handful_ofdust: (tuppenny)
handful_ofdust ([personal profile] handful_ofdust) wrote2008-03-13 07:42 pm

Good vs. Bad

Good Part: Yesterday my classes ended early, so I was able to do BodyCombat for the first time in a month and a half. Bad Part: I obviously was far more out of practice than I thought, because today all the muscles involved in throwing a hook are in such pain that I can barely raise my arms above chest-level. Good Part: Finished the query package for BFTA and sent it off. Bad Part: Formatted it wrong, so the intended recipient couldn't open/read it. Had to reformat and re-send.

Good Part: Googled myself, thus finding reviews of Words Written Backwards I hadn't run across before. Bad Part: Also accidentally discovered a blog entry in which a person I had hitherto considered some variety of friend states proudly that he's never liked my writing and therefore will never buy anything of mine again--this would seem far less calculatedly an insult if he wasn't actually addressing me directly in said entry, like: "Well, Gemma Files, here's the score..." Thus leading me to A) conclude he's obviously not my friend, and should stay far away from me in future and B) respond with a simple statement: Okay, so-and-so, I'll keep that in mind, but don't do me any favors. Oh, and while I've never before personally felt the urge to blog in a publicly accessible space about what I may or may not feel about your writing, the best way to sum it up would be with these words---"one Crad Kilodney was enough." Thank you, fuck on through.

Yes, yes. I'm a shit. But at least I didn't address him directly, eh?

[identity profile] xterminal.livejournal.com 2008-03-14 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
erm!

"one Crad Kilodney was enough."

Dirt on Crad? May I ask for elucidation?

(If you look hard enough, you'll find me in The Second Charnel House Anthology of Bad Poetry.)

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2008-03-14 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no, nothing "dirty" about Crad, per se--just that this person's stuff (satirical-surreal, kissing-"clever" and all-around whiny as it is) has always reminded me, mainly unfavorably, of his. I mean, at least Crad had the chutzpah to stand on streetcorners in all sorts of weather trying to sell his dubious wares himself, instead of complaining about not being "supported" by his community. Or maybe he did, but--ya know?--I never cared enough to study him in great depth.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The only one of his I ever read was "Bloodsucking Monkeys from Cheektawanga" which did have some pretty amusing moments, primarily the lesbian sex-scene opening and the "where will the plot go after this scene?" narration that follows.