Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
I checked on that Byrne thread again and, make of it what you will, but after the one guy asked for mutual respect from all participants (following Byrne accusing him of being disingenuous), Byrne has disengaged entirely. Which is unusual in its own way, from what I've seen. Most of the posters there are sycophants who either parrot the party line or immediately apologize when he disagrees with them. But having someone stand up, remain polite, make clear points, and ask for similar respect is rare. And it seems to have sent Johnny scurrying.
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
Interesting read, as it happens. I don't like the dynamic on that board at all, from the very little I've read.
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
I check in once a week or so to see what's pissing off Byrne. He's pretty faithful about answering questions and provides some decent insight about the comics biz, but he's a miserable dick to anyone who disagrees with him, so it ends up being dominated by embarrassing ass kissing.Silent Majority wrote:Interesting read, as it happens. I don't like the dynamic on that board at all, from the very little I've read.
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
Easy access to creators you like always seems great until you actually get easy access to creators you like. Oh, the internet.Dr. Medulla wrote:I check in once a week or so to see what's pissing off Byrne. He's pretty faithful about answering questions and provides some decent insight about the comics biz, but he's a miserable dick to anyone who disagrees with him, so it ends up being dominated by embarrassing ass kissing.
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
Cf. White, Gregory "Vince"Flex wrote:Easy access to creators you like always seems great until you actually get easy access to creators you like. Oh, the internet.Dr. Medulla wrote:I check in once a week or so to see what's pissing off Byrne. He's pretty faithful about answering questions and provides some decent insight about the comics biz, but he's a miserable dick to anyone who disagrees with him, so it ends up being dominated by embarrassing ass kissing.
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
It's a good argument for keeping a wall between yourself and your public. I definitely hold celebrities I can follow on Twitter in less esteem than those who I don't read complaining about their laundry.Flex wrote:Easy access to creators you like always seems great until you actually get easy access to creators you like. Oh, the internet.Dr. Medulla wrote:I check in once a week or so to see what's pissing off Byrne. He's pretty faithful about answering questions and provides some decent insight about the comics biz, but he's a miserable dick to anyone who disagrees with him, so it ends up being dominated by embarrassing ass kissing.
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The flaw in your example is that nobody ever actually liked Vince.Wolter wrote:Cf. White, Gregory "Vince"Flex wrote:Easy access to creators you like always seems great until you actually get easy access to creators you like. Oh, the internet.Dr. Medulla wrote:I check in once a week or so to see what's pissing off Byrne. He's pretty faithful about answering questions and provides some decent insight about the comics biz, but he's a miserable dick to anyone who disagrees with him, so it ends up being dominated by embarrassing ass kissing.
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
Well, I felt bad for the way he was treated once.Dr. Medulla wrote:The flaw in your example is that nobody ever actually liked Vince.Wolter wrote:Cf. White, Gregory "Vince"Flex wrote:Easy access to creators you like always seems great until you actually get easy access to creators you like. Oh, the internet.Dr. Medulla wrote:I check in once a week or so to see what's pissing off Byrne. He's pretty faithful about answering questions and provides some decent insight about the comics biz, but he's a miserable dick to anyone who disagrees with him, so it ends up being dominated by embarrassing ass kissing.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
Feeling pity for someone is about the closest I can get to liking anyone in this day and age.Wolter wrote:Well, I felt bad for the way he was treated once.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
Wait—I may have a lot of friends after all.Flex wrote:Feeling pity for someone is about the closest I can get to liking anyone in this day and age.Wolter wrote:Well, I felt bad for the way he was treated once.
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
I wear my canary yellow 'Shakespeare got to get paid, son' shirt with prideWolter wrote:You'll wear a CTC shirt but not yellow?Dr. Medulla wrote:That's a Married To the Sea cartoon. They have/had it as a t-shirt and I would have bought one, but they only have it in canary yellow.Flex wrote:
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
You can pull off wearing a purely yellow shirt? Inconceivable!Alyssa wrote:I wear my canary yellow 'Shakespeare got to get paid, son' shirt with prideWolter wrote:You'll wear a CTC shirt but not yellow?Dr. Medulla wrote:That's a Married To the Sea cartoon. They have/had it as a t-shirt and I would have bought one, but they only have it in canary yellow.Flex wrote:
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
Also, my recent trip to the Globe to see Henry V was one of those unexpectedly amazing travel experiences...it tied in very nicely with the FANTASTIC Hollow Crown series that I'm so sad to see at an end
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Re: Will the real Shakespeare please stand up?
You. Listen to Laura Marling putting Shakespeare to music.
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Very well done.Silent Majority wrote:You. Listen to Laura Marling putting Shakespeare to music.
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