tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post5048952708259843430..comments2024-02-25T05:24:24.948-05:00Comments on Beyond Easy: From the freezer: no recessPatrick Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-89920078915199011392017-01-27T23:47:54.243-05:002017-01-27T23:47:54.243-05:00Many years after graduating from college I took a ...Many years after graduating from college I took a college class (for fun) with a bunch of 19 yr old kids and I had a blast. I thought I would hate it but something about it made me feel like pulling all-nighters, drinking absinthe and watching Rohmer's seasons cycle back to back with teens that were *impressed* and *excited* by it instead of the paunchy dudes talking about soccer in my IT job.<br /><br />What if Patrick Roselle did not hate his return to HS? I'm not American and as such I have no idea what a big public school is like in this country, but I could see this becoming a story of a guy's renaissance, followed by hubris and then the inevitable fall.<br /><br />Anyway, great intro. Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04370367327523217644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-32177361746591398152017-01-25T18:10:06.147-05:002017-01-25T18:10:06.147-05:00Thanks for saying so!
Whenever I look at it again...Thanks for saying so!<br /><br />Whenever I look at it again I sort of want to pick it back up and finish it...but then I think harder about it and chicken out. Following through with the premise would entail putting this guy through the whole academic year. By month six he's going to be so broken down, and the situation is going to have become so normalized, that the story turns into a narrative of a person going to school and taking tests and eating cafeteria food and so on. So THEN what? I DON'T KNOWPatrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-48944512385320506452017-01-20T07:24:53.715-05:002017-01-20T07:24:53.715-05:00Hell. Terror. A good read.Hell. Terror. A good read.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09978690269819333834noreply@blogger.com