― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:08 (twenty years ago) link
I'll concede the poem to be "powerful," but I've always had a weakness for Baraka's style - this weakness is I suspect is in fact related to my tendency to say things like "oh, if he wrote that, then fuck 'im." It's here: http://www.amiribaraka.com/blew.html
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:09 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:09 (twenty years ago) link
― ddrake, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:09 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link
― ddrake, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, you're not Geir, you're Doompatrol! Makes sense now.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link
I should have just posted "Anticon" and run away.
damn.
― ddrake, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:12 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:13 (twenty years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:14 (twenty years ago) link
I'll leave the circus now. :-)
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:15 (twenty years ago) link
(Oh, and, yes, God bless the Nihilist)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:16 (twenty years ago) link
― ddrake, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:19 (twenty years ago) link
fuck you.
― ddrake, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:20 (twenty years ago) link
Who wants to join my Friendster web?
― ben welsh (benwelsh), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:21 (twenty years ago) link
― were you serious? (benwelsh), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:28 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:39 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:39 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:40 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:41 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:42 (twenty years ago) link
Is Darnielle really saying that because of something Baraka said in 2001, we ought to discount his writings from the 60s?!
Is Blount really belittling someone for the school they attend? Is Ned really playing along with this?
Did Dom Passatino really go look up a poster's personal information on the internet, and then come back to the thread with it giggling like a little fucking schoolgirl?
Unbelievable.
― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:42 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link
My antipathy for ddrake has other sources, specifically here. Honestly, I know nothing of what Wooster's reputation is or isn't, though I am bemused at the hate it seems to engender.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:44 (twenty years ago) link
Although honestly I still can't figure out why dee drake dude thinks Blues People has much to do with this argument. It's a great book, but wtf?!? (altho to be even more honest I like Black Music better.)
There are many fine institutions of higher learning in Ohio.
― hstencil, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:44 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:45 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:46 (twenty years ago) link
An understatement.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:47 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:48 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:48 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:49 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:51 (twenty years ago) link
(nihilist=good tho)
― Sean M (Sean M), Monday, 17 November 2003 06:00 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 17 November 2003 06:02 (twenty years ago) link
He's very proud of his 'provocations' and has said so before, and then complains when he gets trashed. For my part, that's not very comprehensible, except in an extremely negative way.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 November 2003 06:04 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 17 November 2003 06:05 (twenty years ago) link