LKH Attacks Stephen King
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lkh_lashoutsWell. This is my first flog. It's not really a flog since I'm not particularly funny. I incite riots, not laughter. So sorry if it bores you.
A few urls for all of you.
URL:http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2008/05/stephen-king-puts-foot-in-mouth.html
Link to Stephen King's TV appearance
Link to Stephen King's response to others who have criticized his remark
LKH needs to learn what phrases such as "putting your foot in your mouth" means before she uses them. Stephen King didn't have to do that at all. In fact, he kept his stance throughout.
In Imaginaryville, Population: LKH, I'm sure he's groveling for upsetting the diety and has his foot so far in his mouth that he's biting his knee.
The blog begins with a Stephen King quote that the supposed technophobic c&p'd directly from that website.
"I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that." -Steven King
Stephen*, LKH. I hate it when people spell my name with a "k", according to Darla, you obviously hate it when people say "Anita Black" instead of "Anita Blake." So why spell his name wrong if names being wrong is obviously a pet peeve of yours. AND IT'S NOT LIKE HIS NAME ISN'T RIGHT THERE IN THE ARTICLE.
When I first heard the unfortunate statement that Stephen King made on Book TV on CSPAN 2, I was angry. I felt that I had to defend the honor of our nation's military, but you know what? I don't have to defend their honor because they do a damn good job of defending themselves.
I think she gets angry just for the sake of being angry. I'm an Aries, so I'm all for the anger if it's logical. The other day she got mad at Jon for offering to drive home. She gets mad at Trinity for breathing. She was mad at those girls for leaving behind the leaf the dolphin fetched from the pool.
I R TEH LKH.
HEAR
ME
RAWR.
The sad part about this is that Darla was just campaigning that everyone is allowed to have their opinion on the LKH forum, and now LKH is pretty much saying that Stephen King isn't allowed to feel the way he feels.
OHHH. I forgot all about that one tiny clause in the agreement. You can have your own opinion but it must not differ from our diety THE LKH.
First off, the friend that brought the statement to my attention, Charles, is ex-army. He really enjoys reading. He's one of the few people, outside my writing group, that knows more esoteric quotes than we do. In fact, when he was stationed in Iraq in a forward area, he joked that he couldn't get away from me. Why? Because, of the four books available, two of them were mine. When he got back to St. Louis and ended up being assigned to be my security, he told me the story. I loved the idea of my books, set here in the Midwest being out in the sand box for our soldiers to read.
Please. Shut the fuck up. No one gives a fuck about Charles or what he thinks or how he feels or how he felt or how he looks or how well he drives or how he stroked your precious ego until it purred like how you imagine your Foose will when you learn how to drive it properly.
Besides, if there were only four books available, they were pretty much forced to read your drivel.
Anyway, she goes on and on and on, somehow trying to make a point about how Stephen King is wrong when we hit this:
Maybe Mr. King never had the pleasure of being friends with anyone in the military. I have both very good friends, and family that are ex-military. My father-in-law, Art, is one of the most intelligent men I've met. He has a master's degree in Theology; forgive me Art for not remembering the exact degree. He retired as a Major from the Air Guard.
How very assumptive of LKH. Not for the Stephen King remark, but for believing that someone having a degree automatically makes them smart. Let us not forget that LKH double majored in English and Biology. To be quite honest, I don't think LKH is smart at all. I actually believe she's pretty slow, to put it lightly.
Not to mention that one Psych 101 course would tell you that intelligence isn't measured on IQ alone. I could break out the different intelligence theories, but I have a point to make and it'd take too long.
He's a policeman now, but he was a marine, though I'm not sure past tense actually applies to marines. You never really get it out of your system.
Yes, LKH. You would know... since you're a marine and all. You'd know how every now and then you revert back to the days that you were a marine. Out in the trenches. And repeating those smooth limericks. "This is my rifle, this is my gun" and "G.I. Beans and G.I. gravy, gee I wish I joined the navy" are both so second nature to you.
Once a marine, always a marine. That's the saying LKH. You should know it since you're so in tune to your troops.
Okay, here's my dilemma, everyone. It's not that she didn't understand that Stephen King meant that without a proper education, your chances of getting a job other than the army or Burger King are slimmer than the short-story-passed-off-as-a-novel Micah. He didn't once say that everyone in the army was uneducated, so her whole blog was useless, one-sided, maniacal bullshit that I expect to hear from... well, no one really.
It's her inability to have foresight, empathize, comprehend, or convey emotions properly. I could go on and on, but I think most of this flog is the tequila talking.
Sorry for the long post, chicas.
A few urls for all of you.
URL:http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2008/05/stephen-king-puts-foot-in-mouth.html
Link to Stephen King's TV appearance
Link to Stephen King's response to others who have criticized his remark
LKH needs to learn what phrases such as "putting your foot in your mouth" means before she uses them. Stephen King didn't have to do that at all. In fact, he kept his stance throughout.
In Imaginaryville, Population: LKH, I'm sure he's groveling for upsetting the diety and has his foot so far in his mouth that he's biting his knee.
The blog begins with a Stephen King quote that the supposed technophobic c&p'd directly from that website.
"I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that." -Steven King
Stephen*, LKH. I hate it when people spell my name with a "k", according to Darla, you obviously hate it when people say "Anita Black" instead of "Anita Blake." So why spell his name wrong if names being wrong is obviously a pet peeve of yours. AND IT'S NOT LIKE HIS NAME ISN'T RIGHT THERE IN THE ARTICLE.
When I first heard the unfortunate statement that Stephen King made on Book TV on CSPAN 2, I was angry. I felt that I had to defend the honor of our nation's military, but you know what? I don't have to defend their honor because they do a damn good job of defending themselves.
I think she gets angry just for the sake of being angry. I'm an Aries, so I'm all for the anger if it's logical. The other day she got mad at Jon for offering to drive home. She gets mad at Trinity for breathing. She was mad at those girls for leaving behind the leaf the dolphin fetched from the pool.
I R TEH LKH.
HEAR
ME
RAWR.
The sad part about this is that Darla was just campaigning that everyone is allowed to have their opinion on the LKH forum, and now LKH is pretty much saying that Stephen King isn't allowed to feel the way he feels.
OHHH. I forgot all about that one tiny clause in the agreement. You can have your own opinion but it must not differ from our diety THE LKH.
First off, the friend that brought the statement to my attention, Charles, is ex-army. He really enjoys reading. He's one of the few people, outside my writing group, that knows more esoteric quotes than we do. In fact, when he was stationed in Iraq in a forward area, he joked that he couldn't get away from me. Why? Because, of the four books available, two of them were mine. When he got back to St. Louis and ended up being assigned to be my security, he told me the story. I loved the idea of my books, set here in the Midwest being out in the sand box for our soldiers to read.
Please. Shut the fuck up. No one gives a fuck about Charles or what he thinks or how he feels or how he felt or how he looks or how well he drives or how he stroked your precious ego until it purred like how you imagine your Foose will when you learn how to drive it properly.
Besides, if there were only four books available, they were pretty much forced to read your drivel.
Anyway, she goes on and on and on, somehow trying to make a point about how Stephen King is wrong when we hit this:
Maybe Mr. King never had the pleasure of being friends with anyone in the military. I have both very good friends, and family that are ex-military. My father-in-law, Art, is one of the most intelligent men I've met. He has a master's degree in Theology; forgive me Art for not remembering the exact degree. He retired as a Major from the Air Guard.
How very assumptive of LKH. Not for the Stephen King remark, but for believing that someone having a degree automatically makes them smart. Let us not forget that LKH double majored in English and Biology. To be quite honest, I don't think LKH is smart at all. I actually believe she's pretty slow, to put it lightly.
Not to mention that one Psych 101 course would tell you that intelligence isn't measured on IQ alone. I could break out the different intelligence theories, but I have a point to make and it'd take too long.
He's a policeman now, but he was a marine, though I'm not sure past tense actually applies to marines. You never really get it out of your system.
Yes, LKH. You would know... since you're a marine and all. You'd know how every now and then you revert back to the days that you were a marine. Out in the trenches. And repeating those smooth limericks. "This is my rifle, this is my gun" and "G.I. Beans and G.I. gravy, gee I wish I joined the navy" are both so second nature to you.
Once a marine, always a marine. That's the saying LKH. You should know it since you're so in tune to your troops.
Okay, here's my dilemma, everyone. It's not that she didn't understand that Stephen King meant that without a proper education, your chances of getting a job other than the army or Burger King are slimmer than the short-story-passed-off-as-a-novel Micah. He didn't once say that everyone in the army was uneducated, so her whole blog was useless, one-sided, maniacal bullshit that I expect to hear from... well, no one really.
It's her inability to have foresight, empathize, comprehend, or convey emotions properly. I could go on and on, but I think most of this flog is the tequila talking.
Sorry for the long post, chicas.
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Date: 2008-05-07 09:59 pm (UTC)Is that really saying much? Honestly? And is that the magisterial 'we' in that sentence? Does Laurita think she's royalty, or is she trying to include Jonboi in this little farcical proof-of-intellect that she's attempting to display?
Because, of the four books available, two of them were mine.
Oh, great. Now the conspiracy theorist in me is thinking that the Dubya Guvvunmint is trying to keep our soldiers brain dead by forcing them to read her pablum.
My father-in-law, Art, is one of the most intelligent men I've met.
Again, not neccessarily a ringing endorsement, LKH my dear.
"G.I. Beans and G.I. gravy, gee I wish I joined the navy"
LOL! I'd forgotten that one...
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Date: 2008-05-10 08:08 am (UTC)I have to admit to never hearing this one, and dad always likes to quote his pithy Marine quotes. "Ain't Ready for the Marines Yet" is always a favourite. :D