Wow. I've been off all social media since the Fall and don't have a clue about what's going on with Stu and BC--but I've been a big fan of his and youse guys and am disappointed that you're not going to do a recap for your aged yet interested customers. I just started listening and am hoping I can gleam the controversy as it unfolds in your discussion. If not, fuck all of u for your elitist opinion that those in the know should know and thus don't need to be educated. Unity turned me on to BC a couple of years ago and I've always enjoyed reading the gazette and publishing there among a cadre of many interesting writers. If memory serves, William, I believe you did a very informative sit down broadcast with Stu within the not too distant past about Indie publishing. Although last summer when I had an Upstate mini-salon with two of your Catskill Mts. MLC regulars at the house I rented, I was surprised to hear less than flattering words about the subject of Stu and BC by two wordsmiths whose opinions I respect. “Life is a shit storm, in which art is our only umbrella." Mario Vargas Llosa.
I just finished listening to the entire discussion and it was good. Sad, disturbing. I got an image of you three squeezing the pus out of many pimples--painful but heading towards a good result. And speaking of squeezing, a few things that popped into my head while listening that I'm sure I will forget within a half hour: I had never heard the expression, "The juice isn't worth the squeeze" and loved it. Thanks Derek. And Will, walking away from stuff is often the only way to move forward, especially when there's shit on the bottom of one's shoes that needs to be scraped off during a walk that hopefully doesn't end in a park with a noose strung 'round a tree. I think Rudy's admonishment that this situation needs to be filtered through more of a sci-fi riff is spot on, but the heart of this discussion seems to be about theft and fraud. It saddens/jolted me to think that Stu's rich, booming English accented voice could be a thespian trick as you guys speculated. That's both very funny and quite terrifying.
Wow. I've been off all social media since the Fall and don't have a clue about what's going on with Stu and BC--but I've been a big fan of his and youse guys and am disappointed that you're not going to do a recap for your aged yet interested customers. I just started listening and am hoping I can gleam the controversy as it unfolds in your discussion. If not, fuck all of u for your elitist opinion that those in the know should know and thus don't need to be educated. Unity turned me on to BC a couple of years ago and I've always enjoyed reading the gazette and publishing there among a cadre of many interesting writers. If memory serves, William, I believe you did a very informative sit down broadcast with Stu within the not too distant past about Indie publishing. Although last summer when I had an Upstate mini-salon with two of your Catskill Mts. MLC regulars at the house I rented, I was surprised to hear less than flattering words about the subject of Stu and BC by two wordsmiths whose opinions I respect. “Life is a shit storm, in which art is our only umbrella." Mario Vargas Llosa.
I just finished listening to the entire discussion and it was good. Sad, disturbing. I got an image of you three squeezing the pus out of many pimples--painful but heading towards a good result. And speaking of squeezing, a few things that popped into my head while listening that I'm sure I will forget within a half hour: I had never heard the expression, "The juice isn't worth the squeeze" and loved it. Thanks Derek. And Will, walking away from stuff is often the only way to move forward, especially when there's shit on the bottom of one's shoes that needs to be scraped off during a walk that hopefully doesn't end in a park with a noose strung 'round a tree. I think Rudy's admonishment that this situation needs to be filtered through more of a sci-fi riff is spot on, but the heart of this discussion seems to be about theft and fraud. It saddens/jolted me to think that Stu's rich, booming English accented voice could be a thespian trick as you guys speculated. That's both very funny and quite terrifying.