tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post109646896189486372..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: Election Hysteria!King Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096547675930051852004-09-30T05:34:00.000-07:002004-09-30T05:34:00.000-07:00p.s. Walton, you should read the latest issue of L...p.s. Walton, you should read the latest issue of LIT FAN. The writing, like the writing on this blog, is filled with energy-- it's alive-- unlike "literary" writing found most places.<br /> ULA writers rock!King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096547256997815402004-09-30T05:27:00.000-07:002004-09-30T05:27:00.000-07:00??? Curious hostility from the demi-puppet. As our...??? Curious hostility from the demi-puppet. As our best poet, Frank Walsh, hasn't had any of his poetry put up yet on our site, I don't know how Mr. Walton could make his statement. The truth, of course, is that we tried to get Mr. Berman to participate in a Read-off, and he wouldn't do it. <br /> Yes, the presentation of our zeens is simple, but like most zeens they connect with readers. The fact is that zeensters find their own markets, instead of helplessly sending away manuscripts hoping and wishing someone will look at them. (Beyond the return address, most mailings to the slush pile are not perused.) Many ULAers, btw, Jack Saunders most notably, have tried the accepted route-- but some writings don't fit into a square box. The unconnected writers who do luckily prevail in the present climate, by necessity have a marked ability to conform to the accepted standards and rules-- which isn't how trailblazing new talent is found.<br /> Stay tuned, demi-puppet. I hope to address your points in future posts. Just on the surface, however, they sound ridiculous-- the squealing of the Status Quo. The same noises made by the salon painters of the day who dismissed Gaugin and Van Gogh!King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096540792776992462004-09-30T03:39:00.000-07:002004-09-30T03:39:00.000-07:00Networks and connections are fair game? Says who? ...Networks and connections are fair game? Says who? People who are connected that's who. And if they're fair then what's wrong with the ULA building it's own network? That's what they're persevering at right here and now on this blog. Their tactics are alot cleaner than most of the others.<br />cheers<br />Jimmy the HyenaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096523799928518492004-09-29T22:56:00.000-07:002004-09-29T22:56:00.000-07:00I am telling you the reason for your failure. You ...I am telling you the reason for your failure. You have no talent. It is that simple. Now beyond that you could still find some success. Lack of talent has not stopped thousands of writers. But you refuse to try to get your work published. You are cowards.<br /><br /> You do not perservere. Instead you waste your time having a pity party for yourselves and creating in your mind imaginary conspiracies and invisible walls that often do not exist. Networking and connections are fair game, and that is how it is in every aspect of the world. You pretend that the literary world is the only place where that bull shit goes on.<br /><br /> And what else do you do...you hand out your zines to five people each in rebellion. Zines that look like a cheap church phamplet, and read like a fourth rate community college underground newspaper.<br /><br /> And you get drunk and crash readings. You harrass published writers. You hold your own drunken forums and read your bad bad writing. You once got Mr. Plimpton to come, and proved to him that you have no talent but getting rowdy and drunk. Your best poet makes David Berman who writes rock lyrics and calls it poetry sound like William Butler Yeats. <br /><br /> This weakens your case. I think I have said enough. I do not want to be a bully. <br /><br />Bill WaltonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096513639210504462004-09-29T20:07:00.000-07:002004-09-29T20:07:00.000-07:00>It turns out that Henry Fool is not a genius at a...>It turns out that Henry Fool is not a genius at all, just another pretentious >failing writer who blames the entire world for his own lack of talent. His >young protege becomes a great writer whose work changes literature. <br /><br />Who's the young protege, Bill? Donna Tartt? Madison Smart Bell?? Neal Pollack??? Do tell, the suspense is KILLIN' me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096497993536747632004-09-29T15:46:00.000-07:002004-09-29T15:46:00.000-07:00I want to see Walton and Wenclas fight to the deat...I want to see Walton and Wenclas fight to the death.<br /><br />After that, i want a six-pack of Budweiser and sex with a black woman.<br /><br />But that's just me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096493785377135672004-09-29T14:36:00.000-07:002004-09-29T14:36:00.000-07:00Mr. Wenclas reminds me of the character Henry Fool...Mr. Wenclas reminds me of the character Henry Fool in the film by the same name. Henry Fool is released from prison and takes on a young writer whom he encourages to read a number of classics in an attempt to educate the young writer. Henry Fool is finishing his masterpiece, "The Confession" which he believes will startle and forever change literature. Henry Fool speaks of conspiracies, and other people's attempts to suppress his masterpiece.<br /><br /> It turns out that Henry Fool is not a genius at all, just another pretentious failing writer who blames the entire world for his own lack of talent. His young protege becomes a great writer whose work changes literature. <br /><br /> The Urban Hermit? Dameron? Black Olive? Wenclas? The ULA is just a group of Henry Fools. <br /><br />Bill WaltonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096492592074442492004-09-29T14:16:00.000-07:002004-09-29T14:16:00.000-07:00Excellent post, Karl, right on the money. I had a ...Excellent post, Karl, right on the money. I had a similar revelation about this recently, in the trance-journal I'm keeping, which I read into the computer mic and posted as an audio blog. It's about a war between bloggers, the Smilicans and Frownocrats, and all kinds of other conspiracy/internet/lunacy going on:<br /><br />http://www.tim-hall.com/vogner/archives/00000268.html<br /><br />You'll need to listen with headphones, or be somwhere you can play it aloud.<br /><br />TimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096489477480836592004-09-29T13:24:00.001-07:002004-09-29T13:24:00.001-07:00Bill Walton should stick to commenting on basketba...Bill Walton should stick to commenting on basketball.<br /><br />Re: O'Toole. Those are not my remarks, incidentally. There is more than one person in the ULA. We include many diverse opinions and viewpoints. What we have in common is our determination to change the status quo-- the way of doing business in the lit world, which HAS failed, the case of O'Toole being a classic example. One can find exceptions to everything, but, overwhelmingly, those writers given backing and attention are from an elite, or have unique ways of accessing that elite. (J.T. Leroy in that instance being a case in point.)<br /><br />Bill Walton should know that basketball has ways of reaching out to the best players-- the best of whom notably do not play "by the book." If basketball were confined to mainly stiff Ivy Leaguers, the sport would never have broken as it did on the American consciousness.<br /><br />Shut-out writers can maintain their delusions, and write in obscurity-- or they can take their fate and their art into their own hands by working with the Underground Literary Alliance.King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096489477296822322004-09-29T13:24:00.000-07:002004-09-29T13:24:00.000-07:00Bill Walton should stick to commenting on basketba...Bill Walton should stick to commenting on basketball.<br /><br />Re: O'Toole. Those are not my remarks, incidentally. There is more than one person in the ULA. We include many diverse opinions and viewpoints. What we have in common is our determination to change the status quo-- the way of doing business in the lit world, which HAS failed, the case of O'Toole being a classic example. One can find exceptions to everything, but, overwhelmingly, those writers given backing and attention are from an elite, or have unique ways of accessing that elite. (J.T. Leroy in that instance being a case in point.)<br /><br />Bill Walton should know that basketball has ways of reaching out to the best players-- the best of whom notably do not play "by the book." If basketball were confined to mainly stiff Ivy Leaguers, the sport would never have broken as it did on the American consciousness.<br /><br />Shut-out writers can maintain their delusions, and write in obscurity-- or they can take their fate and their art into their own hands by working with the Underground Literary Alliance.King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096485439811140612004-09-29T12:17:00.000-07:002004-09-29T12:17:00.000-07:00Which side are you on? The shadyside of Waltons mo...Which side are you on? The shadyside of Waltons mountain? How's John Boy?<br />cheers<br />Jimmy the HyenaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1096480696077324882004-09-29T10:58:00.000-07:002004-09-29T10:58:00.000-07:00Mr. Wenclas cites the story of John Kennedy Toole ...Mr. Wenclas cites the story of John Kennedy Toole on the ULA Page. What he has left out is that Mr. Toole held a Masters from Columbia and taught College English. Mr. Wenclas must maintain his imaginary dichotomy between the underground and the elite. Mr. Toole should have had no problem in getting his masterpiece published because he was "stamped with approval" by the University.<br /><br /> The reality is that publishing is hard. There is not one side verses the other side. There are thousands of sides trying to get a few spots. There are hordes of writers with degrees who get nothing. There are writers like Jonathan Lethem(Published in the New Yorker) who have no degrees. This hurts his case.<br /><br />Bill WaltonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com