The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Shawn Struck:

David--

Jinx! You owe me a Coke!

@158:

Cory, you're an awesome author and blogger and writer and all, but saying that you never criticized Digg for that matter?

Yeah, you kinda did.

I'm not calling for a boycott of BB or anything, I just think they're being hypocritical.

Same here. I like the site, I visited at least twice a day, I promoted the heck out of Little Brother to friends and acquaintances.

Also, I don't know what the heck happened to my previous post-- it look okay in preview, but there seems to be a paragraph cut off. >_

Same here. I like the site, I visited at least twice a day, I promoted the heck out of Little Brother to friends and acquaintances.

Well, here's another example:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/26/carlo-longino-uses-g.html

You'd be amazed how many people are outraged that Cory Doctorow devotes, why, one in 20 posts to promoting his own books.

That always made me scratch my head, too.

@#4, David:

Exactly! Pointing out kinda-crappy ethics (and even perceptions of poor overall quality or decision making) is an important component of consumer interaction.

Cory thinks so too:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/26/complaining-about-co.html

In the digg story on this, Zora says something I think bears repeating:
"Last year, boingboing wrote about the Society of American Archivists decision to delete their old listserv archives. They generated enough attention that the decision was reversed and the archives were preserved. If they're erasing parts of their own archive for any reason, it's an act of shocking hypocrisy. If they're deliberately scrubbing specific people from their archives, it's a disgusting reversal of all their publicly stated principles."

I wouldn't go so far as to say disgusting, but it is pretty yucky.

Aw heck, premature postulation. The rest of my post SHOULD have said:

"Be that as it may that's an amusing, entertaining poem. You get 3 gold starts and a cookie from me!"

abi--

I know, isn't that weird? LL seemed to do the same for me-- and not just parody, but legitimate poetry (even though some people thought my latest was the same thing)!

And her agent chimes in today, admitting she's not actually an agent, among other things, on Absolute Write:

Hello, this Cheryl Pillsbury;
Yes I used Published America and regret it, I didn't know about there reputation until later
Outskirts is a self-publishing company
Roval is also a self-publishing company, one of the best because they don't charge extra fees for each item and they work with you directly.
I'm not an agent, per say, my company is small, we guide others through the process and not make the mistakes I made. We give you a list of our members who are free to work with you for you, give you access to a publishers list, a one time fee to set this up and that's it. The members are paid for their work.
We have legal proof of what Mr. Hill did and if we could find him, he would be extremely scared.
I never cursed anyone, I'm not qualified to do that, but my guide and high priestess can if I ask her.
The book, 'Of Atlantis' is on hold until my employee is finished comparing both books to make sure they are no longer identical.
Yes we have apologized, many times over but it doesn't seem to be enough.
I know we're innocent in this, I'm sorry it happened and I'm sorry everyone is having a field day with words and when this cleared up, crow will be served with butter.
There is not much more we can do but to wait, burnings went out centuries ago

Crow will be eaten with butter.

...WITH BUTTER, DO YOU HEAR ME?!

Neil:

Okay, point taken. I can't answer for everyone else pointing and laughing-- all I can do is take my most recent poem, being used as the most recent example of MAKING fun, and try and clarify.

I dunno, saying "You are picking on someone", but couching it in "I think people are picking on them, here's Shawn's latest poem as an example" seems to be a pretty backhanded way of making an accusation.

So, to clarify: The poem was not picking on L. Lee. I did not create the poem with the intent to pick on L. Lee. For fudge's sake... I read her poem which had a great conceit: "I love you so much, I'm willing to invoke all sorts of dark things to get you back". I took what she wrote, thought about it for a moment, and riffed on it. And not riff, as in, "Here, let me parody her style", or "Let me take my style and throw in subtle japes at her" but "Hey, let me take this subject matter, run with it and see what sort of keystyle I can spit in about fifteen minutes".

That's IT.

I shared it here because I figured readers would be interested. Believe it or don't, but the last three poems have been inspired, directly or indirectly by her, and I've been stepping up my freestyle game because of it.

I can't answer for anyone else but me, but I hope for the Flying Spaghetti Monster's sake, this clarifies MY intent.

Not to spoil the fun or anything, but it does look like this thread, in between the off-topic fun, has descended into mere picking on Lanaia (most recently in #949 and #967).

I beg your pardon!

I made that poem as a riff, but I swear it was not to make fun. Thank you, Internet Police, for pointing out that "Hey, I was inspired by something she posted to whip out a freestyle take on the same subject that I'm proud of" is "icking on" someone.

So... Mary did this...



and in about 15 minutes, I did this.

After this first twinge of "Hey! That's neat!" faded, I realized that I agree with wokeitten:

"I'm irritated with JK Rowling's recent revelation. Not because Dumbledore is gay; I really like to see these kinds of issues addressed in literature for kids. And that's why I'm pissy. If you wanted to make Dumbledore a revolutionary character, Rowling, why didn't you take your metaphorical balls in your hand and actually reveal him as being a homosexual in the book? Kids listen to what you say and accept your morals. Why have you wasted that?"

Hey. She can like it for mysterious reasons, and I can like it because it runs circles around the subject, uses a shite-load of internal rhymes, and is more subtle than my first poem.

@866, Pyre:

Aw, shucks! Thanks! ^_^;

You'll enjoy this, then-- So, totally for no reason at all, of course, Mary posts a poem about stress and how it can kill those of ill health.

In one take, I bust out this response/riff.

@841, emmigeek:

Thanks. nerd life 4 ever, don'cha know.

Ironically enough, I can sincerely say that Lanania has lit a fire under my freestyle verse writin' arse a second time and even third time.

O_o

So, yeah, it actually was a parody.

Sweet, do I get a "I Fooled Xopher But All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" T-Shirt?

That was actually me, as I explain here.

Thanks for the props, though.

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