The Pulitzer is a big BIG deal in the theatre
Did you notice that there wasn't one this year?
Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.
'Conviction (1)'
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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.
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."
JZ - Apr 27, 2006 12:07:23 pm PDT #388 of 28061
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I knew DK was fucked up, but damn.
Heh, and heh to the Jaws scar-showing imagery.
Though DK is still a distant second in my mind to Clive Barker. I've read one single Clive Barker book ever, a very very long and twisted thing I can barely remember anymore except for a vague impression of something like a cross between Gaiman's Neverwhere and the first King/Straub Huck Finn pastiche collaboration, only approximately 90 billion times more fucked up. It's the only book I've ever read that I finished and thought, "Whoever wrote that has got to have some major neurochemical disorder; there's just no way a normal human brain would not only think that up, but go there and stay there for upwards of 500 pages."
It did, however, serve the salutary purpose of making every Koontz and King book I've read since then seem kind of playful and kittenish by comparison.
Strix - Apr 27, 2006 12:23:55 pm PDT #389 of 28061
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The thing that bugs me about Koontz is his tendancy towards the Amazing Psychic Dog novels.
I like dogs. They can be wonderful pets. Dogs good. But we get that after 18 zillion books about supernatural psychic AmazoDogs.