Today is Grey Tuesday
So go here for information on DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album.
2004-02-24
Why I love TWOP
"Angel spins the chair around for a dramatic reveal. I imagine how he must have called everyone on the phone, and then jumped down from the desk and turned the chair around to face the wall, and pushed it real close so that when he was in the chair, he could kick the wall to spin the chair around. And I totally believe Angel would do all of that just for a dramatic reveal, too." -- Strega, on this week's Angel.
Reposting a personal classic
About once a year I get reminded to repost an MST3K that I wrote a number of years ago.
Some background, for the newer readers:
Like a number of you, I used to belong to a listserv called Tamson House, an online gathering place for Charles de Lint fans. In early 2001, we had a guy join who was the fluffiest fluffbunny I'd ever seen. All of his posts were unintelligible and pretentious wannabe goth fluffybunny garbage. I killfiled him soon, as did almost everyone else. Eventually, not getting any responses to his bizarre writings, he left in a huff.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong later pointed out his webpage, where he keeps his "fiction." It was more than unreadable. It was an affront to nature and good writing everywhere. I felt a need to MST3K one of the stories -- I picked the one at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/4975/Mushroom.html -- and made an attempt.
It was harder than I thought. Making one snarky comment is easy. Making dozens, maybe hundreds, of them is tough. Worse, I had to read that story at least four times all the way through. Without any humerous comments. It's not easy. Even worse, as an editor, my instinct was to fix Sindar's writing whenever possible, which kind of defeated the point. In the end, I made no changes to his work whatsoever.
Upon finishing it, 'song and the other folks I sent this to liked it a lot. And frankly, I'm pretty proud of it myself, as it was the first vaguely creative thing I did in years (even if it did involve ripping into another author's work). And there are moments that still make me giggle (yeah, I laugh at my own jokes. Someone has to).
Anyway, here it is:
http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/~alipkin/mushroom.htm
Enjoy!
(For some reason, the characters have some display problems on Netscape and Mozilla. Works fine on my Mac on Safari, and it used to work just fine on my IE browser on OS9)
Some background, for the newer readers:
Like a number of you, I used to belong to a listserv called Tamson House, an online gathering place for Charles de Lint fans. In early 2001, we had a guy join who was the fluffiest fluffbunny I'd ever seen. All of his posts were unintelligible and pretentious wannabe goth fluffybunny garbage. I killfiled him soon, as did almost everyone else. Eventually, not getting any responses to his bizarre writings, he left in a huff.
shadesong later pointed out his webpage, where he keeps his "fiction." It was more than unreadable. It was an affront to nature and good writing everywhere. I felt a need to MST3K one of the stories -- I picked the one at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/4975/Mushroom.html -- and made an attempt.It was harder than I thought. Making one snarky comment is easy. Making dozens, maybe hundreds, of them is tough. Worse, I had to read that story at least four times all the way through. Without any humerous comments. It's not easy. Even worse, as an editor, my instinct was to fix Sindar's writing whenever possible, which kind of defeated the point. In the end, I made no changes to his work whatsoever.
Upon finishing it, 'song and the other folks I sent this to liked it a lot. And frankly, I'm pretty proud of it myself, as it was the first vaguely creative thing I did in years (even if it did involve ripping into another author's work). And there are moments that still make me giggle (yeah, I laugh at my own jokes. Someone has to).
Anyway, here it is:
http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/~alipkin/mushroom.htm
Enjoy!
(For some reason, the characters have some display problems on Netscape and Mozilla. Works fine on my Mac on Safari, and it used to work just fine on my IE browser on OS9)
Bad idea
So, whitecrow0 mentioned The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. And the first thing I thought of is that someone needs to create The Unabridged Livejournals of Sylvia Plath.
In other news, happy Fat Tuesday. I'm celebrating it by being fat. Just wait to see me on Maundy Thursday, when I get all maundy.
Yeah, I know Maundy's a noun and not an adjective. Just run with the joke, okay?
Off to do more work.
whitecrow0 mentioned The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. And the first thing I thought of is that someone needs to create The Unabridged Livejournals of Sylvia Plath.In other news, happy Fat Tuesday. I'm celebrating it by being fat. Just wait to see me on Maundy Thursday, when I get all maundy.
Yeah, I know Maundy's a noun and not an adjective. Just run with the joke, okay?
Off to do more work.