Comments on: Suffering For Your Art http://theomniscientmussel.com/2008/01/suffering-for-your-art/ Classical Music & Culture Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:22:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: A.C. Douglas http://theomniscientmussel.com/2008/01/suffering-for-your-art/#comment-284 A.C. Douglas Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:34:26 +0000 http://theomniscientmussel.com/?p=283#comment-284 <b>Oops.</b> My above closing sentence should have read: "I’m of course talking here about the hate mail only, not honest, reasoned disagreement with something I’ve written, which is another matter altogether." ACD Oops.

My above closing sentence should have read:

“I’m of course talking here about the hate mail only, not honest, reasoned disagreement with something I’ve written, which is another matter altogether.”

ACD

]]> By: Miss Mussel http://theomniscientmussel.com/2008/01/suffering-for-your-art/#comment-285 Miss Mussel Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:12:51 +0000 http://theomniscientmussel.com/?p=283#comment-285 Looks like you're going to have to fire your editor too :) Looks like you’re going to have to fire your editor too :)

]]> By: A.C. Douglas http://theomniscientmussel.com/2008/01/suffering-for-your-art/#comment-283 A.C. Douglas Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:56:47 +0000 http://theomniscientmussel.com/?p=283#comment-283 Oh, no "sport" involved. Typically, they're really pissed and aren't the least bashful in expressing their pissed-ness in the most, um, colorful terms. Much of the hate mail is written in crayon, so to speak, and those I simply ignore except when I see an opportunity to make fun of them on the blog publicly (but without naming names, of course). The non-crayon ones I'll respond to if I can get off another quiet zinger that I know will get the correspondent foaming at the mouth more (I'm rather vicious that way, I'm afraid). I'm of course talking here about the hate mail only, not honest disagreements with something I've written, which is another matter altogether. ACD Oh, no “sport” involved. Typically, they’re really pissed and aren’t the least bashful in expressing their pissed-ness in the most, um, colorful terms. Much of the hate mail is written in crayon, so to speak, and those I simply ignore except when I see an opportunity to make fun of them on the blog publicly (but without naming names, of course). The non-crayon ones I’ll respond to if I can get off another quiet zinger that I know will get the correspondent foaming at the mouth more (I’m rather vicious that way, I’m afraid).

I’m of course talking here about the hate mail only, not honest disagreements with something I’ve written, which is another matter altogether.

ACD

]]> By: Miss Mussel http://theomniscientmussel.com/2008/01/suffering-for-your-art/#comment-282 Miss Mussel Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:30:43 +0000 http://theomniscientmussel.com/?p=283#comment-282 Not surprising ACD, given your fondness for polemics. Are your correspondents just giving as good as they got or do they just like to hate on you for sport? Not surprising ACD, given your fondness for polemics. Are your correspondents just giving as good as they got or do they just like to hate on you for sport?

]]> By: A.C. Douglas http://theomniscientmussel.com/2008/01/suffering-for-your-art/#comment-281 A.C. Douglas Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:29:33 +0000 http://theomniscientmussel.com/?p=283#comment-281 <i>Has anyone else been on the receiving end of a verbal/physical assault or some especially virulent campaign of hate mail?</i> Uh-huh. ACD Has anyone else been on the receiving end of a verbal/physical assault or some especially virulent campaign of hate mail?

Uh-huh.

ACD

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