Cool...although I'm thinking I might have to change my tag to "Cop Groupie" if I keep cultivating this reputation.
You all gonna be here when I wake up?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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erikaj - Jun 27, 2004 9:46:50 am PDT #5497 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Ginger - Jun 27, 2004 7:31:44 pm PDT #5498 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The New Yorker eviscerates Eats Shoots and Leaves and talks about the writer's voice.
(edited because I can spell)
Steph L. - Jun 28, 2004 6:41:07 am PDT #5499 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Man, I'm in the middle of that book right now, and I'm loving it! I want to marry it. I'm curious to see what has the New Yorker so up in arms.
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2004 6:44:24 am PDT #5500 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The article made my eyes glaze over -- I'm not sure it ever got past the raftload of punctuation errors they found in the book.
Steph L. - Jun 28, 2004 6:54:59 am PDT #5501 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Was the article supposed to make me recoil in horror from the book? As in "Oh, dear god! She misuses commas! Hypocrite! HYPOCRITE!"
Because I'm thinking that even Alton Brown fucks up a recipe once in a while.
And the second half of the article, about "voice," was pointless. If it was meant to be an oblique jab at the author of the book, it didn't work. Not once in the part about voice does the article's author even mention Eats, Shoots & Leaves. If that was deliberate, it didn't work. If it wasn't deliberate, it was sloppy and unnecessary.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jun 28, 2004 9:44:26 am PDT #5502 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I think I'd quite like to be able to agree with the New Yorker-- I too have read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves (with however many commas that should have in it-- either all or none, I disremember)-- and, while I do like to see good puncuation, felt she was carrying the whole thing a bit too far; good heavens, the woman's never ventured very far into the depths of the internet; she'd have had a fit and died the first time she read omg teh baturds liek eval!!!~11!! wtf?!?!, if what she says about her reaction to misuse is true-- but it's not a very good article, and I can't actually bring myself to defend it.
erikaj - Jun 28, 2004 10:00:39 am PDT #5503 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Of course crime junkie me sees it as eats, shoots, and leaves. Naturally.
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2004 10:02:12 am PDT #5504 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Of course crime junkie me sees it as eats, shoots, and leaves. Naturally.
You know, I feel it's creepier if he shoots, eats, and leaves.
erikaj - Jun 28, 2004 10:11:36 am PDT #5505 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Mobsters do it. Business is business, cannoli is cannoli.ETA: both Homeresque "Mmm, cannoli..." and insent, Deb.
Steph L. - Jun 28, 2004 4:05:53 pm PDT #5506 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
It's Monday, drabble-y peoples! You know what that means....
The silence challenge is now closed.
We're up to challenge #12, which is 3 months of weekly drabbles! And the writing people are posting is just getting better and better. I feel all spoiled, getting to read so much good writing.
Somehow, however, *I* am managing to be blocked on all these topics. I don't know if they're too broad, or what. So I'm going to go with a "scene" drabble again, and see if that knocks something loose in the writing lobe of my brain.
This week's challenge is to drabble on this scene: a person walks into a room that has shards of broken glass on the floor.
Drabble it. And I'm hoping *I* will, too.