On 5/23/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
Nevertheless, Snowspinner got harassed by the fuzz and WR didn't. If you judge real life by whoever thinks up the coolest reply after thinking about it for a while, then you spend too much time in front of your computer.
Personally, I can take any amount of clever dick criticism coming over email or the web, but get a couple of policefolk sitting down at my kitchen table and hamfistedly investigating my life, and it's no longer fun.
Indeed, the grilled by the cops thing, not good, and you'd have a point if it ended there.
But for an English/media studies grad student and a writer, getting yourself and your work featured in the media as an example of that sort of ridiculous situation... not bad for exposure, no?
I think Phil wins this one.
-Kat