it's like meeting the real Santa. no, wait. I think I'm spelling that wrong.

[hth]

I used to think you had to volunteer to be belittled in Joe Mallozzi's blog, but apparently they're drafting people now.

You know, I really thought about engaging with him (if only to correct the clear misreading of the last quote he puts up there -- I hope it's obvious to all of you that I didn't mean you could ONLY care about people you'd met, only that you were BOUND to do so, while it's often a lot more hit-or-miss with strangers) -- and then I remembered that we're talking about Joe Mallozzi, and that the reason I don't communicate with him *to start with* is that I think he's an asshole who treats the fans foolish enough to play that game like dirt. That hasn't changed, so I can't see where commenting would do me much good.

But I thought I'd let y'all know I was being talked about over there. It's practically like being famous!

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I hope it's obvious to all of you that I didn't mean you could ONLY care about people you'd met, only that you were BOUND to do so, while it's often a lot more hit-or-miss with strangers

This is not the first time that I've thought that Joe Mallozzi's blog would be good logical flaw spotting practice for LSAT students. I mean, it's the exact setup of a number of the Logical Reasoning questions: Person A makes an argument, Person B responds with "Clearly you're wrong because...", and the test taker has to identify the way in which Person B is making a total ass of himself. It's deeply amusing to me as a test prep provider to see people demonstrating classic LSAT flaws in real life.

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Yeah, the other segments were kind of par for the course -- I mean, if I say "your characters have colonialist attitudes," obviously you're going to say "I swear they really don't!" and if I say the Evian pisses me off, obviously you're going to say, "You are TOTALLY blowing Evian out of all proportion!" I mean, no surprises there. But that last bit was like -- fuck being a professional writer, *read much?* God almighty, learn to parse a sentence, please. I'm begging you.