tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post2904999898422542221..comments2023-11-05T03:56:08.325-08:00Comments on Murrmurrs: Patriots of YorktownMurr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-62858760695947253802015-10-05T08:04:00.456-07:002015-10-05T08:04:00.456-07:00If I've left anything out, ask away.If I've left anything out, ask away.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-55279920022461970682015-10-04T22:26:39.308-07:002015-10-04T22:26:39.308-07:00I've long held many questions about your past....I've long held many questions about your past. You just answered many of them. White mice. Being lit. Art. <br /><br />It all makes sense.Jocelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03227519811818290510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-68842583568851232182015-10-04T19:08:50.424-07:002015-10-04T19:08:50.424-07:00The problem is, sometimes I start typing away and ...The problem is, sometimes I start typing away and then I think: wait. Did I write about this already? [beer] And then I think: well, if I can't remember, maybe my readers can't either.<br />Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-58117757537833408692015-10-04T19:08:00.736-07:002015-10-04T19:08:00.736-07:00I like the idea too. I'd pull down a six-figur...I like the idea too. I'd pull down a six-figure salary for about five years and then quit. Apparently people don't do that. Congratulations on happiness.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-10980268207909210532015-10-04T18:51:09.098-07:002015-10-04T18:51:09.098-07:00Your perspective would be so boring without all of...Your perspective would be so boring without all of the learning time. And the beer. There'd be so little to write about. chlosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10476371332873753350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-84465834762608265922015-10-04T15:17:07.017-07:002015-10-04T15:17:07.017-07:00I missed out on the beer, but I've got the eye...I missed out on the beer, but I've got the eyebrow thing going. I thought I was the only one, so these admissions have helped my self-image considerably. dianefaithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07229979968118248563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-75035053466415443032015-10-03T21:29:15.196-07:002015-10-03T21:29:15.196-07:00I like the idea of pulling down six-figure salarie...I like the idea of pulling down six-figure salaries, but not the learning and work involved, probably why my bank balance is never much higher than a mouse's knee caps. On the other hand, if I was robbed, I wouldn't lose much.<br />I never bothered with college and figuring out my life, I just drifted to where I am now. And I'm happy.Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-35389046244001418442015-10-03T20:04:18.494-07:002015-10-03T20:04:18.494-07:00Pretty dang anatomically correct. There are man bi...Pretty dang anatomically correct. There are man bits. There are tits. And thanks! "slightly lit up" is about the kindest thing that can be said about me!Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-62691677802333865322015-10-03T20:03:24.365-07:002015-10-03T20:03:24.365-07:00Bath mats, hell. Friggin' wall-to-wall, shag.Bath mats, hell. Friggin' wall-to-wall, shag.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-10146042567214650372015-10-03T20:02:13.590-07:002015-10-03T20:02:13.590-07:00I don't know, fishducky, but they ain't th...I don't know, fishducky, but they ain't the only patch that's missing some troops.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-74201585620181527232015-10-03T20:01:24.901-07:002015-10-03T20:01:24.901-07:00You are, I believe, in a position to tell the rest...You are, I believe, in a position to tell the rest of us if there is a point past which you gain no more perspective, but get to be royally pissed at things without fear of seeming untoward.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-10835276430176106552015-10-03T20:00:10.313-07:002015-10-03T20:00:10.313-07:00And all this time I thought you came back for the ...And all this time I thought you came back for the cut-glass bowl of hard candies! "It takes way longer to get perspective than we have time to use it." Speaking of wonderful writing, my dear.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-85488986632125370892015-10-03T19:58:11.323-07:002015-10-03T19:58:11.323-07:00Or EVER aware of. She died early enough--no sense ...Or EVER aware of. She died early enough--no sense hastening the thing.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-7231192191849023862015-10-03T19:57:31.081-07:002015-10-03T19:57:31.081-07:00I'm sure you CAN, but I'm not sorry I wait...I'm sure you CAN, but I'm not sorry I waited. I think I was about 53 when I started writing again. But I did it in my head more or less constantly, which is kind of useless.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-29136632091292755082015-10-03T19:56:27.404-07:002015-10-03T19:56:27.404-07:00These of course would be NEW stubby beer bottles. ...These of course would be NEW stubby beer bottles. Sierra Nevada makes a lipsmacker of an IPA , in the spring, and I've loved them all plus their tomato-esque seasonal scarcity, although I can't rightly remember the third one of any given night.<br />Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-63871347548175559482015-10-03T19:49:34.719-07:002015-10-03T19:49:34.719-07:00At least you started life with eyebrows. I never h...At least you started life with eyebrows. I never had any but thin pencil lines, so would draw then in with feather hand-drawn lines. I would love to see more pictures of the dolls...wink wink! How anatomically correct can they be?<br />Murr, to me you are the slightly lit up version of Erma Bombeck!Rose Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07180873324576064516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-59377974433226224202015-10-03T12:36:32.916-07:002015-10-03T12:36:32.916-07:00I've heard that there is a little-studied trib...I've heard that there is a little-studied tribe in a canyon somewhere beyond the mountains that knits bath mats from lost eyebrows...<br /><br />dinahmowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00052642938090553088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-40931666924301144782015-10-03T11:49:18.119-07:002015-10-03T11:49:18.119-07:00I'm 82 & my eyebrows are missing, too--whe...I'm 82 & my eyebrows are missing, too--where do you suppose they go?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-44892369846826681222015-10-03T11:46:36.541-07:002015-10-03T11:46:36.541-07:00I had, or thought I had, perspective when I was bu...I had, or thought I had, perspective when I was but a limber shadow of my current self. I was wrong. I do still have eyebrows though. Rather a lot of eyebrow because I can't see them well enough to pluck them.Elephant's Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06650565833097914052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-17296604958102554802015-10-03T10:04:32.872-07:002015-10-03T10:04:32.872-07:00You are a wonderful writer; that's why we all ...You are a wonderful writer; that's why we all keep coming back!<br />And I am eternally p*ssed that it takes way longer to get perspective than we have time to use it. Life ain't fair.knittergranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160027913020949487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-44303103441580766402015-10-03T10:04:30.453-07:002015-10-03T10:04:30.453-07:00We have followed an eerily similar path in some re...We have followed an eerily similar path in some respects:<br />Long brownish/reddish/somethingish hair to short gray hair... and eyebrows to WTF? Why don't I have eyebrows?<br />Plus: BEER!!! And whatever else we might have been up to that it was best our mothers not be directly aware of.<br />Kimbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02603650665536244583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-16911356782555880642015-10-03T09:40:45.468-07:002015-10-03T09:40:45.468-07:00And, for heaven's sake, how could I forget to ...And, for heaven's sake, how could I forget to say this: you are most definitely a writer, and a good one. And I don't know how people are supposed to know anything, much less write about it, until they hit 50 at least.jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-4540847994709170662015-10-03T09:39:26.290-07:002015-10-03T09:39:26.290-07:00Stubby beer bottles! I forgot about those! I was t...Stubby beer bottles! I forgot about those! I was too young to be drinking out of them (I was in my last year of university before I was old enough to legally drink) but I remember them.<br /><br />And at least your eyebrows are all one shade. Mine have gone light at the outside edges but the rest stayed dark, so I look like I am perpetually frowning. Even when I'm smiling. Probably I should jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-51646194669281090152015-10-03T09:18:11.735-07:002015-10-03T09:18:11.735-07:00I might have been a little better off if I had had...I might have been a little better off if I had had some of their hang-ups, actually. Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-6274565993811243122015-10-03T09:17:33.860-07:002015-10-03T09:17:33.860-07:00You are right. Even with my worst-compensated job,...You are right. Even with my worst-compensated job, I had--let's see--Narragansett Porter in the fridge.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com