The painting is Childhood Idyll by William Bouguereau. I love most of his paintings I’ve seen, on the internet of course. A sensitive computer, I see. Have you tried touching it with gloves on? Try. Maybe that’ll help.
Have you seen Finding Nemo? Remember Crush and his son? They’re the awesomest turtles ever! A few days ago, a friend and I worked on an article he wrote. It was about how our names are such an important part of our identity and life, yet we don’t get a say in the matter at all. To quote him: “It’s just something given to us by our parents when we’re too small to refute or reason with them.” The essay was an appeal to all authority having to do with naming anything to be very responsible about it. This kind of responsibility is especially expected of parents naming their children. To name your child on a whim or just because it caught your fancy when you were seventeen is outrageous. I think I’ve done enough for now to dissuade you. If you still don’t give up, I’ll try some more next time.
Well, I really couldn't tell the turtle's gender, but I'll accept the role. Is everyone going to be against me on this name? I say the child will never have to worry about knowing a half dozen other Nebuchadnezzars! What's the painting in your profile? My computer has developed an allergy to me, where it has a heart attack if I touch it wrong. And I still don't have internet working. I'm sorry that it's going to delay communication between us!
Well, the turtle is supposed to be this adopted brother. I can't really imagine you as a boy, but he's cute so I guess you could be him Naming your first child Nebuchadnezzar! That is a bit extreme. I think I might agree with your parents there. The painting was pretty scary, seems like you've gotten rid of it. Good.
Lol. That is cute! Am I the turtle now? I'm trying to find a satisfactory avatar, and Nebuchadnezzar popped into my head because he's a favorite Biblical character of mine. And my parents think I'm obviously as mad as he was, since I keep insisting that I'll name my first child Nebuchadnezzar. But the Blake painting is frightfully ugly. It's scaring me!
Why are you Nebuchadnezzar these days? Just curious.
Mother bird, eh? See that reminded me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFosH...eature=related You might not understand everything but you'll get what it's about anyway. And it's cute.
Wow! You sounded like an angry mother bird, swooping down to protect me from any hurt! I can be absurdly sensitive about certain things, but I really wasn't hurt in the least by the comment to that blog. I still think you were at a distinct advantage, knowing from the first sentence that it was about me, so I was fine with criticism over it. But your reaction and praise put a huge smile on my face and joy in my heart! Your encouragement always cheers me.
I got your message so I know what happened. That blog post was a joy to read. It didn't just let me see a part of you, it also sounded so much like you. Anyone who did not have the brains to discern that it could not be a story or even an attempt at writing a story wasn't worth your consideration. You should have more faith in yourself. You don't write everything with the intent of creating a literary masterpiece, do you? If you had enjoyed writing it, that should be enough of a reason to not let anyone tell you otherwise. Even the greatest of authors have claimed as their own personal favorites works that were trashed by critics. I enjoyed reading it for all its eccentric style along with the things it said. I wish I had posted my comment right after reading it for the first time. Because taking care of the first comment was particularly the thing I had in mind.
I was trying to restrict the visitor messages to my contacts but somehow managed to disable them completely.
