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authorwank, dramatic reading, if only he ordered decaffeinated, language, my reputation takes visa, not enough wtf in the world, omg not depressing, pretention, publishing, reviews, small but tasty, uk, won't someone think of the vowels

Sorry to go on. Anger, real steaming fucking anger can make a man verbose.
(But it can't make him use the shift key consistently.)

Giles Coren would like you to know that "a" is very srs bsn:

3) And worst of all. Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have removed the unstressed 'a' so that the stress that should have fallen on "nosh" is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable. When you're winding up a piece of prose, metre is crucial. Can't you hear? Can't you hear that it is wrong? It's not fucking rocket science. It's fucking pre-GCSE scansion. I have written 350 restaurant reviews for The Times and i have never ended on an unstressed syllable. Fuck. fuck, fuck, fuck.

I am sorry if this looks petty (last time i mailed a Times sub about the change of a single word i got in all sorts of trouble) but i care deeply about my work and i hate to have it fucked up by shit subbing. I have been away, you've been subbing joe and hugo and maybe they just file and fuck off and think "hey ho, it's tomorrow's fish and chips" - well, not me. I woke up at three in the morning on sunday and fucking lay there, furious, for two hours. weird, maybe. but that's how it is.

It's just his letter, but oh, it's so tasty and I love "academic" wank on a Sunday, don't you?

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	sorchar 2008-07-28 03:26 am UTC (link)
	Could he possibly be kidding? I mean, from what I've seen of him on TV (the man made a giant Jaffa cake, for fuck's sake!) it would certainly be likely. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	tangentialone 2008-07-28 03:58 am UTC (link)
	A giant Jaffa cake like this? 8D Man, now I'm all hungry. Edited the link to the more interesting one, whups. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sorchar 2008-07-28 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Like this. That's his there. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tangentialone 2008-07-28 04:35 am UTC (link)
	...So big it can't fit in the oven? 8D *thumbs up* (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sorchar 2008-07-28 04:47 am UTC (link)
	See, that's why I think this is a joke. I mean, he might've been a bit annoyed by the edit, but it strikes me mostly as humorous hyperbole. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	singe 2008-07-28 07:05 pm UTC (link)
	So...how was the food? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2008-07-29 01:42 am UTC (link)
	Can't you see, it's not about the food, or the restaurant, it's about HIMMMM!! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2008-07-29 02:00 am UTC (link)
	Ohhhh! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	The Subeditors Respond! my_own_petard 2008-07-29 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	And lo, the subeditors respond. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/29/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: The Subeditors Respond! notjo 2008-07-29 07:06 pm UTC (link)
	I think that deserves its own write up. I love academic wank. LOVE. It makes me want to have wee little babies that I can raise up and turn into amusing academics with swords! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: The Subeditors Respond! my_own_petard 2008-07-29 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	Take the above information and do with it as you wish. Add it as an ETA or--if you're up for it--whip up an entirely new report. I'm with you on the deliciousness of academic wank. Is there anything sweeter? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	An Onanistic Outburst my_own_petard 2008-07-29 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	You might, too, want to include David Marsh's piece, "Excoriating the coruscating Coren." I particularly like how Mr. Marsh actually acknowledges that Mr. Coren was wanking madly, though he refers to it as an "onanistic outburst." Gotta love it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/25/mediamonkey.thetimes (Reply to this)(Parent)

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