Friday, June 17, 2005

Phoniness Dept.

My main request is always that the puppets of the lit-world start behaving like real people. (That Galley Cat tell us, for instance, that she's not going to issue a correction to her false statements-- instead of continually promising Jeff Potter-- falsely-- that she will.)

These are people who have never discovered how NOT to be fake.

Case in point: Not so long ago, in her various "Gawker" and "Kicker" incarnations, Elizabeth Spiers was applauding the Will Ratblood-designed ULA t-shirt I sent her, or posting, "Wenclas?"-- inviting me to publicly comment about something she said. When she went to work for MediaBistro (she sure hops around climbing that ladder, doesn't she?) the political winds changed. Suddenly she was denouncing me from the MediaBistro pulpit for "barraging" her with mail (two zeens-- one of which she reviewed!-- and a t-shirt). One could say about her, "The completely mutable lit-world flunkie, as pliable as Gumby."

(They should put ads for such people on MediaBistro with just such statement, along with the additional note: "Order Yours Today!" What's that you say? They display those ads on their site-- every day? I'm sorry. My apologies.)

Judging by her photo on the MediaBistro site, I'd say Ms. Spiers is troubled. Note the worried expression, sign of someone who has to always be on the correct side. She's unsure what stand now to take. She's thinking, "Are we at war with Eurasia, or Eastasia, this week?"
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Look carefully at all the MediaBistro photos. Look very closely, and you'll see, scarcely visible but there, the marionette strings attached to every one of them, from Head Puppet Laurel Touby on down. Do you see them?

5 comments:

Tao Lin said...

i know you are, but what am i?

Anonymous said...

Where are you, King? Have you seen this new article on mobylives?

http://www.mobylives.com/anti_MFA.html

I sent Clementson a supportive email--I think. I mean, I sent it to Ig Publishing, but maybe that wasn't the correct thing to do.

Eh, already some are criticizing the article (too often with fallacious arguments, IMO). Oh well. What else is new?

Fran

King Wenclas said...

I've only scanned the article. (As I've found, this can be hazardous!-- but I have little time on-line.)
From what I can see, Clementson is saying things which writers like Jack Saunders and myself have been saying for many years.
Note how the lit-world is slowly but inevitably moving in our direction.

Tao Lin said...

i should join an MFA and then when i get there be all satirical and self-conscious and try to parody everything in the middle of workshop

who will fill out an application for me?

i feel so useless because of laziness

Jeff Potter said...

Yeah, those Demi-Puppets are something.

Galley is not only stringing me along, she's slamming herself at the same time. So very weird.

Here's from a recent email: "Being disorganized and slow is very, very different from being disingenuous. ... I'll post a correction in my own time."

Hello? If you can't do it right, why do you have a blog, Galley? Don't post a correction if you're going to do it late. Duh, it's nothing then. Just say "Screw you. I'm an idiot and I don't care." Post stupid slander about people if you're just going to be a simple moron---foot-dragging only makes it worse.

I mean, Galley and Ed Rants both thought that because King and Hotpockets' blogs had the same IP that they were the same people! THAT was their insider news scoop! Ed Rants could've seen that HE had the same IP, too! --Everyone with a blogger.com blog does! Doh!

So Galley declares that we're spoofing ourselves for cheap PR. I prove her hilariously wrong. She says she'll apologize. Then doesn't. Clever!

Kids: we don't do cheap PR. We do great PR! The kind that money can't buy! Our PR doesn't spoof potty-talk. What's nothing! Where's your judgement Galley and Ed Rants? Our PR exposes Dave Eggers as a hilariously inept slanderer on Amazon and gets on the cover of the NYT! And we don't even TRY to get it. See the difference?