Bob ([info]bobrocks) wrote in [info]craig_ferguson,
@ 2008-03-08 23:01:00
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Yes, it's e-mail time.
Does anyone remember what the e-mails were last night, the Friday technically Saturday show? I sent in some e-mails and I was compulsively watching to see if he read mine but I missed it and I want to know if I should try to find a recording or not. One was about the Spider Thingy and the other was about him being a good actor. Yes/No? Thanks!

ETA: Answered in detail below; thanks guys!

P.S. Does anyone else wish there was like a full-length song version of the new e-mail song? Omg maybe I'll make one.

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I'm not so creepy I have it memorized, I just have it Tivo'd to watch later.
[info]averysmallthing
2008-03-09 04:15 am UTC (link)
Something "not interesting" he didn't read. Something from Suzy in Ft. Worth, TX, about Craig being edible. Something from Amy in Ft. Smith, AR, about driving through a town named Craig. Something from Harry in Waxhaw (?), NC, calling him Senor and asking about Davis.

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Re: I'm not so creepy I have it memorized, I just have it Tivo'd to watch later.
[info]bobrocks
2008-03-09 04:28 am UTC (link)
Haha I was wondering how you remembered all that until I read the subject. Thanks for your detailed response!

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[info]brivinex
2008-03-09 04:20 am UTC (link)
Oh my god. The new email song is awesome! I'm glad they seem to have made it the official song.

emails:
Susie from Fortworth TX
If you were edible, what flavor would you be?

Amy from Fortsmith, AR
Do you know of any towns with your name?

Harry from... someplace (i couldn't make out what he was saying)
How many Imaginary people applied for co-host job before you hired Davis?

(...yeah... I'm obsessed...)



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[info]bobrocks
2008-03-09 04:30 am UTC (link)
Haha I like the first one. Thanks for all the questions! We're all obsessed, aren't we? I mean, I know I am. Reading Between the Bridge and the River is soooo not helping with that...

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[info]brivinex
2008-03-09 05:54 am UTC (link)
Craig: Some would say ham... but I would be Pinapple...
(I like pinapples...)

I REALLY want to read Between the Bridge and the River. How good is it? I need to get out to a bookstore...

Edited at 2008-03-09 05:55 am UTC

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[info]dazedpuckbunny
2008-03-09 06:13 am UTC (link)
You need to get it! It's like a wild delightful mix of Monty Python, the Canterbury Tales and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a ton of sex thrown in. It's great! Bwahaha.

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[info]bobrocks
2008-03-09 06:50 am UTC (link)
So so good. I can't even explain it. I'm just in love with it. It's blowing my mind.

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[info]brivinex
2008-03-09 09:04 am UTC (link)
I definitely need to get it then.

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[info]dazedpuckbunny
2008-03-09 06:10 am UTC (link)
LOL don't you find that while reading his novel, you begin matching up stuff from the characters to stuff he mentions about himself in his monologues and you end up like...knowing more about him then you might want to know? *giggle*

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[info]bobrocks
2008-03-09 06:34 am UTC (link)
I didn't even think about that. Who are you matching him up with? Or do you just feel like he's a composite of everyone?

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[info]dazedpuckbunny
2008-03-09 06:55 am UTC (link)
I haven't read the book in some months but there were quite a few points that struck me instantly because I remembered them from monologues in which he was talking about his own life. It's not unusual because a good writer often includes things they know personally.

One point off the top of my head, one of the characters has a secret fear about wetting himself if he got strapped in highschool. In a monologue Craig mentioned that the teachers at his school strapped the students, and he feared his older brother because he would pin him down and tickle him until he wet his pants. So as a result he still has a fear of wetting himself.

There are quite a few passages in the book about school and teenage life that I remembered from Craig's monologues but I am so brain farting on them right now. I'd need to tag em off in the book. He's often made jokes about cross dressing in front of mirrors and one of his characters does that as a teen to relieve his nervousness about girls. The Raquel Welsh poster, things like that. Most of the similarities I noticed were with the character who is exiled from his religious show. Is that Fraser? *flail* I can't remember his name! LOL

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[info]cometotheend
2008-03-10 07:16 am UTC (link)
Yeah his name is Fraser. Personally I saw Craig living through Fraser, but using bits of George's life as final touches and what not.

Though what kinda irked me about the book is the one line he would use whenever a character would cry, "His heart breaking on every exhale" Or something like that. It's really emotionally touching the first time you read it, but after the third time it felt over used and like it had lost its power. Did anyone else feel that?

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[info]dazedpuckbunny
2008-03-10 05:57 pm UTC (link)
I think I remember the exhale thing, LOL but I tend to read so fast that sometimes I lose track of little phrases. I totally understand what you mean when writers do that though, I know I do that in my writing and when I re-read stuff I'm like ACK EDIT NOW!

Bernard Cornwell and Philip Pullman and Anne Rice also tend to overuse simple phrases and it drives me nuts!

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[info]cometotheend
2008-03-11 06:02 pm UTC (link)
I have that problem too with reading things pretty fast but I ALWAYS managed to remember the things that irked be about whatever I read instead of the bits that I liked. Which gets a bit annoying.

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