Posts by Craig Ranapia
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I'll take that exaggerated expression of I'm-not-worthiness as merely being polite.
Wow, that's the first time I've ever been pinged for excessive good manners. :) Just thought it could come across as a tad whore-y, and in the end, you just end up exhausting your own credibility and other's good-will. It's like handing out business cards and touting for work at a social occasion: if its a professional 'networking' drinks party, everyone's at it. A kid's birthday party -- not so much.
Thanks Craig, am very excited to see Jane Espenson also!
She's great - and while not really a lit blog, she's wonderful on the mechanics (and pure bloody persistence) of writing a good commercial hour of television. Having watched the meh-some pilot of Bionic Woman last night, you just appreciate shows like Buffy and BSG all the more. Neil Gaiman, John Scalzi and Corey Doctrow are also writers who got onto the blog-wagon early and still do it well.
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Could you post a few links of the best or us please?
If this is inappropriate, RB, please feel free to remove and tell me off.
Over on my blog, there's a selection of my favourites (including some film and comics blogs) under the heading FROM BAUHAUS TO YOUR HOUSE. Entirely arbitrary, and probably in need of a tidy up, but there's hours of fun (and following links) to be had.But my daily musts are About Last Night, Anecdotal Evidence, Eve Trushnet, and Maud Newton. (As you may have noticed, the hormonal balance of lit-blogisphere isn't so heavily weighted towards testosterone as the politics nerds.)
Now, could anyone return the favour and tell me if there's any good local lit-blogs out there? The only one I've come across is Stuff's Shelf Life - which is well worth a read, and not just because a good friend of mine, Nick Barnett, is a contributor.
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I am teh Broil King King!
Yes you are --wrecker of diets, lord of the gas ring, victor of the Battle of the Seasonal Bulge. Keep it up.
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I can haz laser-etcher?
NO! Don't give the man anything that emits a beam of coherent light. He's scary enough with the Broil-King! :)
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Add that to the ever-widening range and nature of media channels, all with different ways of working, or potentially different motivations, and one can see that every now and then a commonsense reminder is bloody useful.
ITA -- and it also helps to remember that the traditional/MSM outlets aren't the only game in town. I'm not on the tech/geek tip, but I read a lot of lit-blogs that aren't covering exactly the same terrain as (say) The New York Times or The Guardian, and being read by a highly literary readership. Sure, the holy grail would still be the front-page of the NYTimes book review, but there's only 50 of those a year. Getting buzz on the top-tier book blogs and sites is nothing to sneer at, especially if you're a small indie publisher whose ability to go on a PR blitz (or send out hundreds of review copies) is severely limited.
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I was always opposed to media training but I think a lot of folk could do with training about the media as well as training in how to talk to the media.
I can understand why you're opposed to 'media training' -- which has a rather unpleasant, and largely justified, odor about it. But it seems to me that a lot of what you're talking about is a pretty basic understanding of how the news flow works, and pretty basic marketing. My bugbear is seeing really bad press releases where the hook is nowhere to be seen. OK, its there but I'm not going to hunt it down when I've skimming my inbox with a finger on the delete key.
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The three of us were worried that we were dispensing the bleeding obvious, but we got feedback about it for the rest of the event.
Meh... the 'bleeding obvious' is like 'common sense' -- it needs to be repeated fairly often, because it ain't as obvious or common as you might think.
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I don't put a sign at my gate saying I'm out for the day and the front door is open. Both men and women need to protect themselves.
Up to a point, Bea. But like the rather toxic thread on Kiwiblog, I've got to wonder why personal responsibility seems to be a one way street and the golden rule is 'it's bros over hoes - and don't you forget it'.
You know what I find utterly fucking offensive about much of this debate: The textbook denial and enabling on display. As a recovering alcoholic -- and one whose own sexual acting out was nothing to boast about -- I've been inspired to maintain my sobriety by men who've walked the long, hard, painful road to accepting absolute and unconditional accountability for their shit.
I was also unaware that it constituted political correctness gone mad to assert that a well-marinated hard-on is no justification for de-volving into an ape in heat. Do some people out there get how contemptuously misandrist it is to carry on as if men are animals who are incapable of sexual self-control? Convenient, but its ultimately more 'man-hating' than any Feminazi dyke castrating shew your imagination can cook up.
Rant off, because this really isn't how I wanted to start the week.
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The sooner Ropati stops fronting up to the media and reminding us all what a dubious sort he clearly is, the better for everyone I think, particularly him.
Indeed - I know it's not a precise comparison, but I know people whose sympathy for Clint Rickards took a hit, every time one of his more toxic supporters -- or the man himself -- opened their traps.
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I find his brother's talk of a private prosecution against the complainant for her admitted cocaine use somewhat beyond disgusting.
I don't think its unfair comment to say there are more than a few sportsmen who've been happy beneficiaries of 'what (and who) goes down on tour, stays on tour' discretion over the years. Would it be too cynical to suggest there might be one or two high profile league figures suugesting to Ropati and his supporters that it is time to count your blessings and STFU?
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