Hasn’t blog writing already generated different formal norms of writing? Or maybe blog writing is reminiscent of a more raucus era, and there is an ongoing reassessment of the rules (or the rediscovery of why there are rules)? The political blogs remind me of early American politics (i.e. Lincoln’s anonymous letters to the Sangamo Journal or yellow journalism).

And what do you think of the Clement Greenberg defense? He has been used to defend partisan writing, and one of the artists in Graves’ Kangas piece said that Kangas told them that “all the artists in New York give art to the critics”. Why is one form of exploitation (writer/reader) permissible and the other (writer/artist) not? Is it only because the “gift” provides proof of the exploitation? And is the “gift” even proof? If the piece is given after the review is published (and couldn’t possibly have influenced the review~) why doesn’t if fall under some “nuance” clause?

The ongoing discussion is reminds me of walking down the hallway of Kelley’s “Pay For Your Pleasure”.

Matthew:
I’m sure someone will stumble across the “novel” soon (maybe in a way similar to Sarah Boss’ scrap paper discovery).

Thanks for the space TJ…I enjoy stopping by.

i’m too tired and dazed to make any sense. matthew-i won’t steal your bus pass and force you to drive around in a hummer. stephan cleary-if you are real-maybe someday you’ll materialize-oh wait! there you are….

Sincerely,
Stephen Cleary

Do you really create the PDF’s with Acrobat 6? I can’t open any of them.

Sincerely,
Stehen Cleary

Now, that said, I agree that the voice of “Possibly Stephen Cleary” sounds rather more bureaucratic and humorless than the voice of the real Stephen Cleary (who posts under many names). But I like to think Stephen cares enough to have posted the above post. Regardless of who you are, I am grateful for your interest.

The context of TJ’s utterance was a discussion in which we speculated that blog-based writing might generate different formal norms than print-to-paper-based writing. TJ disagreed and expressed himself eloquently with that rather Gertrude Stein-ish quote you see above.

As far as the Acrobat Reader, I use 6.0 (it’s free!).

I’m gonna force you to drive a hummer one of these days.

That was me. I wanted to try posting pseudonymously while retaining honesty. It was meant to be funny, but I realize now that it might have been funnier around February 12. My apologies for bad timing.

Does anyone recall the context of TJ’s quote? You don’t know how hard it is for former attendees to follow along with the current seminar. Before sitting down to read about the wonderful meals and melees at UGM, I generally wash down something along the lines of a Totino’s frozen pizza with a can of Diet Coke. Lately, I cut the pizza into squares and call it Chess Pizza. Tonight, the family discussed “America’s Taste” while watching the results of American Idol. My daughter proclaimed “America always get’s it wrong!” which received curiously little disagreement from others in attendance. We all agreed that the boys this season are pretty stinky, and that if they combined the girls and boys from the beginning, the boys would have all been gone by now.

I would have brought this up at the UGM site, but I can’t post there. At first I thought I didn’t meet the criteria for the Urban Honking audience (therefore helping to define them?), but now I think the problem is my antiquated operating system. I find myself in the ironic position of having to purchase a new computer in order to read PDF files of Raymond Williams’ essay about how “critical theory” is a pragmatic tool for people of all classes and backgrounds. What bourgeois version of Acrobat is Stadler using to make these files anyway? I shouldn’t complain, because I really do need a new computer (along with a faster connection). Lately, I go to peoples sites and look at the YouTube box and imagine how amazing the video is.

But seriously, I really do want to know how the quote came up. I think your group came up with a lot more objects than we did.

COMMENT:
TJ, Can you give the context for this quote? I was going to ask on the UGM site, but I can’t post to it .

RESPONSE:
If you are ‘not’ Melia, then who could you possibly be? This was simply blurted in response to someone else’s comment during class, it may have been in reference to Frank Miller, but can’t really remember.