Comments on: Bryan Appleyard’s Notorious Nobodies http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyard-notorious-nobodies/ Real Talk About Making Real Sex Erotic Documentaries Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:27:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: ell http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyard-notorious-nobodies/#comment-64424 ell Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:32:32 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyardsd-notorious-nobodies/#comment-64424 You Tube didn't exist two years ago. In October 2006 Google paid $US1.65 billion for it. Ruperts Murdoch's News Corp then acquired MySpace for $US580 million. Fabulous or not - the "nobodies" appear to have value of the monetary kind. It maybe the terribly low brow, self promoting circles in which I circulate but I will admit to having heard about the "Will It Blend" site before I knew who Bryan was. My nine year old doesn't get away with "How come?" You Tube didn’t exist two years ago. In October 2006 Google paid $US1.65 billion for it. Ruperts Murdoch’s News Corp then acquired MySpace for $US580 million. Fabulous or not - the “nobodies” appear to have value of the monetary kind.

It maybe the terribly low brow, self promoting circles in which I circulate but I will admit to having heard about the “Will It Blend” site before I knew who Bryan was.

My nine year old doesn’t get away with “How come?”

]]> By: tony http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyard-notorious-nobodies/#comment-64409 tony Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:10:09 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyardsd-notorious-nobodies/#comment-64409 I supposed "how come" is meant to convey a sort of long suffering exasperation. Ennui and world-weariness sometimes pass for sophistication... I supposed “how come” is meant to convey a sort of long suffering exasperation. Ennui and world-weariness sometimes pass for sophistication…

]]> By: chelsea g summers née girl http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyard-notorious-nobodies/#comment-64404 chelsea g summers née girl Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:01:24 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyardsd-notorious-nobodies/#comment-64404 I also have to ask what "leading British thinker" would begin a question with "How come?" Everyone knows that all the big boys--and girls--ask "Why?" kissykiss, chelsea g I also have to ask what “leading British thinker” would begin a question with “How come?” Everyone knows that all the big boys–and girls–ask “Why?”

kissykiss,
chelsea g

]]> By: tony http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyard-notorious-nobodies/#comment-64400 tony Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:34:07 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyardsd-notorious-nobodies/#comment-64400 The Times didn't buy Bryan's essay so much as they bought his name; and I suppose after several decades of writing and teaching and criticizing, Bryan's entitled to cash in on whatever credibility he's earned with the occasional ill-informed rant. Think of it as a low-rent version of Nicolas Cage in <i>THE ROCK.</i> In any case, Bryan's version of intelligentsia – folks who are (by and large) intimidated by both the quadratic equation and HTML, yet have no qualms about making (errant) references to relativity and quantum mechanics – is going the way of the dodo. More likely that's the source of Bryan's meanness than any titillation he was caused by Violet's panties, or wound he suffered because she didn't write him back. The Times didn’t buy Bryan’s essay so much as they bought his name; and I suppose after several decades of writing and teaching and criticizing, Bryan’s entitled to cash in on whatever credibility he’s earned with the occasional ill-informed rant. Think of it as a low-rent version of Nicolas Cage in THE ROCK.

In any case, Bryan’s version of intelligentsia – folks who are (by and large) intimidated by both the quadratic equation and HTML, yet have no qualms about making (errant) references to relativity and quantum mechanics – is going the way of the dodo. More likely that’s the source of Bryan’s meanness than any titillation he was caused by Violet’s panties, or wound he suffered because she didn’t write him back.

]]> By: Thomas Roche http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyard-notorious-nobodies/#comment-64389 Thomas Roche Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:42:01 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/07/30/bryan-appleyardsd-notorious-nobodies/#comment-64389 Yeah, what you said!! I am not unknown for a curmudgeonly rant or two (and applaud them in all their incarnations), but Appleyard couldn't even be bothered to understand WTF he was talking about before he started writing about it. This is a classic case of a non-story, written by someone who knows that there's no story here, because he/she hasn't bothered to find it and already knows what he/she thinks. This seems to be a common technique in the mainstream media in covering 1) "Web 2.0", and of course 2) anything about sexual variation, porn included. It's bad enough when someone exposes his idiocy on a blog, but as a professional writer, when mainstream media companies spend actual money on acquiring content like this, it drives me even crazier. Yeah, what you said!! I am not unknown for a curmudgeonly rant or two (and applaud them in all their incarnations), but Appleyard couldn’t even be bothered to understand WTF he was talking about before he started writing about it.

This is a classic case of a non-story, written by someone who knows that there’s no story here, because he/she hasn’t bothered to find it and already knows what he/she thinks. This seems to be a common technique in the mainstream media in covering 1) “Web 2.0″, and of course 2) anything about sexual variation, porn included.

It’s bad enough when someone exposes his idiocy on a blog, but as a professional writer, when mainstream media companies spend actual money on acquiring content like this, it drives me even crazier.

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