This is true. Thanks, Deb. And thanks to Betsy, who spotted the market for me. I had to dump a lot of stuff I really cared about, but I got to keep the expletives. Fuck, yes.
Well, look at you. All dressed up in big sister's clothes.
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erikaj - Dec 31, 2004 8:04:48 am PST #8967 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Amy - Dec 31, 2004 8:06:51 am PST #8968 of 10001
Because books.
erika, that piece absolutely rocked. You covered so much, and with so much honesty -- I loved it. Go you! An you should definitely make a Press announcement, or at least something in Beep Me.
t /my two cents
erikaj - Dec 31, 2004 8:14:47 am PST #8969 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I believe very firmly in the right to mock my pain before anyone else gets to. It's a thing, AmyLiz. Thanks for the compliments. I might put up an announcement. Might as well. I've already admitted that Crush Guy was right about it being publishable and stuff after I said "Not in a Million years." Yep, I've got my fingers on all the pulses.
Karl - Dec 31, 2004 9:40:32 am PST #8970 of 10001
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Oh, Erika. Laughing and crying, indeed. Yes, yes, this should be announced far and wide.
And I want all the parts you had to dump. Because this is amazing, and I want more.
WildDemon Cornelius - Dec 31, 2004 9:48:11 am PST #8971 of 10001
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Ah, Harold Bloom. You know, I actually really enjoyed the guy's books on Shakespeare and some of his stuff in the Modern Critical Views series, I just wish he didn't feel this ridiculous urge to run around blathering against anything he didn't like, i.e. Harry Potter, Stephen King's National Book Award (which led to a rant in which he attacked everything he doesn't like in no particular order, including apparently every female writer ever), and apparently Slam Poetry. Is he aware that he looks like a hateful snob with nothing better to do than whine at the rest of us from his Ivory Tower?
He does own a stuffed wombat that belonged to Dante Gabriel Rossetti though, so I can't quite hate him.
erikaj - Dec 31, 2004 10:03:41 am PST #8972 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
You got it, Karl, babe...insent momentarily, bunky.ETA, I read "Closing of American Mind" for school...what a dick.
deborah grabien - Dec 31, 2004 10:18:06 am PST #8973 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
WDC, I don't even do conversations about crit anymore, and luckily, we're stopped doing them in here - they're mostly in Literary and probably in the Book Club thread, although I don't know about that one.
Zenkitty - Dec 31, 2004 10:48:39 am PST #8974 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
erika, wonderful essay. I want to see the parts you dumped, too.
erikaj - Dec 31, 2004 10:58:50 am PST #8975 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Heartrending decisions, all of them. It's long, or I would post...I'll send though. This prose was tighter(which, ok, good thing) but in some cases I think some of the angles got lost, and I like the angles.Like Simon likes gritty, urban, carrots. I can't believe they thought I made myself too cool in that version. I was totally the butt. A man has to throw up so he can't sleep with me. Yep, all about the glamour. Whatever.
Zenkitty - Dec 31, 2004 11:16:02 am PST #8976 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I thought you were cool...
Carrots are gritty? Now I'm picturing Bugs Bunny as Sam Spade.