Comments on: A bit of notice for elimae

By: Michael Grant Smith

Michael Grant Smith — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:12:44 +0000

Deron and Cooper, thank you for elimae.

By: Rick Neece

Rick Neece — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:22:26 +0000

Cooper and Deron
What an accomplishment you’ve created! Thank you for making elimae what it is. If it weren’t for you, now, I’d have no place for some of my words to exist.

Cooper, I love your phrase, It aims, like all of Lock’s work, to use words the way gifted painters use brushes. I’ve talked of my own slow work similarly. Not that I’d count myself among the gifted, the paint is the word. Abstract paintings, evoking an emotion as opposed to story.

I’ve seen a few painted works where I could sit for hours immersing myself in the emotion the painter offers me. The story is there, buried under the emotion. There is truth there. Can’t necessarily say the painter’s story, but it’s my story, it resonates in my deepest place. Very much in the way the words I’m so priveleged to see in elimae work on me.

I’ve already said too much. These words are cliche, these words don’t come close to containing what I mean to say, but I feel compelled to try.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:28:06 +0000

It's not easy, I think, to characterize elimae, but you done good, Cooper. Yeehaw! to you and to Deron and to all elimae contributors. (Pronounce Yeehaw! with an 'old Modernist' accent.)

By: Cooper Renner

Cooper Renner — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:23:56 +0000

Thanks, Dan and Deron.

(Actually I picked the story.)

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:05:48 +0000

that's great, and they certainly picked a great story. here's to Norman!

By: Dan Whatley

Dan Whatley — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:08:29 +0000

Congratulations! Elimae’s quality is consistently fantastic. There are other sites that hit that mark occasionally, or even more often, but I can always count on Elimae for my lift.