tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post4668720860915714858..comments2023-12-23T16:22:22.290-05:00Comments on alicublog: NOT WORTHY OF OUR TIME.roy edrosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161980502027888634noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-65118036392238680672014-02-03T16:25:05.128-05:002014-02-03T16:25:05.128-05:00"Its best if you can manage to form a persona..."Its best if you can manage to form a personality cult and get yourself made head of your own religion."<br /><br />Well, that's sort of what he actually did - http://theadvocate.com/features/faith/6467514-123/feliciana-families-find-old-time-religion.j_handeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-12336745684853721202014-02-02T20:13:15.544-05:002014-02-02T20:13:15.544-05:00Jewish physics! Jewish physics!Jewish physics! Jewish physics!realinterrobangnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-79554077484010541982014-01-31T18:09:40.351-05:002014-01-31T18:09:40.351-05:00Funny you should mention "Adventure Time,&quo...Funny you should mention "Adventure Time," since one of its writers has gotten his dick out in a Joe Swanberg movie at least once.Glenn Kennynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-40882069396420096162014-01-31T15:42:28.515-05:002014-01-31T15:42:28.515-05:00"because no one wants spread beaver on childr..."because no one wants spread beaver on children's TV. "<br />beaver spread, on the other hand, is delicious...bbkfhttp://www.fornooddreason.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-45587953660747443752014-01-31T10:40:43.736-05:002014-01-31T10:40:43.736-05:00Wait, are you saying the economics of Game of Thro...Wait, are you saying the economics of Game of Thrones doesn't make sense either? Crap, and I had heard they had a banking system and everything.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-69846749563673030392014-01-31T10:32:37.092-05:002014-01-31T10:32:37.092-05:00So: Game of Thrones it is, then, Granddad.So: Game of Thrones it is, then, Granddad.Aimaihttp://aimaiameye.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-34739127886711746402014-01-31T09:33:12.620-05:002014-01-31T09:33:12.620-05:00I'm so sorry, I was hoping for an amusing and ...I'm so sorry, I was hoping for an amusing and touching vignette.<br /><br /><br />Whoops, sorry. Let me try again:<br /><br /><br />"No grandson of mine is going to be exposed to a fantasy series with such a lack of internal consistency. I mean, the economics make <i>no sense whatsoever</i>."<br /><br /><br />"Well, what about <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>, then?"<br /><br /><br />[PAUSE]<br /><br /><br />"... Okay, if the economics aren't going to make sense, it had at least better be <i>epic</i>."mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-62390347606736422722014-01-31T03:04:00.291-05:002014-01-31T03:04:00.291-05:00"One of the miracles of The Divine Comedy is ...<i>"One of the miracles of The Divine Comedy is how a medieval Italian poet<br /> wrote about the people of his town, Florence, and his country, Italy</i><br /><br /><br />Mr Dreher may need a new Anachronism Detector.smut clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-27609016530294477782014-01-31T00:54:37.949-05:002014-01-31T00:54:37.949-05:00I'm so sorry, I was hoping for an amusing and ...I'm so sorry, I was hoping for an amusing and touching vignette. That sounds horrible. Especially for a Moomin.Aimaihttp://aimaiameye.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-353788388059372332014-01-31T00:39:11.078-05:002014-01-31T00:39:11.078-05:00Hardly a radical position in the England of his da...Hardly a radical position in the England of his day.SqueakyRatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-5674175480520043782014-01-30T23:38:07.328-05:002014-01-30T23:38:07.328-05:00All true....
Sort of OT, but I just can't res...All true....<br /><br />Sort of OT, but I just can't resist. Rod's latest is a post entitled "Stay Home, Write There," using a quote from somebody else to advise young writers to do just that. To eschew traveling to "the coasts" and do their writing in their small hometowns. <br />The lack of self awareness here is absolutely breathtaking! For those who don't know, RD left home after college, and spent years bopping around from one big city to another (Dallas, New York, DC, etc). Only very recently, again, in connection with his book exploiting his small town sister's death, has he "gone home again." But, Rod, being Rod, he not only is now all about being a small town guy, somehow, everyone else should be one too. And the fact that he himself left home to find academic and professional success, for decades, doesn't even trigger in his tiny little mind that he should, maybe, ya' know, not be so quick to advise others to do what he says rather than what he did. If you were to bring it up to him, he would say "of course that is all true, but blah, blah, blah, so shut up, liberal."<br /><br />And, to top of it off, Rod's example of the small town writer staying home to write is Dante! Rod has been reading the Divine Comedy ,although, obviously, he understands virtually none of it. More accurately, he has been pretending to read the Divine Comedy (looking at the pictures?), and working in references to it and Dante in two out of every three recent posts.<br /><br />Rod says this:<br /><br /> "One of the miracles of The Divine Comedy is how a medieval Italian poet wrote about the people of his town, Florence, and his country, Italy, and thereby told a universal story that has endured for centuries."<br /><br />Well, for one thing, Florence, Dante's hometown, is hardly a small town, even now. And while Dante was alive it was on its was to becoming the heart of the Renaissance Italy and, while not huge, was a thriving city state of not only cultural importance but of great economic and political power too. So that doesn't fit with the theme of the post, which is that authors don't have to leave their small towns to travel to cultural centers ("the coasts") to make their bones. Because Florence WAS a cultural center, and more.<br /><br />And, for another, Dante, for political reasons, was exiled from Florence when he wrote the Divine Comedy! At one point, Dante was given a chance to return, but found the conditions too humiliating. So, Dante did not "stay" in his home town and write there. He wanted to, sure (desperately, in fact), but, still, he didn't. <br />And, finally, The Divine Comedy is not really "about" the people of Florence. And even to say it is about "the people of Italy" is to kinda miss the point. It is a work of "universal" importance because it addresses a universal theme, and it does so not by being set in one city or even country, but by roaming the cosmos from this world, to hell, to purgatory, to heaven. Dante not only didn't "stay home" and "write there," he didn't write about "what he knew," either.<br />Rod's combination of obliviousness and stupidity is really quite awesome, in its own way. He manages to pack more non sense into a short post than anyone on the web. As I mentioned elsewhere, it takes a whole, elaborate explication just to catalogue briefly how many ways and to what extent he gets every single thing wrong.philladelphialawyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-19777069291753067252014-01-30T23:15:15.381-05:002014-01-30T23:15:15.381-05:00The former, aka it promotes witchcraft. Unlike th...The former, aka it promotes witchcraft. Unlike the Narnia series, or Tolkien, or any of the other dozens of fantasy books I openly read when I was younger. Also unlike that time I dressed up as a wizard for Hallowe'en, which we regularly celebrated. I mean, he <i>always</i> had it in for Dungeons and Dragons, but he wasn't the only one overly receptive to the "Satanism!" gobbledegook going around in the seventies. I suspect some television-preachin' anal fistula discovered something objectionable in J.K. Rowling's philosophy or lifestyle, and the word went out that HP was evil. <i>Evil</i>. (My problems with it are on an aesthetic level, but hey, tastes differ.) Just like the word went out that the fiendish cult of Mormonism was suddenly okay for some mysterious reason. So when my mother tried to mention Quidditch over the phone this week, boom. He's become a kneejerk theocrat in his later life for reasons that would make for a great book ... ideally, one written in Hittite and promptly buried.<br /><br />There, loads of oversharing that I hope more than amply answered your query.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-20997749581359496612014-01-30T21:42:37.968-05:002014-01-30T21:42:37.968-05:00he says that they are right and the Pope is wrong....<i>he says that they are right and the Pope is wrong.</i><br /><br />Imagine a long-term Windows user who has shifted affiliation to some weird version of Linux, and is now looking back at other people who still have a lingering affection for Windows products, sympathising with the ones who don't like Release 8.0 while insisting that the ones who won't use some features of Windows XP should stop including themselves within the support base.<br /><br />That would not be completely incoherent, but it would be *daft* -- you'd want to know "Why does this person give a fuck?"<br /><br /><br /><br />The point where the analogy breaks down is that even as he shops around for the most congenial consumer product, Dreher insists that he is engaged in a spiritual search.smut clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-21358784957202149502014-01-30T21:36:50.037-05:002014-01-30T21:36:50.037-05:00I didn't see that in the rules.
If the lab is...<i>I didn't see that in the rules.</i><br /><br />If the lab is so badly run that they have to write that one down, it's a pretty good sign that you should be in a different lab.BigHank53noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-6512468069942848472014-01-30T21:10:57.008-05:002014-01-30T21:10:57.008-05:00Wow, what a hypocrite. "The first act of a c...Wow, what a hypocrite. "The first act of a cowardly lefty is to harass you by contacting your employer. Here's the employer contact info for someone with a name similar to someone who emailed my employer."tigrismusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-79786667476470112102014-01-30T21:09:45.172-05:002014-01-30T21:09:45.172-05:00Today, accidentally sprinkling a little glitter on...Today, accidentally sprinkling a little glitter on a lobby floor is call terrorism. Scary.KatWillownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-7973466141242835792014-01-30T21:08:03.280-05:002014-01-30T21:08:03.280-05:00I don't know who any of those people are, but ...I don't know who any of those people are, but if you go back up the whole thread, it reads like "Mayberry, RFD" as scripted by Edvard Munch. And at least some of them are mating.Jonathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-13584976800723162532014-01-30T20:58:50.036-05:002014-01-30T20:58:50.036-05:00Oh brother. Sorry to bring up bad memories, but it...Oh brother. Sorry to bring up bad memories, but it seems our pal Donald has <a href="http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/edroso-commenter-threatens-workplace.html" rel="nofollow">gone ballistic</a>.M. Krebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-11626428265185337942014-01-30T20:57:15.008-05:002014-01-30T20:57:15.008-05:00You mean it ISREAL.You mean it ISREAL.M. Krebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-6678338636977269052014-01-30T20:53:20.249-05:002014-01-30T20:53:20.249-05:00Thus, boys will become more masculine and girls mo...<i>Thus, boys will become more masculine and girls more feminine. This will probably reduce the number of homosexuals.</i><br /><br />This is Grandpa Simpson level drivel. I'd hate to live with Dreher, I can imagine him groaning onandon about "kids these days". <br /><br /><br /> My dad used to pontificate a bit, one of his favorite <i>bon mots</i> was "You're born, you reproduce, you die!" After hearing that comment my fiancé (now husband of 20 years) asked me if my dad was crazy.KatWillownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-39463041304491079422014-01-30T20:25:44.569-05:002014-01-30T20:25:44.569-05:00Sorry, but human biodiversity is real:
http://www...Sorry, but human biodiversity is real:<br /><br />http://www.humanbiologicaldiversity.com<br /><br />Have a good evening.EuroCentricnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-65894927811933108652014-01-30T20:14:14.349-05:002014-01-30T20:14:14.349-05:00I was just about to say: Hey, almost 300 comments ...I was just about to say: Hey, almost 300 comments and nary a troll in sight!M. Krebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-76742490372356010232014-01-30T20:11:52.806-05:002014-01-30T20:11:52.806-05:00Wha? Where do you people come from?Wha? Where do you people come from?M. Krebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-31481803941236524272014-01-30T20:08:28.476-05:002014-01-30T20:08:28.476-05:00I makes me sad knowing that the music of [fill in ...I makes me sad knowing that the music of [fill in the blank with any cowboy hat wearing asshole in Nashville] has anything to do with black folks.M. Krebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-14882593245361917212014-01-30T19:58:19.636-05:002014-01-30T19:58:19.636-05:00I prefer not to set on this comment, for fear of w...I prefer not to set on this comment, for fear of what it might get up to in the dark.The sunnoreply@blogger.com