Comments on: About To Retire http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/ Writer, sex futurist. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:31:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Koan http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-69 Koan Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:03:00 +0000 http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-69 This is a beautiful post. In, what, twelve paragraphs (and three of them one-liners) you've captured multiple "rites of passage" (for want of a better term) - in terms not only of where you live, but how you love, who you love, and your attitude to that love. > it was saying fuck the moment, this is what I live for Damn, but that has me thinking. > You think I have a hard-on for the web because of some greater virtue? Fuck no, it’s the story: it’s that my story is there now, and I didn’t even have to do much but show up And there you've captured so much of my own complicated relationship with the web. And the terror that led me to pull as much of mine off the web as I could - and the bitter sense of loss at having done so. So - one awesome post. This is a beautiful post. In, what, twelve paragraphs (and three of them one-liners) you’ve captured multiple “rites of passage” (for want of a better term) - in terms not only of where you live, but how you love, who you love, and your attitude to that love.

> it was saying fuck the moment, this is what I live for

Damn, but that has me thinking.

> You think I have a hard-on for the web because of some greater virtue? Fuck no, it’s the story: it’s that my story is there now, and I didn’t even have to do much but show up

And there you’ve captured so much of my own complicated relationship with the web. And the terror that led me to pull as much of mine off the web as I could - and the bitter sense of loss at having done so.

So - one awesome post.

]]> By: Dagaz Kalisdottir http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-65 Dagaz Kalisdottir Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:48:06 +0000 http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-65 Looking deeper... no, wasn't there a similar related post? I seem to recall a description of your space before you cleansed it... Looking deeper… no, wasn’t there a similar related post? I seem to recall a description of your space before you cleansed it…

]]> By: Dagaz Kalisdottir http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-64 Dagaz Kalisdottir Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:40:03 +0000 http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-64 Ah, yes, more eloquent and paradoxically revealing while mysterious than I remembered it to be. I shall have to bookmark it. Ah, yes, more eloquent and paradoxically revealing while mysterious than I remembered it to be.

I shall have to bookmark it.

]]> By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2007-11-12 http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-60 Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2007-11-12 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:27:00 +0000 http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-60 [...] Melissa Gira » Blog Archive » About To Retire “The hazard of all this writing-in-the-moment, right? You live for a story, but if you write about your life, how do you not write about the story of your life?” (tags: personal writing blogging web) [...] [...] Melissa Gira » Blog Archive » About To Retire “The hazard of all this writing-in-the-moment, right? You live for a story, but if you write about your life, how do you not write about the story of your life?” (tags: personal writing blogging web) [...]

]]> By: Melissa Gira http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-59 Melissa Gira Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:34:43 +0000 http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-59 <a href="http://www.melissagira.com/mobwhorelog/archives/000420.html" rel="nofollow">This entry on porn as house clearing</a>? Finger away. This entry on porn as house clearing?

Finger away.

]]> By: Dagaz Kalisdottir http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-58 Dagaz Kalisdottir Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:27:48 +0000 http://www.melissagira.com/2007/11/10/about-to-retire/#comment-58 Wow, its been a full year since you moved into that place. Moving on again, I see. There was something in the way you wrote about clearing out that space, and turning a porn mag into an altar that was formative to me in a small way. I could never put my finger on it... Good luck. Namaste Wow, its been a full year since you moved into that place. Moving on again, I see.

There was something in the way you wrote about clearing out that space, and turning a porn mag into an altar that was formative to me in a small way. I could never put my finger on it…

Good luck.

Namaste

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