10 years post 9/11

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

 

So you agree your original statement was perhaps misguided and ignorant?

 

Nope.

 

I have spent enought internet blood, flexed internet muscles and argued the merits of this work through the years on other fourms to the extent that I will simply say...nope.

[Guest Speed Racer]

You can certainly say it's the "best" and we can accept that as a matter of opinion, but to assert that it's the "only" is a matter of error.

 

And once again, to say that it's the "only" suggests that there are legions of people who do not correctly recognize the art of mourning. Surely you're not telling people how to mourn or remember.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

And lest one deride anyone for having an inane conversation in a thread of rememberance, I'm probably not the only one who spent at least some of that day having serious/inane/panicked/funny conversations on a message board. It was a different one back then, with the bulk of its membership in New York City, and I remember refreshing the page as everyone around that area checked in, thinking for sure that at least one of them had to have died. We didn't refrain from our usually stupid arguments and random posting, as it was a great day to blow off steam, but I do know that each one of us kept returning to the "NY Check-In" thread.

Ahhh...

 

I see what the problem is. I forgot to add the MAJOR ARTIST portion of my rant on this subject. (Thus the polemic vs. poetry item also, because this discussion usually leads to comparisons of MAGIC and LIVING WITH WAR).

Either way, I'm done here.

[Guest Speed Racer]

Ahhh...

 

I see what the problem is. I forgot to add the MAJOR ARTIST portion of my rant on this subject. \

 

You don't listen to much Sleater-Kinney, do you?

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

 

You don't listen to much Sleater-Kinney, do you?

 

Once again...polemic vs. poetry

[Guest Speed Racer]

Sales/age/taste v. sales/age/taste

[tinnitus photography]

 

Once again...polemic vs. poetry

 

 

i've heard Howe Gelb referred to as a poet, but never a polemicist.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

 

 

i've heard Howe Gelb referred to as a poet, but never a polemicist.

 

And who mentioned Howe Gelb?

[tinnitus photography]

me.

 

please keep up on the more salient posts in this thread.