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Re: http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/481967156

dubdobdee — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:02:39 -0000

While I'm not entirely unsympathetic with the claim that the work is "combination intervention&responses", i wonder how sympathetic rod would be with the argument that his fact-checking blog commenters should therefore be sharing his paycheque

Re: http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/475922622

dubdobdee — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:25:10 -0000

Solo card-games -- solitaire, patience etc -- date back to the early 18th century.

Re: http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/450220995

dubdobdee — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:45:40 -0000

It seems to be back --- and was in fact still available in cache if you clicked through but didn't refresh. But for about 24 hours pitas users were being deflected to a "no one owns this domain? do you want to?" standing page. I assume it was just a forgot-to-pay-bills error, such as yr correspondent is himself very prone to. Tomorrow I shall back up all archives properly, just in case.

Re: http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/450927462

dubdobdee — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:42:35 -0000

winter pineneedles! NOM NOM NOM

Re: http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/441433726

dubdobdee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:15 -0000

"if certain people make logical arguments and pay heed to apparent counterevidence and make surprising or counterintuitive arguments that they then try to explain" -- is the last bit ("surprising or counterintuitive arguments") a dealbreaker though? If you had to choose between "logical + heed-paying to counterevidence + counterintuitive arguments" and "logical + heed-paying to counterevidence", which would you tend to favour? I definitely favour the former, because i think surprise is a good thing, but am beginning to think this is becoming a habit that villains are gaming... Contrarianism has become a pervasive shtick within punditry; sometimes truisms are boring yet true, however intriguing it is to waste time following up counter-arguments (not that this will stop me)

Re: Blue Lines Revisited, A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel,...

dubdobdee — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:53:11 -0000

yes as you know i am VERY suspicious of generalised claims like this: many professional reviewers watch or listen to or read FAR TOO MUCH with a view to writing about same in a way that maintains their marketshare in a very competitive context

there are here two very obvious axes of judgment-clouding: the first is massive jadedness (plus only a mentalist has seen 10,000 movies); the second is instrumentalisation (plus if habitual shortcuts become blind spots, so can the ways you train yrself to counter yr habits)

Re: Totally Wire'd

dubdobdee — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:48:11 -0000

no new york -- no wave generally -- is counter-subway-screech music

also: metal machine music -- bright pop treble drone!

Re: Blue Lines Revisited, Music And Theory

dubdobdee — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:50:54 -0000

grrr i've actually told SR to his face that cook put MJ on the cover not me: obviously his entire career and critical shtick is based on not really listening to stuff properly but, while this was a tremendous move that i WISH could take credit for, it was r.d.cook not me

Re: Blue Lines Revisited, Scott Plagenhoef on Sgt Peppers'

dubdobdee — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:35:24 -0000

Probably because I first encountered SP as my parents' music, and enjoyed their enjoyment of it as grown-ups with kids, I've always been fascinated and impressed by the LP's refusal to confuse the POV of the elderly with conservatism -- SP takes the old school model of the "album", as in a collection, of sheet music or stamps or photos, with a song for EVERYONE, and blows it up into a snapshot of all society, full of excitiment and tension and contention and hurt; where the gap between grandeur and the mundane is exactly not absolute

conceptually i think it's extraordinarily smart: where it falls down is -- of course -- the music, which is much more a mixed bag

Re: Blue Lines Revisited, Dylan Christmas Album Tracklist

dubdobdee — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:13:28 -0000

xmas songs that became fixtures since dylan in the uk = by slade and by greg lake

however maybe not standards: not sure anyone has ever covered em -- assuming dylan hasn't

Re: Blue Lines Revisited, The Decade In Pop

dubdobdee — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:48:46 -0000

boo what a let down!

Re: Blue Lines Revisited, Chuck Eddy Pokes The Boomer Beehive

dubdobdee — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:52:02 -0000

"If Woodstock, the movie, or the soundtrack did not get you excited than it is you who need to be replaced."

Re: Blue Lines Revisited, aceterrier: via meatsack | comicallyvintage |...

dubdobdee — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:53:30 -0000

beard drawn on in blue pen!

Re: Realtime Kills* Ideas

dubdobdee — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:45:17 -0000

when you say it's predilection more than structure, isn't that the same as saying it's swots vs blots rather than schoolroom vs hallway? schoolroom/hallway is structure

as a professional editor i say it's structure -- this doesn't mean it is structure, it means structure is what editors get to work with, in the belief it makes a difference to the conversation: structure of senteces, structure of paragrahs, structure of pieces, structure of the published outlet as a whole -- these we have power over; predilections we have to take as a given, the untouchable input