"omg that's so cute. his response is funny and tear-jerky." -The first commenter
I would have said that it was hopelessly corny and self involved. Not to burst your bubble, but I think only three of us read your blog, and less than one-third hang on every word.
Salty, you know what's even more self-involved? If you scroll down to the comment from "deeky" and then McEwan's response to it. The public mention, but not description of, a private joke, so that "deeky" can reinforce his special role as Person Who Hangs Out With The Queen In Real Life in front of all the commoners.
Ethan's working through his music collection in alphabetical order
The next five artists he'll be listening to:
The Clash The Clientele Jimmy Cliff Patsy Cline Clinic
(Project began May 29, 2010. Finished through the letter B on April 1, 2011 with 460 items catalogued on Rate Your Music.)
Ethan's reading
Samuel R. Delany Triton aka Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
Thoughts that aren't getting whole posts
- I just caught my cat licking one of my dirty shirts. When he saw I was watching, he pretended he'd been cleaning himself all along. -ethan 9/23/11
- I didn't know The Pixies covered "I've Been Waiting for You"! So on Heathen, David Bowie covered The Pixies AND a song they covered? Weird. -ethan 9/21/11
- Dangerous Visions is so goddamn macho. And like half the writers are military or "intelligence" or government or advertising dudes. It largely bites. -ethan 9/10/11
- I wish people would figure out that "HD" is not even close to "like you're actually there"--it's completely different from how we really see things. If they figured that out, maybe it would occasionally be used interestingly. -ethan 9/9/11
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars has its major problems, but it looks like a series of living Nicholas Roerich paintings. -ethan 9/3/11
- I just plain don't like Brian Aldiss. -ethan 8/31/11
- Here, at least, it was a good hurricane. I'm embarrassed by how happy I was when the electricity came back on. -ethan 8/28/11
- Is it my imagination or is IOZ way more open about genuinely caring about things since his return? -ethan 8/26/11
- Does Firefox constantly tell British people that they're spelling labour and programme and theatre wrong? -ethan 8/25/11
- There is a huge (and hugely important) difference between knowing that events a, b, and c happened between years x and y, and understanding that they were happening at the same time. -ethan 8/24/11
- Among the many things bugging me about the crappy novel I'm reading is that it keeps referring to a woman whose "late teens" were "forty years ago" as a "little old lady." Come on now, she's 59 at the oldest. -ethan 8/22/11
- Spending a day in the woods is the best thing in the world. -ethan 8/21/11
- Maria Mies: "Powerless groups, particularly if they are totally integrated within a system of power and exploitation, find it difficult to define reality differently from the powerful." -ethan 8/20/11
- The funniest sentence in Frankenstein: "I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition." -ethan 8/18/11
- Chumbawamba: "Nothing ever burned down by itself/Every fire needs a little bit of help." -ethan 8/18/11
- We'll see if I use this. Idea stolen from Davidly. -ethan 8/18/11
4 comments:
"omg that's so cute. his response is funny and tear-jerky."
-The first commenter
I would have said that it was hopelessly corny and self involved.
Not to burst your bubble, but I think only three of us read your blog, and less than one-third hang on every word.
three? lots of people read but don't comment. of this i. m. sure.
Of this I.M. Pei.
Salty, you know what's even more self-involved? If you scroll down to the comment from "deeky" and then McEwan's response to it. The public mention, but not description of, a private joke, so that "deeky" can reinforce his special role as Person Who Hangs Out With The Queen In Real Life in front of all the commoners.
Jonathan, nice to hear from you!
My highly valuable contribution:
Melissa McEwen and Matt Yglesias are twins separated at birth, and raised by different families.
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