Comments on: She was sold — like a cow at an auction. http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/ \"...a somewhat popular blogger\" Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:55:41 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: RepackRider http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2061 RepackRider Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:53:08 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2061 <p>“Her writing was vapid, like the Class-5 vapids below Niagara Falls. And so inane that it should have been confined in an inane asylum.”</p> “Her writing was vapid, like the Class-5 vapids below Niagara Falls. And so inane that it should have been confined in an inane asylum.”

]]> By: sophronia http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2060 sophronia Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:27:33 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2060 <p>How on earth is Jenna even flogging her book if there’s no media coverage allowed? It’s not even like she can personally push the thing, since no one is allowed to make eye contact. Are they hoping that people will sense a disturbance in the Force or something?</p> How on earth is Jenna even flogging her book if there’s no media coverage allowed? It’s not even like she can personally push the thing, since no one is allowed to make eye contact. Are they hoping that people will sense a disturbance in the Force or something?

]]> By: Margot http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2059 Margot Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:58:54 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2059 <p>If she wants no eye contact, that’s her look-out (so to speak).<br /> Unless the person is a gun-wielding crazy, they’re not going to direct where I can and cannot look. Who puts up with that crap?</p> If she wants no eye contact, that’s her look-out (so to speak).
Unless the person is a gun-wielding crazy, they’re not going to direct where I can and cannot look. Who puts up with that crap?

]]> By: Bustednuckles http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2057 Bustednuckles Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:09:55 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2057 <blockquote><p>The book has a spare, verging-on-hardboiled prose style (“ ‘How did your parents die?’ Ana asked. ‘They were sick,” Berto said. ‘Mine, too.’</p></blockquote> <p>Yep Jenna, yer folks ARE some sick puppies.</p>

The book has a spare, verging-on-hardboiled prose style (“ ‘How did your parents die?’ Ana asked. ‘They were sick,” Berto said. ‘Mine, too.’

Yep Jenna, yer folks ARE some sick puppies.

]]> By: VonZeppelin http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2055 VonZeppelin Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:21:21 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2055 <blockquote><p>Do not look her in the eye (what, is this a movie set?)</p></blockquote> <p>If you look at the picture, you can see why. Unlike the eyes of the pumas that live in the jungles, the eyes of the Jenna that lives in the White House look like there ain’t nobody home behind them. If I were one of her publisher’s lackeys, I wouldn’t want people looking through those empty holes either.</p>

Do not look her in the eye (what, is this a movie set?)

If you look at the picture, you can see why. Unlike the eyes of the pumas that live in the jungles, the eyes of the Jenna that lives in the White House look like there ain’t nobody home behind them. If I were one of her publisher’s lackeys, I wouldn’t want people looking through those empty holes either.

]]> By: humboldtblue http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2054 humboldtblue Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:57:40 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2054 <p>Did Georgie ever escort Jenna to a Purity Ball? </p> <p>Or, just show her to make the world’s greatest high-ball?</p> <p>(not even gonna touch the 8-ball)</p> Did Georgie ever escort Jenna to a Purity Ball?

Or, just show her to make the world’s greatest high-ball?

(not even gonna touch the 8-ball)

]]> By: behindthefall http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2053 behindthefall Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:57:17 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2053 <blockquote><p>It’s no different than the father-daughter dynasties of the music industry, really. So, similarly, sorry to all of you who tried to get your band’s stuff promoted as you watched Hannah Montana’s crap skyrocket…</p></blockquote> <p>Agents and publishers (pick the corresponding entities for the music industry) are equivalent to HMOs in the healthcase system. Cut out the middleman: let the Web rise up, and let’s hear it for making podcasts and printing-on-demand easy and omnipresent.</p>

It’s no different than the father-daughter dynasties of the music industry, really. So, similarly, sorry to all of you who tried to get your band’s stuff promoted as you watched Hannah Montana’s crap skyrocket…

Agents and publishers (pick the corresponding entities for the music industry) are equivalent to HMOs in the healthcase system. Cut out the middleman: let the Web rise up, and let’s hear it for making podcasts and printing-on-demand easy and omnipresent.

]]> By: Adara http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2051 Adara Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:46:25 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2051 <p>It’s no different than the father-daughter dynasties of the music industry, really. So, similarly, sorry to all of you who tried to get your band’s stuff promoted as you watched Hannah Montana’s crap skyrocket…</p> It’s no different than the father-daughter dynasties of the music industry, really. So, similarly, sorry to all of you who tried to get your band’s stuff promoted as you watched Hannah Montana’s crap skyrocket…

]]> By: thingwarbler http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2050 thingwarbler Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:27:03 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2050 <p><em>“the prose flat out sucked, like the kind of sucking you get with an industrial vacuum, the kind they use in body shops…”</em> I love this book, already. And to all those friends of mine who have tried in vain to get really good shit published over the years: sucks to be you, huh?</p> “the prose flat out sucked, like the kind of sucking you get with an industrial vacuum, the kind they use in body shops…” I love this book, already. And to all those friends of mine who have tried in vain to get really good shit published over the years: sucks to be you, huh?

]]> By: humboldtblue http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2046 humboldtblue Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:02:37 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/24/she-was-sold-like-a-cow-at-an-auction/#comment-2046 <p>or … how about when you read the book <em>“your eyes burn as if someone was squeezing the juice from a thousand jalapenos directly onto your corneas.”?</em></p> or … how about when you read the book “your eyes burn as if someone was squeezing the juice from a thousand jalapenos directly onto your corneas.”?

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