Comments on: Retro-Journal: TMBG, UK, DC, and ABC, Late 1995

by: Todd Seavey

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:04:15 +0000

Yeah, I am always reluctant to praise one girlfriend’s intelligence for fear of dissing the others — and I have not exactly dated dopes — but Liza is indeed very smart, and no doubt even smarter now that she’s in her thirties.

And though I hadn’t yet written for DC Comics at the time we dated, we can also say in retrospect that she’s dated a cartoonist and a guy who wrote some DC Comics stories. Jeez, what a nerd!

by: Jody Gross

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:43:40 +0000

It’s certainly a small world wide web! It turns out that I was one of the two of three of Liza Kleinman’s nerdy ex-boyfriends at They Might Be Giants back in 1995. Liza was a senior at a Long Island high school and I was in art school. She liked my cartoons. She was my first and only super smart girlfriend. Our relationship ended after her Wesleyan University years and and I later heard that she wrote some SAT score improvement books.
Hope she has fond memories of me and saved some of my doodles!

by: Ali T. Kokmen

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:49:41 +0000

And, if I recall correctly, your ABC colleague Debbie’s brother was, briefly, a class/dorm-mate of mine. I vaguely recall sitting with him watching his sister being a guest on an episode of Donahue for some sort of thing going down on the Dartmouth campus, but I can’t for the life of me remember what…

by: Jacob T. Levy

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:32:50 +0000

One of your London trips that year included a side trip to Paris, where you, Sangeeta, and Scott crashed on the floor of Shelley’s and my Left Bank summer sublet– making for 5 people in about a 12×12 space.

by: Todd Seavey

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:03:25 +0000

Thanks, Dave.

As for frequency: For college, daily or weekly journals, at least the first three years or so. Early 90s, a summary page once every few months or so. Now I’m runnin’ on looks back at old calendars with my schedule jotted on them. By 2007, the blog is the main thing, of course.

Makes me realize I could probably get the book written easily enough with a little rejiggering of priorities — and shall.

by: David

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:15:34 +0000

This is good writing, my friend, and oddly poignant for a cold hearted rationalist like you.

by: marcia B

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:12:55 +0000

So… how often did/do you write in these journals of yours?

As usual, highly entertaining.