No, no one at WCPN suggested the baby live at the end. There were people, when the play debuted in 2003, who suggested a coda about Zelda which I thought was as offensive then as I do now.
Or a follow-up play about fatherhood called "I Love This."
Ew?
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Whew, I just was about having a stroke on your behalf, thinking the "live baby" was a current suggestion. In a way the suggestions here are just as offensive and painful to those who have been there. I so often get the "support" from those who admire my surving triplet.. "At least you have..." and my "replacement" child from our successful subsequent pregnancy. Friends and family seeming relieved that now things in our lives are how they should be. Always Accentuate the positive I guess! I Hate This...
Who are the people in photograph?
Kristen
Goodness, who cares - look at him!
Seriously, however, this image (can't tell you where I saw it first, maybe the wall of a friend in college) was an inspiration for my play. After seeing a play in the summer of 01 that ended with a man describing the (live) birth of his son, and shortly thereafter reading "Children of God" (the follow-up to "The Sparrow") which ends with a man holding his own grandson, I thought, "You know what's missing? Any image of a man holding his stillborn child."
People love to see guys with babies. As long as they are alive.
Didn't you know that everything instantly become all better when you have a child that lives?! At least that is what everyone is telling me through this third pregnancy.
I hate it too.
Beastie Boys quote!!! And stick to that gun you carry.
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Everyone wants a happy ending. And since you couldn't bring the kid back to life, a replacement would suit 'em too. Gawd.
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ps Any chance of a podcast of the performance? I wrote WCPN but haven't heard back.
I am on the verge of "aniversary time" of if I could have felt it at the time was one of the most heartbreaking and painful of my life... Yeah, I get a little crazy this time of year and honestly could use some support from those who I think understand... Please, please let me know when Orson can wear the little green sweater with the airplanes on it...
Kristen
Orson is almost big enough for the sweater. And the weather is definitely right.
Re: podcast - I am sure they will post it on their website, and if so, I will rpovide a lot of really obvious links.
Oh yeah? Fuck the Gerber baby.
so how does toni feel about you boasting of being unmarried on a blog read mostly by emotionally vulnerable women? just curious.
OK, as one of the vunerable men who read your blog, I must admit, I've been wondering about that, too.
My blog is read mostly by emotionally vulnerable married women. And my brother. Yeah, that is kinda weird.
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