Comments | scottwoods: Slam Criticism VII: The Yawning

scottwoods

Slam Criticism VII: The Yawning

Jun 09, 2009 06:02

A comment I made over here about the recent spate of attention (read, criticism) Slam has received. I post it here because I won't be doing a column about it because my whole poetry career is proof that the criticism is stale and uninformed.
With footnotes!

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Is it that point in the cycle again? Man, let me break out my shroud and ( Read more... )

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theryk June 9 2009, 10:49:37 UTC

oh, sorry... must have dozed off again. Is Slam dead again, or are we in our Renaissance period, again? I can never keep this shit straight.

scottwoods June 9 2009, 17:40:44 UTC

We're dead if you're in New York, but east of that it's just zombie-esque.

theryk June 9 2009, 17:41:14 UTC

Have you heard my C&W Zombie piece?

theryk June 9 2009, 10:51:57 UTC

"I am working on a column about a very specific aspect of this issue, but I have to be very careful. It could get me killed...by POETS, no less."

Dude, on a scale of one to ten, that threat registers at... wait a a minute... I have a team of Math Majors working on a hypothetical value low enough. Can we use negative negative numbers? Like "-whothefuckcaresjillion" ?

amberdulen June 9 2009, 12:57:33 UTC

Be careful, man. The pen is mightier.

theryk June 9 2009, 13:07:50 UTC

Haiku response:

the pen is mightier
than the sword, but in a
street fight? go with sword

nobleds June 9 2009, 14:12:40 UTC

YES!!!

theryk June 9 2009, 10:52:45 UTC

Scott, you're my hero. Go hurt them.

scottwoods June 9 2009, 17:41:32 UTC

I don't know, dog...this one is close to home (technically, not literally).

theryk June 9 2009, 17:51:08 UTC

Ok then. Don't hurt them, but do school them.

chaptal June 9 2009, 11:14:23 UTC

How come mostly men are being quoted in the articles about the death of slam?

Joe Biden never would have put on a poetry jam.

News cycle ending in three, two...

nobleds June 9 2009, 14:19:37 UTC

Joe Biden is also happy with good ol' American Mustard on his burger... oh, wait, did I miss that cycle?

chaptal June 9 2009, 14:22:18 UTC

That reminds me, I have to try Five Guys Burgers soon.

scottwoods June 9 2009, 17:42:08 UTC

Because chicks got their own slam now, so they don't care.

Oh snap!

Seriously, it's because chicks are stoopid.

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nobleds June 9 2009, 14:18:07 UTC

When the Greeks came up with an alphabet I believe it was Socrates who protested saying that being able to write down the stories that people used to have to memorize will make minds lazy and unable to analyze the meaning of the stories. 1000's of years later people opine that the tv and internet will lead to poeple not needing to learn how to read and not reading will make minds lazy and unable to really grast information.

We are either imporving, degrading or some sort of mix of the both.

In the end, people hate change, and like to cry that the sky is falling, but only when they are not the change or when they are not strong enough to stop the change.