Comments for Mike Scalise http://mikescalise.net/blog what OK feels like now. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:56:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Thanks for the Thanks. by Fri NYC Reading // Sat DC Party « Pigafetta, Poetry, and Painkillers http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=911#comment-1131 Fri NYC Reading // Sat DC Party « Pigafetta, Poetry, and Painkillers Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:16:52 +0000 http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=911#comment-1131 [...] Mike & Gerald for putting this together. (Click on Mike link to see how this fits into the infinite [...] [...] Mike & Gerald for putting this together. (Click on Mike link to see how this fits into the infinite [...]

]]> Comment on Thanks for the Thanks. by Joe http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=911#comment-1130 Joe Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:13:27 +0000 http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=911#comment-1130 Thanks. ! I found out after I moved to Indiana that I am famously cranky in cars, in traffic. Like I go from sunshine to suicide after 5 minutes of stop and go. So I feel lucky to be tolerated as well. Thanks.

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I found out after I moved to Indiana that I am famously cranky in cars, in traffic. Like I go from sunshine to suicide after 5 minutes of stop and go. So I feel lucky to be tolerated as well.

]]> Comment on Last bit of Art Gallery-Related Self-Promotery. by Call + Response Chapbook Exists « Pigafetta, Poetry, and Painkillers http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=874#comment-1051 Call + Response Chapbook Exists « Pigafetta, Poetry, and Painkillers Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:41:00 +0000 http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=874#comment-1051 [...] · Leave a Comment Super-scientist Mike Scalise helped put this together. The resolution of the art pictures is premium. One of my poems is in there. It’s about [...] [...] · Leave a Comment Super-scientist Mike Scalise helped put this together. The resolution of the art pictures is premium. One of my poems is in there. It’s about [...]

]]> Comment on Two Whole Public Appearances This Week. Worst Hermit Ever. by wade http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=861#comment-1035 wade Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:44:05 +0000 http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=861#comment-1035 Lead balloon? I liked the sink-pissing essay, actually! Lead balloon? I liked the sink-pissing essay, actually!

]]> Comment on Call & Response: This Thing I’m Doing With People I Know by Mike Scalise : Two Whole Public Appearances This Week. Worst Hermit Ever. http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=845#comment-1034 Mike Scalise : Two Whole Public Appearances This Week. Worst Hermit Ever. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:56:29 +0000 http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=845#comment-1034 [...] Post a Comment Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked * Name * Email * Website Comment « Call & Response: This Thing I’m Doing With People I Know [...] [...] Post a Comment Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked * Name * Email * Website Comment « Call & Response: This Thing I’m Doing With People I Know [...]

]]> Comment on Call & Response: This Thing I’m Doing With People I Know by daynah http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=845#comment-964 daynah Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:24:21 +0000 http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=845#comment-964 think i just found a great excuse to visit sometime between jan & feb. sounds awesome. think i just found a great excuse to visit sometime between jan & feb. sounds awesome.

]]> Comment on No Fightpicking. Just a Question. by Brian Brodeur http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=832#comment-953 Brian Brodeur Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:18:20 +0000 http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=832#comment-953 Mike: I'd ask the same question with just about the same degree of (mostly sincere) curiosity. It seems like Moore could've re-written his "essay" to be even more brief, if brevity is the point. "Tendency toward glibness" would seem even more glib of a statement, implying that the narrator is so glib that he has stopped bothering with (believing in) complete sentences. I guess the main trouble I'm having with Moore's essay is that I don't make an immediate connection between glibness and brevity. It's the same problem I have with belabored similes, i.e. similes that don't create an immediate physical comparison between two things. I mean, what's the point? That's all I got. Mike:
I’d ask the same question with just about the same degree of (mostly sincere) curiosity. It seems like Moore could’ve re-written his “essay” to be even more brief, if brevity is the point. “Tendency toward glibness” would seem even more glib of a statement, implying that the narrator is so glib that he has stopped bothering with (believing in) complete sentences.

I guess the main trouble I’m having with Moore’s essay is that I don’t make an immediate connection between glibness and brevity. It’s the same problem I have with belabored similes, i.e. similes that don’t create an immediate physical comparison between two things. I mean, what’s the point?

That’s all I got.

]]> Comment on No Fightpicking. Just a Question. by JosephScapellato http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=832#comment-951 JosephScapellato Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:42:41 +0000 http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=832#comment-951 I 100% agree that this piece is steered (and sustained) by irony. It's ironically making an argument that at the heart of this essay (and all essays) is "glibness". That said, I don't think I agree with this argument. Which may be part of the point of it, that readers are likely to disagree? (What you were saying about the essay's role in conversation, maybe?) Furthermore-- and this echoes what I think you're saying-- this piece TELLS "glibness" but SHOWS "irony." I 100% agree that this piece is steered (and sustained) by irony. It’s ironically making an argument that at the heart of this essay (and all essays) is “glibness”.
That said, I don’t think I agree with this argument. Which may be part of the point of it, that readers are likely to disagree? (What you were saying about the essay’s role in conversation, maybe?)
Furthermore– and this echoes what I think you’re saying– this piece TELLS “glibness” but SHOWS “irony.”

]]> Comment on No Fightpicking. Just a Question. by Mike http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=832#comment-949 Mike Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:36:55 +0000 http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=832#comment-949 Joe: I thought about the thing as a mechanism for proving its own argument re: glibness, but Is *glibness* what the "essay" is really conveying, or is it steered mostly by *irony*? Glib: http://bit.ly/U0MNo Irony: http://bit.ly/RVYN2 Joe: I thought about the thing as a mechanism for proving its own argument re: glibness, but Is *glibness* what the “essay” is really conveying, or is it steered mostly by *irony*?

Glib: http://bit.ly/U0MNo
Irony: http://bit.ly/RVYN2

]]> Comment on No Fightpicking. Just a Question. by JosephScapellato http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=832#comment-948 JosephScapellato Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:20:33 +0000 http://mikescalise.net/blog/?p=832#comment-948 My immediate, gut-level reaction-- which I fear may not be clear, sober, and intelligent-- is that this piece operates first and foremost as a *definition* of the essay. An essay, Moore seems to be arguing, is a written manifestation of the having-of-a-tendency-toward-glibness. So although this "essay" may not take the traditional form of an essay (mostly because of length?), it perhaps embodies the essence of the essay-- or, at the very least, argues for what the essence of the essay might be. (You will only write an essay if you want to make a "try." And this piece says: It often takes a lot of talking to make a "try.”) And of course, Moore gamely presents this glibness in a single sentence. Too-cute, or clever? Both? To me, Moore’s piece is definition first. Essay second? I mean no disrespect to Moore when I say it’s difficult for me to call this an essay if I accept that length is a factor in defining forms. I hope this doesn’t make me stodgy. Sure, in some cases length is irrelevant to identity (prose poem, or micro-fiction?), but, broadly speaking, length helps determine if a reader mentally frames a piece as a novel, novella, or short story-- right? My immediate, gut-level reaction– which I fear may not be clear, sober, and intelligent– is that this piece operates first and foremost as a *definition* of the essay. An essay, Moore seems to be arguing, is a written manifestation of the having-of-a-tendency-toward-glibness.
So although this “essay” may not take the traditional form of an essay (mostly because of length?), it perhaps embodies the essence of the essay– or, at the very least, argues for what the essence of the essay might be. (You will only write an essay if you want to make a “try.” And this piece says: It often takes a lot of talking to make a “try.”)
And of course, Moore gamely presents this glibness in a single sentence. Too-cute, or clever? Both?
To me, Moore’s piece is definition first. Essay second?
I mean no disrespect to Moore when I say it’s difficult for me to call this an essay if I accept that length is a factor in defining forms. I hope this doesn’t make me stodgy. Sure, in some cases length is irrelevant to identity (prose poem, or micro-fiction?), but, broadly speaking, length helps determine if a reader mentally frames a piece as a novel, novella, or short story– right?

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