Just for the record: rayheinrich doesn't close threads

[rayheinrich]

Just for the record: rayheinrich doesn't close threads.

I'll never close a thread on PigPen.
I think closing a thread shows disrespect for the members of PigPen.
Tolerance of arguments that upset you is an essential element of free speech.
If you disagree with an argument, you should counter with your own argument,
not terminate the arguments of others who disagree with you.

Proviso:
If someone engages in personal attacks, I'm willing to censor that part of
the comment that expresses these if the person making them isn't willing to
edit them out.

In such a case, I will always acknowledge that rayheinrich did this and give
an explanation of why I did it.

[Emz]

I miss all of the drama 0_o

In terms of credit where credit is due, Simpsons episodes are frequently referencing works of others (whether subtly or not so subtly) without providing direct credit to the original authors. I've found that it promotes the act of seeking context when an individual becomes interested. I've always found the Simpsons to be both more educational as well as entertaining in that way, much more so than if it paused every reference to directly tell us where it's from. Even if they put it in the credits, who the hell watches the credits? Why should poetry be any different? Often things like footnotes can really kill a poem.. you know..the whole dissecting a frog thing. (Ah yes, I just learned that now on my own that that's actually a Mark Twain quote.. a pretty simple google search )

Emma

[Erthona]

I would close a thread if it is boring! Especially if it is one of Ray's

dale

[rayheinrich]

I miss all of the drama 0_o

In terms of credit where credit is due, Simpsons episodes are frequently referencing works of others (whether subtly or not so subtly) without providing direct credit to the original authors. I've found that it promotes the act of seeking context when an individual becomes interested. I've always found the Simpsons to be both more educational as well as entertaining in that way, much more so than if it paused every reference to directly tell us where it's from. Even if they put it in the credits, who the hell watches the credits? Why should poetry be any different? Often things like footnotes can really kill a poem.. you know..the whole dissecting a frog thing. (Ah yes, I just learned that now on my own that that's actually a Mark Twain quote.. a pretty simple google search )

Emma

The Simpsons is Thomas Pynchon's* favorite show.
And if he ain't the heaviest dude...


*     "... But, as in Pynchon's worlds, connections are too many and too diffuse to be clarified in footnotes." - from the book Thomas Pynchon by Harold Bloom
If Pynchon provided footnotes, they would be ten times longer than his books and wouldn't be that damn much help.
For me, Google is the only answer; and even then I feel like a complete illiterate.

But I'm not above name dropping:

  < gravity's rainbow >
         
no colors here
   
just a rainbow-curved line
of white rocket-exhaust
drawn across the November sky
tracing the ballistic trajectory
of a German V2 rocket as it
crosses the English channel
and heads for London with its
2000 pound warhead traveling at
four times the speed of sound
arriving silently at the Woolworth's
department store in New Cross
which explodes with a blinding
flash and an enormous roar
followed by a dense cloud of
smoke and debris casting a
shadow over the body parts
of 168 shoppers who have queued
outside hoping to buy saucepans
made scarce by war rationing

         - - -

I would close a thread if it is boring! Especially if it is one of Ray's

dale

    Idle words -- mine are never boring.

[Erthona]

Spoken like a true narcissist!

[milo]

Please save this stuff for your memoirs

(So I can avoid reading it a second time)

[rayheinrich]

Spoken like a true narcissist!

    Yeah, well, can't argue with that.   Hell, I even worked one of my poems in.