A damn good list.

thanks, daniel. you're a damn nice guy for saying so. good to know you're a real person--i've seen that silliman name like graffiti the last few years.

oh that one is so bad.
(i HAVE a holly hobby pillow.)

I loved this! It was such a welcome read after a rough day at work. I help a sweet woman with Alzheimers and some days are sad. Thanks for making me smile and then laugh and warming the world a little.

I think the goats are guilty.

I have a holly hobby pillow too.

You know, the more I read your stuff, the more I have this urge to get on a plane to Spokane, airport code GEG, and hang out with you. Of course, we would have to go visit my uncle the potter and my aunt the pastor in Spirit Lake, ID. And I would have to ride the carousel. And walk through the Japanese garden in Manito park. All Spokane rituals for me.

And of course, I want to say all those things to KT. But I can't yet. Maybe in two weeks. So thanks for the rush of hope, and [insert favorite expletive here] you for having all the good ideas first!

jeep,

i welcome company. you're welcome anytime (with significant others). and, all, i am still sleeping on my brown holly hobby pillow from 1977. the foam is mostly mote now, but it's very form-fitting.

This is one of the top ten best things I've ever read on Chattablogs. With a bullet.

Wow. Thanks, Mesh. I'm glad Josiah and Co. let me in. And totally unrelated to that thing where you ask someone a question so he'll ask it back, I'm enjoying my daily check-in at your place.

Take care,
jeremy

Mac / JH,

You still got your stuff don't you...Enjoyed the posts. So nice to read someone with literary skills once in a while.
I just started reading this stuff this morning -- before this I was only getting hearsay reports about you. It is good to be able to check up on you and see what you are up to.

If you are ever near Louisville (Lewisville -- as it's pronounced), come by and look us up.
If you ask anyone they'll know where to find us.

Take care!

Andy

hey andy, send me those .mp3s of your music, man. I need some more of your tunes.

ok, i'll have to convert them, some of them are in .wav format -- and 35MB.... I'll shrink em down, and put them up there for you.

andy

your list has officially bumped "25 things not to say when you find out you've been dating fred savage" off of my top 10 list of favorite lists list.

my favorite was "you taste like clouds."

one i would add would be "lets go run barefoot in the rain."

the question is, judah, who wouldn't want to date fred savage, except, of course, for a post-high school winnie cooper? maybe she realized that kevin arnold wasn't the kind of guy who was de-shod himself during a rain.

ok... how about some things you would like to one day HEAR from a girl??
(i'm selfish like that.)

really, that list WAS what i want to hear from a girl, but i wanted to trick myself into thinking that i'm not so idealistic. at this point, i have a pretty small list for things i'd like to hear, since being able to sit quietly and not have to say anything implies all of that other stuff. how's that for evasion?

Jeremy, are you any relation to Josiah Huggins?

not that i'm aware of, unless he's my play cousin

did you mention winnie cooper?

very nice list.

silliman is like graffiti, and he's going on tour

“i can taste your lipstick on the filter.” wait, why are you wearing lipstick? --is my favorite

luke,

that line about the lipstick on the filter is from Death Cab for Cutie's song "Title Track." i recommend it.

Any other Death Cab for Cutie you'd recommend...haven't heard "Title Track" yet, but like some of their other stuff a lot. Also, no Holly Hobby pillow here, but a well-used/drooled on quilt, at least.

get them all. and the postal service.

What's a Holly Hobby pillow...? Winnie Cooper's name makes me laugh a lot, it sounds like minnie cooper. It's fun to be a simpleton sometimes

you play the part well, friend. sorry, these are american things. you wouldn't understand. how's the weather in belfast?

I try. We had unexpected snow last week. Now it's just cold. Baltic in fact.

I'm American...what's a Holly Hobby pillow? =)

wow...just wow.

"i can't believe god lets me hang out with you."

love it all - every bit. i'd start smoking again to hear that line about the lipstick...'course i'd have to start wearing lipstick...for a minute.

thank you, stephanie. and for the over-kind words on your blog, thank you. words i never don't need to hear.

I am sure this is an old post..but I have just recently found the richness of your postings. Somehow Jeremy, with words and the passion that is behind those words you manage to inspire me to love Christ more. And within that love of the creator it has become a little easier to love his broken creations even if all I want to do is flick them off. Also, I hear you know my best friend or should I introduce her via her mom! Sember Larose..Margie Haacks daughters (one of.) You are sort of like an urban legend now, to me. Well, I will take up no more space but also, I am planning (lord willing)to leave for Chennai India this comming June (05) So, your travel blogs are proving quite useful.

a girl whose favorite colors are brown and blue.
karla

Karla, any friend of the haack progeny is friend of mine. thanks for reading and for encouraging words. eat up the brown and blue, and do tell shaun and sember hello for me. and stop in any time.

you're just using me to get to my mom.

or maybe it's vice versa . . . hello!