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Maybe. Or, more likely, he is just what he claims to be: that is, seventeen years old.
Oddman: Let’s begin with your suppositions, shall we?
The man who is directly responsible for the existence of this place checked in on us...
Who, Tom Coates?
A point of clarification: Grant Morrison is not the founder or maintainer of this board, or even a regular presence here. Evidence suggests that he pokes his head in every six months or so, if that. When he checks out the ‘lith, he’s a visitor in our house, not the other way around. Many folks here are not fans of his work, and even those that are tend to maintain a proper sort of critical distance from it, and show an ability to separate the work from the man.
In short, we owe GM nothing, and to suggest otherwise is rank adolescent hero-worship.
The man is a writer. He uses words to make his living. When he wants to make a point, he does NOT misspeak.
Dude. I’m a professional writer, and some days I can hardly put the words together to order a fucking value meal at McDonald’s.
GM’s just a guy, and prone to error, as is the human condition. He puts his pants on one leg at a time, and his farts stink after he eats burritos. And OF COURSE he misspeaks now and then. Even in his paid writing gigs, he occasionally has problems presenting himself coherently. Plus he’s out of his mind on drugs half the time, which doesn’t help.
GM has also, in his limited interactions with this board, proven himself to be a bit thin-skinned and kind of an asshole. At the very least—given that he hardly ever reads the board—he’s prone to taking things out of context.
(Come to think of it, you seem to be having a bit of trouble with that whole “context” thing yourself.)
Couple years back, GM shot me a nasty e-mail for mentioning in an offhand way that he seemed to be recycling a pet theme of his for an upcoming project: I was astonished, because I figured that, frank quietly, he’d have better things to do than to try to intimidate somebody whose opinion really shouldn’t matter o him in the first place.
GM’s love/hate relationship with Barbelith is, I think, a very powerful argument for why celebrities should not read their own press. Any celebrity venturing into an online arena where they do not control the discourse (e.g., Warren Ellis or Mark Millar’s boards) can expect to be treated as roughly as anybody else. I repeat: he’s a visitor in our house (or haus, if you prefer). Any hurt feelings or misunderstandings are his own damned fault.
Grant Morrison is my favorite writer, and has been a huge influence on me, and I someday hope to become a peer to him...
...and I’ll invite him to sleep over and we’ll stay up all night in my tree-fort and play Magic: The Gathering and we can braid each other’s hair OMG!!! its gonna fukkn roolz0r!
Jesus, man. Listen to yourself.
But if he were to think that I was just passive while someone dilapidated his or his wife's character, and I said nothing...Well, that just doesn't sit right with me.
“I alone was faithful to thee, Grant! When all the world betrayed thee, I stood firm!”
Ah, great shall be your reward in the Kingdom of Grant, my son.
Here on the ‘lith, though, you just look kinda stupid. And sycophantic. And, to be painfully honest, adolescent.
Barbelith is not about trash-talking our idols, it's about embracing and celebrating and discussing their intellectual products...
Why can’t it be both?
I do agree with you on one point: it is silly of Haus to expect any apology from GM. But it is equally silly for GM to expect (or for you, GM’s faithful servant, to mandate) an apology from Haus. |
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