political blog flog: 7 January 2005
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Date: 7 January 2005
Entry title: Tsunami
I didn't get a lot of sleep, so this won't be the picture of coherence. Then again, LKH is rarely coherent, so what am I apologising for?
Her words are in bold.
The tsunami disaster. For days after it happened, I didn't know about it. When the book is going well and the deadline is very close, Darla protects Jon and I from some news.
"Protect"? From "the news"? WTF? Is the news a big bad monster? Oh no, Laurell, watch out! It's news! You know, stuff from that nagging real world that you seem to be unable to grasp. The real world where not all men have "curtains" or "veils" of hair that cover their asses. The real world in which Anita would not be the object of everyone's desire. The real world in which anyone in Anita's sphere would have told her to fuck off by now.
When I am working like this I don't watch the news, or read newspapers, or even go near a magazine rack. I avoid anything that may ruin my train of thought, or interfere too much with the mind set I need to do what I do.
Totally, because don't let the deaths of thousands upon thousands of people worry you. I mean, you have to educate sycophant teenage wannabe-goths on kinky sex. That's a big task. You better not worry yourself with trivial things like thousands of orphaned children, or entire communities that have been utterly demolished. And "interfere with the mind set"? Again, WTF? How could a tsunami possibly "interfere"? Unless, of course, Merry and Barinthus are going to be having sex in the middle of the ocean and cause a tsunami. Which they probably will. She really needs to ditch her handlers for a while and get a taste of the real world.
Darla used to give bits of the news to Jon, but if it was bad enough I'd pick up on it, so she stopped sharing with either of us.
Okay. Even if I bought into the "artist mind-set" bullshit she brings up later on, why does this affect the ubiquitous Jon? Is he co-writing the novels? If he is, I can't blame him for not wanting credit. Or maybe he is, and that's why they've started to suck. Or is it because, you know, they're just so in tune with each other? Gag.
At my request, because of if it was horrible enough it would take me days to be able to write again, or write any amount of pages. So, in a way, I live in a bit of a bubble. I have to say that it is one of the few parts of the whole artist mind-set that I can't deny. You need a little bit of an ivory tower, or the world becomes too heavy.
Newsflash: the world is heavy. It's the job of the artist to portray that heaviness, to interpret it, to re-evaluate and redefine it. This must be why her books are getting more and more implausible.
Other than that, be good to one another, and do what you can not just for those who were devastated by this disaster but for those closer to home, as well. Let us take care of eachother, for we are the hands that God has made to do His work.
Gaggity gag gag. Who does she think she is? First of all, she must belong to every religion on the planet, because she "thanks the Goddess" in one of her non-political entries, and now she appears to be using the Christian God. I guess she's trying to cover all her bases, hoping that some deity will take pity on her.
Random blog flogging: why the hell doesn't she have the blog on her own site? She has a domain that "her people" run. Her publishers have a domain for her as well. So why is she hiding it away? So people like us don't tear it to shreds? Yeesh.
Date: 7 January 2005
Entry title: Tsunami
I didn't get a lot of sleep, so this won't be the picture of coherence. Then again, LKH is rarely coherent, so what am I apologising for?
Her words are in bold.
The tsunami disaster. For days after it happened, I didn't know about it. When the book is going well and the deadline is very close, Darla protects Jon and I from some news.
"Protect"? From "the news"? WTF? Is the news a big bad monster? Oh no, Laurell, watch out! It's news! You know, stuff from that nagging real world that you seem to be unable to grasp. The real world where not all men have "curtains" or "veils" of hair that cover their asses. The real world in which Anita would not be the object of everyone's desire. The real world in which anyone in Anita's sphere would have told her to fuck off by now.
When I am working like this I don't watch the news, or read newspapers, or even go near a magazine rack. I avoid anything that may ruin my train of thought, or interfere too much with the mind set I need to do what I do.
Totally, because don't let the deaths of thousands upon thousands of people worry you. I mean, you have to educate sycophant teenage wannabe-goths on kinky sex. That's a big task. You better not worry yourself with trivial things like thousands of orphaned children, or entire communities that have been utterly demolished. And "interfere with the mind set"? Again, WTF? How could a tsunami possibly "interfere"? Unless, of course, Merry and Barinthus are going to be having sex in the middle of the ocean and cause a tsunami. Which they probably will. She really needs to ditch her handlers for a while and get a taste of the real world.
Darla used to give bits of the news to Jon, but if it was bad enough I'd pick up on it, so she stopped sharing with either of us.
Okay. Even if I bought into the "artist mind-set" bullshit she brings up later on, why does this affect the ubiquitous Jon? Is he co-writing the novels? If he is, I can't blame him for not wanting credit. Or maybe he is, and that's why they've started to suck. Or is it because, you know, they're just so in tune with each other? Gag.
At my request, because of if it was horrible enough it would take me days to be able to write again, or write any amount of pages. So, in a way, I live in a bit of a bubble. I have to say that it is one of the few parts of the whole artist mind-set that I can't deny. You need a little bit of an ivory tower, or the world becomes too heavy.
Newsflash: the world is heavy. It's the job of the artist to portray that heaviness, to interpret it, to re-evaluate and redefine it. This must be why her books are getting more and more implausible.
Other than that, be good to one another, and do what you can not just for those who were devastated by this disaster but for those closer to home, as well. Let us take care of eachother, for we are the hands that God has made to do His work.
Gaggity gag gag. Who does she think she is? First of all, she must belong to every religion on the planet, because she "thanks the Goddess" in one of her non-political entries, and now she appears to be using the Christian God. I guess she's trying to cover all her bases, hoping that some deity will take pity on her.
Random blog flogging: why the hell doesn't she have the blog on her own site? She has a domain that "her people" run. Her publishers have a domain for her as well. So why is she hiding it away? So people like us don't tear it to shreds? Yeesh.
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Date: 2005-01-09 07:37 am (UTC)*stares*
She has people to protect her from the news? You know what I do when I don't want to hear depressing world events? I turn off the television! Or don't buy a newspaper! Or even don't go on the internet! It's not hard to live in a "bubble", people! She acts like people are throwing rocks through her window with the word "tsunami" taped on them. (The rocks, not the people.)
Granted, I understand her mind-set, because I tend to avoid the news too (find it horribly depressing), but if something major happened, like the president was shot, or Chicago was nuked, or 150,000 people were wiped out by a really big wave, I'd want to know about it.
You need a little bit of an ivory tower, or the world becomes too heavy.
*stares* That's just...stupid. And gobsmackingly self-centered. Where does she get that idea? "You" need an ivory tower? No Laurell, you use that particular metaphor as a way of avoiding reality. Don't drag the rest of us writers into your personal philosophy of life.
...be good to one another...
Anyone else reminded here of Bill and Ted? "Be excellent to each other." *amused* The God she's mentioned isn't necessarily Christian...Judaism is monotheistic too...but, yeah, judging from her personal background, hers is probably Christian. Which, meh. Her religion, her choice. If she wants to utilize a hodgepodge of traditional Christian/Wiccan/shamanistic/Earth Mother values, more power to her or something.
why the hell doesn't she have the blog on her own site?
*shrug* Meh. Maybe it's just easier that way or something. I understand that if you don't grok the techie end, it's sometimes better to let your friends set up stuff for you. For this, I cannot blame her.
For the rest of it...OY.
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Date: 2005-01-09 03:28 pm (UTC)Meh. Maybe it's just easier that way or something. I understand that if you don't grok the techie end, it's sometimes better to let your friends set up stuff for you. For this, I cannot blame her.
True enough, but she clearly has tech savvy "people" working for her. They could have set something up.
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Date: 2005-01-10 03:06 am (UTC)BAH. HIRE BETTER PEOPLE, LAURELL. You know, like professional web designers, not just friends armed only with the rudiments of HTML.