tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post8396721214718878918..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: A Staff Against the Wolf of RealityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-45892234744746410232011-02-11T16:20:33.685-05:002011-02-11T16:20:33.685-05:00collage / college = one of my favoritest puns, BDR...collage / college = one of my favoritest puns, BDR. <br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-58158443364747364772011-02-11T15:29:13.932-05:002011-02-11T15:29:13.932-05:00Excellent on the Rafa Benitez dinner. I'll wo...Excellent on the Rafa Benitez dinner. I'll work on the left side, you work on the right.Sashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06501998212859335778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-34931037398306328052011-02-11T15:14:48.863-05:002011-02-11T15:14:48.863-05:00I'm surprised it took eleven comments for that...I'm surprised it took eleven comments for that considering how many typos I had to fix in the post on those two words.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-19142521086773361272011-02-11T15:03:36.426-05:002011-02-11T15:03:36.426-05:00Once I got my B.A. (in Econ, if anyone needs to kn...Once I got my B.A. (in Econ, if anyone needs to know), I was done with collage.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-3475299461042135322011-02-11T13:35:01.194-05:002011-02-11T13:35:01.194-05:00Yes to Egypt, but I'm the type of person who f...Yes to Egypt, but I'm the type of person who five minutes after United wins a trophy who'd stop celebrating and wonder is this *all* there is while simultaneously worrying how United is going to do it again.<br /><br />You and I are in complete agreement re: PhD. <br /><br />Rumor has it Rafa Benitez is almost done with Inter Sucktucky. Badger him into cooking us dinner.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-20550157264497081322011-02-11T13:26:57.136-05:002011-02-11T13:26:57.136-05:00Al Jazeera is amazing. The joy on faces, holding ...Al Jazeera is amazing. The joy on faces, holding their children on their shoulders so they can remember. Maybe I'm not rubish enough but it makes me very happy too.<br /><br />My advice -- completely unsolicited -- is what I say to everyone in every field. Only go to Ph.D. school because you love doing it. And when you stop loving it, stop going.<br /><br />That's from somebody considering another career change.Sashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06501998212859335778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-82241660103535272442011-02-11T13:15:25.871-05:002011-02-11T13:15:25.871-05:00You didn't misunderstand - I tend to think of ...You didn't misunderstand - I tend to think of novelists and poets in terms of their entire work or rather, their entire work as one system of work - the most obvious being Harington's Stay More novels. I can see the system, see how and why it's built, how it functions, I just can't build systems myself. I can (or could once) write about Pynchon, I just never could have written the novels.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-48474738529369201122011-02-11T13:02:18.634-05:002011-02-11T13:02:18.634-05:00Sounds like an interesting study, but not an inter...Sounds like an interesting study, but not an interesting category, if you get my drift. Writing is expressive, but reading it is doubly interpretive and subjective, because it involves the reader trying to grasp whatever the writer was suggesting, and the more "artistic" (circa 2011) something is, the more impossible to grasp its message... the obfuscatory nonsense is often impressive to career academics, for reasons I don't get. <br /><br />I don't know what making a "system" of it would do for me, if I were a student, but I suppose others have minds that organize differently and would want someone to explain a framework or system of fictional prose/poetry.<br /><br />And maybe I just misunderstood what the system-building referred to, and this is an Emily Littella moment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-26505676978791877802011-02-11T12:38:56.032-05:002011-02-11T12:38:56.032-05:00The PhD I could have pursued would have been in Cu...The PhD I could have pursued would have been in Cultural Studies with an emphasis on pomo fiction in general and American pomo fiction in particular. <br /><br />MFA programs - gah. I blame Raymond Carver for the billions of $$$ thrown away by rubes.<br /><br />GOB was teasing me (mostly) re: fiction v poetry, though certainly there are many (including in my heart of hearts me) who consider the ability to build a system in fiction a far more daunting task than building a system in poetry.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-46308157995844981632011-02-11T12:15:18.389-05:002011-02-11T12:15:18.389-05:00I don't get the blogger thing, either. It'...I don't get the blogger thing, either. It's why I comment the way I do. On the Blogger sites, if you have a google thingy it requires me to use my name, which I don't want to do, because I say any stupid thing that comes into my head and I really don't want to have to think. Anyway, it may be me, it may be blogger, whatever. Maybe it was because of the link.<br /><br />On the degree, if it is fun and cheap, maybe. When I turned 50 I realized I was running out of reading time and made 2 resolutions: 1. I wasn't going to finish anymore shitty books. 2, I was going to read mostly Nobel Literature winners. It works for me. and really, fuck l'l dan and Maryland's 2d best team.<br /><br />dripAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-91785686322848370482011-02-11T12:14:54.586-05:002011-02-11T12:14:54.586-05:00Personally, I don't see what gaining a PhD in ...Personally, I don't see what gaining a PhD in Poetry (or its relations) would gain you, other than the parchment and whatever social projection and ego-salving that may afford.<br /><br />And I hear you on the novels. I too used to feel an obligation to finish one that I opened, and with rare exception I followed that. Now, I almost can't be bothered. <br /><br />Auto-didacticism seems scorned in our meritocratic society, but to me it's more interesting, and makes for more interesting people with more interesting perspectives.<br /><br />Whereas the academic grind tends to confine, fetter, and blinker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-33789386420725550652011-02-11T11:52:41.201-05:002011-02-11T11:52:41.201-05:00@drip, heh.
I never got my masters and though we ...@drip, heh.<br /><br />I never got my masters and though we do have an MFA program here, I'd rather just write my garbage on my own. The thought of teaching is the thought of one of those hellish circular things. <br /><br />Is there really that much of a you suck/no, you suck between novelists and poets? My 'novelist' pal seems more in tune with that genre, but isn't dismissive of verse. Don't really know too many in the English dept. here, so my anecdote likely reveals nothing.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-34521952349544990012011-02-11T11:49:16.633-05:002011-02-11T11:49:16.633-05:00Thanks, drip, any chance to loathe Little Danny is...Thanks, drip, any chance to loathe Little Danny is a good chance to loathe Little Danny.<br /><br />I don't understand Blooger's comment. For whatever reason your comment was first weeded out as spam, and when I released it Blooger then said there were two posts when there was only one. Third time this has happened. Whatever.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-57293579873163680022011-02-11T09:50:54.011-05:002011-02-11T09:50:54.011-05:00I don't usually visit Deadspin but this is pr...I don't usually visit <a href="http://deadspin.com/#!5757444/dan-snyder-is-so-awful-people-will-pay-for-vanity-license-plates-to-insult-him" rel="nofollow"> Deadspin</a> but this is pretty funny.<br /><br />dripAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com