New Rules for the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Blogosphere
Every time there is some discussion over books that entertain versus "challenge", especially one which gets gets widely linked to, which in turn inspires comments about James Joyce, I get a dollar per Joyce mention.
Don't get me wrong.
It's totally fine to use Joyce as an example of an experimenter, as someone who hated story or the English language, as someone beloved only by snooty snooty snobs who should be arrested in their own homes for tumultuous behavior, as someone who is "literary and hard", as someone who has inspired the coterie of culture vultures dedicated to destroying all that is good about literature, the human experience, and even our immortal souls as being superior to the animals ...whatever you want to say.
I just get a dollar when you do.
This is only for references to James Joyce. The usual scripted rants about berets and cafés, the pomo and the homo, the English teacher who took away your comic books, that "poet" (who doesn't even know how to write a rhyme) you met during Speed Dating, about modern art and how your kid could glue condoms to a fire hydrant too and call it a comment on overpopulation too, that's all fine. Well, it isn't, but I don't get a dollar.
I get a dollar when someone mentions James Joyce. This is the rule. It doesn't even matter who sends me the dollar. It can be the person mentioning Joyce, the host of the blog on which Joyce was mentioned, the editor of the magazine in which Joyce was mentioned, the first person to read the comment about Joyce, it can be Bertelsmann or Columbia University or Dover Editions.
Anyone can send me the dollar. But I get a dollar.
So remember: Skiffy+Joyce=$1.00 for Nick.
Okay? Get your dollars ready.
Don't get me wrong.
It's totally fine to use Joyce as an example of an experimenter, as someone who hated story or the English language, as someone beloved only by snooty snooty snobs who should be arrested in their own homes for tumultuous behavior, as someone who is "literary and hard", as someone who has inspired the coterie of culture vultures dedicated to destroying all that is good about literature, the human experience, and even our immortal souls as being superior to the animals ...whatever you want to say.
I just get a dollar when you do.
This is only for references to James Joyce. The usual scripted rants about berets and cafés, the pomo and the homo, the English teacher who took away your comic books, that "poet" (who doesn't even know how to write a rhyme) you met during Speed Dating, about modern art and how your kid could glue condoms to a fire hydrant too and call it a comment on overpopulation too, that's all fine. Well, it isn't, but I don't get a dollar.
I get a dollar when someone mentions James Joyce. This is the rule. It doesn't even matter who sends me the dollar. It can be the person mentioning Joyce, the host of the blog on which Joyce was mentioned, the editor of the magazine in which Joyce was mentioned, the first person to read the comment about Joyce, it can be Bertelsmann or Columbia University or Dover Editions.
Anyone can send me the dollar. But I get a dollar.
So remember: Skiffy+Joyce=$1.00 for Nick.
Okay? Get your dollars ready.