tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post109528607609022716..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: The Amazing Collapsing Establishment MediaKing Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1095605644834072542004-09-19T07:54:00.000-07:002004-09-19T07:54:00.000-07:00Tim: I remain optimistic. History is on our side. ...Tim: I remain optimistic. History is on our side. Those who get in the way of history usually get run over.<br /><br />To the Picasso fan-- there are actually worse artists than him. His stuff was at least often striking and colorful. Much contemporary stuff is just a big con. When Patrick King was in town, I went with him and his brother to tour the Philly Art Museum. (They wanted to run up the steps like Rocky.) The funniest thing in the museum was a painting we discovered had been hung upside down! No one had noticed, because it didn't really matter-- it was junk whichever way you looked at it.King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1095350303338467952004-09-16T08:58:00.000-07:002004-09-16T08:58:00.000-07:00This does not concern the Big Media post. It comes...This does not concern the Big Media post. It comes from a comment I read (some time), or maybe it comes from a collection of comments that morphed into one.<br /><br />Since someone who has been 'trained' in (I guess) Flavor-of-the-Day style, that automatically makes the person condemned never to make anything worthwhile? <br /><br />Well, I want to say this, and it does not matter about his mature body of work, or his pre-mature work: Picasso was crap. He didn't do anything, ANYTHING, to push forward painting.<br /><br />Picasso sucked. He was 'trained' in the Academy.<br /><br />Once again: Picasso sucked!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1095313729152670702004-09-15T22:48:00.000-07:002004-09-15T22:48:00.000-07:00Hey Karl,
Tim Hall here. I'm not here to post any...Hey Karl,<br /><br />Tim Hall here. I'm not here to post any political views, but to add my support for your new blog and to respond somewhat to your "Demi-Puppets" post earlier. The fact is, you and the ULA have already changed the nature of discourse in the Lit World, and They are scrambling to co-opt your message (as you already well know, from the Believer hit job and elsewhere), without giving you proper credit. You are a key "primary source" for the vampires, who are trying to hijack your relevance/arguments for their own tepid approximations. That's the nature of the beast: what do expect from trend-following litomatons but that they would automatically, instictively, glom onto your trendsetting narrative to give their own anemic efforts a much-needed shot of literary adrenaline in the ass? <br /><br />They've got money, power, connections, and an inbred sense of their own infallibility. What have you got? Truth and a keyboard, supplied no doubt by the Philly public library system. My money's on you, though you're still a long shot. Keep up the good work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com