How about "what are you thinking?"?
A column, by any other name, would smell as foul.
I ban myself.
The definition of third base must have changed a lot.
I'd sort of like to know whether the feature is a genuine effort to provide enjoyable content, or just a cynical attempt to make something deliberately bad that readers will be able to scorn. Speaking of which, is The Ethicist having a chat anytime soon?
"Do you have to work hard in order to find the most narcissistic young writers every week, or will anyone spat out of the creative writing workshop do?"
These are all good questions—why waste them here?
I thought we were taking up a collection of questions, that you might submit them.
No, no -- go, follow the link. The guy is answering questions right now.
I did follow the link. I just figured this was a collective Unfogged project, where ben would be the message bitch.
I hope you've now submitted a question, Cala. And you too, tom.
I submitted a version of tom's question, but I doubt it'll get approved.
Dear Modern Love, I just found out that I was adopted My parents separated when I was very young, and my adoptive mother started a new family. I just met my foster half-sister for the first and she is really hott. What I'm asking is......
11:
Essays that appear are selected from the hundreds we receive every month and subjected to a rigorous editorial process.
This is what passes?? Sigh.
w-lfs-n, quasi-sonnets? You ARE the message bitch..
They, like Hopkins' curtal sonnets, are modifications of the sonnet form.
All the people posting about their love for the column are bumming me out.
Does his response about the Ashley Cross essay make sense, or not?
23: I would say not entirely. No one reading the article, without additional reading, would have known that the accusations against the man involved were such that if they were accurate, an innocent misunderstanding was really really implausible. There's something wrong with publishing an essay based on publicly available facts that gives such a misleading impression of what they were.
"Marriage in America is to love as laxatives are to constipation. Something that makes everyhing flow much easier."
I wonder who wears the diapers in that marriage?
A sonnet, the way redfoxtailshrub's couplets were couplets, albeit cowardly couplets.
twisty told me I couldn't condemn bPhd for becoming a hired tool of the pornulator conspiracy on IBtP, so I came over here.
And I find her conspicuously absent. Hmmmm...
Dear Sara,
There are several tip-offs to me that an essay might be turned down before I've finished reading it: if it begins with tone of blame, if it feels shallow in terms of what it promises to explore...
Oh man.
27: I'm too busy responding to my hate mail. That, plus I had to go to the bank this afternoon, before picking up PK (in fifteen minutes) and spending the rest of the afternoon/evening helping him make* 21 valentine's day cards.
*Which pisses me off, but it's a tradition Mr. B. started and I can't talk PK into just buying some at the goddamn store.
29:Valentine cards & hate mail: good enough for me.
B fell off my blogroll during one my recent weekly crash-aand burns, but she will return hostpaste. Tho I am afeared of that comment thread.
Yeah, the comment thread is weird. Half intelligent discussion, half name-calling. Ah well.