ugh, this one hurts.
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I liked what Cory wrote about him there. That was thoughtful and fair.
And Iâm gonna miss the venomous old bastard. I have to think he finally just gave up and expired in disgust at it all.
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I miss Cory tooâŚ
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Nah. Not so much him. His writing never did a whole lot for me.
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I was also there when
he humiliated a respected woman colleague in front of all of her peers.
I just donât like his style of writing. Iâd rather the story be told clearly, as was done by his friend, Asimov. I recall a memorial service for Asimov when he died â Ellison called in, and when someone said âWould you like to say a few words about Isaac?â, he said âWho?â Now that was pretty funny, and something Asimov would have appreciated.
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For his fiction? Yeah, totally with you there.
But I absolutely worship the two Glass Teat books. And now, times being what they are, theyâre a precious capsule into a very pertinent moment in history.
Theyâre also a great illustration of a man who was all for equal rights for women⌠and completely unable to connect that to changing his own behaviour.
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Suntrust park killed someone. Now perhaps people will believe me when I say itâs a place of evil.
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Amazing woman. Iâm glad she got to live a good long life, and that her passing is getting the international recognition it deserves.
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their marketing works. i say âroll that beautiful bean footageâ and look for their beans every time i buy a can of them.
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I was never a huge Spider-Man fan, but I read enough comics as a kid to know who Steve Ditko was.
I had no idea he was an objectivist, though. I generally try to separate the art from the artist, but thatâs one of those things that I find it extremely hard to not be judgmental about.
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In the sixties and seventies it was a safe way to signal a dislike for the way society works⌠when one was really young and naive about who the real enemy is. Later reflection is always the real test. He kinda failed it.
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Thatâs a context that was before my time, but I can kind of see it. For most of my adult life, âobjectivistâ has been a synonym for âselfish assholeâ, but I will admit to some confusion in my youth.
For example, I really enjoyed L. Neil Smithâs The Probability Broach the first time I read it. I was less impressed when I figured out it was a thinly veiled riff on Rand, though. Substituting âPropertarianâ for âObjectivistâ was a little too on the nose for my tastes.
On the other hand, even as a punk kid, I was already hip to her bullshit on some level. One of the first school papers I can remember being proud of writing was an essay/book report entitled âAnthem or Anathema?â Probably not as insightful as I remember it, but I thought it was pretty clever at the time, Iâm sure.
Honestly, though, my distaste for Rand is as much literary as philosophical. I can probably count on one hand the number of (fiction) books Iâve started and not finished, and Atlas Shrugged was definitely one of those books. Fuck a sixty page monologue, you know what I mean? She just was not a very good writer.
OK, thatâs enough of my off-topic ranting.
Ditko definitely did some interesting and influential work at Marvel. Like I said earlier, I was never a big Spider-Man fan, but I find Doctor Strange (what little Iâve read) so much more entertaining as an adult than I ever did as a kid. Itâs just such a trippy book.
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I knew that.
Itâs basically why Alan Moore tried to write Rorschach as a repulsive right-wing loon in Watchmen.
SEE ALSO: Batman writer Alan Grant.
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Frank Miller too
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Jonathan Gold, a beloved food critic turned champion of mom-and-pop restaurants in L.A. According to the woman who just served me a Rainier. Of course I barely knew Anthony Bourdain existed before he died, but Iâm going to read Goldâs columns and see whatâs there.
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