tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post2955518642700937076..comments2024-03-12T04:51:46.468-05:00Comments on Blue Gal: The last BlogHer post...Fran / Blue Galhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293627981248346055noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-83140481147159041082015-07-30T18:34:19.804-05:002015-07-30T18:34:19.804-05:00Such a fantastic and necessary post; as much as I ...Such a fantastic and necessary post; as much as I am actually midstream in a series of posts about my kid, I chafe at the whole Mommy Blogger Nation and the notion that a woman who has a blog needs to fit easily into a pre-set niche. I am so much more than a mother and a woman, and for my writing to be limited to those things insults all that I am. LOVED this.Jocelynhttp://omightycrisis.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-12635025109706425382009-08-04T14:03:29.591-05:002009-08-04T14:03:29.591-05:00Good 'ol Ellison. May he continue to live, wr...Good 'ol Ellison. May he continue to live, write wonderful stories, and be a salty pain in the ass to stupid people forever.Miss Jhttp://www.deadgirlsdontdance.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-64051294656953771502009-08-01T18:17:54.692-05:002009-08-01T18:17:54.692-05:00It's a big blogosphere. But it is sad when pe...It's a big blogosphere. But it is sad when people don't value their own perspective - um, assuming they're reality-based and all that.<br /><br />I've heard some crazy tales about Harlan Ellison, but he's a fine writer and right on here. (Coincidentally, my latest post references a story of his.)Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-70523059967333582202009-07-31T21:04:53.291-05:002009-07-31T21:04:53.291-05:00You'd like to know that BlogHer's almost 7...You'd like to know that BlogHer's almost 70 contributing editors are paid. And have been paid since we first started generating revenue.<br /><br />And they get paid the same whether they write about parenting, politics, technology, sex or any other topic.<br /><br />FWIW.ElisaChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06089769928274740436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-76906263121861625222009-07-31T14:21:31.653-05:002009-07-31T14:21:31.653-05:00i avoid mainstream liberal blogs, as they reek of ...i avoid mainstream liberal blogs, as they reek of the "wink, wink, nod, nod" culture.s. douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04095308024108321913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-33559145653774618862009-07-29T15:48:12.347-05:002009-07-29T15:48:12.347-05:00Harlen is nothing if not constant.
Does the film ...Harlen is nothing if not constant.<br /><br />Does the film talk about the time he had all his contacts ship postage due bricks to a publisher who would not pay him on time?<br /><br />When the publishing house stopped accepting postage due packages he shipped them dead gopher. book rate. <br /><br />OGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-50719483088738950922009-07-29T13:31:58.559-05:002009-07-29T13:31:58.559-05:00Lisa: OHOHOH I went to the comedy writers panel ...Lisa: OHOHOH I went to the comedy writers panel at blogher. Those women really rock. Some of them are more Erma Bombeck than my taste goes for, but who the hell cares? they're awesome writers. <br /><br />And they don't write reviews of products or giveaways as far as I could tell. They don't HAVE to because they have TALENT and more importantly...a COMMITMENT to their own voice. <br /><br />I just WISH. WISH that more women felt they could speak from their hearts and minds and SAY something from THEM instead of letting Tide tell them what to say. Really that is what this is all about...empowerment is being able to speak as YOU. <br /><br />Darkblack you rogue....<br /><br />And Tengrain that should be illegal. Someday someone is going to have the guts to say theft and slavery and make it stick.Fran / Blue Galhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18293627981248346055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-42140631769615418992009-07-29T13:19:06.672-05:002009-07-29T13:19:06.672-05:00I love that Harlan Ellison clip! He's so righ...I love that Harlan Ellison clip! He's so right.<br /><br />Out here in the decimated Silicon Valley, there is an online jobs organization in which employers post a contract writing job description, and then writers bid on it. The lowest bid wins the job.<br /><br />I was looking at it the other day, and the employer was offering $0.50/hr, max., for a transcribing job. Other employers were asking for writers to work for free, you know, so you can build up your clips and samples.<br /><br />It's such a race to the bottom.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />TengrainTengrainhttp://mockpaperscissors.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-74732986674177140382009-07-29T13:14:47.859-05:002009-07-29T13:14:47.859-05:00'Dear Arianna Huffington -- Pay the writers...'Dear Arianna Huffington -- Pay the writers'<br /><br />In the words of the Big Duke - "<i>That'll</i> be the day". A lot of her staff was working on the cuff when I was there. Praise be the starry-eyed intern.<br /><br />Blogging should be about whatever the blogger wants to create or write about, the petty judgements of others be damned and if they can turn a buck from it, good on them...However, a perception I have is the majority at this time don't put a whole lot of philosophical considerations into their subjective process of creativity, and thus a certain degree of conformable ennui hangs over the enterprise. <br /><br />Ah well, at the end of the day we're all just tomatoes at the stand, waiting for the moment as time ripens us to be squeezed and pondered, then hopefully picked and digested.<br /><br />;>)darkblackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584075324283109495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-60995450765518074372009-07-29T12:59:39.114-05:002009-07-29T12:59:39.114-05:00Yesterday I was out visiting some blogs that are d...Yesterday I was out visiting some blogs that are deep into the blogher stuff. My favorite writers lately are the humor writers who mostly mine their lives and situations for funny material.<br /><br />But there is a whole world of blogging there that remains a bit of a mystery to me. When I find that content was discussed in commercial terms, now it makes sense.<br /><br />As I said to you, BG, in an email, when content is dictated to me, I have trouble writing creatively. I can report, but I can't create. That's what I do at work. I don't want to do that on my blog.<br /><br />I stand by what I said, however, to each, blah, blah, blah.lisahgoldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11158660223296807317noreply@blogger.com