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My high school newspaper supervisor wouldn't let us publish a single rhetorical question. Though I wouldn't go that far in The Stranger, it would still be an interesting exercise to see how many issues you could go without using a question mark in your work. Then, at the end of it all, Slog about how it made you feel! And tell us the deeper meaning of the question mark!
Ironically, her post title is a question. Shes bested you!
Yeah, in retrospect I bet you're wishing you hadn't opened ZOO with the V.O.: "Yes, we know the material cause, but what is the final cause of a man's perforated colon?"
Charles, that's because your job as a journalist isn't to ask questions in your lead but to answer questions for people reading your publication.
J-101, dude. Sorry.
What is up with Stranger staffers and their gnarley fascist suggestions? No, may I not repeat after you Erica? Next time, how about repeating for me? Who in h*ll do you think you are Spool? Isn't a bit immature sounding to say (voice in a husky whine) "you should definitely read this shit?" shoulda coulda woulda - What was your fave color of panties when G-Porridge was guest dj'ing at rebar 10 yrs ago?
Who other fascist fetishers want to request something? Am I alloud to continue with mine? What does a yes-no answer really mean?
It still beats music reviews that begin with, "Once I was backstage at...", and it all reminds me of the classic middle school device, "Websters defines [topic] as...", apart from the whole I'm-only-going-to-write-about-a-works-cultural-relevance thing.
Makes me long for my teen years reading MRR's record reviews - they knew their audince... "sounds like a cross between ______ and _______."
sam, i'm not a journalist; i'm an eternalist.
E-101, dude. Forever sorry.
I'm not certain that movie reviews qualify as journalism.
an eternalist? like eternally asking dumb leading questions?
Where is the link to The StrangeAss' re view for Mandy Moore's movie with Diane Keaton 6 months ago? I liked the set designer- over-thze-top panache.
@10-
I'm sick of your insane demands
Charles, perhaps the specter of racism has once again rears it's ugly head?
God, wouldn't that be crazy?!
Mayhaps it does reared it, Dog!
Awesome!
@2, I think that was the point.
Charles, it's not just your movie reviews. Most of your slog posts follow the same format. There's nothing wrong with it per se, but it makes me not want to read the rest of it. But you got your thing, and you do what you do, so keep on truckin'.
Charles, I loved the poetry of your film, Police Beat, and I enjoy your writing about many subjects, including film. Rather than lecturing the newspaper-ink-smudged masses on what to think about a film (or even just an idea), you open things up. I suspect people who are afraid of questions feel put on the spot, asked to think. That reaction tells us more about them than you or your writing style. Some of the comments here claim to state what journalism should be. One of the reasons I read The Stranger is it continues to be unafraid to flout those "rules."
Must be August. Dog Days aside, it's also the title of an upcoming Josh Hartnett movie. What will Charles say? What will Charles ask?
Charles, what amazes me is you are letting that bother you. And yeah, you DO start everything with a question. And Thomas Aquinas you are not. Scholastic? Well, that is questionable.
I'm thinking the Write Like Charles Mudede Contest may just have to happen.
Andy Niable, whatever your point might be about the merit of his works, the format of asking leading questions is his forte and it gets really tiring. You know what he's going to say based on the rhetorical leading questions he asks. It doesnt make us feel on the spot, it makes us feel like he's deliberately being stupid and leading.
It's nice to see a post from Charles that isn't warbling about the metaphysics of the human condition and the beauty of natural ugliness or whatever. Oh, and an emotion other than conceded awe. Oh, and a cuss word.
..and don't forget about the old people. Charles HATES old people.
Charles isn't even good at the pomo bullshit he spews. He's a mere poseur of poseurs.
Yeah, Mudede, you're a wonderful writer. This post tells me everything I need to know:
http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/the_great_satisfaction
God bless this other blogger for calling you out.
Why can't Mudede detect sarcasm when it stares him so blatantly in the face? Charles, for all your pregnant-sex-baiting posts, I am surprised you fell so hard for this.
Poseur is so... 80's
There is only room in this town for a couple of Audrey's to co-exist happily, and I have a friend named Audrey, so that means this siskel-loving-cheese-eating-blondie needs to pack her bags and be thankful she got out of town in one piece.
Charles is an affirmative-action hire
Tree is a misplaced miscarriage.
Seriously Charles. Your writing style is appallingly pretentious, starting with your rhetorical questions. It's not like a million Slog readers don't tell you this every time you post (my particular trigger is when you post pictures of girls and women you'd like to fuck, then ramble on about how Plato or Nietzsche would want to fuck them too). So why does this particular attack bother you?
Pretension is the new kind of tension. Hey JZ, when is that Buzzcock series coming, or does Porno for Pyros get preference?
@5 -- I tattooed G-P on that trip. He had been up all night tripping on acid, and let me tell you he did not smell good.
I hope the new improved tranny version of Ms. Porridge smells better.
And Charles, regarding your headline. Must you use such vulgar language?
That is farout 'It's Mark Mitchell". Yeah, like many of the times at dance rebar nights, the music, eh, AEI music up by the Hendrix statue (i temped for a summer with them) pumps in that stuff to Krispy Kremes all over the country. Porridge wasn't anything special. I go dancing for the funny outfits and moving my limbs close to others. What was the tattoo of?
Gee Charles, could it be that you are UNREADABLE - which I think has been pointed out several times here on SLOG. You chose an apt title for this post, as that is what I think every time I decide to try and read your stuff..
What is worse than having your movie blasted? Having your movie ignored..
I have nothing nice to say.
You forgot a question mark in your rebuttal, CM ("What has she against my blatant scholasticism."). And I think you hate women and are bad at sports.
A good movie review tells you things about the film so that the reader can decide to ignore the critic's opinion and see or skip the movie due to differences in taste.
But, critics are just that - critical. People always whine about that, they send you emails, etc, but that comes with the job of being a movie critic.
So, go see McLovin in Superbad and have a great time anyway.
Hey Madede....
In your recent KILLER BODIES why do you always identify the race of the individuals...when it has NOTHING to do with the story:
'Two white men pulled up in a boat' 'A white guy swimming'
etc.
I think if a white person kept doing that blacks would get their panties in a twist. But ok for you?
ryan, please reread that section closely. the answer is as there as there is a sun in the sky today.
I find Chuck's post disconcerting. I have developed a vision of him as a brain on a stick, a static intellect spinning communist interpretive threads out of whole cloth, ignoring the flesh and blood issues that make all the rest of us feel alive.
And then he goes and posts this, and I have to admit that he's an actual human being with visceral reactions to his five senses.
So now I don't know what to do.
And why must Charles Mudede be ever so existentially boring?
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