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So, the Christopher Buckley’s of the world may be partially vindicated. Of course, they thought he would make the correct decisions because he was so fucking smart. Jules seems to suggest it’s more the lack of spine. Or ideas.
Of course, this one issue was a no brainer. Health care. Jobs. Taxes. 2.5 million government jobs? Heh.
Lots of good reading here, for those so inclined.
Kos:
“B-But, you promised!…”
O!:
“I sucked up to you guys for 2 years to get where I needed to be. Other people told you that you couldn’t bank on everything I said-don’t you recognize platitudes, Fool! Joey B. warned you guys that I may do something you wouldn’t like. But, you know, that’s change I can believe in…”
“Besides, you got you’re invitation to one of the inaugural balls; be happy with your table scraps…”
It will be entertaining to watch this play out for the next few years. How many Obama suppoters will be willing to fess up that HopeandChange was just a marketing ploy with no real meaning? Admit that it’s all just window dressing in pursuit of raw power and postions of priviledge?
I’m sure many have already made their peace with that, but how to draw them out and make their acquiesence public?
O/t: Che in Central Park.
Four women share how they create their unique literary lives. That’s super. I’m not giving my local dirty socialist bookstore my monies though and honestly bookstores are an anachronism already I think. We are propping up enough dinosaurs as it is and this whole deal is the same as those gay-assed torches and pitchforks against Wal-Mart peoples. We have a lot of those people here in Los Angeles. They can buy books wherever they like but I thought they were all about change?
“Chris Bowers of the influential OpenLeft.com blog complained:…”
Never heard of him, or his blog.
“Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos site, the in-house talking shop for the anti-war Left, warned that Democrats risk sounding “tone deaf†to the views of “the American electorate that voted in overwhelming numbers for change from the discredited Bush policies.â€Â
PResident Bush wins by 51% and it’s a tremendous loss.
O!bama winds by 52% and it’s a landslide, it’s “overwhelming numbers”.
What a bunch of clowns the reactionary left is.
I’m bummed on account of being unable to read Jules blog. My newer computer frazzled a couple of days ago, I’ve had to revert to an old Mac tower (circa 1998) while trying to fix it and some things just load empty pages (Jules, Vodkapundit, for instance). Could one of you all maybe clip and paste parts of the good bits? Just the gisty stuff would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
Jules says…
and then he links a telegraph article cause we don’t have a domestic press what can cover these sorts of things anymore.
jules also says…
And then this part is gisty…
The jules links another telegraph article cause we don’t have a domestic press what can cover these sorts of things anymore.
That’s the gist of it there.
Thanks a bunch hf, that helps very much.
Most shocking to Mr Obama’s team is the loss of discipline and control that they have experienced since coming to Washington.
This is exactly what I was referring to in the previous thread. It is real easy to have a big tent web of a thousand points of hopey changey lights when your team is on the outside throwing rocks at the castle wall. Once you win, and suddenly realize only one of you can sit on the throne shit gets a lot harder.
From that four lady book thing:
Look, it’s a tough business. You will not reap satisfaction in a $big$ deal, you will not discover contentment when you make the NYT’s bestseller list, the reviews will give you no solace. The true joy in the writer’s life is found in the writing. It is the only time you’ll feel whole. Write what you love, write your passion, and then you’ll know exactly where your work fits in relation to others.
No wonder so many literary types are socialists. Call me a capitalist pig, but I would think that there would be major satisfaction from a bit $$ deal.
I suppose these people would just be happiest if they wrote in their diary.
I saw FDR’s grandson Curtis on C-Spa this am saying that FDR read six newspapers every day. I then thought, oh jesus, I hope PE Obama doesn’t pick up that habit as it will take forever to clear his head of all the disinformation he’ll be coming away with and that can’t be too good for the country to have a president believing so much errant nonsense.
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One of my boss people here wrote a few scripts for a big tv show that was popular and is very a lot syndicated even now but what I never thought was particularly dazzling and he got lots of ching ching but was so upset with what they did to the script he never did it again. I never got that. It really tore him up though for real. He lives in a very nice house cause of it.
Writers who get paid (well) yet are tormenting because their writing isn’t true to their soul… you know, they can just go back to writing in that diary. That’s what you should get your boss-people.
He can write just for himself and finally have total satisfaction.
On the one hand I wish the anonymous “veteran[s] of the campaign” that made this statement could see that this is precisely how growing economies are supposed to work. On the other hand, I’d hope that this same anonymous “v.o.t.c.” would stop to think that while the Secretary of State may be appointed by the President, she ought to work for the good of the nation first, not the good of the person holding the Presidency. If she can accomplish both ends in the same act, so much the better, but if not, serve the nation first, let Pres Obama come second, please.
I see via Insty that Hillary has demanded a purge of all the people who said bad things about her during the campaign, and Baracky is obligingly throwing them under the bus.
He can write just for himself and finally have total satisfaction.
I do that. It is satisfying. But the problem Pres. Obama has is that he has to staff a government, and as Ric pointed out where is he going to find people who have the vaguest idea what a department does? The last administration.
With regard to Sen. Clinton, he could offer her SoS, or he could leave her in the Senate, where she could build up a clique that would have to be bought off before every vote. What to do, what to do.
He’s doing books what are for the children now I think. We’ve lost touch kind of.
There does exist a “writer” personality who can’t live without stringing words together, but for whom where the words go after that is immaterial, or almost so. That shades upwards to these females, who are desperate for validation — for somebody else to read their stuff and congratulate them for it. I’m a good critiquer and editor, and I’ve got two very minor published writers (and one who, unfortunately, died before the contract could be signed) to establish it. I don’t get along well at all with the upper sigmas of the validation seekers, who are looking for, as another editor put it, “…five pages of closely reasoned praise.” That bunch doesn’t meet my standards, for instance.
Regards,
Ric
I read a review of Stephanie Meyer’s book and they ripped her apart for this, that and the other thing. You know, in 100 years no one may remember her vampire books. But, today she’s getting paid.
Not everyone can write a book for the ages, so I would say you write what you can and you let the ages sort it out.
Myself? I’m just a reader. What do I know.
#22 Ric:
I am guessing that wasn’t an insult to those of us who get an inspiration/day dream and just write it down for fun?
#23 Carin:
My goal is to figure out when I die, and before that burn everything. The last ting I need is to have my nephews, after the funeral, going through things and saying, ‘Uncle Mike was really one weird guy, wasn’t he?’
“Comment by happyfeet on 11/23 @ 11:56 am #
One of my boss people here wrote a few scripts for a big tv show that was popular and is very a lot syndicated even now but what I never thought was particularly dazzling and he got lots of ching ching but was so upset with what they did to the script he never did it again. I never got that. It really tore him up though for real. He lives in a very nice house cause of it.”
Check this out, via wiki p:
Harlan Ellison….
“The Starlost
The screenplay for his projected television series The Starlost was also given a Writers Guild Award, though the actual series, produced in 1972-73, was so altered by the producers that Ellison had his name removed from the credits and replaced with the pseudonym “Cordwainer Bird”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Bird#Cordwainer_Bird
Harlan was/is a very creative guy. He wrote “A Boy and his Dog”
“To me the acme of prose style is exemplified by that simple, graceful clause: “Pay to the order of. . . .”‘
-Robert A. Heinlein
HA!!!! That’s funny!
As RuPaul famously sung (well, somewhat), “I just wanna get paid.”
Mikey, I don’t consider it an insult to anyone, simply a matter of observation.
I’m the last one who should be calling people out for issuing Deathless Prose :-)
Regards,
Ric
Oh, the Ellison thing: he wrote a slowboat story, a multi-generational trip to the stars. Generations into the trip, everyone has forgotten the purpose, the technology, the reason.
Basically a mystery where the protagonists have to find out what the hell is going on, with the denouement being the discovery of the ship’s bridge, and regaining control.
The producer had them find the bridge in episode 1.
N’O, you probably know that Heinlein came up with that idea first (but then, what SF idea didn’t he come up with first?).
I’d love to see a competent big-screen adaptation of Orphans of the Sky/Universe.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/23 @ 3:26 pm #
[air kisses]
Ooooo, mon ami!
Actually, I’d like to see a competent big-screen adaptation of anything by RAH.
I was going to comment on this. But Bob Reed has already said what I’d intended to.
Except for this: Team Netroots is now 1-for-20. And the One turns out to be the Messiah, alright…the Second Coming of Bill Clinton.
Won’t happen for a few years, if ever. The recent movie “City of Ember” has pretty much the same plot, but set in an underground shelter against some unspecified disaster.
I heard it was pretty good, but I’m a little saddened someone just didn’t make Orphans of the Sky.
One thing about feedback for writing is, I despise flattery. I don’t take it well and I refuse to shovel it onto others. The best feedback I’ve been getting on my current fiction-writing projects runs along the lines of, “Keep writing, I want to know what happens next.”
To which I silently reply, “Me too.”
And we find,
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Shipping little boys into slavery is such a well paying gig.
Wasn’t he commenting here a couple days ago
I am pretty sure that was someone pretending to me him, as evil as Craig is he is definitely smarter than that fool was.
*to be him*