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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
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4:36p - Writerwank!
I can't believe no one's posted this yet.
It starts on Monday, as the Penny Arcade creators return from the Foolscap convention and post a fairly amusing recap of a confrontation that allegedly occurred between the guests of honor. That is, between Gabe/Tycho and Harlan Ellison, preeminent writer and (let's face it) evidently in a very different category of creative enterprise than the Penny Arcade guys.
That in itself is not wank. The wank occurs some 24 hours or so later, when the enterprising among PA's readers locate Harlan Ellison's webpage and decide to troll for fun and profit. The whole mess starts out with a guy called Andrew who claims he was actually there. (About 10 entries down the page. You have to read from bottom to top, yes, I know that's weird. I wish I could provide links to each post, but I can't.) (After those 10, continue the reading here, using the "previous" link to navigate to the next chronological page and still reading bottom to top.)
I'm not going to give you a play by play, but it's pretty funny- mostly PA fans making rude comments and Harlan fans saying either "can we talk about something else now?" or pointing out that the trolls are ignoramuses. That is, until a user called Penelope busts out with Is that your wife on the front page Harlan, or did you marry your dog? Oh no he didn't. Harlan's response (a quarter of the way down, look for the really long entry) is probably the funniest thing in the whole wankisode, featuring his weird recap of events as well as a long, threatening diatribe against Penelope. Gabe's response, after that, comes across as fairly low key (again, about a quarter of the way down).
Personally I think you could make remarks about the conduct of both sides, which is why it's so wanktastic.
current mood: Sparkly (90 comments |comment on this)
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5:03p - Online Pretentious College Art Wank
Bardcollege is an lj comm for a small liberal arts college in midstate New York. Bard College is full of art idiots (I say this as a sophomore at said institute look to transfer to an art school). Usually an entry will get a max of 20 replies if it's a big important one. This one got 99.
stroudsterb decides he's an art critic. Not that this is a wonderous piece of art, but Bard is full of people who think they know art, so many rush to defend the minimalist 'art'.
Lots of people agree and others rush in to tell him he's an idiot. All of which is, of course, constructive art critique.
Drama is cheap art
theoriginal points out how this wank itself is what makes the two parallel lines art, which is possibly the closest thing to art discussion that happens.
cuntcumber talks about shitting paint
They also bring in the everpressent question at Bard about a 'sculpture' of three large spinning red circles that we have rather unaffectionately named the 'Kotex Statue' for it being a constant reminder of the bouncing red dot in the Kotex commercial. It's not interesting enough to warrant me searching for it through the muck, but whenever someone at Bard brings up the 'What is Art?' argument, the Kotex Statue is always brought up, because it's the uggliest thing on campus after the price-of-a-small-country-and-leaks-anyway Performing Arts Center
current mood: Mildly Amused (25 comments |comment on this)
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6:14p - Grammar wank - small but fun
This is rather small, but I do so enjoy fights about spelling and grammar.
Iampunha is announced as the new mod on Grammar Police. Misslynn doesn't like him but thinks he'll make a good mod anyway. That's not enough to stop everyone from telling her to use the shift key. Contains the never-ending debate over writing in lowercase ("it's only the internet" versus "you're not e.e. cummings"), and a mini fight between Misslynn and Iampunha. My favourite part is Misslynn stating that capitalisation has nothing to do with grammar in her book. I don't know what book she's using because, um, yes it does.
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