Comments on: Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt vs. Crikey: Upscaling the blog wars or big yawn?

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:27:39 +0000

Yes you are right. We should always ask ourselves this. “What would Tim Blair do?” In fact, Im going to get a bracelet with “WWTBD?” on it. Im going to put it on my pencil case. “WWTBD?” Im going to put a note in the fridge on the Lindt chocolate “WWTBD?”.

By: James

James — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:54:52 +0000

Jesus Christ, you know how many comments the poison pen post got at Blair’s site? Three.

THREE.

Nobody cares, even Blair’s minions can barely be bothered to register PP’s existence, or Crikey’s, for that matter.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:43:40 +0000

Thanks Casey, what a gem of a poem to come from such a sad maelstrom. And now another suicide. Terrible.

By: adrian

adrian — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:53:21 +0000

Thanks Casey. A beautiful poem.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:19:55 +0000

You son’s eyes…. would become
So perfectly your eyes,
Became wet jewels
The hardest substance of the purest pain
As I fed him in his high white chair

Ted Hughes, “Life after Death”, Birthday Letters.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:54:30 +0000

How sad. Plath’s son commits suicide, 46 years after she did

http://www.smh.com.au/world/sylvia-plaths-son-commits-suicide-20090323-97lf.html?page=-1

By: joe2

joe2 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:36:01 +0000

Helen @382 you are absolutely correct to say that the Deveny comments, about drinking, were a joke. Just do not expect g1 to ‘get it’ or accept that Deveny has clearly denied, with nuanced consideration, at P.P.(see her quote below), that she has no mental health issues. She has been subject here and elsewhere to a very nasty personal attack for her writing. Like or hate her work, there is no need attack her like that, especially when the basis for bile is totally fabricated.

“What kind of intellectual lightweight would be as ignorant or unsophisticated about the human psyche to consider mental illness as weakness? Mental health is something that we all as individuals and collectively as a society need to take as serious as our physical health. We have to acknowledge it’s something we have to tend to and look our for in our friends, families and workmates. As a society we are extremely mentally unwell. And if anyone reads what I write, about being dyslexic, atheist, feminist…don’t you reckon I would have written about it by now if I was.”

By: Too Facile to Fight Feminist Ozblogger

Too Facile to Fight Feminist Ozblogger — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:21:25 +0000

He, he drops it like it’s prog.

By: FDB

FDB — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:48:26 +0000

“FDB if you hadnae said anything, no one would have noticed”

I guess I’ll choose to take that as a compliment. Thanks, Helen, for the compliment.

Zoe – “husbang”!11!!??!1??!!?![and so on]

That’s a hell of a word you got right there.

And look, a hell of a hubby too, if he can sustain a simultaneous love of Ponty ‘n’ tha Dogg[is that enough 'g' yet?].

By: Too Facile to Fight Feminist Ozblogger

Too Facile to Fight Feminist Ozblogger — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:21:07 +0000

Hey, it was the nineties. Everybody was playing in jazz-funk hip-hop bands, I swears it! At least they got over it, FDB. The husbang has recently become wildly enthusiastic for the concept. Exhibit 1 Exhibit 2 What am I to do?