Comments on: The Wrong Plane

By: Flavio

Flavio — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:19:53 +0000

Liked this a lot! Also if not much esplicative. Very nice pacing, always leaving you hanging to find some meaning of the mistery.

By: Joshua Dance

Joshua Dance — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:37:32 +0000

So I have now read all your pieces. This was the last one. Again I was surprised at how good it was. All done on a plane ride. Wow. Creativity is your good sir.

By: Mary Naughton

Mary Naughton — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:55:20 +0000

Weird and wonderful! I’m on to the next piece I haven’t yet read!

By: Sister Bear

Sister Bear — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:27:44 +0000

loved it! i just realized i was sitting up totally straight toward the end. what a somatic response!

By: Nina Simon

Nina Simon — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:10:31 +0000

I once was on a flight seated around a group of Greek performers, sitting next to a very large man who described himself as the bodyguard to “the Michael Jackson of Greece.” They had just played Carnegie Hall and were headed to LA for more shows. Halfway through the flight, they pulled many unusual instruments out of the bulkheads and began to serenade the whole plane, clapping and singing loudly. I danced with the bodyguard in the aisle. It was a magical moment when an entire planeful of people agreed, as if by mass hypnosis, to embrace aberration in the form of art.

By: Oliver Ark Kurek

Oliver Ark Kurek — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:59:37 +0000

Like. :)

By: erica jennifer jones

erica jennifer jones — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:31:43 +0000

I was so entertained while reading this that I drop my gong! Well done, Robin. Insanely delicious read.

By: Danny Skarka

Danny Skarka — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:47:20 +0000

oh, and now for the flight back.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:20:37 +0000

Apparently Lego holds our future in more ways that one: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=131&aid=171038

By: Gregg

Gregg — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:59:48 +0000

Folks, if he can crank out a gem like that on a cross-country flight, what might he accomplish given a couple of months? I can hardly wait to find out.…

By: Cara Powers

Cara Powers — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:48:17 +0000

@Andy Baio-Thanks for the search result. Cool poem.
@DannySkarka-Thanks for the money.
@RobinSloan– I better get a stinkin’ awesome book now. You said something about gold?

By: Ioana

Ioana — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:04:07 +0000

sounds like the beginning of a new book!

By: Josh Korr

Josh Korr — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:33:08 +0000

I couldn’t find the outlets on my first Virgin America flight last week. That must be why I didn’t land with a great story written on my laptop. Well done!

By: Rich Magahiz

Rich Magahiz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:32:52 +0000

What, no in-flight meal? How random.

By: (-)kelvin

(-)kelvin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:38:32 +0000

You had to have had the word, “snarge”, as a lego piece. Please tell me it didn’t come to you in act of spontaneous inspiration. If so, then I simultaneously pity and envy you immensely.

Also, I want to know more about St. Entropy! Is it heaven? Is it a utopian land of milk and honey? Of scientific enlightenment? Or is the whole thing a giant metaphor?