Mia Farrow's son -- Ronan Seamus Farrow -- really creeps me out!

^ sir mixedupalot

ha i thought u were playing a lot

along lol

IRL LOT

LTIPOS! (literally turning into a pillar of salt)

look at the nouns.

― da croupier, Wednesday, February 5, 2014 7:09 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is an amazing post

This is probably the least awful "let's be balanced" piece on the whole thing that I've read so far: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/02/woody_allen_v_dylan_farrow_the_court_of_public_opinion_is_now_in_session.html

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AauCarFOO_Y/TGXVeJ0qK-I/AAAAAAAAA6k/uMp5EcmPn_g/s1600/Costner-13%2BDays.jpg

closer to the truth

Also, please be aware that in the Court of Public Opinion, choosing silence or doubt is itself a prosecutable offense.

awful enough that i'm not going further

accurate enough - ppl on this thread who have expressed doubt have been prosecuted (lol such drama)

try silence, see if we prosecute

it's a loud kind of silence

THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS IS NOT A REAL SCHOOL ITS JUST AN EXPRESSION

YOU WON'T GET A DIPLOMA FROM THERE

B.Sc. (schHK) (unawarded on tech.) 2007

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-blog-piece-on-woody-allen-to-settle-everything,35197/

The thing I don't get is why some people think that those who are discussing this are trying to "settle" or "solve" the issue, as opposed to any other hot-button current event. No one was trying to "solve" Miley Cyrus, right?

Fuck off with the high-road condescension.

No one was trying to "solve" Miley Cyrus, right?

oh yes they were

you got a problem yo I'll solve it

check out my minstrel show while white media absolves it

solve for miley in the following equations. show your twerk.

lol nice

Been a pleasure to watch the journalist acquaintance I alluded to get blasted by a female coworker.

tmi

statistically probable coworker blaster

I mean, in a way that anyone expected a definite resolution.

No adult expects resolution to come from discussion of these things. It's fucking stupid that the Onion/that stupid Flavorwire piece presumes that we do.

That was to Tracer Hand, obv.

resolution = certainty. apparently achieved by many.

I think the Onion piece was also making fun of the way blogposts and counterblogposts on stuff like this tend to unfold.

eh it was cynical in a pretty shitty way imo, trying to be cleverly above-the-fray with something like this is nagl

Dog Unaware It Is Not Starving, however, is pretty hilarious

resolution = certainty. apparently achieved by many.

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:51 (18 minutes ago) Permalink

From their side of things. These pieces presume that we're trying to resolve things for them, but we aren't. Whether you think that our own certainty about the issue is a good thing or not is besides it all.

i read that joan didion piece posted above. it's fun to read, some of its criticisms are spot-on (including the observation that some of allen's cultural-reference jokes barely count as jokes), and I'd probably prefer to read a Didion book than watch an Allen film (now more than ever). that said... ultimately it was a good example of the old "narcissism of small differences" thing. this was especially evident in didion's reply to one of the letters published in the NYRB in response to her Woody Allen hit job. the letter was thoughtful, not particularly nasty given the venue/milieu, and well-written. her only response was the cruel, dismissive, and hateful, "Oh, wow." what a fucking snob.

come on, that's great

sorry I have nothing to contribute to the larger conversation here. I'm a bit wary of pieces that seem to indicate that it is a moral imperative to make a judgment call in this situation, which feels a bit too much like an extension of the whole internet-outrage-machine. but otherwise I feel like a lot of you do: horrified by what likely transpired, sad for Dylan Farrow, confused by the possible larger implications of it all, probably permanently ruined for Allen movies esp. those with him in the lead (which is not as big of a deal for a non-fan like me as it is for people who had been devoted to his work).

xpost

i said it was fun to read, but i think a lot of the criticisms could in another form be leveled right back at ms. didion.

"Oh, wow" annoyed me too. Maybe it just seems like kind of a played out "I got nothin" response in the internet age.

come on, that's great

― horseshoe, Thursday, February 6, 2014 7:13 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

next time you're in a series conversation w/ someone and make a careful argument for something and they roll their eyes dismissively and say "oh, wow" while calling for the check, let me know if you think it's "great." :) to me it just reads as mean, like "this guy can't possibly think I'd take him seriously enough to _engage_ him, right? I'm _Joan Didion_."

series = serious

the guy who responded to the didion piece was such a drip about it. (i agree with your narcissism of small differences reading of her critique, fwiw.) i mean, yes, it is mean and snobby to respond "oh wow," but it is also awesome.

btw WA has always claimed in interviews he's just an autodidact who'd rather watch the Knicks game, not an intellectual -- "They only eat their own." Didion seems a decent rep of who he meant.

i'll kill you

frankly, nothing about being an audo didact or loving basketball are in any way opposed to being an intellectual. he doth protest too much (or maybe he's just trying to avoid the Didion-esque criticism of him as a "psuedo-intellectual").

to be fair, I've read all of Didion's non-fiction and doubt she's read many novels either, including Sentimental Education.

i'll kill you

http://static.rogerebert.com/redactor_assets/pictures/far-flung-correspondents/pray-for-rosemarys-baby/rosemarys_baby_knife.jpg

autodidact who claims he's above intellectuals is just fighting one narcisissm of small difference with another

that's because madame bovary is better; didion otm

xxp

he's also said his films are consistently mediocre, not sure where "above" comes in

didn't say it was better! On a clear day I'll read "A Simple Heart."

i love the didion piece because it, like, one-ups that marshall mcluhan joke in annie hall