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We had a thread going on this some time ago, about how there is a prejudice that says tragedy is more valuable than comedy. Comedy is just character and fate triumphing over tragic circumstances. But yet there is the notion that tragic characters have more weight. It's a strange truth at is...

Why would you want to squash a legitimate discussion? To me, this point is something that a book forum ought to seriously consider. I frequently read threads that purport to be about a book or author, say Joyce Carol Oates or Ralph Waldo Emerson or Thackeray, and see many comments like...

I saw some movies that sucked. LIttle Miss Sunshine: Remember the '4:30 Afterschool Movie"? No, worse that that, because there was no real pathos. It just sucked. Was there one thing in that flick that was not totally predictable? The screenplay writer should have all his pencils taken away...

Glad to see I'm in good company here where all the great minds are in the same flow. It just goes to show, we CAN solve the issues. Kicking it up to the next level, I just want to say that most other people are insane and should be kept in a high-security environment like England. If criminals...

That's smart of you. I blame evolution, because sporks evolved from spoons as the world became more evil.

Technically that's true, but spoons lead to sporks, and if everyone can go get sporks whenever they want at WalMart and just go spork-poking, it will just escalate until we are all dead. There's no reason for a layperson to ever have a spork, and yet you can buy them at conferences. They use...

I just felt a lovely frisson of je ne sais quoi. Alert alert. This thread is straying dangerously close to badger porn. There's nothing like a badger in stilletos. They have a geisha-like quality.

That's unfair. I only got one day. I don't want SFG next to me in the blog line. He's always readjusting his pantyhose in public. Did you ever see a big unshaven leg in fleshtoned hose? It's like a badger sausage.

It's bad to joke about poking and shooting things with teaspoons when real people are poking and shooting people with teaspoons. Shame on you. First thing I did today was recount the teaspoons. Some of them are missing. Maybe he left one in the cake box or took one to dig a hole. Sometimes...

When it's cloudy like that, it really sucks when it rains.

Yeah, really. If you think that little correction is deeply unfriendly, you are NOT going to like the editing process. By the way, this scheme of yours is somewhat assbackwards. Why not just write something and then sell it to a publisher? I guarantee that this outfit you're talking with is...

This is a picture of a cloud I saw in Skegness when I was on the beer. St.-Nowts-on-Spiggoty is much nicer. Not as cloudy.

I didn't know SFG was gay. I'm glad you shared that. It's very subliminal. I feel the message getting through.

girls girls, I myself love love. I feel myself getting all heartshaped, with two giant shoulders and no head. And a point at the bottom. Let's smoke something. Freya freya you must obey her she's wicked mean If you poke her spleen So get in the love nest and do some molest...

Over quite a long time I"ve noticed that this is a really common thing to do on this website. How do you feel about recommending books you haven't read? Do you think it's okay? Do you ever feel guilty, like you might really be giving bad advice?

I don't find toilet humor funny. Also, how come nobody loves anybody here? Everyone is so awful. There used to be undercurrents of love, not romantic love, but that kind of holding the door kind of love of regular people.

Are you SFG's twin brother?

Perfect. What you read matters, it becomes part of your thought processes, it informs the way you think about everything . . . but those kind of discussions are not really of interest here. Dang, it’s only a book forum. Let’s talk about what some asshole did. Can we relate this to anything...

I think that's a French purgative.

This question brings to mind Woody Allen, whose best characters are comics trapped in tragic situations. The outcome is either whistful or farcical, but never really tragic. Some might say that comedy is just tragedy with a slightly better outcome, and that the same situation can be tragic...