Comments on: Hey nerds: LA Times Book Fest sked now online!

By: bustard

bustard — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:03:46 +0000

Well, tony pierce is a one-hit wonder with a single medium. (I am sure you appreciate how easy it is to come up with topics for no other reason than to get people riled up—kinda like some of my punk rock peers did with fanzines back in the 1980s, when we were still teenagers—and then watch the numbers go up.) That is how tony worked with his former blog. I cannot imagine him being able to have a conversation of any interest, even for something as sad an event as the L.A. Times Book festival. (I state this because Los Angeles is the largest new book market in the U.S., but this particular event is a laughing stock in itself. Compared to the BookExpo and Frankfurt, it is a travesty. Some of the very people you listed are there nearly every year, and the whole thing is very poorly laid out.)

And let me make it clear that is was not an “issue” (where do people get these stupid euphemisms, anyway?) but a question, although I think you meant to state “problem.”

By: David Markland

David Markland — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:37:32 +0000

Tony Pierce manages the LA Times blogs and is a popular blogger himself, and Kareem is the Times most popular blogger.

Whats your issue, Bustard?

By: bustard

bustard — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:25:23 +0000

“Still, I’d love to see Tony Pierce in conversation with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.”

Why? What have these two in common?

By: rodger

rodger — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:52:16 +0000

BTW, Markland, I was just funnin’ ya. I know the point you’re making and it’s true, there is some damn fine lit being created on the web.

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Lit Blogging 3.0 « Carver’s Dog — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:58:12 +0000

[...] at Blogging L.A., contributor David Markland asks why there isn’t a panel on Latino bloggers at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books; to [...]

By: rodger

rodger — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:27:07 +0000

Markland, Markland, Markland. Pray tell how a panel on Latino bloggers would have any relevance to a festival devoted to books.