Greg: thank you very much for your useful and insightful comments. Your "toothbrush and lunch pail" analogy was delightful.
To those asking Greg to stop talking--in my experience, discussions benefit from dissenting views. And Greg was never less than polite in arguing his.
Anamika #224: To the best of my knowledge, mightygodking's only supposed "TOS violation" was posting his Harry Potter review again, after the book's release, when he'd been given a cease-and-desist for posting it prior to the book's release. Pretty poor practice on the part of LJ.
Anyone who's interested in a copy of mightygodking's review, please email me, and I'll be glad to send it to you. Well worth the read, IMHO--a bit gratuitously snarky in parts, but very funny.
Clarification: I'm assuming that Mr. Mitchell's post, the "Exhibit A" above, was taken verbatim from Ms. Wilson's book. I lack a copy of Ms. Wilson's book to quote from, and am thus reduced to quoting from her plagiarist to demonstrate the evolution of her essay.
Interestingly, Ms. Wilson apparently published an early draft of the "Cocksucker Blues" article on Salon.com, prior to including it in her book.
Exhibit A, published March 22, 2007: http://www.sff.net/people/yog/mitchell1e.jpg
"Musician boys are invariably the first big crush of a preteen girl, her first big sloppy emotional response to the world. The creation of teen sensations is now a multi-national Moloch, and such phenomenon as Menudo, New Kids on the Block, 'N Sync, the Backstreet Boys, and Disney's High School Musical represent a vital stage in the sexual/emotional development of the preteen -- i.e., the kind of biological confusion and obsessive hysteria which causes little girls to wallpaper their rooms with gratuitous posters of dreamy, hard-nippled thugs and tarty kinderwhores and throw high-pitched grand mal tantrums until albums and T-shirts and concert tickets are bought.
Twenty thousand girls stood outside the MTV window at Times Square in New York City and screamed for teen-masturbation-focus the Backstreet Boys in the summer of 1999. A few days earlier, another twenty thousand girls stood outside the MTV window and wailed and wept and beat their breasts for multinational super-pasteurized Hispano-sensation Ricky Martin. American seemed slightly shocked, as if we expected all that weird screaming hysteria to have died along with the Beatles."
Exhibit B, published May 25, 1999:
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/1999/05/25/ricky/index.html
"Musician boys are invariably the first big crush of a preteen girl, her first big sloppy emotional response to the world. The creation of puppy-lovable teen sensations is now a multinational Moloch, and such phenomena as N-Sync, The Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys represent a whole vital stage in the sexual/emotional development of the preteen, i.e. the kind of biological confusion and obsessive hysteria that causes little girls to wallpaper their rooms with gratuitous posters of dreamy, hard-nippled thugs and tarty kinder-whores and throw high-pitched grand-mal tantrums until albums and T-shirts and concert tickets are bought.
About 20,000 girls all stood outside the MTV window at Times Square in New York and screamed for teen masturbation-focus the Backstreet Boys last week, and a few days earlier, another 20,000 girls all stood outside the MTV window and wailed and wept and beat their breasts for multinational super-pasteurized Hispano-sensation Ricky Martin. America seemed slightly shocked, as if we expected all that weird screaming hysteria to die along with the Beatles."
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