Ok, so which one of us here is hiding, pretending NOT to be the Bon't Try guy? I know it's one of you fuckers.
Eh...okay. Well, I have to go with Jordan on this one. That says more about the ego of the person saying it than the state of the internet or comedy in general. It's like saying, "Gee, I'm sure glad John Lennon was murdered, I would have hated to see him do a grunge record." What the fuck?!...Blake, said that she was glad that Mitch Hedberg, and Bill Hicks died before MySpace because she would have hated to see them asking to be anyone's friend.
Which is funny, because I make everyone on
Buk.net my friend. I'm the Tom of Buk.net. LOL!
Hey! Great thread !
Which is funny, because I make everyone on
Buk.net my friend. I'm the Tom of Buk.net. LOL!
Yeah, it's done the same with a thousand marginal bands. It's changed the way a lot of crappy entertainers pattern their careers. But the same can be said for the internet in general, or more accurately, the web. There have never been more bad artists, musicians, poets, jesters, dog trainers, chimney sweeps or stunt car drivers than there are now. The web has allowed mediocrity to flourish.You know, the "exposure" MySpace affords?
Arguably, MySpace created Dane Cook.
I always thought that the best would always rise to the top . . .
But maybe I just don't know what's good anymore.
I'm the Tom of Buk.net.
yes, they do still say that. but on the other hand, plenty of people have been totally supportive and positive.People still say that? You'd think it's almost become common now. Carol and I "met" through email over the old smog.net, and this was back in 97, 98, so you can imagine it seemed weird to a lot more people back then. But no one has freaked out over it. Not to our faces anyway. Then again, this is Los Angeles, so I suppose there are truly weird ways we could have met.
... anyone who has approached me who seems that way can be/has been deleted out of my internet realm with the mere click of a button. if only the 'real world' worked the same way!
but no one is really sincerely interested in what you're doing. they're only interested in what you're doing in hopes that you'll be interested in what they're doing.
All you need now is an idiotic picture of you looking over your shoulder...you really need to re-create that if you want to be Tom here. Ha.
He will come up with a looking-over-a-shoulder-picture. Don't worry.
They made a Myspace for the corgi
It's listed as my home page right now bebebitt
By the way Bill the corgi is not a mongrel, I hope you'll accept him for what he is. I can say he never told me he was a racist or a breedist. ;)
I could make a TV series about people getting insulted there. He is just an unusual man that does not seem to like most people. He probably did not like me, but his level of dislike did not rise to the level of him insulting me. He tolerated me. He was actually cordial, in ways, but I can see how it could have easily have gone very badly. If you were never able to get thrown out of Red's Store, this one would be the next best thing....
Oops -- didn't see Jordan's post. Okay, Bill was selling BOSP stuff. That's probably going to get him treated better by the average dealer than if he was some shmoe with a box full of used books.
put another way, how is what you just said specific in any way to myspace? are you somehow impugning the users of that site as vapid in a way that no one who participates in any other online community is? it leads me back to my original question of what your fuckin problem with myspace is in the first place. you keep lobbing these overly general platitudes about it (including your problem with the OPTIONAL question of one's sexual orientation), but you seem incapable of pinning down any criticism directed at the site itself- only the stereotype of its users that YOU INVENTED IN ORDER TO CRITICIZE IT.
Yeah, but you're selling through the internet, and you can be successful that way. Just as successful as selling through stores (if that wasn't true amazon.com would have failed).Poetry is a tough sell, indeed...
Yeah, but you're selling through the internet, and you can be successful that way. Just as successful as selling through stores (if that wasn't true amazon.com would have failed).
It's nice to have the books on the shelves of stores around the country, but if you build a strong audience on line, you actually reach much, much further. So don't sweat the bad salesman part. It would probably take 6 months to sell your hardcovers through stores, but you sell them out in hours online. You win.
I miss book stores and record stores, no doubt, but this is where we are. Everyone has to deal with it. You're working it well.
i guess i cannot pin it down to any criticism directed at the site itself because it just generally gives me a bad feeling. i don't know. it's just an opinion. it's not like i'm going to go gun it down or anything.
what i find more strange than my dislike of it is your vehement defense of it.
use it don't use it love it hate it whatever. you love it and that's great i have no problem with you, jordan. my very best friend in the world uses it. she thinks i have social disorders. she's probably right. why do you hate me because i dislike myspace?
Yes, yes.Vodka, not that it matters, but I think myspace blows chunks. I dislike the interface. I dislike that when I go to a page there I'm blasted with shitty music and sometimes I can't find the goddamn player to shut it up. I detest most of the pages I'm reluctantly going to because there's so much WYSIWYG bullshit splattered all over the pages that I can't find what the hell I was asked to look at in the first place.
The only reason I have an account with it is because there are a couple people I am friends with (friends as in, I know them personally, physically as a human, as opposes to the, well, you know) that do neat stuff but only on myspace. If it weren't for them, I would give a squirt of beerpiss to put the fire out on it.
But, I still buy vinyl albums and wear homemade tyedye shirts, so I'm just an old hippie geezer who don't give a shit to catch up to modern times and my opinion don't matter much.