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ThinT wrote: "rich white tennis players on drugs"If this had been the title of Infinite Jest, I'd definitely be more interested in reading it.
Arthur wrote; "If this had been the title of Infinite Jest, I'd definitely be more interested in reading it."
Oh, but by any other name would smell as sour.
IDK. Does sour smell or just taste? I hate this obsession.
Oh, but by any other name would smell as sour.
IDK. Does sour smell or just taste? I hate this obsession.
RWTPOD keeps reverting in my mind to something from 11 years prior; url below. An old pro ought to know that you can get some sales just from the title, and have nothing inside about it. I will not mention which GR authors this reminds me of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zhmg...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zhmg...
ThinT wrote: "rich white tennis players on drugs"
Arthur wrote; "If this had been the title of Infinite Jest, I'd definitely be more interested in reading it."
This info has been relayed to the "DFW Brand" mercenaries. They are in the process of pissing in their draws/panties over the possible loss of your two bucks.
Arthur wrote; "If this had been the title of Infinite Jest, I'd definitely be more interested in reading it."
This info has been relayed to the "DFW Brand" mercenaries. They are in the process of pissing in their draws/panties over the possible loss of your two bucks.
ThinT wrote: "Oh, but by any other name would smell as sour""Rich White Tennis Players on Drugs" is what Leyner would've called it. I'd have considered it one of his lesser works, but at least I'd have finished slogging through the damn thing...
Arthur wrote; "Rich White Tennis Players on Drugs" is what Leyner would've called it. I'd have considered it one of his lesser works, but at least I'd have finished slogging through the damn thing... "
Wow, on your estimation of Leyner. It is Bizarro and adjcent world consistent, though. But, you're absolutely right when you say I'm too unfamiliar to criticize. Honestly, when I read his book descriptions, I don't find them sufficiently enticing to further investigate, and when he gets into that "Who am I?' stuff I hope that my stomach is fully settled.
But that other quote was just a shitty joke attempt. The last half of IJ is not about "Rich white tennis players on drugs," it's about Gately; a not so rich reovering addict whose most notable physical accomplishment is having taken a bullet for Lencz.
Wow, on your estimation of Leyner. It is Bizarro and adjcent world consistent, though. But, you're absolutely right when you say I'm too unfamiliar to criticize. Honestly, when I read his book descriptions, I don't find them sufficiently enticing to further investigate, and when he gets into that "Who am I?' stuff I hope that my stomach is fully settled.
But that other quote was just a shitty joke attempt. The last half of IJ is not about "Rich white tennis players on drugs," it's about Gately; a not so rich reovering addict whose most notable physical accomplishment is having taken a bullet for Lencz.
ThinT wrote: "The last half of IJ is not about rich white tennis players on drugs"Perfect -- let's make the first half a separate book, retitle it Rich White Tennis Players on Drugs, and send it to me for review.
Arthur wrote; "Perfect -- let's make the first half a separate book, retitle it Rich White Tennis Players on Drugs, and send it to me for review. "
Well OK, can do. But I'd just like to warn you that it's gonna end when the guy falls asleep just prior to or after this unresolved complicated issue over the Mom's apple.
Well OK, can do. But I'd just like to warn you that it's gonna end when the guy falls asleep just prior to or after this unresolved complicated issue over the Mom's apple.
Well, it's actually both prior and subsequent to, but who wants to sit through all of that? Carry on with your half-assed approach.
Where is Doooooogie?
Where is Doooooogie?
Arthur wrote; "If interested, please submit 2-6 poems to arthur.graham.pub@gmail.com by no later than February 28th."
Just noticed that you specified 2-6 poems. Yeah, it's been a fucked-up, boring day, so much so that I'm actually reading your shit.
So what if I got like one; maybe even a long one? I'm supposed to shove it up my ass or something? You know, those fucking quarterlies rarely contain more than 40. So, you think I'm gonna do the whole thing for you?
SHIT
Just noticed that you specified 2-6 poems. Yeah, it's been a fucked-up, boring day, so much so that I'm actually reading your shit.
So what if I got like one; maybe even a long one? I'm supposed to shove it up my ass or something? You know, those fucking quarterlies rarely contain more than 40. So, you think I'm gonna do the whole thing for you?
SHIT
Fugs and sugs; no drugs.
Yo doooooooood.
P.S. That's an IJ joke. Maybe you can check with Douglas.
Yo doooooooood.
P.S. That's an IJ joke. Maybe you can check with Douglas.
Is Baldy Douglas really mentally ill? I don't mean like the Bizarro act of being so unusual; but more like really disturbed.
Could that DFW book be really fucking him up?
Most importantly, do they ever let him go out by himself?
Could that DFW book be really fucking him up?
Most importantly, do they ever let him go out by himself?
John Weekes is an NZME. News Service reporter based in Wellington.
Dream becomes a nightmare
5:30 AM Sunday Apr 15, 2012
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Precious Mckenzie. Photo / Martin Sykes
A sporting great has fallen out with film-makers over the time it has taken to make a movie of his inspirational life and achievements.
Weightlifting Hall of Famer and five times world champion Precious McKenzie says the New Zealanders behind the project have bound him to a watertight contract and then taken too long to make the film.
"To me, it's like they're spitting in my face," he says.
Kiwi film-makers Lance and James Morcan say they're optimistic they can resolve McKenzie's concerns and that he will eventually support the $10 million movie, starring Kim Basinger and Nick Nolte.
American actor and stand-up comic Kevin Hart, 31, has been cast to play the weightlifter.
McKenzie was a promising weightlifter in his native South Africa. Fleeing the repressive apartheid regime, he won honours for Britain and then New Zealand.
"We recognised his was a wonderful story," Lance Morcan says. "Most people in the world don't know his story."
After more than a decade in development, The Impossible Dream should begin filming in South Africa at the end of the year, Morcan says. But McKenzie says the same promises have been made before. He regrets signing a contract with the Morcans, because it prevents him telling his story to anyone else for the next decade.
"I'm 75 years old now. I can't wait for a film to be made when I'm 86 years old."
He said the contract was presented to him while his lawyer, Alex Witten-Hannah, was on holiday. "It is a contract that is binding despite it being very one-sided against Precious," Witten-Hannah says.
"Precious would be happy if they were to come up with the money and the stars because they haven't been able to do it."
McKenzie says his latest chat with Morcan ended with the film-maker hanging up on him.
"He said to me ... he'd go on with this movie with me or without me. The way he snubbed me, the way he cut off the phone, that was an insult." .
But Morcan says the challenges were made clear to McKenzie from the outset.
"It's a very sad situation actually because Precious has been a long-time, almost a lifetime friend. We have been aware that he is becoming frustrated with the length of time it has taken.
"Many films made today are financed and driven from America, from Hollywood. They're not so interested in a story about a little Commonwealth athlete," he says.
Morcan blames trouble-makers for turning McKenzie against the film.
"I think it's a case of him taking advice from other parties who I ... would describe as greedy parties who sense an opportunity for themselves."
DESPITE ALL PRIOR EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY, IT WOULD SEEM AS IF MORCAN KNEW SOMETHING OF WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT IN HIS LAST REFERENCE TO THIS CASE.
"After more than a decade in development, The Impossible Dream should begin filming in South Africa at the end of the year, Morcan says."
OF COURSE THIS UPRIGHT GENTLEMAN WASN'T LYING, AS THE PARTICULAR "DECADE" ADDRESSED WAS NOT SPECIFIED.
Dream becomes a nightmare
5:30 AM Sunday Apr 15, 2012
•
Precious Mckenzie. Photo / Martin Sykes
A sporting great has fallen out with film-makers over the time it has taken to make a movie of his inspirational life and achievements.
Weightlifting Hall of Famer and five times world champion Precious McKenzie says the New Zealanders behind the project have bound him to a watertight contract and then taken too long to make the film.
"To me, it's like they're spitting in my face," he says.
Kiwi film-makers Lance and James Morcan say they're optimistic they can resolve McKenzie's concerns and that he will eventually support the $10 million movie, starring Kim Basinger and Nick Nolte.
American actor and stand-up comic Kevin Hart, 31, has been cast to play the weightlifter.
McKenzie was a promising weightlifter in his native South Africa. Fleeing the repressive apartheid regime, he won honours for Britain and then New Zealand.
"We recognised his was a wonderful story," Lance Morcan says. "Most people in the world don't know his story."
After more than a decade in development, The Impossible Dream should begin filming in South Africa at the end of the year, Morcan says. But McKenzie says the same promises have been made before. He regrets signing a contract with the Morcans, because it prevents him telling his story to anyone else for the next decade.
"I'm 75 years old now. I can't wait for a film to be made when I'm 86 years old."
He said the contract was presented to him while his lawyer, Alex Witten-Hannah, was on holiday. "It is a contract that is binding despite it being very one-sided against Precious," Witten-Hannah says.
"Precious would be happy if they were to come up with the money and the stars because they haven't been able to do it."
McKenzie says his latest chat with Morcan ended with the film-maker hanging up on him.
"He said to me ... he'd go on with this movie with me or without me. The way he snubbed me, the way he cut off the phone, that was an insult." .
But Morcan says the challenges were made clear to McKenzie from the outset.
"It's a very sad situation actually because Precious has been a long-time, almost a lifetime friend. We have been aware that he is becoming frustrated with the length of time it has taken.
"Many films made today are financed and driven from America, from Hollywood. They're not so interested in a story about a little Commonwealth athlete," he says.
Morcan blames trouble-makers for turning McKenzie against the film.
"I think it's a case of him taking advice from other parties who I ... would describe as greedy parties who sense an opportunity for themselves."
DESPITE ALL PRIOR EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY, IT WOULD SEEM AS IF MORCAN KNEW SOMETHING OF WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT IN HIS LAST REFERENCE TO THIS CASE.
"After more than a decade in development, The Impossible Dream should begin filming in South Africa at the end of the year, Morcan says."
OF COURSE THIS UPRIGHT GENTLEMAN WASN'T LYING, AS THE PARTICULAR "DECADE" ADDRESSED WAS NOT SPECIFIED.
Ho-hum. Routine ensued a while back; now it has terminally overtaken the witty mirth.
THREAD DEAD. Participants' breathing shallow. Diagnosis- ersatz poetry.
The future is the resurrections of Picasso and Dali in China.
How you say; "I am Dali" in Chink?
THREAD DEAD. Participants' breathing shallow. Diagnosis- ersatz poetry.
The future is the resurrections of Picasso and Dali in China.
How you say; "I am Dali" in Chink?
ConK wrote: "How you say; "I am Dali" in Chink?"FUCK YOU, that's how.
That must cause some confusion.
ConK wrote: "That must cause some confusion."No more confusing than your weekly name changes, I'm sure.
Arthur wrote: "ConK wrote: "That must cause some confusion."
No more confusing than your weekly name changes, I'm sure."
No confusion here, Dick. Listen. I'm formally requesting your permission to use your current, barely into terminal dabauchery, GR profile photo in G4 at the size it appears on reviews. If you say no or ignore this request you might be sorry, as I'll instead use a full sizer of Hackle.
Thank you.
No more confusing than your weekly name changes, I'm sure."
No confusion here, Dick. Listen. I'm formally requesting your permission to use your current, barely into terminal dabauchery, GR profile photo in G4 at the size it appears on reviews. If you say no or ignore this request you might be sorry, as I'll instead use a full sizer of Hackle.
Thank you.
ConK wrote: "I'm formally requesting your permission to use your current, barely into terminal dabauchery, GR profile photo"The one of me in my leopard-print banana hammock? That's weird, but go right ahead.
No,didn't mean that one. I meant the one you use on your profile now, which also shows up on the reviews very small. I've got a review inthe book.
Added at 7:15
I'd still like permission, but I've been re-reading the book for the first time in a while, and I'm beginning to think that it doesn't work well. It's a lead in to a part meant to resemble and goof on theMystery.com. But, ................. I'm getting so picky the last year or so. At first stream of conciousness straight through.
It must be your fault.
Added at 7:15
I'd still like permission, but I've been re-reading the book for the first time in a while, and I'm beginning to think that it doesn't work well. It's a lead in to a part meant to resemble and goof on theMystery.com. But, ................. I'm getting so picky the last year or so. At first stream of conciousness straight through.
It must be your fault.
Did you notice that Leo is now using someone else's picture for his profile?
ConK wrote: "It must be your fault."Well, obviously it's never yours.
Hey; not guilty until proven otherwise is the rule of the road. Pay some attention to Trump, boy.
Arthur wrote, regarding a permission request; "The one of me in my leopard-print banana hammock? That's weird, but go right ahead."
Well, it is a children's book. But maybe you could post it on this thread as interest here seems to be flagging too.
Well, it is a children's book. But maybe you could post it on this thread as interest here seems to be flagging too.
His inability to condense purple prose and get to any supposed point is reflected here in his painfully obvious failure to condense a 68 year life into a blurb suitable for any known literary purpose.
He stubbornly continues to self-publish with no interest in speaking with any industry vulture not ready, willing, and able to expeditiously fork over a wad for any of his books, with one honest exception who doesn’t have an interest in any of them.
Beyond saying fiction, there is little genre repetition in his repertoire, though there is a slight lean toward crime; that sometimes being a learned assessment of all of them.
He plods on in his codger hobby for the sheer enjoyment of the writing itself and for the satisfaction received through his ability to annoy other incompetent indie writers and reviewers dumb enough to pay any attention to him.
This book makes E.L. James look like a wordsmith.