Attention, Writers!

Neal Pollack wants us all to shut up.

Comments

[Madog]

Pretty long-winded article for someone telling writers to shutup. Still, I agreee with him about poets. I hate sounding small minded, but modern poets just seem to be a bunch of people who can't be bothered to write in complete sentences, or develop their ideas very much.

[Jim Treacher]

I'm sure he'll catch a lot of shit about it, but I liked it. Mainly because it was written by Neal Pollack and not "Neal Pollack" for a change.

[Lefty]

B-fucking-eutiful!

I'm shutting up about Iraq. The deal's done and there's nothing we have said or can say that will make a bit of difference.

[madman]

FREE IRAQ!!!

[Tim]

Gee, Lefty. Resignment to the inevitable sounds like a good deal, huh? You just shrug and sigh and let what will happen, happen. That'll be fun. And boy, it's a shining example of a democratic system in action! You just sit there and let nanny gov't wipe your ass and tell you what to do. Bush will make everything aaalll riiiight. Remember: Government is for YOU! Yay!

"When they came for the Jews, I did nothing, because I was not a Jew, etc."

[James]

I'd just like to say that it is more accurate to say that when the Nazis came for the Jews, the Germans did nothing because they hated the Jews, not merely because they were not Jews themselves. It's an important point.

[Dakota]

Good on you James.

[Mark S.]

"Shut up, antiwar people. Shut up, pro-war people. Shut down your computers and shut your goddamn pieholes. No one gives a shit what you write, so stop writing about the war. Shut up, all of you."

Errr... I "give a shit" what they write. Sliencing debate on an issue isn't going to make that issue go away. Better for both sides to say what's on their mind and get it over with one way or the other than to pretend that nothing is happening.

In the meantime, I suggest that Mr. Pollack closes his eyes, sticks his fingers in his and starts to hum really loud if he's too annoyed with either side of this issue.

[Warren]

Is Mr. Pollack concerned that too much space is being devoted to the war that otherwise could have been put to better use discussing 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'?

[Keith]

So some wag gets an assignment from his editor to make hay with other peoples pompous verbiage. Big deal, it's not like this guy wields any real power or influence.

[Franklin Harris]

Somehow I manage to write about both the war and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Well, not "Buffy" specifically, but I have reviewed a couple of comic-book movies.

[Jim Treacher]

He's silencing debate? I thought he just wrote a crabby column about war coverage.

[Lefty]

OK, Tim. What are YOU going to do about it?

If it's just putting up lame posts, shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous]

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[Jim N]

Hear, hear, Mark.

[Krazy Kufr]

I'm still trying to figure out what is so good about Pollack's writing. It isn't funny, and it contributes nothing original or worthwhile. Why does his stuff get linked so often?

[paul]

Well, Krazy, he *is* funny to a lot of us. It's kind of that pomo self-referential style that is in vogue, but I agree with an earlier poster -- it's not "Neil Pollack" so it's more realistic.

And to be honest, how many of the writers he mentions *don't* deserve to be taken down a few notches? It's refreshing to see someone take them on.

I don't like to stifle debate, but I think that the Andrew Sullivans and E.J. Dionnes of the world need a little reminder that they're not the all-mighty pontificators they most of the time think they are.

[F451]

"Resignment"?

[Spooky Cheesecake]

Does my contempt for people/things that aren't relevant make me a target of that writer? Do I have to care about a loud group of people (protestors) that make up less than one percent of the nation's population?

[Anonymous]

Do we have to care about *you*, Spooky? Think what a small percentage of the population *you* are.

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