Sunday, February 15, 2009

Shameless Self Promotion

Writing a post on one blog and putting a link to it on another blog is pathetic, and I don't know why anyone would ever do it. But let's say Thomas Benton wrote an article about how people shouldn't go to humanities graduate school, and you wanted to write a response to it, that wouldn't be so bad, would it?

RATING: Gotothepnakoticmanuscriptsandfindout%

(Image from www.mocoloco.com.)
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13 comments:

  1. DCPFebruary 15, 2009 at 2:32 AM

    Well, I guess we finally killed R3, since for some reason there's no text on the front page anymore.

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  2. DCPFebruary 15, 2009 at 2:36 AM

    Ok, it's better now.

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  3. JohnFebruary 15, 2009 at 2:40 AM

    What happened?

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  4. DCPFebruary 15, 2009 at 2:46 AM

    I don't know. The front page where the reviews usually appear was totally black, and I had to click on each review title on the side to see it. It's fine now though.

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  5. laurieFebruary 15, 2009 at 9:37 AM

    Glenn, stop trying to break the internets.

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  6. Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band)February 15, 2009 at 9:51 AM

    i happened to find this randomly because it was on something like the 12th page of google after i searched "shameless self promotion." so here's the deal, sparky: shameless self promotion has more than enough literary merit and its person has enough artistic sensibilities to be able to ignore and even quash your so-called "review," but i have to leave you a tip. if you want to "review" something, especially the SPAN of an ENTIRE THINGY, you'd better come up with something a little better than "every inside looks like somebody barfed a punch of pencils." it's certainly easy enough to tell that your talents will never make it into the pages of shameless self promotion, so i wouldn't worry about offending anyone with your word vomit. maybe you should go take a class, brush up on some grammar skills, and write something again when you have something worthwhile to say.

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  7. Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band)February 15, 2009 at 9:51 AM

    just a little blast from the past

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  8. DCPFebruary 15, 2009 at 10:00 AM

    Ahhh, the classics.

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  9. LoCoFebruary 15, 2009 at 9:11 PM

    Guess who I saw at MY "sexual harassment conference"? She's cuter than I would have thought...

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  10. JohnFebruary 15, 2009 at 9:15 PM

    Who? RuPaul? Judith Butler? Dame Judy Dench?

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  11. LoCoFebruary 15, 2009 at 9:42 PM

    Wrong, wrong, and wrong! It was someone who could quash us all (even though I am like a foot taller than her).

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  12. laurieFebruary 15, 2009 at 10:45 PM

    The woman from Fence magazine? I don't actually know her name because no one cares about poetry except other poets.

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  13. LoCoFebruary 15, 2009 at 10:46 PM

    Right you are, Laurie. Right you are. I wish you could have seen how right you are this past weekend.

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