Re: Drums, drums, drums...
FUCK OFF STU
- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "Stewart Stansfield"
<stu_stansfield_at_...> wrote:
>
> The natives of WoG are particularly restless at the moment.
>
> I wish we could ditch all these groups and have a good, old-
fashioned
> fanzine full of letters writ to the editor. Someone of education,
wit
> and discernment (like my good self, or Keith), who could exercise
> unashamed control, and thus weed out the thick fuckers.
>
> No continuous barrage of cack, whether top-, bottom- or otherwise
> midrif-posted, but instead considered and literate discourse upon
an
> issue. Where you can develop an argument or position without some
> muppet butchering it with some interminable paragraph-by-paragraph
> response that obliterates any notion of development or context.
>
> I'd hope, with the Fan Publication Act now somewhat established, we
> could return to the good old days of pamphlet warfare. None of this
> endless, bitty commentary and criticism, or pointless punditry
wholly
> absent of any verve or creativity.
>
> Formulate your ideas, and write something more considered than
> something that clutters up my inbox. (As I've said before, I don't
> receive e-mails from Y!G and instead use web retrieval. But that's
> irrelevant.)
>
> It'd be far more interesting if we had occasional publications of
the
> form--
>
> "A Faire and Impartial Account on the most Effecktual way to render
> into Statisticks, and otherwise Quantify, a great many Divers and
> Important Personages of the Hero Warres, in Refutation of a number
of
> False and Libellous points raised by Mr ________, By a Lover of
> Glorantha and Science."
>
> Some want to open up Glorantha to the masses. Sod that. Bring on
the
> parochially minded, elitist and arrogant.
>
> S.
>
> P.S. Even if you don't do this, please at least adopt long titles,
> with references to the initials of people you're railing against.
> It'd redeem it somewhat.
>
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