Comments | allforleyna: i met a friend of raymond carver

allforleyna

i met a friend of raymond carver

Jun 24, 2005 16:29

I have the best story from lunch today: I was sitting with three other young writers in The Tobacco Bowl, smoking cloves (yes, I'm pretentious) and drinking the best peppermint tea in the world, and we were talking about Raymond Carver. This one guy, Danny, said "Raymond Carver's a dick. I bet if you got pregnant he'd never call you," referring ( Read more... )

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allforleyna June 26 2005, 15:55:56 UTC

And those people are me.

devilscarpet June 25 2005, 05:12:42 UTC

That is awesome. I = jealous. Though, I would be a little sad that I accidently said it to the guy, though he obviously didn't think it was too bad.

bird_in_space June 29 2005, 03:05:48 UTC

actually, i said the best way to break off all contact with raymond carver would be to have his child

allforleyna June 29 2005, 03:08:06 UTC

That's it. Thanks, Danny. My memory is faulty.

"Go ahead. Go under the bridge, boat 'tards."

vonnegut1969 July 6 2005, 22:24:29 UTC

man, ray carver is so cool!! you're now a badass in my book for meeting anyone even remotely attached to him. i just recently spent a night in borders reading cathedral. man, what a cool deemmmonnn.

allforleyna July 6 2005, 22:30:28 UTC

Best coincidence EVER. Yeah, I'm deeply in love with Raymond Carver, even if he was a dick.