Comments on: Public Apology: Dear Guy In The Spiked Leather Jacket http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket Seriously, this could not be more beta Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:32:58 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: raging http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32169 raging Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:45:54 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32169 Do you think you could have chased the guy if you weren't holding the lamp in one hand? Or had you left the lamp at home? This wouldn't have happened if you'd had the lamp with you. Do you think you could have chased the guy if you weren't holding the lamp in one hand? Or had you left the lamp at home? This wouldn't have happened if you'd had the lamp with you.

]]> By: sigil7 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32087 sigil7 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:19:39 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32087 Sister, when I raise hell you'll know it. Sister, when I raise hell you'll know it.

]]> By: toadvine http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32076 toadvine Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:13:19 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32076 I absolutely agree. Similarly, I'll take the "Dane's" torture scene all over the Reservoir Dogs torture scene. I absolutely agree. Similarly, I'll take the "Dane's" torture scene all over the Reservoir Dogs torture scene.

]]> By: brad http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32073 brad Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:57:19 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32073 i have often said, to people who would have a hard time thinking of something they cared less about, that the danny boy scene in miller's crossing is right there with the scene in the godfather when michael corleone is becoming a godfather whilst killing all his enemies. i have often said, to people who would have a hard time thinking of something they cared less about, that the danny boy scene in miller's crossing is right there with the scene in the godfather when michael corleone is becoming a godfather whilst killing all his enemies.

]]> By: brad http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32072 brad Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:53:36 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32072 I've never met anyone who made being a son of a bitch such a point of pride. I've never met anyone who made being a son of a bitch such a point of pride.

]]> By: Dave Bry http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32071 Dave Bry Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:49:50 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32071 Yes. Good one! Yes. Good one!

]]> By: toadvine http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32070 toadvine Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:49:40 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32070 Should have said "favorite" characters ever. Oh, and that scene with "Danny Boy" playing, where the Irish gangster is smoking the cigar, rolls off the bed, shoots the guy in the knee and then the head, ducks out the window, then calmly shoots the guy driving the escaping care forcing it to crash, all without losing the cigar is on of my favorite scenes ever. Should have said "favorite" characters ever.

Oh, and that scene with "Danny Boy" playing, where the Irish gangster is smoking the cigar, rolls off the bed, shoots the guy in the knee and then the head, ducks out the window, then calmly shoots the guy driving the escaping care forcing it to crash, all without losing the cigar is on of my favorite scenes ever.

]]> By: toadvine http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32069 toadvine Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:47:59 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32069 That's one of my characters ever, even if he comes straight from Dashiel Hammett. I've been the puncher and the punched, and neither one feels very good. That's one of my characters ever, even if he comes straight from Dashiel Hammett.

I've been the puncher and the punched, and neither one feels very good.

]]> By: Multiphasic http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32063 Multiphasic Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:54:08 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32063 Tall-plus-jacket-spike > short-plus-liberty-spikes. I state this after getting a bloody nose from a foot-long, blue-dyed chunk of hair up the right nostril at Cloyne Co-Op (gyeecchh) in Berkeley. This is why you pogo in sync, people, this is why you pogo in sync. Tall-plus-jacket-spike > short-plus-liberty-spikes. I state this after getting a bloody nose from a foot-long, blue-dyed chunk of hair up the right nostril at Cloyne Co-Op (gyeecchh) in Berkeley. This is why you pogo in sync, people, this is why you pogo in sync.

]]> By: belltolls http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32061 belltolls Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:39:21 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32061 I like this one. You looked in to your heart. I like this one. You looked in to your heart.

]]> By: MlleTrashheap http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32052 MlleTrashheap Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:01:46 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32052 Niiiiice! Niiiiice!

]]> By: barnhouse http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32046 barnhouse Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:53:36 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32046 Not exactly Don Gately-level transgressions, but a very moving account; best of all, almost impossible to mock at all effectively. Not exactly Don Gately-level transgressions, but a very moving account; best of all, almost impossible to mock at all effectively.

]]> By: NominaStultorum http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32043 NominaStultorum Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:44:48 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32043 Slicing up eyeballs! I want you to know! Slicing up eyeballs! I want you to know!

]]> By: HiredGoons http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32040 HiredGoons Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:39:42 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32040 "I got a broken face, uh-hu, uh-hu I got a broken face" "I got a broken face, uh-hu, uh-hu
I got a broken face"

]]> By: Moff http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32037 Moff Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:36:31 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32037 Good Lord, man, you're just lucky you didn't get that spike through the eye! An eye-spike! There's nothing worse. Good Lord, man, you're just lucky you didn't get that spike through the eye! An eye-spike! There's nothing worse.

]]> By: MatthewGallaway http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32036 MatthewGallaway Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:35:16 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32036 Whoa -- I was at that show (but I was not the guy in the spiked leather jacket). I didn't have tickets but went on a dare after I idiotically claimed that I could get into any (rock) show in the city without paying more than face value. (In this case I made it in just as the Pixies were opening their set.) Whoa — I was at that show (but I was not the guy in the spiked leather jacket). I didn't have tickets but went on a dare after I idiotically claimed that I could get into any (rock) show in the city without paying more than face value. (In this case I made it in just as the Pixies were opening their set.)

]]> By: NinetyNine http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32035 NinetyNine Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:35:04 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32035 If I had known we would be casting our feelings into words, I would have memorized the <i>Song of Solomon</i>. If I had known we would be casting our feelings into words, I would have memorized the Song of Solomon.

]]> By: wiilliiaamm http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32034 wiilliiaamm Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:34:45 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32034 I kinda know why (deep down inside) but this particular D. Bry "Public Apology" got me kinda choked up. Maybe the nostalgia for club shows in my old neighborhood...or maybe and more probably..its his humility. I kinda know why (deep down inside) but this particular D. Bry "Public Apology" got me kinda choked up. Maybe the nostalgia for club shows in my old neighborhood…or maybe and more probably..its his humility.

]]> By: ContainsHotLiquid http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/public-apology-dear-guy-in-the-spiked-leather-jacket#comment-32030 ContainsHotLiquid Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:28:21 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=15623#comment-32030 "(In my most ridiculous fantasies, I am the broken-nosed, repeatedly pummeled, but ever-still wry and charming Gabriel Byrne in Miller’s Crossing.)" I suppose you think you raised hell. "(In my most ridiculous fantasies, I am the broken-nosed, repeatedly pummeled, but ever-still wry and charming Gabriel Byrne in Miller’s Crossing.)"

I suppose you think you raised hell.

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