Everything as Fuck May 21, 2014 at 4:00 pm

Everything as Fuck

Outrage!!

Ian Karmel
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Thanks Ian, but I make awesome biscuits and I don't need you cinnamon buttering them up to make them taste good.


(just kidding I suck at biscuits, save it for some $4 toast, which is too much to spend on toast but I'm sure will taste great)
Aestro on May 21, 2014 at 2:44 PM Report this
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That's my argument to people when they complain about stuff like George Lucas ruining Star Wars or the new Pixies album being awful (which I absolutely don't think is the case). If you don't like it, go make your own shit. It's the critic problem. Critics are critics because they can't be creative.
tkendrick3636 on May 21, 2014 at 3:16 PM Report this
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Believe me, Ian, we really don't want most people writing novels, stories, or poems, or creating paintings. 99% of people really suck at those things. But many of those suck-at-being-creative people are very good at being outraged. So you'd take away their outlet? It was for this that the internet was created. If you're outraged about their outrage...ignore it. You saw the best minds of your generation destroyed by...angriness? No. Not the best. Just the rest.
Mecklem's Anonymous Account on May 21, 2014 at 8:29 PM Report this
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I've found it much easier to rail against an alleged slight on the internet than to deal with my own fucked-up life. I am far from unique in this behavior.
disastronaut on May 21, 2014 at 9:57 PM Report this
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Maybe you should try doing something other than commenting on other people's work, Todd. I've seen people grow creatively in leaps and bounds and go from someone you'd want to ignore to someone you would pay to see.
Ian Karmel on May 21, 2014 at 10:35 PM Report this
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“Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.” -Hemingway
flff on May 21, 2014 at 11:56 PM Report this
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flff: Hemingway said that? I thought it was alex trebeck.
i'mrightyourwrong on May 22, 2014 at 4:05 AM Report this
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Thanks, Ian. Maybe I will. But not everyone will. And they still get their say, even if you consider them terribly negative and uncreative. And Louis will be fine. At least until the day no one bothers to become outraged about him any more.
Mecklem's Anonymous Account on May 22, 2014 at 6:13 AM Report this
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Not sure the problem with think pieces about interesting/creative/smart television. Even if tinged with criticism. Making something doesn't mean it's unassailable. TV has gotten smarter and better, hence the criticisms of it, as well. Yea, there's always a bellowing of gutter buttholes and solipsistic clods around a cultural product but despite it, discourse around most mediums has been heightened and I think it's worthwhile.
TSW on May 22, 2014 at 11:05 AM Report this
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Who is Alanis Morissette?
jonesrich on May 22, 2014 at 11:50 AM Report this
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HOW DID YOU KNOW I HAD A BLACK FLY IN MY CHARDONNAY ARE YOU A WIZARD
tf on May 22, 2014 at 12:36 PM Report this
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I AM. I AM ALSO A SEX MAGICIAN.
Ian Karmel on May 22, 2014 at 1:43 PM Report this
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Wow, this is some tedious, cliché-ridden, moralistic, scoldy shit. Maybe the guy's a brilliant comedian (don't know, haven't seen him), but he's a dreary columnist.

Can't believe you gave him his gig back.
ytregaws on May 22, 2014 at 6:38 PM Report this
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Ian who?
frankieb on May 22, 2014 at 7:47 PM Report this
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I'm so outraged I'm outrageous.
JRRTrollkien on May 22, 2014 at 11:09 PM Report this
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Hey tregaws,

"Wow, this is some tedious, cliché-ridden, moralistic, scoldy shit. Maybe the guy's a brilliant comedian (don't know, haven't seen him), but he's a dreary columnist.

Can't believe you gave him his gig back."

Is just fancy talk for "This guy blows."

You're just a typical, heckling nothing.
Andy Gold on May 23, 2014 at 11:13 AM Report this
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Andy Gold FTWFTW!

(Fuck the world for the win!)
ytregaws on May 23, 2014 at 6:11 PM Report this
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What happened in L.A.?
altogetherPDX on May 25, 2014 at 7:19 AM Report this
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Welcome back. If everyone is not fawning at your feet it means you are most likely right. Good luck
on May 25, 2014 at 3:57 PM Report this
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I won't be criticized by the type of boring dumbass who picks a screen name by spelling their name backwards, ytregaws.
Ian Karmel on May 28, 2014 at 2:36 PM Report this
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Here at last is a man of principle: I salute you.

Also, best to you in your career.
ytregaws on May 29, 2014 at 6:26 PM Report this

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