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Post number 7816

mikeg — Fri, 18 May 2001 19:00:57 -0800

RIP, EOD After a year of daily posting, Greg Knauss is sending An Entirely Other Day to bed. I'm only reiterating what many others have said before me, but the guy can flat out write circles around most other people using this God-forsaken medium. Very few people -- in print or otherwise -- can make the trivial events in their everyday lives so amusing to read. Dammit.

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 18 May 2001 19:16:10 -0800

A round of applause for Mr. Knauss. Hell, a standing ovation. I only discovered EOD a couple months ago, but it quickly became one of my daily visits. But he's right. If he thinks a year is long enough, and wants to do something different, then I can't wait to see what it is.

By: hijinx

hijinx — Fri, 18 May 2001 19:18:10 -0800

I very much look forward to Greg's next project. His humor and overall cleverness, besides the genuinely interesting nature of his storytelling, kept me coming back.

By: palegirl

palegirl — Fri, 18 May 2001 19:34:12 -0800

I'll miss EOD, one of the funniest near-daily reads around, but I'm sure Greg's going to amaze & surprise us all with whatever he does next. Good luck!

By: centrs

centrs — Fri, 18 May 2001 19:41:06 -0800

rats! good luck greg!

By: heather

heather — Fri, 18 May 2001 19:47:04 -0800

i was always forwarding eod urls to my sister and brother in law imaging that greg and joanne's adventures in parenthood were very much like their own. it gave me further insight into some of the smaller parenting events that claire and i might not get around to talking about during our marathon phone conversations. i'll miss it, though i look forward with anticipation to greg's next adventure.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 18 May 2001 20:25:04 -0800

nooooo nooooo noooo. ahem. noooooo. I'm okay, I'm okay. I admit, everyone I know including me have been pestering Greg to write a book. So my hope is that he's doing just that, writing a book about his kids, or the things he sees walking down the street, or the goofy stuff that happens at work. That's my hope. I'll sure miss my favorite daily read.

By: jragon

jragon — Fri, 18 May 2001 20:40:14 -0800

Gack. I had just made an icon commemorating his website, too. I'll be first in line for the book ;)

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Fri, 18 May 2001 20:44:47 -0800

The one downside to walking out of a room backwards is that it makes it difficult to see where one is going. Hopefully, like Lance, Greg's just taking a breather and then he'll consider approaching this whole "write for the web" thing from a new angle. Or maybe he'll finally get around to Metababy 3.0. Or maybe he'll just fix version 2. Right now it just takes me to Plinko which is not where I want to be. Or maybe he'll just sit back, relax, take in a lemonade, and watch the rest of us do silly things while he smiles and nods and thinks to himself, "been there done that bought the T-shirt oh what's this world coming to?" But so long as he's walking backwards, at least his shins will be protected.

By: netbros

netbros — Fri, 18 May 2001 21:08:39 -0800

Agreed with everyone. Greg is the funniest guy going. I still can't get over the story he told in January, though, about his father-in-law's health problems. Still gives me goose bumps. Thanks Greg.

By: ChrisTN

ChrisTN — Fri, 18 May 2001 23:29:48 -0800

(sob) Thanks for everything, Greg.

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Fri, 18 May 2001 23:32:33 -0800

On of my favorite pieces of short fiction is Greg's The Damnation of Richard Gillman, originally published in InterText. If you like that, read his other InterText pieces listed at the bottom of that story.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Sat, 19 May 2001 01:20:44 -0800

Oh how incredibly sad. I so looked forward to reading how Greg would turn some amazingly run-of-the-mill daily event into just that bit of humor I wish that I had the ability to extract. And the way he turns a phrase. Oh! And how will we know how Tom and Joanne are doing!? Dammit. They always do this to me. First it was Land of the Lost, then Doogie Howser and now EOD. When will the tragedy end!!! Alas, I can't wait to see his new project.

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Sat, 19 May 2001 08:46:19 -0800

I am happy to have been pointed to EOD and to have laughed myself right out of my chair reading EOD. But, I am bummed and admittedly self centered in my desire to keep EOD going. Reading Lance and Calvin & Hobbes brought this laughter too. Lance came back funny, but removed the humor. C and H never returned. My life has a huge humor void all of the sudden. So maybe Greg will return to give us humor and pleasure again. Life is not as serious as many want to make it. These folks have found the threads of humor in the matrix of seriousness.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Sat, 19 May 2001 11:58:40 -0800

Calvin & Hobbes and Outland and the Far Side and...sniff...sniff

By: gknauss

gknauss — Sat, 19 May 2001 14:35:02 -0800

All I can say is, thank God that windy jackass finally shut the hell up.

By: rodii

rodii — Sat, 19 May 2001 15:07:04 -0800

Me too.

By: mutagen

mutagen — Sat, 19 May 2001 18:40:09 -0800

well, no, all I can say is that this is some of the worst news I've heard all day. but hey, maybe I'm wrong, I mean, I imagined that all that stuff that I found so amusing just floated to the top of Greg's brain and out his fingers to find its way to his website, with about as much effort as I expend in checking email each morning. But he might be agonizing over it, thinking 'geez, what am I gonna write about today' and then spend hours crafting each word, each thought for maximum effect, wracking his brain for the best way to convey the amusement and wonder of his children, the sarcasm at some of the absurdities we experience in daily life, that new viewpoint that no one else ever notices. Now I imagine him emerging shaken, drained from each update session, Joanne begging him to quit. What he left out of that last update was the horror in Tom's eyes as he left the room backwards, having seen something unspeakable in his father while he was trying to write. I understand now...

By: fooljay

fooljay — Sat, 19 May 2001 20:14:28 -0800

Hmmm, apparently Greg's new project is writing derogatory commentary about himself in the third-person. This should be interesting... ;-) Good luck with that, Mr Windy Jackass. We'll miss EOD...

By: roboto

roboto — Sun, 20 May 2001 05:07:25 -0800

Why is it that nothing seems to get any recognition anymore till it's dead!?

By: plinth

plinth — Sun, 20 May 2001 05:37:08 -0800

Easy on yourself, Greg. Everyone is a little windy now and then.

By: michaelbrown

michaelbrown — Tue, 22 May 2001 07:29:36 -0800

As a father of a young son myself, I always turned to Greg for his expert parenting advice. His tips were far greater than anything I ever found on such bland sites as Parenting and Offspring. Thanks to him, I'm a better dad. I don't know what to do now that Greg is closing up shop -- I guess my son will just have to raise himself now. Sigh. EOD was the funniest thing on the internet. I will miss it.

By: CrazyUncleJoe

CrazyUncleJoe — Tue, 22 May 2001 09:05:45 -0800

Hm... now that he has all this extra time, maybe he'd come over and give me a few BBQ hints...

By: baylink

baylink — Tue, 22 May 2001 13:25:19 -0800

Well, y'know... crap, Greg. *Now* who am I going to steal my material from?