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Tag: H.o.p. quotes (conversational arts)

  • The Quandry

    The Quandry

    H.o.p.: Mom, there’s something I want to talk to you about. I have this problem that freaks me out sometimes. It’s about life. Sometimes when I think about life it’s like something I can’t escape. It’s hard to describe. How can I forget about it, mom? Bad mom softly laughs. H.o.p.: And I sometimes get…

  • Out of the mouths of ten year old boys

    H.o.p. watching a show on myth and meaning and it mentions the pain of childbirth. “How can childbirth be painful?” H.o.p. objects. “It’s a joyous time!” I laugh and I laugh and I laugh.

  • One day…

    One day…

    H.o.p.(out of the blue starts telling me a story): One day, a mouse was digging in the ground because he wanted to be a paleontologist and a rock star… Ho ho. Because I caught it, he regaled me thereafter with a number of variations. * * * * * * * * We were talking…

  • Bad parenting

    I was in the next room and heard H.o.p. questioning Marty endlessly on something and heard also a note of exasperation entering Marty’s weary voice. Then… Marty: How many times have I told you the answer? Why do you keep asking me that? H.o.p. (with a laconic touch of extremely dry nonchalant humor in his…

  • The Spontaneous Emergence of Captain Beefheart II

    Aaaah. My little H.o.p. says that he’s going to “do a comedy musical about a man with a fish head who runs around bumping into stuff”. And he doesn’t even know about Captain Beefheart. The above idea followed after his talking about the musical he was going to do about a banshee and a yeti.

  • Slings, Arrows and Eggs

    H.o.p. had a busy Saturday and Sunday at Atlanta’s Jazz Festival with his dad, seeing Jaspects and Julie Dexter, Airto and Flora Purim, and Bobby Hutcherson. I didn’t go along as I was otherwise occupied, but they had a great time and H.o.p. ran and ran and ran and ran and came home complaining about…

  • H.o.p. asks, "What are they doing advertising things that hurt the earth at a place that’s supposed to help the earth?"

    From when he was knee-high, I’ve been telling H.o.p. about ads. What ads want from you. What they want to sell you. I tell him about the relationship between ads and some of the websites he visits. Like Neopets. I ever remind him that those sites want something from him, which is all the time…

  • Having polished off my last chocolate raisin, I will slide back under the desk

    Drama kings and queens. Me (to H.o.p.): Don’t be a Drama King. H.o.p.: What’s a Drama King. Me: You know what a Drama King is. H.o.p.: To be or not to be? I’m stealing that one. * * * * * * * A while back I pretty much stopped writing about politics because, frankly,…

  • Again, just checking

    Last night it was… H.o.p.: I have something to ask you, mom. How weird is it to find an alien for the first time in your bathtub? Me: Very weird. Today, talking with his Oma on the phone, H.o.p. started crying out, “Oh, daddy, not again! Don’t do it again!” and then would make huge…

  • What in the hell brought this up?

    What in the hell brought this up?

    H.o.p.: So without anything in my body, I would be kind of hollow? Me: Yep. H.o.p.: And I could hit it like a drum. Me: Yep. (If you could move, which would be a unique event in history.) H.o.p. (reading my mind): Well, I couldn’t. But you could.

  • Just checking

    H.o.p.: Dad, do you know what it’s like to stand in front of a gigantic spaceship?

  • As H.o.p. runs screaming from the room

    On one of the homeschool groups I’m on, an almost-war popped up over home science. One person had written in something about homeschool and science needs and how they were amazed at the materials some people had at home or had easy access to. The person ended the comment with a smiley, which indicates good…