1. Mike Hedge Said,

   nice. fresh update.

2. London Said,

   After watching all of the video podcasts, and seeing the stress between you and susan, i am wondering if you two are still in a relationship or if you guys went your seperate ways and remained partners for the F.E.O. project.

   Also, when is episode 8 coming! I have been waiting like a year!!

3. SolShine7 Said,

   Great bio. Keep up the good work!!!

4. JPL Said,

   I just finished watching all of your podcasts and I desperately want to see the film “Four Eyed Monsters”. There’s just two things: first, the film is a couple of years old and I’ll probably never get to see it in a theatre; and second, I live in Canada, so it is unlikely that I’ll be able to find/purchase a copy of it anyway. And that makes me sad.

   But all of that is somewhat of a moot point, I think, because I almost don’t want to see the film for fear it will wreck what I’ve seen and enjoyed and learned and identified with in the podcasts. My ex-wife left me a number of years ago, and all the pain that came along because of that still lingers inside me, rising up from time-to-time. Not sure why, because when she left, I finally realised for myself after a time that she wasn’t the best person for me to live with for the rest of my life, despite the children. Or maybe BECAUSE of the children, because what would they learn if their parents continued in a love-less marriage for their sake? Anyway, your podcasts reminded me of all that - in a cathartic way.

   What I like about the podcasts is how I identified the different stages of the demise of the relationship in my own life. As much as I wanted to cling to my ex-wife, the reality was I had to let her go and in the process I had to let me go. I had to let her become her own person so I could become mine. Sounds like some F[_]<ked-up shit, but once I did that I was a lot happier man - or content or free - and I saw that freedom most especially in the last episode. Although you were saying the relationship with Susan was over, and that you were fine with it, there was still the love there and you’d reconciled it within yourselves. Similar for me, but the love wasn’t for my ex-wife, it was now for me. I could love me in a way I’d not be able to for such a long time and it felt good.

   On the one hand, I don’t want to see your movie because I don’t want to see the beginning of the relationship with Susan because I’ve seen the end of it; but on the other hand, after reading everything I have about the movie, I want to see how you came together and became a couple because it sounds so much like the start of the relationship I have with my current wife. She is everything I’d hoped for in a woman, and I did all kinds of artsy things to catch her eye, to woo her (ya, I used the word ‘woo’, gives you an idea of how much older I am than you), and it worked. It damned-well worked and we’re together and in love and still falling in love these five years now.

   And that’s why I want to see “Four Eyed Monsters”.

   In closing, I think it is so cool and awesome that you did everything on a Mac. I recently converted, and although I’m not using my iBook (on which I’m typing this now) nor my iMac to the extent you’ve demonstrated in the episodes, I think it’s great what these machines can do. So much ‘cleaner’ than a Windows machine.

   Thank you, Arin. Thank you for sharing a part of your life (and Susan’s too) with me, with all of us. Thank you for reading/listening to this. I’m just wondering how many of these you read or have you read? How deep? How personal? How intimate? And yet, you were deep and personal and intimate with all of us, so why shouldn’t we reciprocate? Why shouldn’t we share with you a bit of what you shared with us? It seems only fair. It seems like the thing to do. It seems only human.

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