Comments on: Easy Dinero for a Good Cause http://www.edrants.com/easy-dinero-for-a-good-cause/ a blog in ever-shifting standing Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: HeyCecilia.com » Blog Archive » A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers http://www.edrants.com/easy-dinero-for-a-good-cause/comment-page-1/#comment-240677 HeyCecilia.com » Blog Archive » A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:26:04 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=5012#comment-240677 [...] with reading I kept stumbling across pieces, well, making fun of Eggers, e.g, this (follow up here and here), this, etc. [all via Edward Champion’s Return of the [...] [...] with reading I kept stumbling across pieces, well, making fun of Eggers, e.g, this (follow up here and here), this, etc. [all via Edward Champion’s Return of the [...]

]]> By: mungo http://www.edrants.com/easy-dinero-for-a-good-cause/comment-page-1/#comment-87542 mungo Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:55:31 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=5012#comment-87542 Does Eggers really need a facillitator to get on a podcast? I'll have him on NY public access and won't demand he respond to anything, except how to rebuild a 72 Nova engine. Does Eggers really need a facillitator to get on a podcast? I’ll have him on NY public access and won’t demand he respond to anything, except how to rebuild a 72 Nova engine.

]]> By: Sister Rye http://www.edrants.com/easy-dinero-for-a-good-cause/comment-page-1/#comment-85045 Sister Rye Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:04:33 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=5012#comment-85045 I don't really think it needs to be called a takedown or a persecution. I would call it a curiosity. People are interested. They want to understand. It may benefit the literary community to understand how one's take on a work of art, naturally, changes over time. I don’t really think it needs to be called a takedown or a persecution. I would call it a curiosity. People are interested. They want to understand. It may benefit the literary community to understand how one’s take on a work of art, naturally, changes over time.

]]> By: Walt Bromley http://www.edrants.com/easy-dinero-for-a-good-cause/comment-page-1/#comment-84910 Walt Bromley Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:48:58 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=5012#comment-84910 May, you've expressed it perfectly. I enjoy a takedown as much as anyone, but when people start demanding that the subject respond to the takedown, it becomes a little bit of a persecution thing. I prefer Ed in his more impish mode. May, you’ve expressed it perfectly. I enjoy a takedown as much as anyone, but when people start demanding that the subject respond to the takedown, it becomes a little bit of a persecution thing. I prefer Ed in his more impish mode.

]]> By: May Barber http://www.edrants.com/easy-dinero-for-a-good-cause/comment-page-1/#comment-84874 May Barber Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:33:08 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=5012#comment-84874 Now that I've had a chance to read the reivew and the intro, I don't know why people are seeing them as so different. The review is a bit mixed, but it also calls the book "brilliant" and says it's well worth any frustration. The intro puffs things out a bit, but all the things Eggers finds praiseworthy in the review are reiterated in the intro. It's like Dazed & Confused. The first time I saw it, I like it, but I also thought it came off like amateur hour, glacial pacing, terrible dramatic structure and some wretched editing. Years later, those flaws look like virtues to me and it's a movie I could watch over and over. Who hasn't had criticisms of something melt away in the face of time? If I thought these guys were having a lark, I wouldn't see them as so pathetic, but they're not. It's meanspirited. It's an attempt at a takedown, a way to be able to shame Eggers no matter what he does because that's what they'd like to do, take the popular and successful kid down a notch. I love the voices of the blogosphere and can't imagine a culture without them anymore, but this is one of those cases where the worst parts of the phenomenon are on display. Now that I’ve had a chance to read the reivew and the intro, I don’t know why people are seeing them as so different. The review is a bit mixed, but it also calls the book “brilliant” and says it’s well worth any frustration.

The intro puffs things out a bit, but all the things Eggers finds praiseworthy in the review are reiterated in the intro. It’s like Dazed & Confused. The first time I saw it, I like it, but I also thought it came off like amateur hour, glacial pacing, terrible dramatic structure and some wretched editing.

Years later, those flaws look like virtues to me and it’s a movie I could watch over and over.

Who hasn’t had criticisms of something melt away in the face of time?

If I thought these guys were having a lark, I wouldn’t see them as so pathetic, but they’re not. It’s meanspirited. It’s an attempt at a takedown, a way to be able to shame Eggers no matter what he does because that’s what they’d like to do, take the popular and successful kid down a notch. I love the voices of the blogosphere and can’t imagine a culture without them anymore, but this is one of those cases where the worst parts of the phenomenon are on display.

]]> By: Sister Rye http://www.edrants.com/easy-dinero-for-a-good-cause/comment-page-1/#comment-84811 Sister Rye Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:39:12 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=5012#comment-84811 The scandal is being stirred up for a good cause. C'mon. Does one need a license to be ridiculous for charity? Don't be such a humorless tightwad. The scandal is being stirred up for a good cause. C’mon. Does one need a license to be ridiculous for charity? Don’t be such a humorless tightwad.

]]> By: Walt Bromley http://www.edrants.com/easy-dinero-for-a-good-cause/comment-page-1/#comment-84777 Walt Bromley Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:48:27 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=5012#comment-84777 Eggers is not my thing, but...are you serious? You're demanding answers as to why he gave a conflicted review to something he later decided had stood the test of time? This is the most ridiculous attempt at stirring up a scandal I've seen outside of an election cycle. It makes all the bloggers involved look like a bunch of <a href="http://essayinfo.com">high school kids</a>. Please, stop. Eggers is not my thing, but…are you serious? You’re demanding answers as to why he gave a conflicted review to something he later decided had stood the test of time? This is the most ridiculous attempt at stirring up a scandal I’ve seen outside of an election cycle. It makes all the bloggers involved look like a bunch of high school kids. Please, stop.

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