: | She1105@aol.com |
| Comments: | Hi! I just picked up your zine (Sweet 16) here in Chicago @ Quimby's. I figured it would provide good reading on my long journey home on the bus to and from work. I couldn't stop chuckling! I don't have children but I do enjoy your lit. I have younger siblings who I practicly raised so I find myself laughing and shaking my head in agreement!
Thinking about picking up The Big Rumpus just to pick up some tips for the future. You're awesome! |
| Name: | Chris |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.uffish.com |
| Comments: | I just finished _The Big Rumpus_ (I LOVED it) and decided it's high time for me to renew my long-expired East Village Inky subscription (and there's been a pair of horny-do holders for Inky sitting on my desk for four months now), so I went looking for you on the web and found this site. Yaay, Ayun - all self-domained and badassed now! Love the photo gallery - now maybe sometime I'll recognize you guys on the F train and say howdy. And I *swear* I'm sending you a check now. How I could have let myself go Inkyless for this long is unconscionable.
Congratulations on becoming a big-time author type. You SO rock and deserve all the praise and success that comes your way! |
| Name: | Louise PBJ |
| E-mail address: | louisepbj@earthlink.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.xanga.com/slackajawea |
| Comments: | Is there really not a link on this site to the fantabulous interview by me? I believe you are holding out on your (our) fans. :)
And.. do you sell EVI stuff at cafe press? If not -- you should. I want some. I have a letter and burnt-bun-head paper here I've been meaning to send forever and oh my maude it's almost the little monkeys' birthdays!!! xoxo L PS Do a reading in Pittsburgh, okay? Okay! |
| Name: | Jenifer Scharpen |
| E-mail address: | jenijen_s@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Oh, to think that just a few short years ago I was terribly excited to find Mothering magazine! I've been quoting passages from the book to all my friends, who now want to borrow it. Of course, I'll make them buy their own copies and they will thank me over and over. I will buy gift subscriptions to east village Inky, too! As my three year old son would say, You're the ever best! |
| Name: | Alan |
| E-mail address: | alan@ticketwindowonline.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.ticketwindowonline.com |
| Comments: | Hoosiers rock.
This means one of my favorite b-day presents ever, "Alan Does His ABC's", can fetch top dollar on E-bay?!? Naaaah. It's priceless. You're in Barnes-and-fucking-Noble here in Seattle! Wahoo! Love, Alan |
| Name: | Sue (hipMama and mamatron Foolsgold) |
| E-mail address: | sueellenberger@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Finished the book while at the Indy 500 - it was far more interesting than the race & didn't require ear plugs, but did enjoy your fair birth-city. If your family ventures North to Minneapolis you have a place to stay.
Have been recommending the book - I laughed and cried my way through it, thankyou! |
| Name: | Tim, Deirdre, and Liam |
| E-mail address: | deirdre_nurre@excite.com |
| Comments: | Wow! Who knew Mr. Kotis was so dashing?!? (I suppose a tuxedo fills out our impression of a t-shirt clad pen and ink figure with no pupils). And we can't wait to hear the story of where/how Ayun chose the fabulous dress to wear! Congrats! And for any other Bay Area fans, Cody's Books in Berkeley is keeping The Big Rumpus in stock! I bought Deirdre a copy for Mother's Day, and she is cuddling with it every night. |
| Name: | Catherine |
| E-mail address: | whtegrlwthehair@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.zinesters.net |
| Comments: | When Greg was up on stage for the first award (CONGRATS TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!), I yelled to my whole room of Tony-watching guests "I have a cartoon of him dancing naked with his baby!!" They all thought I was crazy. Ha. |
| Name: | Ruth |
| E-mail address: | Stacycat7@aol.com |
| Comments: | Ayun, I've loved your writing for years. I wish you were my mom. P.S. I'm 46 years old. Break a leg tomorrow night at the Tonys! |
| Name: | Alex (former hMer feygrrl) |
| E-mail address: | feygrrl@moose-mail.com |
| Comments: | I just picked up "The Big Rumpus" yesterday and love. It's hilarious makes me feel better about my parenting. Thanks! |
| Name: | Susannah Pryal |
| E-mail address: | susannahmp@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I LOVE YOUR BOOK. I blew off my far too serious book club book to read The Big Rumpus and just LOVE IT!! (I've got about 20 pp to go). I'll sit in the tub with my two-year old who doesn't care about playing with me anymore and read, read read. I also just started getting Brain, Child and love your essay in this issue. You inspire me to write again. Your musings about "junk organic food", a toddlers love of awful stuffed teletubbies (my two year old calls them Ya-Ya's--blah!!), Arthur, family bed, not showering, renegade nursing, etc., ring sooo true. I've been telling all my friends about your book. Write more and visit us in Seattle.
Love, Susannah |
| Name: | Kristen |
| E-mail address: | krybandt@ptd.net |
| Comments: | 'The Big Rumpus' was the best Mother's Day gift ever. I can't say enough about how funny, human, and thought-provoking it is...and I'm not even finished reading it yet! Kudos on an excellent read and hope to see even more from you in the future. |
| Name: | abbie |
| E-mail address: | playallday@msn.com |
| Comments: | ayun, i think i did things backwards --- almost finished with The Big Rumpus, but have yet to check out an issue of EVI. as soon as all of the clothes are on the line and Izzie is down for her morning nap I plan to find an issue on line! thank you, thank you, thank you for the real life accounts of real life families nursing when tugged at, endless nights of sleeping (?) with two tiny feet in your ribs and coming up with intelligent yet comprehendable answers to every four-year-old question under the sun. your book is proof that so many situations that i thought only happen to me are actually universal --- oh yeah, your writing also makes me laugh out loud! i love it, thanks--- Abbie (and Devon and baby Izzie) |
| Name: | Wizard |
| E-mail address: | Wizard@jazzfestwizard.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.jazzfestwizard.com/aboutthewizard/aboutthewizard.html |
| Comments: | What's up Inky? |
| Name: | Heather |
| E-mail address: | heatherkc70@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Ayun, I love the zine and can't wait to get the book. I asked for it for Mother's Day, but it looks like my husband and all 3 kids dropped the ball. So...I'll just buy it myself! As always, if you're ever anywhere close to Des Moines, you've got a place to stay and a local promoter. Go get em! |
| Name: | G.B. Landrigan P-T '81 |
| E-mail address: | gb@landrigan.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.landrigan.com |
| Comments: | Hope you saw the article in The Star! It was great to see what you've been up to all these years. Keep up the good work on the 'zine. |
| Name: | Missy Ellis |
| E-mail address: | ellis@in.net |
| Comments: | Well, look at you--all grown up and a writer to boot. I saw the column about your book in the Indianapolis Star this morning and remembered our GBC days with a lot of happiness. I've been trolling the website the last few minutes; it's delightful, and I look forward to getting the book. (My oldest "baby" turns 16 next month. How can that happen? I want answers.) Best wishes. |
| Name: | mommyx |
| E-mail address: | segrid@mommyx.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.mommyx.com |
| Comments: | I love it all! |
| Name: | Heather |
| E-mail address: | heather_g45211@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | A friend of mine got me your vine for a x-mas present and I love it! It rings true and it's nice to know that other women nurse walking, talking children in public who will expose your other breast while playing with the nipple. Of course the fact that you are able to do something with your creative energy is no good for my self esteem but at least some of us are out there doing it! |
| Name: | An old friend from nam |
| Comments: | Ayun!!
Yippie what a smash hit - I love EVI as you know. What a total stud you are for putting the Big Rumpus out. You go grl. Sunshine smooches to you and yours. xoxox sarah |