Now, I think I understand why people think I’m arrogant.
And I’m not sure I care that much about it.
I’ll try to be kinder and gentler. Operative word being “try.”
In general, I think I’m a pretty good guy. I’m sorry if, on occasion, I am more direct than tactful.
I spend a lot of my life being tactful. Keeping my mouth shut. Trying to figure out how to say things in ways that make a difference without harming.
I care too much for this art we are in to lie about how I feel. Sometimes, my passion for the art leads me to hurtful talk, more bite than blow.
I am sorry for that; but who will say these things? Who is saying them? Who is saying them that anyone is listening to?
Performance poetry needs, far more than theory or better distribution structures, the courage to look mediocrity in the eye and say that regardless of the scores, mediocrity is mediocrity.
I keep finding ways to shoot myself in the foot on this one. I keep finding ways to blunder through thickets of thorns.
I care too much to be careful.
I am sick unto death with where we are. IWPS was a lovely day of relative health; I don’t see that it matters much in the long run.
I care too much.
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EDIT: Fuck it. I’m not a coward. You want to comment, comment.
Dark Matter 
February 25th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
I think people tour & feature too soon on one hand, but on another, it’s good to throw yourself into different environments where the home crew isn’t patting you on the back or you’re not getting the encouragement you’re used to getting.There’s also a tradition of the travelling writer as well as the band model at play (performer writer-wise).
I feel like part of the issue is that the only way folks get constructive feedback is if they seek it out themselves….
February 25th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
I think people tour & feature too soon on one hand, but on another, it’s good to throw yourself into different environments where the home crew isn’t patting you on the back or you’re not getting the encouragement you’re used to getting.There’s also a tradition of the travelling writer as well as the band model at play (performer writer-wise).
I feel like part of the issue is that the only way folks get constructive feedback is if they seek it out themselves….
February 25th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
I think people tour & feature too soon on one hand, but on another, it’s good to throw yourself into different environments where the home crew isn’t patting you on the back or you’re not getting the encouragement you’re used to getting.There’s also a tradition of the travelling writer as well as the band model at play (performer writer-wise).
I feel like part of the issue is that the only way folks get constructive feedback is if they seek it out themselves….
February 25th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
I think people tour & feature too soon on one hand, but on another, it’s good to throw yourself into different environments where the home crew isn’t patting you on the back or you’re not getting the encouragement you’re used to getting.There’s also a tradition of the travelling writer as well as the band model at play (performer writer-wise).
I feel like part of the issue is that the only way folks get constructive feedback is if they seek it out themselves….
February 25th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
I think people tour & feature too soon on one hand, but on another, it’s good to throw yourself into different environments where the home crew isn’t patting you on the back or you’re not getting the encouragement you’re used to getting.There’s also a tradition of the travelling writer as well as the band model at play (performer writer-wise).
I feel like part of the issue is that the only way folks get constructive feedback is if they seek it out themselves….
February 25th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
I think people tour & feature too soon on one hand, but on another, it’s good to throw yourself into different environments where the home crew isn’t patting you on the back or you’re not getting the encouragement you’re used to getting.There’s also a tradition of the travelling writer as well as the band model at play (performer writer-wise).
I feel like part of the issue is that the only way folks get constructive feedback is if they seek it out themselves….
February 25th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
I think people tour & feature too soon on one hand, but on another, it’s good to throw yourself into different environments where the home crew isn’t patting you on the back or you’re not getting the encouragement you’re used to getting.There’s also a tradition of the travelling writer as well as the band model at play (performer writer-wise).
I feel like part of the issue is that the only way folks get constructive feedback is if they seek it out themselves….
February 25th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
I think you’re right about that.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
I think you’re right about that.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
I think you’re right about that.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
I think you’re right about that.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
I think you’re right about that.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
I think you’re right about that.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
I think you’re right about that.
February 25th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
I don’t HAVE to chime in here, but I have to chime in here. It’s okay if you don’t want to respond and you’ve moved on:
Taste is, in many instances, a tool. Conversely, taste may or may not come into the equation of opinion development.
Tony suggesting that, FOR HIM, the work didn’t require the use of his taste tools to formulate an opinion of, is not suggesting that your use of taste tools is invalid…just that it never became a matter of taste for him.
EXAMPLE:
Saul William’s new record.
I think Saul is very talented.
I think this new record sucks.
It is questionably arranged, lacks focus and contains way too much singing for someone who can’t sing under ANY rubric of the talent gauge.
It’s not that the record doesn’t match my tastes.
It’s that the work hasn’t graduated beyond what qualifies for me as minimal requirements of even moderately good work to be considered by my sense of taste.
Shutting up now.
February 25th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
I don’t HAVE to chime in here, but I have to chime in here. It’s okay if you don’t want to respond and you’ve moved on:
Taste is, in many instances, a tool. Conversely, taste may or may not come into the equation of opinion development.
Tony suggesting that, FOR HIM, the work didn’t require the use of his taste tools to formulate an opinion of, is not suggesting that your use of taste tools is invalid…just that it never became a matter of taste for him.
EXAMPLE:
Saul William’s new record.
I think Saul is very talented.
I think this new record sucks.
It is questionably arranged, lacks focus and contains way too much singing for someone who can’t sing under ANY rubric of the talent gauge.
It’s not that the record doesn’t match my tastes.
It’s that the work hasn’t graduated beyond what qualifies for me as minimal requirements of even moderately good work to be considered by my sense of taste.
Shutting up now.
February 25th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
I don’t HAVE to chime in here, but I have to chime in here. It’s okay if you don’t want to respond and you’ve moved on:
Taste is, in many instances, a tool. Conversely, taste may or may not come into the equation of opinion development.
Tony suggesting that, FOR HIM, the work didn’t require the use of his taste tools to formulate an opinion of, is not suggesting that your use of taste tools is invalid…just that it never became a matter of taste for him.
EXAMPLE:
Saul William’s new record.
I think Saul is very talented.
I think this new record sucks.
It is questionably arranged, lacks focus and contains way too much singing for someone who can’t sing under ANY rubric of the talent gauge.
It’s not that the record doesn’t match my tastes.
It’s that the work hasn’t graduated beyond what qualifies for me as minimal requirements of even moderately good work to be considered by my sense of taste.
Shutting up now.
February 25th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
I don’t HAVE to chime in here, but I have to chime in here. It’s okay if you don’t want to respond and you’ve moved on:
Taste is, in many instances, a tool. Conversely, taste may or may not come into the equation of opinion development.
Tony suggesting that, FOR HIM, the work didn’t require the use of his taste tools to formulate an opinion of, is not suggesting that your use of taste tools is invalid…just that it never became a matter of taste for him.
EXAMPLE:
Saul William’s new record.
I think Saul is very talented.
I think this new record sucks.
It is questionably arranged, lacks focus and contains way too much singing for someone who can’t sing under ANY rubric of the talent gauge.
It’s not that the record doesn’t match my tastes.
It’s that the work hasn’t graduated beyond what qualifies for me as minimal requirements of even moderately good work to be considered by my sense of taste.
Shutting up now.
February 25th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
I don’t HAVE to chime in here, but I have to chime in here. It’s okay if you don’t want to respond and you’ve moved on:
Taste is, in many instances, a tool. Conversely, taste may or may not come into the equation of opinion development.
Tony suggesting that, FOR HIM, the work didn’t require the use of his taste tools to formulate an opinion of, is not suggesting that your use of taste tools is invalid…just that it never became a matter of taste for him.
EXAMPLE:
Saul William’s new record.
I think Saul is very talented.
I think this new record sucks.
It is questionably arranged, lacks focus and contains way too much singing for someone who can’t sing under ANY rubric of the talent gauge.
It’s not that the record doesn’t match my tastes.
It’s that the work hasn’t graduated beyond what qualifies for me as minimal requirements of even moderately good work to be considered by my sense of taste.
Shutting up now.
February 25th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
I don’t HAVE to chime in here, but I have to chime in here. It’s okay if you don’t want to respond and you’ve moved on:
Taste is, in many instances, a tool. Conversely, taste may or may not come into the equation of opinion development.
Tony suggesting that, FOR HIM, the work didn’t require the use of his taste tools to formulate an opinion of, is not suggesting that your use of taste tools is invalid…just that it never became a matter of taste for him.
EXAMPLE:
Saul William’s new record.
I think Saul is very talented.
I think this new record sucks.
It is questionably arranged, lacks focus and contains way too much singing for someone who can’t sing under ANY rubric of the talent gauge.
It’s not that the record doesn’t match my tastes.
It’s that the work hasn’t graduated beyond what qualifies for me as minimal requirements of even moderately good work to be considered by my sense of taste.
Shutting up now.
February 25th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
I don’t HAVE to chime in here, but I have to chime in here. It’s okay if you don’t want to respond and you’ve moved on:
Taste is, in many instances, a tool. Conversely, taste may or may not come into the equation of opinion development.
Tony suggesting that, FOR HIM, the work didn’t require the use of his taste tools to formulate an opinion of, is not suggesting that your use of taste tools is invalid…just that it never became a matter of taste for him.
EXAMPLE:
Saul William’s new record.
I think Saul is very talented.
I think this new record sucks.
It is questionably arranged, lacks focus and contains way too much singing for someone who can’t sing under ANY rubric of the talent gauge.
It’s not that the record doesn’t match my tastes.
It’s that the work hasn’t graduated beyond what qualifies for me as minimal requirements of even moderately good work to be considered by my sense of taste.
Shutting up now.
February 25th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
I was in the back of the theater wit Tony! What does that make ME??!!!
(‘Cause I ain’t old.)
February 25th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
I was in the back of the theater wit Tony! What does that make ME??!!!
(‘Cause I ain’t old.)
February 25th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
I was in the back of the theater wit Tony! What does that make ME??!!!
(‘Cause I ain’t old.)
February 25th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
I was in the back of the theater wit Tony! What does that make ME??!!!
(‘Cause I ain’t old.)
February 25th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
I was in the back of the theater wit Tony! What does that make ME??!!!
(‘Cause I ain’t old.)
February 25th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
I was in the back of the theater wit Tony! What does that make ME??!!!
(‘Cause I ain’t old.)
February 25th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
I was in the back of the theater wit Tony! What does that make ME??!!!
(‘Cause I ain’t old.)
February 25th, 2005 at 9:54 am
I don’t comment enough Tony, but I always enjoy reading your views and find them fascinating and a breath of fresh air.
February 25th, 2005 at 9:54 am
I don’t comment enough Tony, but I always enjoy reading your views and find them fascinating and a breath of fresh air.
February 25th, 2005 at 9:54 am
I don’t comment enough Tony, but I always enjoy reading your views and find them fascinating and a breath of fresh air.
February 25th, 2005 at 9:54 am
I don’t comment enough Tony, but I always enjoy reading your views and find them fascinating and a breath of fresh air.
February 25th, 2005 at 9:54 am
I don’t comment enough Tony, but I always enjoy reading your views and find them fascinating and a breath of fresh air.
February 25th, 2005 at 9:54 am
I don’t comment enough Tony, but I always enjoy reading your views and find them fascinating and a breath of fresh air.
February 25th, 2005 at 9:54 am
I don’t comment enough Tony, but I always enjoy reading your views and find them fascinating and a breath of fresh air.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:07 am
Wish I could.
Youn really need to get out of there — but then, you knew that. It sounds horrible.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:07 am
Wish I could.
Youn really need to get out of there — but then, you knew that. It sounds horrible.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:07 am
Wish I could.
Youn really need to get out of there — but then, you knew that. It sounds horrible.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:07 am
Wish I could.
Youn really need to get out of there — but then, you knew that. It sounds horrible.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:07 am
Wish I could.
Youn really need to get out of there — but then, you knew that. It sounds horrible.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:07 am
Wish I could.
Youn really need to get out of there — but then, you knew that. It sounds horrible.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:07 am
Wish I could.
Youn really need to get out of there — but then, you knew that. It sounds horrible.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:06 am
Dude, I am so calling in sick tomorrow.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:06 am
Dude, I am so calling in sick tomorrow.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:06 am
Dude, I am so calling in sick tomorrow.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:06 am
Dude, I am so calling in sick tomorrow.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:06 am
Dude, I am so calling in sick tomorrow.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:06 am
Dude, I am so calling in sick tomorrow.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:06 am
Dude, I am so calling in sick tomorrow.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:04 am
OK.
Looks like we’re both a bit overwrought, eh?
I hate fighting with friends.
I’m sorry, Dawn.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:04 am
OK.
Looks like we’re both a bit overwrought, eh?
I hate fighting with friends.
I’m sorry, Dawn.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:04 am
OK.
Looks like we’re both a bit overwrought, eh?
I hate fighting with friends.
I’m sorry, Dawn.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:04 am
OK.
Looks like we’re both a bit overwrought, eh?
I hate fighting with friends.
I’m sorry, Dawn.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:04 am
OK.
Looks like we’re both a bit overwrought, eh?
I hate fighting with friends.
I’m sorry, Dawn.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:04 am
OK.
Looks like we’re both a bit overwrought, eh?
I hate fighting with friends.
I’m sorry, Dawn.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:04 am
OK.
Looks like we’re both a bit overwrought, eh?
I hate fighting with friends.
I’m sorry, Dawn.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:03 am
I’m sorry that were called bitter by someone who doesn’t know you well. I don’t think you sound bitter.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:03 am
I’m sorry that were called bitter by someone who doesn’t know you well. I don’t think you sound bitter.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:03 am
I’m sorry that were called bitter by someone who doesn’t know you well. I don’t think you sound bitter.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:03 am
I’m sorry that were called bitter by someone who doesn’t know you well. I don’t think you sound bitter.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:03 am
I’m sorry that were called bitter by someone who doesn’t know you well. I don’t think you sound bitter.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:03 am
I’m sorry that were called bitter by someone who doesn’t know you well. I don’t think you sound bitter.
February 25th, 2005 at 6:03 am
I’m sorry that were called bitter by someone who doesn’t know you well. I don’t think you sound bitter.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:59 am
You’re missing the context of the comment.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:59 am
You’re missing the context of the comment.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:59 am
You’re missing the context of the comment.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:59 am
You’re missing the context of the comment.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:59 am
You’re missing the context of the comment.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:59 am
You’re missing the context of the comment.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:59 am
You’re missing the context of the comment.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:58 am
No, that’s not what I mean. What do you have to be bitter about?
You’re more well known than he is.
You’re more widely published.
You’ve performed poetry in more venues.
You have more friends.
What bitter? Instead what I see is more *jaded*, which is a different beast entirely, and one you have admitted to harboring on occasion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:58 am
No, that’s not what I mean. What do you have to be bitter about?
You’re more well known than he is.
You’re more widely published.
You’ve performed poetry in more venues.
You have more friends.
What bitter? Instead what I see is more *jaded*, which is a different beast entirely, and one you have admitted to harboring on occasion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:58 am
No, that’s not what I mean. What do you have to be bitter about?
You’re more well known than he is.
You’re more widely published.
You’ve performed poetry in more venues.
You have more friends.
What bitter? Instead what I see is more *jaded*, which is a different beast entirely, and one you have admitted to harboring on occasion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:58 am
No, that’s not what I mean. What do you have to be bitter about?
You’re more well known than he is.
You’re more widely published.
You’ve performed poetry in more venues.
You have more friends.
What bitter? Instead what I see is more *jaded*, which is a different beast entirely, and one you have admitted to harboring on occasion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:58 am
No, that’s not what I mean. What do you have to be bitter about?
You’re more well known than he is.
You’re more widely published.
You’ve performed poetry in more venues.
You have more friends.
What bitter? Instead what I see is more *jaded*, which is a different beast entirely, and one you have admitted to harboring on occasion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:58 am
No, that’s not what I mean. What do you have to be bitter about?
You’re more well known than he is.
You’re more widely published.
You’ve performed poetry in more venues.
You have more friends.
What bitter? Instead what I see is more *jaded*, which is a different beast entirely, and one you have admitted to harboring on occasion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:58 am
No, that’s not what I mean. What do you have to be bitter about?
You’re more well known than he is.
You’re more widely published.
You’ve performed poetry in more venues.
You have more friends.
What bitter? Instead what I see is more *jaded*, which is a different beast entirely, and one you have admitted to harboring on occasion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:42 am
i’m there, too. i love our slam, and i go down there and engage in various ways, but i’m not going to be trying for any teams in the foreseeable future and what i do isn’t what’s especially valued AND i’m not hungry for it like people who haven’t done it yet AND it doesn’t get me where i want to be in terms of my real career.
the game part of slam that exists in a season’s arc like a sports season and is all about nats, that’s just not for me, and maybe never will be again (though i do harbor a jack mccarthy vision of maybe really jumping back in, say fifteen or twenty years down the road).
so, the part of me that loves slam and loves to perform, what do i do with that guy? dunno. it’s a blank page. i’m not complaining, as much as saying i get it, this uncertainty and frustration. given who i am now, what’s my place in this particular party?
February 25th, 2005 at 5:42 am
i’m there, too. i love our slam, and i go down there and engage in various ways, but i’m not going to be trying for any teams in the foreseeable future and what i do isn’t what’s especially valued AND i’m not hungry for it like people who haven’t done it yet AND it doesn’t get me where i want to be in terms of my real career.
the game part of slam that exists in a season’s arc like a sports season and is all about nats, that’s just not for me, and maybe never will be again (though i do harbor a jack mccarthy vision of maybe really jumping back in, say fifteen or twenty years down the road).
so, the part of me that loves slam and loves to perform, what do i do with that guy? dunno. it’s a blank page. i’m not complaining, as much as saying i get it, this uncertainty and frustration. given who i am now, what’s my place in this particular party?
February 25th, 2005 at 5:42 am
i’m there, too. i love our slam, and i go down there and engage in various ways, but i’m not going to be trying for any teams in the foreseeable future and what i do isn’t what’s especially valued AND i’m not hungry for it like people who haven’t done it yet AND it doesn’t get me where i want to be in terms of my real career.
the game part of slam that exists in a season’s arc like a sports season and is all about nats, that’s just not for me, and maybe never will be again (though i do harbor a jack mccarthy vision of maybe really jumping back in, say fifteen or twenty years down the road).
so, the part of me that loves slam and loves to perform, what do i do with that guy? dunno. it’s a blank page. i’m not complaining, as much as saying i get it, this uncertainty and frustration. given who i am now, what’s my place in this particular party?
February 25th, 2005 at 5:42 am
i’m there, too. i love our slam, and i go down there and engage in various ways, but i’m not going to be trying for any teams in the foreseeable future and what i do isn’t what’s especially valued AND i’m not hungry for it like people who haven’t done it yet AND it doesn’t get me where i want to be in terms of my real career.
the game part of slam that exists in a season’s arc like a sports season and is all about nats, that’s just not for me, and maybe never will be again (though i do harbor a jack mccarthy vision of maybe really jumping back in, say fifteen or twenty years down the road).
so, the part of me that loves slam and loves to perform, what do i do with that guy? dunno. it’s a blank page. i’m not complaining, as much as saying i get it, this uncertainty and frustration. given who i am now, what’s my place in this particular party?
February 25th, 2005 at 5:42 am
i’m there, too. i love our slam, and i go down there and engage in various ways, but i’m not going to be trying for any teams in the foreseeable future and what i do isn’t what’s especially valued AND i’m not hungry for it like people who haven’t done it yet AND it doesn’t get me where i want to be in terms of my real career.
the game part of slam that exists in a season’s arc like a sports season and is all about nats, that’s just not for me, and maybe never will be again (though i do harbor a jack mccarthy vision of maybe really jumping back in, say fifteen or twenty years down the road).
so, the part of me that loves slam and loves to perform, what do i do with that guy? dunno. it’s a blank page. i’m not complaining, as much as saying i get it, this uncertainty and frustration. given who i am now, what’s my place in this particular party?
February 25th, 2005 at 5:42 am
i’m there, too. i love our slam, and i go down there and engage in various ways, but i’m not going to be trying for any teams in the foreseeable future and what i do isn’t what’s especially valued AND i’m not hungry for it like people who haven’t done it yet AND it doesn’t get me where i want to be in terms of my real career.
the game part of slam that exists in a season’s arc like a sports season and is all about nats, that’s just not for me, and maybe never will be again (though i do harbor a jack mccarthy vision of maybe really jumping back in, say fifteen or twenty years down the road).
so, the part of me that loves slam and loves to perform, what do i do with that guy? dunno. it’s a blank page. i’m not complaining, as much as saying i get it, this uncertainty and frustration. given who i am now, what’s my place in this particular party?
February 25th, 2005 at 5:42 am
i’m there, too. i love our slam, and i go down there and engage in various ways, but i’m not going to be trying for any teams in the foreseeable future and what i do isn’t what’s especially valued AND i’m not hungry for it like people who haven’t done it yet AND it doesn’t get me where i want to be in terms of my real career.
the game part of slam that exists in a season’s arc like a sports season and is all about nats, that’s just not for me, and maybe never will be again (though i do harbor a jack mccarthy vision of maybe really jumping back in, say fifteen or twenty years down the road).
so, the part of me that loves slam and loves to perform, what do i do with that guy? dunno. it’s a blank page. i’m not complaining, as much as saying i get it, this uncertainty and frustration. given who i am now, what’s my place in this particular party?
February 25th, 2005 at 5:31 am
i know where you are coming from on this one.
i’ve been wondering what the “next step” is too & frankly, i don’t think it has been built… yet.
what i do know is that there are quite a few of us out there right now & that we will either find that next step or we’ll build it ourselves.
we should give sean a call, he can build us a ramp for the step.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:31 am
i know where you are coming from on this one.
i’ve been wondering what the “next step” is too & frankly, i don’t think it has been built… yet.
what i do know is that there are quite a few of us out there right now & that we will either find that next step or we’ll build it ourselves.
we should give sean a call, he can build us a ramp for the step.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:31 am
i know where you are coming from on this one.
i’ve been wondering what the “next step” is too & frankly, i don’t think it has been built… yet.
what i do know is that there are quite a few of us out there right now & that we will either find that next step or we’ll build it ourselves.
we should give sean a call, he can build us a ramp for the step.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:31 am
i know where you are coming from on this one.
i’ve been wondering what the “next step” is too & frankly, i don’t think it has been built… yet.
what i do know is that there are quite a few of us out there right now & that we will either find that next step or we’ll build it ourselves.
we should give sean a call, he can build us a ramp for the step.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:31 am
i know where you are coming from on this one.
i’ve been wondering what the “next step” is too & frankly, i don’t think it has been built… yet.
what i do know is that there are quite a few of us out there right now & that we will either find that next step or we’ll build it ourselves.
we should give sean a call, he can build us a ramp for the step.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:31 am
i know where you are coming from on this one.
i’ve been wondering what the “next step” is too & frankly, i don’t think it has been built… yet.
what i do know is that there are quite a few of us out there right now & that we will either find that next step or we’ll build it ourselves.
we should give sean a call, he can build us a ramp for the step.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:31 am
i know where you are coming from on this one.
i’ve been wondering what the “next step” is too & frankly, i don’t think it has been built… yet.
what i do know is that there are quite a few of us out there right now & that we will either find that next step or we’ll build it ourselves.
we should give sean a call, he can build us a ramp for the step.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:22 am
I know, Bill.
But I’m 45, and I’m outgrowing this scene, and the next piece isn’t clear to me.
I’m lonely, and I’m worried.
So it stung. More than just a little.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:22 am
I know, Bill.
But I’m 45, and I’m outgrowing this scene, and the next piece isn’t clear to me.
I’m lonely, and I’m worried.
So it stung. More than just a little.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:22 am
I know, Bill.
But I’m 45, and I’m outgrowing this scene, and the next piece isn’t clear to me.
I’m lonely, and I’m worried.
So it stung. More than just a little.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:22 am
I know, Bill.
But I’m 45, and I’m outgrowing this scene, and the next piece isn’t clear to me.
I’m lonely, and I’m worried.
So it stung. More than just a little.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:22 am
I know, Bill.
But I’m 45, and I’m outgrowing this scene, and the next piece isn’t clear to me.
I’m lonely, and I’m worried.
So it stung. More than just a little.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:22 am
I know, Bill.
But I’m 45, and I’m outgrowing this scene, and the next piece isn’t clear to me.
I’m lonely, and I’m worried.
So it stung. More than just a little.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:22 am
I know, Bill.
But I’m 45, and I’m outgrowing this scene, and the next piece isn’t clear to me.
I’m lonely, and I’m worried.
So it stung. More than just a little.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:20 am
you have more respect in the slam scene than most poets i know.
what do they consider “making it” anyway? getting on DefJam? winning the NPS? turning your poetry fame into a gig for Burger King?
i’ll take a thumbs up from you over 10s from the judges any day.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:20 am
you have more respect in the slam scene than most poets i know.
what do they consider “making it” anyway? getting on DefJam? winning the NPS? turning your poetry fame into a gig for Burger King?
i’ll take a thumbs up from you over 10s from the judges any day.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:20 am
you have more respect in the slam scene than most poets i know.
what do they consider “making it” anyway? getting on DefJam? winning the NPS? turning your poetry fame into a gig for Burger King?
i’ll take a thumbs up from you over 10s from the judges any day.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:20 am
you have more respect in the slam scene than most poets i know.
what do they consider “making it” anyway? getting on DefJam? winning the NPS? turning your poetry fame into a gig for Burger King?
i’ll take a thumbs up from you over 10s from the judges any day.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:20 am
you have more respect in the slam scene than most poets i know.
what do they consider “making it” anyway? getting on DefJam? winning the NPS? turning your poetry fame into a gig for Burger King?
i’ll take a thumbs up from you over 10s from the judges any day.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:20 am
you have more respect in the slam scene than most poets i know.
what do they consider “making it” anyway? getting on DefJam? winning the NPS? turning your poetry fame into a gig for Burger King?
i’ll take a thumbs up from you over 10s from the judges any day.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:20 am
you have more respect in the slam scene than most poets i know.
what do they consider “making it” anyway? getting on DefJam? winning the NPS? turning your poetry fame into a gig for Burger King?
i’ll take a thumbs up from you over 10s from the judges any day.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:14 am
Well, I was called bitter today. And it pissed me off, bacuse the person who said it included it as a reference to me never having made it in slam. And frankly, that stung a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:14 am
Well, I was called bitter today. And it pissed me off, bacuse the person who said it included it as a reference to me never having made it in slam. And frankly, that stung a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:14 am
Well, I was called bitter today. And it pissed me off, bacuse the person who said it included it as a reference to me never having made it in slam. And frankly, that stung a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:14 am
Well, I was called bitter today. And it pissed me off, bacuse the person who said it included it as a reference to me never having made it in slam. And frankly, that stung a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:14 am
Well, I was called bitter today. And it pissed me off, bacuse the person who said it included it as a reference to me never having made it in slam. And frankly, that stung a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:14 am
Well, I was called bitter today. And it pissed me off, bacuse the person who said it included it as a reference to me never having made it in slam. And frankly, that stung a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:14 am
Well, I was called bitter today. And it pissed me off, bacuse the person who said it included it as a reference to me never having made it in slam. And frankly, that stung a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:11 am
now tony, you know how this works…
you get to be crotchety
i get to be bitter.
(or is it the other way?)
February 25th, 2005 at 5:11 am
now tony, you know how this works…
you get to be crotchety
i get to be bitter.
(or is it the other way?)
February 25th, 2005 at 5:11 am
now tony, you know how this works…
you get to be crotchety
i get to be bitter.
(or is it the other way?)
February 25th, 2005 at 5:11 am
now tony, you know how this works…
you get to be crotchety
i get to be bitter.
(or is it the other way?)
February 25th, 2005 at 5:11 am
now tony, you know how this works…
you get to be crotchety
i get to be bitter.
(or is it the other way?)
February 25th, 2005 at 5:11 am
now tony, you know how this works…
you get to be crotchety
i get to be bitter.
(or is it the other way?)
February 25th, 2005 at 5:11 am
now tony, you know how this works…
you get to be crotchety
i get to be bitter.
(or is it the other way?)
February 25th, 2005 at 5:07 am
I think people tour too soon, get features too soon, and in general get too much approval too soon without enough constructive feedback,
but that’s merely my opinion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:07 am
I think people tour too soon, get features too soon, and in general get too much approval too soon without enough constructive feedback,
but that’s merely my opinion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:07 am
I think people tour too soon, get features too soon, and in general get too much approval too soon without enough constructive feedback,
but that’s merely my opinion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:07 am
I think people tour too soon, get features too soon, and in general get too much approval too soon without enough constructive feedback,
but that’s merely my opinion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:07 am
I think people tour too soon, get features too soon, and in general get too much approval too soon without enough constructive feedback,
but that’s merely my opinion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:07 am
I think people tour too soon, get features too soon, and in general get too much approval too soon without enough constructive feedback,
but that’s merely my opinion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:07 am
I think people tour too soon, get features too soon, and in general get too much approval too soon without enough constructive feedback,
but that’s merely my opinion.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:01 am
I’m curious Tony– how do you think young talent is dealt with in the slam community?
On my best days, I know that I have writing capabilities as yet untapped. On my worst, I just hope that’s the case. I know that at the Art House, there was a seemingly subtle glass ceiling– because a former somebody didn’t want to be outdone. Looking back, I can only manage to see mediocrity in his work, and a raging discontent that required all who followed said person remain plateued at said mediocrity. I constantly wonder where my writing would be if things had been different. I don’t feel pushed, (except by one wonderful lady, who knows who she is) I feel patted on the head.
I don’t actually know what a ‘Grandmaster’ slammer is, but I know there was a man who claimed the title with little proof of qualification, and it was clear that no one else could touch it. I have felt that my work at times was viewed as “Good, for his age.” Or “Good, despite the gay stuff.” I was an Angry Gay Man, and recently have been told that I’ve Calmed Down so my writing is So Much Better. Despite the fact that it’s the same stuff, poems that use the correct pronoun, I just don’t read the gay rights poems anymore.
I think I’ve gotten off the subject I created.
Mediocrity is mediocrity. But I don’t care to be mediocre, regardless of my age.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:01 am
I’m curious Tony– how do you think young talent is dealt with in the slam community?
On my best days, I know that I have writing capabilities as yet untapped. On my worst, I just hope that’s the case. I know that at the Art House, there was a seemingly subtle glass ceiling– because a former somebody didn’t want to be outdone. Looking back, I can only manage to see mediocrity in his work, and a raging discontent that required all who followed said person remain plateued at said mediocrity. I constantly wonder where my writing would be if things had been different. I don’t feel pushed, (except by one wonderful lady, who knows who she is) I feel patted on the head.
I don’t actually know what a ‘Grandmaster’ slammer is, but I know there was a man who claimed the title with little proof of qualification, and it was clear that no one else could touch it. I have felt that my work at times was viewed as “Good, for his age.” Or “Good, despite the gay stuff.” I was an Angry Gay Man, and recently have been told that I’ve Calmed Down so my writing is So Much Better. Despite the fact that it’s the same stuff, poems that use the correct pronoun, I just don’t read the gay rights poems anymore.
I think I’ve gotten off the subject I created.
Mediocrity is mediocrity. But I don’t care to be mediocre, regardless of my age.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:01 am
I’m curious Tony– how do you think young talent is dealt with in the slam community?
On my best days, I know that I have writing capabilities as yet untapped. On my worst, I just hope that’s the case. I know that at the Art House, there was a seemingly subtle glass ceiling– because a former somebody didn’t want to be outdone. Looking back, I can only manage to see mediocrity in his work, and a raging discontent that required all who followed said person remain plateued at said mediocrity. I constantly wonder where my writing would be if things had been different. I don’t feel pushed, (except by one wonderful lady, who knows who she is) I feel patted on the head.
I don’t actually know what a ‘Grandmaster’ slammer is, but I know there was a man who claimed the title with little proof of qualification, and it was clear that no one else could touch it. I have felt that my work at times was viewed as “Good, for his age.” Or “Good, despite the gay stuff.” I was an Angry Gay Man, and recently have been told that I’ve Calmed Down so my writing is So Much Better. Despite the fact that it’s the same stuff, poems that use the correct pronoun, I just don’t read the gay rights poems anymore.
I think I’ve gotten off the subject I created.
Mediocrity is mediocrity. But I don’t care to be mediocre, regardless of my age.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:01 am
I’m curious Tony– how do you think young talent is dealt with in the slam community?
On my best days, I know that I have writing capabilities as yet untapped. On my worst, I just hope that’s the case. I know that at the Art House, there was a seemingly subtle glass ceiling– because a former somebody didn’t want to be outdone. Looking back, I can only manage to see mediocrity in his work, and a raging discontent that required all who followed said person remain plateued at said mediocrity. I constantly wonder where my writing would be if things had been different. I don’t feel pushed, (except by one wonderful lady, who knows who she is) I feel patted on the head.
I don’t actually know what a ‘Grandmaster’ slammer is, but I know there was a man who claimed the title with little proof of qualification, and it was clear that no one else could touch it. I have felt that my work at times was viewed as “Good, for his age.” Or “Good, despite the gay stuff.” I was an Angry Gay Man, and recently have been told that I’ve Calmed Down so my writing is So Much Better. Despite the fact that it’s the same stuff, poems that use the correct pronoun, I just don’t read the gay rights poems anymore.
I think I’ve gotten off the subject I created.
Mediocrity is mediocrity. But I don’t care to be mediocre, regardless of my age.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:01 am
I’m curious Tony– how do you think young talent is dealt with in the slam community?
On my best days, I know that I have writing capabilities as yet untapped. On my worst, I just hope that’s the case. I know that at the Art House, there was a seemingly subtle glass ceiling– because a former somebody didn’t want to be outdone. Looking back, I can only manage to see mediocrity in his work, and a raging discontent that required all who followed said person remain plateued at said mediocrity. I constantly wonder where my writing would be if things had been different. I don’t feel pushed, (except by one wonderful lady, who knows who she is) I feel patted on the head.
I don’t actually know what a ‘Grandmaster’ slammer is, but I know there was a man who claimed the title with little proof of qualification, and it was clear that no one else could touch it. I have felt that my work at times was viewed as “Good, for his age.” Or “Good, despite the gay stuff.” I was an Angry Gay Man, and recently have been told that I’ve Calmed Down so my writing is So Much Better. Despite the fact that it’s the same stuff, poems that use the correct pronoun, I just don’t read the gay rights poems anymore.
I think I’ve gotten off the subject I created.
Mediocrity is mediocrity. But I don’t care to be mediocre, regardless of my age.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:01 am
I’m curious Tony– how do you think young talent is dealt with in the slam community?
On my best days, I know that I have writing capabilities as yet untapped. On my worst, I just hope that’s the case. I know that at the Art House, there was a seemingly subtle glass ceiling– because a former somebody didn’t want to be outdone. Looking back, I can only manage to see mediocrity in his work, and a raging discontent that required all who followed said person remain plateued at said mediocrity. I constantly wonder where my writing would be if things had been different. I don’t feel pushed, (except by one wonderful lady, who knows who she is) I feel patted on the head.
I don’t actually know what a ‘Grandmaster’ slammer is, but I know there was a man who claimed the title with little proof of qualification, and it was clear that no one else could touch it. I have felt that my work at times was viewed as “Good, for his age.” Or “Good, despite the gay stuff.” I was an Angry Gay Man, and recently have been told that I’ve Calmed Down so my writing is So Much Better. Despite the fact that it’s the same stuff, poems that use the correct pronoun, I just don’t read the gay rights poems anymore.
I think I’ve gotten off the subject I created.
Mediocrity is mediocrity. But I don’t care to be mediocre, regardless of my age.
February 25th, 2005 at 5:01 am
I’m curious Tony– how do you think young talent is dealt with in the slam community?
On my best days, I know that I have writing capabilities as yet untapped. On my worst, I just hope that’s the case. I know that at the Art House, there was a seemingly subtle glass ceiling– because a former somebody didn’t want to be outdone. Looking back, I can only manage to see mediocrity in his work, and a raging discontent that required all who followed said person remain plateued at said mediocrity. I constantly wonder where my writing would be if things had been different. I don’t feel pushed, (except by one wonderful lady, who knows who she is) I feel patted on the head.
I don’t actually know what a ‘Grandmaster’ slammer is, but I know there was a man who claimed the title with little proof of qualification, and it was clear that no one else could touch it. I have felt that my work at times was viewed as “Good, for his age.” Or “Good, despite the gay stuff.” I was an Angry Gay Man, and recently have been told that I’ve Calmed Down so my writing is So Much Better. Despite the fact that it’s the same stuff, poems that use the correct pronoun, I just don’t read the gay rights poems anymore.
I think I’ve gotten off the subject I created.
Mediocrity is mediocrity. But I don’t care to be mediocre, regardless of my age.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:55 am
Thank you for the respect, Dawn. I feel the same.
I’m deeply angry at a lot of stuff tonight, not just you. I think everything’s bleeding over.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:55 am
Thank you for the respect, Dawn. I feel the same.
I’m deeply angry at a lot of stuff tonight, not just you. I think everything’s bleeding over.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:55 am
Thank you for the respect, Dawn. I feel the same.
I’m deeply angry at a lot of stuff tonight, not just you. I think everything’s bleeding over.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:55 am
Thank you for the respect, Dawn. I feel the same.
I’m deeply angry at a lot of stuff tonight, not just you. I think everything’s bleeding over.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:55 am
Thank you for the respect, Dawn. I feel the same.
I’m deeply angry at a lot of stuff tonight, not just you. I think everything’s bleeding over.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:55 am
Thank you for the respect, Dawn. I feel the same.
I’m deeply angry at a lot of stuff tonight, not just you. I think everything’s bleeding over.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:55 am
Thank you for the respect, Dawn. I feel the same.
I’m deeply angry at a lot of stuff tonight, not just you. I think everything’s bleeding over.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:54 am
Don’t you mean the crotchety, bitter old guy at the back of the theater? The one who doesn’t appreciate young talent? The one who never got his due?
I heard this from someone earlier, too. Prejudice cuts a lot of ways.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:54 am
Don’t you mean the crotchety, bitter old guy at the back of the theater? The one who doesn’t appreciate young talent? The one who never got his due?
I heard this from someone earlier, too. Prejudice cuts a lot of ways.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:54 am
Don’t you mean the crotchety, bitter old guy at the back of the theater? The one who doesn’t appreciate young talent? The one who never got his due?
I heard this from someone earlier, too. Prejudice cuts a lot of ways.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:54 am
Don’t you mean the crotchety, bitter old guy at the back of the theater? The one who doesn’t appreciate young talent? The one who never got his due?
I heard this from someone earlier, too. Prejudice cuts a lot of ways.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:54 am
Don’t you mean the crotchety, bitter old guy at the back of the theater? The one who doesn’t appreciate young talent? The one who never got his due?
I heard this from someone earlier, too. Prejudice cuts a lot of ways.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:54 am
Don’t you mean the crotchety, bitter old guy at the back of the theater? The one who doesn’t appreciate young talent? The one who never got his due?
I heard this from someone earlier, too. Prejudice cuts a lot of ways.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:54 am
Don’t you mean the crotchety, bitter old guy at the back of the theater? The one who doesn’t appreciate young talent? The one who never got his due?
I heard this from someone earlier, too. Prejudice cuts a lot of ways.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:49 am
Let me add:
I respect you and your opinions. I think you put a lot of thought into both performance poetry as an art, and the greater world of poetry. I know you don’t mean to be the crotchedy old guy at the back of the theater, or if you mean to be him, you are doing it for what you see as the good of the artform.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:49 am
Let me add:
I respect you and your opinions. I think you put a lot of thought into both performance poetry as an art, and the greater world of poetry. I know you don’t mean to be the crotchedy old guy at the back of the theater, or if you mean to be him, you are doing it for what you see as the good of the artform.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:49 am
Let me add:
I respect you and your opinions. I think you put a lot of thought into both performance poetry as an art, and the greater world of poetry. I know you don’t mean to be the crotchedy old guy at the back of the theater, or if you mean to be him, you are doing it for what you see as the good of the artform.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:49 am
Let me add:
I respect you and your opinions. I think you put a lot of thought into both performance poetry as an art, and the greater world of poetry. I know you don’t mean to be the crotchedy old guy at the back of the theater, or if you mean to be him, you are doing it for what you see as the good of the artform.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:49 am
Let me add:
I respect you and your opinions. I think you put a lot of thought into both performance poetry as an art, and the greater world of poetry. I know you don’t mean to be the crotchedy old guy at the back of the theater, or if you mean to be him, you are doing it for what you see as the good of the artform.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:49 am
Let me add:
I respect you and your opinions. I think you put a lot of thought into both performance poetry as an art, and the greater world of poetry. I know you don’t mean to be the crotchedy old guy at the back of the theater, or if you mean to be him, you are doing it for what you see as the good of the artform.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:49 am
Let me add:
I respect you and your opinions. I think you put a lot of thought into both performance poetry as an art, and the greater world of poetry. I know you don’t mean to be the crotchedy old guy at the back of the theater, or if you mean to be him, you are doing it for what you see as the good of the artform.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:46 am
OK, then. No more. We’ll not speak for a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:46 am
OK, then. No more. We’ll not speak for a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:46 am
OK, then. No more. We’ll not speak for a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:46 am
OK, then. No more. We’ll not speak for a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:46 am
OK, then. No more. We’ll not speak for a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:46 am
OK, then. No more. We’ll not speak for a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:46 am
OK, then. No more. We’ll not speak for a bit.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:44 am
I think it’s where I am right now that makes it difficult for me to engage with you on this sort of thing.
I think you have the right to your opinion. I think, also, when you write things like “not liking Ansel’s work was, for me, not a matter of taste,” you are saying that my opinions are not worthwhile. You are saying: it’s not a matter of taste. Therefore, it must be the objective universe’s opinion that either my taste is bad, or my critical abilities are horrendously flawed. I have heard enough of this kind of thing this week.
You can feel free to engage me on the topic of what is worthwhile & what is not when the time & place are correct. Instead, this happens: a night I enjoyed thoroughly turns into an afternoon/evening of me second guessing what I like & why I like it. That bothers me a lot, and I’m still wrestling with an apology tendered versus a lashing out.
Today I don’t want to be polite. Today, I want to say: fine, you think what you want to think, but *I* liked it and you don’t have the right to convince me I shouldn’t have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:44 am
I think it’s where I am right now that makes it difficult for me to engage with you on this sort of thing.
I think you have the right to your opinion. I think, also, when you write things like “not liking Ansel’s work was, for me, not a matter of taste,” you are saying that my opinions are not worthwhile. You are saying: it’s not a matter of taste. Therefore, it must be the objective universe’s opinion that either my taste is bad, or my critical abilities are horrendously flawed. I have heard enough of this kind of thing this week.
You can feel free to engage me on the topic of what is worthwhile & what is not when the time & place are correct. Instead, this happens: a night I enjoyed thoroughly turns into an afternoon/evening of me second guessing what I like & why I like it. That bothers me a lot, and I’m still wrestling with an apology tendered versus a lashing out.
Today I don’t want to be polite. Today, I want to say: fine, you think what you want to think, but *I* liked it and you don’t have the right to convince me I shouldn’t have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:44 am
I think it’s where I am right now that makes it difficult for me to engage with you on this sort of thing.
I think you have the right to your opinion. I think, also, when you write things like “not liking Ansel’s work was, for me, not a matter of taste,” you are saying that my opinions are not worthwhile. You are saying: it’s not a matter of taste. Therefore, it must be the objective universe’s opinion that either my taste is bad, or my critical abilities are horrendously flawed. I have heard enough of this kind of thing this week.
You can feel free to engage me on the topic of what is worthwhile & what is not when the time & place are correct. Instead, this happens: a night I enjoyed thoroughly turns into an afternoon/evening of me second guessing what I like & why I like it. That bothers me a lot, and I’m still wrestling with an apology tendered versus a lashing out.
Today I don’t want to be polite. Today, I want to say: fine, you think what you want to think, but *I* liked it and you don’t have the right to convince me I shouldn’t have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:44 am
I think it’s where I am right now that makes it difficult for me to engage with you on this sort of thing.
I think you have the right to your opinion. I think, also, when you write things like “not liking Ansel’s work was, for me, not a matter of taste,” you are saying that my opinions are not worthwhile. You are saying: it’s not a matter of taste. Therefore, it must be the objective universe’s opinion that either my taste is bad, or my critical abilities are horrendously flawed. I have heard enough of this kind of thing this week.
You can feel free to engage me on the topic of what is worthwhile & what is not when the time & place are correct. Instead, this happens: a night I enjoyed thoroughly turns into an afternoon/evening of me second guessing what I like & why I like it. That bothers me a lot, and I’m still wrestling with an apology tendered versus a lashing out.
Today I don’t want to be polite. Today, I want to say: fine, you think what you want to think, but *I* liked it and you don’t have the right to convince me I shouldn’t have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:44 am
I think it’s where I am right now that makes it difficult for me to engage with you on this sort of thing.
I think you have the right to your opinion. I think, also, when you write things like “not liking Ansel’s work was, for me, not a matter of taste,” you are saying that my opinions are not worthwhile. You are saying: it’s not a matter of taste. Therefore, it must be the objective universe’s opinion that either my taste is bad, or my critical abilities are horrendously flawed. I have heard enough of this kind of thing this week.
You can feel free to engage me on the topic of what is worthwhile & what is not when the time & place are correct. Instead, this happens: a night I enjoyed thoroughly turns into an afternoon/evening of me second guessing what I like & why I like it. That bothers me a lot, and I’m still wrestling with an apology tendered versus a lashing out.
Today I don’t want to be polite. Today, I want to say: fine, you think what you want to think, but *I* liked it and you don’t have the right to convince me I shouldn’t have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:44 am
I think it’s where I am right now that makes it difficult for me to engage with you on this sort of thing.
I think you have the right to your opinion. I think, also, when you write things like “not liking Ansel’s work was, for me, not a matter of taste,” you are saying that my opinions are not worthwhile. You are saying: it’s not a matter of taste. Therefore, it must be the objective universe’s opinion that either my taste is bad, or my critical abilities are horrendously flawed. I have heard enough of this kind of thing this week.
You can feel free to engage me on the topic of what is worthwhile & what is not when the time & place are correct. Instead, this happens: a night I enjoyed thoroughly turns into an afternoon/evening of me second guessing what I like & why I like it. That bothers me a lot, and I’m still wrestling with an apology tendered versus a lashing out.
Today I don’t want to be polite. Today, I want to say: fine, you think what you want to think, but *I* liked it and you don’t have the right to convince me I shouldn’t have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:44 am
I think it’s where I am right now that makes it difficult for me to engage with you on this sort of thing.
I think you have the right to your opinion. I think, also, when you write things like “not liking Ansel’s work was, for me, not a matter of taste,” you are saying that my opinions are not worthwhile. You are saying: it’s not a matter of taste. Therefore, it must be the objective universe’s opinion that either my taste is bad, or my critical abilities are horrendously flawed. I have heard enough of this kind of thing this week.
You can feel free to engage me on the topic of what is worthwhile & what is not when the time & place are correct. Instead, this happens: a night I enjoyed thoroughly turns into an afternoon/evening of me second guessing what I like & why I like it. That bothers me a lot, and I’m still wrestling with an apology tendered versus a lashing out.
Today I don’t want to be polite. Today, I want to say: fine, you think what you want to think, but *I* liked it and you don’t have the right to convince me I shouldn’t have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:41 am
This is your house.
I appreciate your voice.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:41 am
This is your house.
I appreciate your voice.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:41 am
This is your house.
I appreciate your voice.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:41 am
This is your house.
I appreciate your voice.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:41 am
This is your house.
I appreciate your voice.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:41 am
This is your house.
I appreciate your voice.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:41 am
This is your house.
I appreciate your voice.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:38 am
And I didn’t say it before, so I will say it now:
I am sorry that you’re dealing wiht this. you’re strong and outspoken, and cna imagine it must be torture to deal with.
I can’t know that, and I am sorry if I fed it.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:38 am
And I didn’t say it before, so I will say it now:
I am sorry that you’re dealing wiht this. you’re strong and outspoken, and cna imagine it must be torture to deal with.
I can’t know that, and I am sorry if I fed it.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:38 am
And I didn’t say it before, so I will say it now:
I am sorry that you’re dealing wiht this. you’re strong and outspoken, and cna imagine it must be torture to deal with.
I can’t know that, and I am sorry if I fed it.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:38 am
And I didn’t say it before, so I will say it now:
I am sorry that you’re dealing wiht this. you’re strong and outspoken, and cna imagine it must be torture to deal with.
I can’t know that, and I am sorry if I fed it.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:38 am
And I didn’t say it before, so I will say it now:
I am sorry that you’re dealing wiht this. you’re strong and outspoken, and cna imagine it must be torture to deal with.
I can’t know that, and I am sorry if I fed it.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:38 am
And I didn’t say it before, so I will say it now:
I am sorry that you’re dealing wiht this. you’re strong and outspoken, and cna imagine it must be torture to deal with.
I can’t know that, and I am sorry if I fed it.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:38 am
And I didn’t say it before, so I will say it now:
I am sorry that you’re dealing wiht this. you’re strong and outspoken, and cna imagine it must be torture to deal with.
I can’t know that, and I am sorry if I fed it.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:32 am
All that’s terrible, and it shouldn’t happen. I made a similar point about the way women were treated in my post regarding the Genres We Hate post.
I have a different perspective from you on Ansel’s work, and on how we deal with young talent in the slam community.
How does my expressing that undermine your critical or intellectual faculties?
Jesus Christ, you’re one of the smartest people I know. We differ, that’s all. That’s all.
You needn’t worry about it happening again.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:32 am
All that’s terrible, and it shouldn’t happen. I made a similar point about the way women were treated in my post regarding the Genres We Hate post.
I have a different perspective from you on Ansel’s work, and on how we deal with young talent in the slam community.
How does my expressing that undermine your critical or intellectual faculties?
Jesus Christ, you’re one of the smartest people I know. We differ, that’s all. That’s all.
You needn’t worry about it happening again.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:32 am
All that’s terrible, and it shouldn’t happen. I made a similar point about the way women were treated in my post regarding the Genres We Hate post.
I have a different perspective from you on Ansel’s work, and on how we deal with young talent in the slam community.
How does my expressing that undermine your critical or intellectual faculties?
Jesus Christ, you’re one of the smartest people I know. We differ, that’s all. That’s all.
You needn’t worry about it happening again.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:32 am
All that’s terrible, and it shouldn’t happen. I made a similar point about the way women were treated in my post regarding the Genres We Hate post.
I have a different perspective from you on Ansel’s work, and on how we deal with young talent in the slam community.
How does my expressing that undermine your critical or intellectual faculties?
Jesus Christ, you’re one of the smartest people I know. We differ, that’s all. That’s all.
You needn’t worry about it happening again.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:32 am
All that’s terrible, and it shouldn’t happen. I made a similar point about the way women were treated in my post regarding the Genres We Hate post.
I have a different perspective from you on Ansel’s work, and on how we deal with young talent in the slam community.
How does my expressing that undermine your critical or intellectual faculties?
Jesus Christ, you’re one of the smartest people I know. We differ, that’s all. That’s all.
You needn’t worry about it happening again.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:32 am
All that’s terrible, and it shouldn’t happen. I made a similar point about the way women were treated in my post regarding the Genres We Hate post.
I have a different perspective from you on Ansel’s work, and on how we deal with young talent in the slam community.
How does my expressing that undermine your critical or intellectual faculties?
Jesus Christ, you’re one of the smartest people I know. We differ, that’s all. That’s all.
You needn’t worry about it happening again.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:32 am
All that’s terrible, and it shouldn’t happen. I made a similar point about the way women were treated in my post regarding the Genres We Hate post.
I have a different perspective from you on Ansel’s work, and on how we deal with young talent in the slam community.
How does my expressing that undermine your critical or intellectual faculties?
Jesus Christ, you’re one of the smartest people I know. We differ, that’s all. That’s all.
You needn’t worry about it happening again.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:24 am
agreed.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:24 am
agreed.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:24 am
agreed.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:24 am
agreed.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:24 am
agreed.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:24 am
agreed.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:24 am
agreed.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:21 am
You “spit” it. I like it.
Then again, i’m like that.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:21 am
You “spit” it. I like it.
Then again, i’m like that.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:21 am
You “spit” it. I like it.
Then again, i’m like that.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:21 am
You “spit” it. I like it.
Then again, i’m like that.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:21 am
You “spit” it. I like it.
Then again, i’m like that.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:21 am
You “spit” it. I like it.
Then again, i’m like that.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:21 am
You “spit” it. I like it.
Then again, i’m like that.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:16 am
I work in a place where I have been told that my boss does not inderstand “the point” of aggressive women. I was told this in *the middle* of a technical presentation I was trying to make yesterday.
This is a place where my male collegues, who do not do anything more technically complicated than I, make 15,000 more a year.
Where I have been jokingly replaced by imaginary “geisha programmers”.
Where I have been told (once again, in joking manner) that I will be sold into “white slavery” to recoup any corporate losses.
These hilarious asides have all occurred in the past week, in the past month, repeatedly over the past 3+ years I have worked at this particular company.
Today I am working on my resume, and I have no patience for men who think it’s o.k. to undermine my critical or intellectual abilities, my taste or my instincts. If it bled onto you, and you didn’t deserve it, I wholeheartedly apologize.
This is where I’m coming from. Angry woman perspective.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:16 am
I work in a place where I have been told that my boss does not inderstand “the point” of aggressive women. I was told this in *the middle* of a technical presentation I was trying to make yesterday.
This is a place where my male collegues, who do not do anything more technically complicated than I, make 15,000 more a year.
Where I have been jokingly replaced by imaginary “geisha programmers”.
Where I have been told (once again, in joking manner) that I will be sold into “white slavery” to recoup any corporate losses.
These hilarious asides have all occurred in the past week, in the past month, repeatedly over the past 3+ years I have worked at this particular company.
Today I am working on my resume, and I have no patience for men who think it’s o.k. to undermine my critical or intellectual abilities, my taste or my instincts. If it bled onto you, and you didn’t deserve it, I wholeheartedly apologize.
This is where I’m coming from. Angry woman perspective.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:16 am
I work in a place where I have been told that my boss does not inderstand “the point” of aggressive women. I was told this in *the middle* of a technical presentation I was trying to make yesterday.
This is a place where my male collegues, who do not do anything more technically complicated than I, make 15,000 more a year.
Where I have been jokingly replaced by imaginary “geisha programmers”.
Where I have been told (once again, in joking manner) that I will be sold into “white slavery” to recoup any corporate losses.
These hilarious asides have all occurred in the past week, in the past month, repeatedly over the past 3+ years I have worked at this particular company.
Today I am working on my resume, and I have no patience for men who think it’s o.k. to undermine my critical or intellectual abilities, my taste or my instincts. If it bled onto you, and you didn’t deserve it, I wholeheartedly apologize.
This is where I’m coming from. Angry woman perspective.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:16 am
I work in a place where I have been told that my boss does not inderstand “the point” of aggressive women. I was told this in *the middle* of a technical presentation I was trying to make yesterday.
This is a place where my male collegues, who do not do anything more technically complicated than I, make 15,000 more a year.
Where I have been jokingly replaced by imaginary “geisha programmers”.
Where I have been told (once again, in joking manner) that I will be sold into “white slavery” to recoup any corporate losses.
These hilarious asides have all occurred in the past week, in the past month, repeatedly over the past 3+ years I have worked at this particular company.
Today I am working on my resume, and I have no patience for men who think it’s o.k. to undermine my critical or intellectual abilities, my taste or my instincts. If it bled onto you, and you didn’t deserve it, I wholeheartedly apologize.
This is where I’m coming from. Angry woman perspective.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:16 am
I work in a place where I have been told that my boss does not inderstand “the point” of aggressive women. I was told this in *the middle* of a technical presentation I was trying to make yesterday.
This is a place where my male collegues, who do not do anything more technically complicated than I, make 15,000 more a year.
Where I have been jokingly replaced by imaginary “geisha programmers”.
Where I have been told (once again, in joking manner) that I will be sold into “white slavery” to recoup any corporate losses.
These hilarious asides have all occurred in the past week, in the past month, repeatedly over the past 3+ years I have worked at this particular company.
Today I am working on my resume, and I have no patience for men who think it’s o.k. to undermine my critical or intellectual abilities, my taste or my instincts. If it bled onto you, and you didn’t deserve it, I wholeheartedly apologize.
This is where I’m coming from. Angry woman perspective.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:16 am
I work in a place where I have been told that my boss does not inderstand “the point” of aggressive women. I was told this in *the middle* of a technical presentation I was trying to make yesterday.
This is a place where my male collegues, who do not do anything more technically complicated than I, make 15,000 more a year.
Where I have been jokingly replaced by imaginary “geisha programmers”.
Where I have been told (once again, in joking manner) that I will be sold into “white slavery” to recoup any corporate losses.
These hilarious asides have all occurred in the past week, in the past month, repeatedly over the past 3+ years I have worked at this particular company.
Today I am working on my resume, and I have no patience for men who think it’s o.k. to undermine my critical or intellectual abilities, my taste or my instincts. If it bled onto you, and you didn’t deserve it, I wholeheartedly apologize.
This is where I’m coming from. Angry woman perspective.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:16 am
I work in a place where I have been told that my boss does not inderstand “the point” of aggressive women. I was told this in *the middle* of a technical presentation I was trying to make yesterday.
This is a place where my male collegues, who do not do anything more technically complicated than I, make 15,000 more a year.
Where I have been jokingly replaced by imaginary “geisha programmers”.
Where I have been told (once again, in joking manner) that I will be sold into “white slavery” to recoup any corporate losses.
These hilarious asides have all occurred in the past week, in the past month, repeatedly over the past 3+ years I have worked at this particular company.
Today I am working on my resume, and I have no patience for men who think it’s o.k. to undermine my critical or intellectual abilities, my taste or my instincts. If it bled onto you, and you didn’t deserve it, I wholeheartedly apologize.
This is where I’m coming from. Angry woman perspective.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:09 am
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i was going to say something, but said it with fewer ampersands that i would have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:09 am
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i was going to say something, but said it with fewer ampersands that i would have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:09 am
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i was going to say something, but said it with fewer ampersands that i would have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:09 am
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i was going to say something, but said it with fewer ampersands that i would have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:09 am
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i was going to say something, but said it with fewer ampersands that i would have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:09 am
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i was going to say something, but said it with fewer ampersands that i would have.
February 25th, 2005 at 4:09 am
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i was going to say something, but said it with fewer ampersands that i would have.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:45 am
Hey.
The people who care about you already know this. It’s part of the Tony we love.
If you’re sorry about offending folks who you aren’t close to, that’s another story. But judging from the ambivalence of your post, it doesn’t seem you are too worried about that. I get the impression here that you want to remind your friends that you’re a man of conscience. And we know you are.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:45 am
Hey.
The people who care about you already know this. It’s part of the Tony we love.
If you’re sorry about offending folks who you aren’t close to, that’s another story. But judging from the ambivalence of your post, it doesn’t seem you are too worried about that. I get the impression here that you want to remind your friends that you’re a man of conscience. And we know you are.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:45 am
Hey.
The people who care about you already know this. It’s part of the Tony we love.
If you’re sorry about offending folks who you aren’t close to, that’s another story. But judging from the ambivalence of your post, it doesn’t seem you are too worried about that. I get the impression here that you want to remind your friends that you’re a man of conscience. And we know you are.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:45 am
Hey.
The people who care about you already know this. It’s part of the Tony we love.
If you’re sorry about offending folks who you aren’t close to, that’s another story. But judging from the ambivalence of your post, it doesn’t seem you are too worried about that. I get the impression here that you want to remind your friends that you’re a man of conscience. And we know you are.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:45 am
Hey.
The people who care about you already know this. It’s part of the Tony we love.
If you’re sorry about offending folks who you aren’t close to, that’s another story. But judging from the ambivalence of your post, it doesn’t seem you are too worried about that. I get the impression here that you want to remind your friends that you’re a man of conscience. And we know you are.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:45 am
Hey.
The people who care about you already know this. It’s part of the Tony we love.
If you’re sorry about offending folks who you aren’t close to, that’s another story. But judging from the ambivalence of your post, it doesn’t seem you are too worried about that. I get the impression here that you want to remind your friends that you’re a man of conscience. And we know you are.
February 25th, 2005 at 3:45 am
Hey.
The people who care about you already know this. It’s part of the Tony we love.
If you’re sorry about offending folks who you aren’t close to, that’s another story. But judging from the ambivalence of your post, it doesn’t seem you are too worried about that. I get the impression here that you want to remind your friends that you’re a man of conscience. And we know you are.