tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post110632095646039319..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: Assessing the Demi-PuppetsKing Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1114777427036458872005-04-29T05:23:00.000-07:002005-04-29T05:23:00.000-07:00This is so boring. Frustrated artists make grand ...This is so boring. Frustrated artists make grand inquisitors. Joe McCarthy or Stalin might find this website illuminating, but the rest of us recognize it for what it is: the high-pitched whining of outsiders who desperately want to become the establishment. "If you can't join them, beat them (with a stick)." No amount of recycled marxist dogma can rescue this movement from its essential pettiness and mean-spirited third-grade bullying. No one's buying it, so you'll have to content yourselves with visions of real artists roasting on spits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1106639095915267752005-01-24T23:44:00.000-08:002005-01-24T23:44:00.000-08:00King: you must include links to these blogs/source...King: you must include links to these blogs/sources, where applicable, so we can all click on them and decide for ourselves. It's essential for a fair and kick-ass debate.<br /><br />If you need help learning how to do this, just email me.<br /><br />TimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1106444555191740122005-01-22T17:42:00.000-08:002005-01-22T17:42:00.000-08:00It's hilarious reading some of the lit-blogs' rema...It's hilarious reading some of the lit-blogs' remarks about this matter, which quickly devolve into angry personal attacks. (A few called me "asshole." That's original! Since this campaign began I've been called "asshole" 4,273 times by these articulate people.) Bleating sheep, really, is all it is. In all their "coverage" of this matter, I haven't seen one put up the nine examples of, well, plagiarisms I posted. Is this because it's impossible to view these without realizing plagiarism is exactly what it is? Rationalize and rationalize, but it's hard to rationalize away the actual words. (By the way, I did communicate with Bissell about this matter-- an exchange of quite a few e-mails this past summer. A simple admission somewhere that he screwed up-- even on the Atlantic thread where this matter was discussed-- would've ended the affair. But these people-- Moody for instance-- can never acknowledge any mistakes. I guess because they're so wonderful.)<br /><br />Hilarious to me also is the way the lit-blog crowd quickly conformed to GroupThink-- Galley Cat not the only one. This in itself has proved the message of our entire campaign-- the absolute rigid conformity of today's lit community. They're too packed within the sheep heard to realize this.King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1106407601030187272005-01-22T07:26:00.000-08:002005-01-22T07:26:00.000-08:00p.s. A couple final observations:
A common refrain...p.s. A couple final observations:<br />A common refrain heard in reaction to our noise about Bissell was "Nobody cares." Such an insular attitude which just about says it all about the lit crowd. Nobody cares! (Like our publishing fatcat friend, who doesn't know and doesn't WANT to know the attitude toward literature in the hinterlands. Just point him to the next Manhattan free lunch or cocktail party.)<br /><br />Second, all these questions about form and etiquette, which point up the bureaucratic mindset. I didn't wait the mandated "three day waiting period," and also posted comments about my own post. Not done! Submit the appplication in triplicate and after sitting in a file on a desk someplace for two months it'll be rejected again.King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1106371905399660692005-01-21T21:31:00.000-08:002005-01-21T21:31:00.000-08:00Karl,
I don't know if you know this, but "Journal...Karl,<br /><br />I don't know if you know this, but "Journalism" is actually ancient Greek for "the place where incompetent men and women fail upward." (Tom Bissell, Ruth Shalit, Stephen Glass, Andrew Sullivan, Jayson Blair, etc. etc. etc.)<br /><br />Fyi,<br /><br />TimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com