No...Bill Hicks thought people in marketing should kill themselves and that they were also sucking the devil's dick. Really, Hecubus. Get your facts straight. And how much do I love profaning a discussion about literature by saying "sucking the devil's dick." Enough to stay out of grad school, that's how much.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Apr 22, 2006 9:16:59 pm PDT #378 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Scrappy - Apr 22, 2006 9:17:28 pm PDT #379 of 28061
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The Pulitzer is like the Caldecott--if you know what it is, it can influence your consuming. If I am looking at a nonfiction book and see it has won the Pulitzer, I am more inclined to give it a go than another book on the same subject.
The Pulitzer is a big BIG deal in the theatre--plays that win usually get produced at regional theaters all over the country and they use the prize as a selling point.
aurelia - Apr 22, 2006 9:30:37 pm PDT #380 of 28061
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
The Pulitzer is a big BIG deal in the theatre
Did you notice that there wasn't one this year?
Gus - Apr 22, 2006 9:55:27 pm PDT #381 of 28061
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
This is all about mediation. Who gives a rusty frimp if the Pulitzer people were watching a play this season?
People who are selling the play. That's who. If the Pulitzer Committee had said that such-and-such a blogger always has her ducks in a stack about theatre and she digs such-and-such show the most, said blogger could make the play.
That is how it really happens, now. Print reviews are entirely after the fact. Ditto breaking-news in print/broadcast. When you release a movie, you pound the refresh key on "Ain't It Cool". What The Times said a week ago machs nix.
meara - Apr 22, 2006 10:10:13 pm PDT #382 of 28061
Pulitzer in newspaper would be v. different from a blog, if only becuase even these days when most newspapers have most of their stuff online, if I see "oh, the Portland Gazette got a Pulitzer for their series on meth!" I'm unlikely to go read it. If I see "Congratulations to bobsblog.com, for the Pulitzer post on underwear (read it here!)", I'd go read it, and then if I liked it, possibly become a regular reader.
Gus - Apr 22, 2006 10:18:30 pm PDT #383 of 28061
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
If meara's link didn't go to a 404, her argument would be utterly compelling.
Other than this, I agree with meara.
meara - Apr 22, 2006 10:21:00 pm PDT #384 of 28061
If it weren't 3AM, I might not have made up a fake link.
Or I might've anyway. I make no promises.
aurelia - Apr 22, 2006 10:47:31 pm PDT #385 of 28061
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I know a theatre that needs a kick in the capital campaign. Wanna blog about it?
Gus - Apr 22, 2006 11:09:38 pm PDT #386 of 28061
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I would. Not that the Pulitizer Commitee would notice. If it was the P-Award-Winning GusBlog, though, you might have to offer sexual favors.
Not that that is a bad idea.
Aims - Apr 27, 2006 11:02:21 am PDT #387 of 28061
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm reading Dean Kontz's "False Memory".
I will never read another haiku ever ever ever.
I knew DK was fucked up, but damn.
It's like he and Anne Rice and Stephen King sit around comparing fucked up-ness like those guys in Jaws comparing scars.
"I can totally beat that! In MY book, blah blah blah SO FUCKED UP blah ablah blah supernatural blah."