Guy Talk
No, not the expletive-laden revelations of a non-nuanced mind, that's obviously for diplomats on a world stage. I'm talking about what the News+Views Guys on my blogroll are saying, now that I've again caught up with that mysterious network of tubes:
• On Alas, A Blog (I'm psyched for next week's NYC gathering!), Tekanji examines the recent comments by Marvel editor in chief Joe Quesada about employing more women in comics. I do agree with her that "maintaining the boys' club" is partly a function of assuming a level playing field exists when all evidence points to the opposite, but as someone who hasn't gotten off her ass and written a comic book story in about a decade I know my inaction is adding to the dearth, not relieving it.
• Still, I'll take the compliments where I can, and Chris Clarke said such nice thinsg about me I'm all a'blush. As I said to Chris in the comments to his post, his brilliance at parodying The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was never in doubt, and I'm a big fan of that sort of thing. It's just that it wasn't very accessible to anyone who doesn't follow the right-wing blogosphere, and there are so many good writers on the liberal end I honestly haven't either the time nor the inclination to check out the "other side." (Besides, one can hear their viewpoints on pretty much every major mainstream news outlet; our views are the ones that seem to be constantly shut out or marginalized.)
• However, if you must hyper-analyze the right-wing blogosphere to death, you could do far worse than to read Glenn Greenwald's challenge to mainstream journalists and David Niewert's follow-up to that about the radical right's tendency toward extreme projection. As I said last week, these people are almost always guilty of whatever they’re loudly accusing their opponents of doing.
• Chris Albritton and Stuart Hughes, probably the two best journalist bloggers around, are doing a fine job reporting from Beirut.
• Hugo reminds us that Biblical "modesty" has more to do with not flashing your bling than with covering up naughty bits.
That's how I always understood that part of the Biblical tale of Esther, which of course I'll get to in That Comic Book Story that I still haven't written after ten years...
No, not the expletive-laden revelations of a non-nuanced mind, that's obviously for diplomats on a world stage. I'm talking about what the News+Views Guys on my blogroll are saying, now that I've again caught up with that mysterious network of tubes:
• On Alas, A Blog (I'm psyched for next week's NYC gathering!), Tekanji examines the recent comments by Marvel editor in chief Joe Quesada about employing more women in comics. I do agree with her that "maintaining the boys' club" is partly a function of assuming a level playing field exists when all evidence points to the opposite, but as someone who hasn't gotten off her ass and written a comic book story in about a decade I know my inaction is adding to the dearth, not relieving it.
• Still, I'll take the compliments where I can, and Chris Clarke said such nice thinsg about me I'm all a'blush. As I said to Chris in the comments to his post, his brilliance at parodying The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was never in doubt, and I'm a big fan of that sort of thing. It's just that it wasn't very accessible to anyone who doesn't follow the right-wing blogosphere, and there are so many good writers on the liberal end I honestly haven't either the time nor the inclination to check out the "other side." (Besides, one can hear their viewpoints on pretty much every major mainstream news outlet; our views are the ones that seem to be constantly shut out or marginalized.)
• However, if you must hyper-analyze the right-wing blogosphere to death, you could do far worse than to read Glenn Greenwald's challenge to mainstream journalists and David Niewert's follow-up to that about the radical right's tendency toward extreme projection. As I said last week, these people are almost always guilty of whatever they’re loudly accusing their opponents of doing.
• Chris Albritton and Stuart Hughes, probably the two best journalist bloggers around, are doing a fine job reporting from Beirut.
• Hugo reminds us that Biblical "modesty" has more to do with not flashing your bling than with covering up naughty bits.
That's how I always understood that part of the Biblical tale of Esther, which of course I'll get to in That Comic Book Story that I still haven't written after ten years...
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