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"It's a pocket manual of bad strategies _and_ a lexicon of medical malevolence in one!"

Oh man, don't you have any more sense than that, Mr. Floatingfish Hibbard sir? You're a pocket manual of bad strategies. "That bad article you're criticizing? It's mine! And now I'm going to demonstrate just how dumb I actually am!"

If you'd been pleasant and polite, you'd have embarrassed everyone who criticized you. Instead, you've made their case for them.

If anyone ever hires you to write again, remember the rule: Never respond to a bad review. No good can come of it.

Just what is your point, Jimmy? Lots of love to you and the family. Oh, and get hepatitis.

Justin Hibbard, aka floatingfish, you make my point better than I ever could. Best wishes for your future endeavors.

Edited by author 03-09-2003 04:08 AM
Wow, "catch leukemia"...and you're not bitter.

I didn't take his entry to be "attacking established magazines" so much as attacking shameless hype-mongers.

Gee, do you think that if the Net wasn't so severely over-hyped in rags like Red Herring and Upside that the bubble would have been as huge, and the crash so gruesome?

And that maybe some of the older hands in venture capital realized that they were helping make a classic bubble, but didn't do anything about it out of shortsighted greed?

I predicted the internet bubble/crash in the 80s, but had NO IDEA that it would get so out of hand as to make the S&L crisis look tiny in its impact on the economy.

So much money was spent so poorly, on such hairbrained ideas, that it boggles the mind.

Using a Latinism speaks for itself, too. It says, "I'm pretentious." ... So, Mercer, saying what Fanning "plans" to do amounts to saying he'll succeed? Breathtaking logic. Oh, and bitterness is what drives pseudo-journalists to attack established magazines. Catch leukemia.

From the story: "He plans to do for movies what Napster did for music, only legally."

I'd say Napster "revolutionized music," or at least its distribution.

Sounds like the floating fish is bitter.

Res Ipsa Loquitor

Hey Jim, I'm the guy who wrote the story about John Fanning, and nowhere did it say that his company was going to "revolutionize Hollywood." I've never heard of you and don't give a shit what you think of Red Herring or my story. But if you have pretensions of being a journalist, you'll want to start with the basics, like accuracy. Get cancer.