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Comment on Final sentence? by A. Peterson

A. Peterson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:19:15 +0000

Like it as a sentence. If you can live with pissing off Peter Singer with your blatant speciesism, I say go for it.

Comment on What Appears to Now Be a Series, Assembled by a Cheapskate: The Value(s) of Books, Part 2 by dave

dave — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:13:22 +0000

Right, good call. I’ve been thinking about products with similar market structures, if that’s what all this is, a market structure. Like, maybe the argument goes that the demand for books printed by uni presses is so low that the cost must be proportional to that low demand to compete with commercial presses’ high-demand books?

But if that’s the case (and I don’t think it is) what other markets out there overprice their products to compensate for a relatively lower number sold? I can think only of luxury items, like high-end luxury items, where one buys a brand name as much as a quality item.

Are uni presses trying to insist that theirs are luxury books?

Comment on What Appears to Now Be a Series, Assembled by a Cheapskate: The Value(s) of Books, Part 2 by Steve

Steve — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:52:20 +0000

And students to whom these books are not infrequently assigned.

Comment on Texas, Alabama by Clay

Clay — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:00:07 +0000

Sour corn.

Comment on Living the Dream? by Steve

Steve — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:40:44 +0000

I wish I had access to your (old) old blog post about watching wrestling at the laundromat.

Comment on Fall 2009 Photo Roundup by Julee

Julee — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:07:18 +0000

woot found camera!

Comment on “Learning from Movies in Rendering Fiction Characters” by dave

dave — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:55:40 +0000

Snarkily, I use it as evidence that they explain too much about their characters, and rely too much on dialogue. The counterargument: what more reveals character than voice? So when not giving us a way to talk about the differences between “showing” and “telling” this exercise betrays my semi-rational biases and distrust toward dialogue.

Comment on “Learning from Movies in Rendering Fiction Characters” by Steve

Steve — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:31:38 +0000

So but like, re: the exercise, What happens next? So many places to take it.

Comment on Charles Baxter, “Lush Life” craft lecture (Part 1) by ElenaP

ElenaP — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:51:46 +0000

I saw C-Bax read at Bread Loaf (tally=1!) and the “Lush Life” talk was one of the hits of the conf. I’m a little wary about the overall advice (or, rather, what folks might have taken away from it as the overall advice) but it was a really cool lecture (and double props for the Billy Strayhorn ref)

“Mister Scary” was a rad reading.

Comment on Pittsburgh Cuisine Revisited by dave

dave — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:43:45 +0000

Yeah, no way. Although Morningside’s faux hotdogs are pretty good. Just split them in half and fry them up.