tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post110908522709851832..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: The Blandsters Part II: The Elitist MindsetKing Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1109216856076999462005-02-23T19:47:00.000-08:002005-02-23T19:47:00.000-08:00the previous post was by noah cicerothe previous post was by noah ciceroAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1109216300679189662005-02-23T19:38:00.000-08:002005-02-23T19:38:00.000-08:00I forgot to write "even Danta."
I meet people al...I forgot to write "even Danta."<br /> I meet people all the time that have read the Inferno and loved it. I want to add a little more. <br /> There's this character in that Proust book "Jean Senteuil" that was like an engineer or business owner, can't remember. The guy loved Balzac, he didn't know shit about any other author, but he loved Balzac and knew Balzac like the back of his hand. I've found that many times amongst non-writers who don't know or care about the "literary world" at all. They will have read every Dickens or Hemingway book ever written and not give a shit about the literary world or really any other writers. My grandmother a useless republican benny addict was a Pearl S. Buck expert. How many teenage girls are Plath experts and how many teenage boys kerouac experts and will never become writers. And I've been in several people's houses and seen shelves with every Thompson book on it. <br /> The fact is people like to read, but they aren't book junkies, they aren't going to search the internet for books to read. They wanna walk into the store, browse and found a book, go home, read it before Law and Order comes on, at their lunch break, while they are shitting, in their bedroom while their in-laws are over. That is how real people read books. They don't sit around and figure out their weak and strong points, they don't get a dictionary out to find out what a certain word means, they don't care about alliteration. People like character developement, characters they can relate too, plots where things actually happen, sex, drugs, booze, fast cars, big cocks, nice asses, tattoos, concrete language that conveys an image, comedy, and a vernacular they speak in.<br /> The MFAers do nothing of that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1109139301826125962005-02-22T22:15:00.000-08:002005-02-22T22:15:00.000-08:00Here's a nice Winter time-out, from our trip to Pu...Here's a nice Winter time-out, from our trip to Puerto Rico that has some ULA publicity photos:<br /><br /><A HREF="http://homepage.mac.com/tdh2004/PhotoAlbum5.html" REL="nofollow">Undie Press in Vieques, PR</A>Enjoy!<br /><br />Tim HallAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1109138708014276032005-02-22T22:05:00.000-08:002005-02-22T22:05:00.000-08:00Here's a nice Winter time-out, from our trip to Pu...Here's a nice Winter time-out, from our trip to Puerto Rico that has some ULA publicity photos:<br /><br /><A HREF="http://homepage.mac.com/tdh2004/PhotoAlbum5.html" REL="nofollow">Undie Press in Vieques, PR</A>Enjoy!<br /><br />Tim HallAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1109099775350168712005-02-22T11:16:00.000-08:002005-02-22T11:16:00.000-08:00I just had to post when I read the "cafe society" ...I just had to post when I read the "cafe society" comment. I had to listen to a New Yorker say that about L.A. this weekend. What was interesting was that it was said automatically. As if the comment were in fashion or something. I'm not a big fan of L.A., but nonetheless, if someone wants to find a decent cafe here they can. They just have to have some curiosity about the place in which they live.Unfortunately, snobbery is a great demotivator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com