Posted by Kevin at proxy-531.public.rwc.webtv.net on October 19, 1999 at 10:48:21:
In Reply to: Repost: What happened last night... posted by Placenta Jones on October 19, 1999 at 10:17:44:
: 2. To set the record straight, I used the word "lazy". Hawkboy didn't. And I never called Kevin "lazy". For my money, there's not a harder working man in show business (except for Dan Hedaya who is in EVERYTHING). I called the writing lazy. That means (to me) the story seemed slap-dash.
Yes. And since the writer wrote the story, that means you essentially called the writer lazy as well. And as stated - more or less - last night, that was just assinine.
:Full of lots of possibly good plots threads, jokes, and Dogma set-up that never came together.
For you it didn't come together. For others it did. It accomplished what I wanted it to. It was the only story I knew was in place from the get-go (had it written before #2 and #3). Saying it never came together is your opinion, yes; but you came off like it was indisputable fact last night, as you are now, and that's just not the case.
: Why did this happen?
See? You've made yourself the foremost authority on the subject - so much so that you're going to investigate it,
20/20-like.
: I'd guess that Kev was rushed and had to get the book out.
And your investigation is pure conjecture anyway. Fuck - opinion entitles you to say "I didn't like the book." Not "Here's what I think transpired that made the book stink." Number one, you know nothing about how and when the issue was written. Number two, again, you're working from the platform that the book stinks, which isn't true. It stunk for you; not for all.
: If Kevin didn't like my adjective choice, that's fine. I gave him a bad review and no one likes bad reviews...but don't discount the validity of my opinion.
Again (why am I wasting my time here...), your opinion that the book stinks is valid. Saying that the writing was lazy is NOT valid, unless phrased as "I found the writing lazy," or "In my opinion, the writing was lazy."
In terms of a getting a bad review, I could give a shit. I work in a field where I take a dump and I've got hordes of detractors saying the dump lacked integrity or was a sell-out of some sort. Believe me - saying you didn't like number four wasn't earth-shattering for me (indeed, Johnboy had weighed in that he wasn't a fan of it last week, as well as a few others). What was downright insulting and uncouth was calling the writing lazy. That's not valid, unless, again, phrased as your opinion ("In my opinion, the writing was lazy,"). And at that point, I read it, shrug it off, and move on to the next post.
But when you come off as the arbiter of fact - as you did with your original post - you come off as a pompous ass. You come off like the fuck who asks to come over for dinner at my house, downs the meal, doesn't help with the dishes, then declares that I can't cook for shit.
And after the last six months, that's the kind of fuck I can do without. Life's too short.