tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post4853704831955570361..comments2023-06-24T10:50:46.068-05:00Comments on Minnesota Conservatives: JG Ballard 1930-2009John Hugh Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17095758200969949080noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-29455230806580025622009-05-14T20:49:00.000-05:002009-05-14T20:49:00.000-05:00"meta-theorists? is this what you think you're sup..."meta-theorists? is this what you think you're supposed to think? how you think a smart person sounds?" - you dont make sense but not surprising coming from conservatives actually.. you know what does "meta" mean?psychmetalfreakhttp://www.psychmetalfreak.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-66478311454808857642009-05-11T23:04:00.000-05:002009-05-11T23:04:00.000-05:00http://die-tribes.blogspot.com/http://die-tribes.blogspot.com/Psychmetalfreakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17132100951512125926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-88952083409914526022009-04-29T13:44:00.000-05:002009-04-29T13:44:00.000-05:00That you can't separate the man from the fictions ...That you can't separate the man from the fictions he created lets me know that you are in the possession of a seriously mediocre and stagnant intellect. And I think that maybe you made a Freudian slip when you mentioned suicide. Ballard didn't need to kill himself, as he lived a full and productive life. You, on the other hand, might want to seriously consider self-murder. This world doesn't need any more cretins. Help us out, would you, and remove yourself from the frame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-5921913610799292462009-04-28T23:06:00.000-05:002009-04-28T23:06:00.000-05:00This entry is blithely tendentious, and almost fun...This entry is blithely tendentious, and almost funny for being so stupid and unaware. Did it ever occur to you that there might considerable space between Ballard the man, and the way his characters behaved ? Or even that he might have hated some of the same social trends as conservatives do ?<br /><br />His writing was dramatically different from and better than that of Burroughs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-70989924125901460632009-04-28T21:05:00.000-05:002009-04-28T21:05:00.000-05:00Maybe another plane should crash into the royal hu...Maybe another plane should crash into the royal hub of the Minnesota Conservatives or yet another Bush to be elected into the White House office to let you understand what is truly evil?psychmetalfreaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-36393493206423483682009-04-28T13:11:00.000-05:002009-04-28T13:11:00.000-05:00What exactly is it that you find so objectionable?...What exactly is it that you find so objectionable? <br /><br />Is it that some writers and film makers are not as closeted and God fearing as you are?Gzegnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-47494173489901078622009-04-28T11:48:00.000-05:002009-04-28T11:48:00.000-05:00This toned down entry is still shit. "Sickness at...This toned down entry is still shit. "Sickness attracts sickness" - was one of the stupidest things in it, but not even superficial in its treament of Ballard - have you actually read anything by him, apart from seeing an interpretation of one of his books in a foreign language? Conservatives, fuck's sake...stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06964690628169966854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-81051528184173276252009-04-28T11:31:00.000-05:002009-04-28T11:31:00.000-05:00Haha, this was hilarious reading. Is everything yo...Haha, this was hilarious reading. Is everything you write so ill-informed and prejudiced?Feedback66http://disasterarea.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-28174129869779379192009-04-28T07:44:00.000-05:002009-04-28T07:44:00.000-05:00As Neils Bohr once famously said: "You're not even...As Neils Bohr once famously said: "You're not even wrong."Rick McGrathhttp://www.jgballard.ca/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-61265203688486559402009-04-27T15:42:00.000-05:002009-04-27T15:42:00.000-05:00The whole "point" of Ballard's death is that he di...The whole "point" of Ballard's death is that he did NOT commit suicide. He faced a painful death from cancer with much stoicism. If he had topped himself that would just have given comfort to Ballard's detractors, wouldn't it? "Here's this crazy man who wrote _Crash_," they might say -- "killed himself, naturally."<br /><br />Besides, Ballard has four grandchildren, and he, very responsibly, wouldn't want to leave them such a dreadful family example. "Suicide tends to run in families," he once said in an interview, back in 1982, and he pointed to the appalling example of Ernest Hemingway. Ballard was a fan of Hemingway's writing in his youth, but he wouldn't have wanted to emulate Hemingway in his mode of death.<br /><br />Isn't this a conservative blog? Live up to your beliefs! As conservatives, in this age of suicide bombing, you should _oppose_ suicide with all your might. It's a sin, and (should still be) a crime. Don't carelessly wish it on people you may not like/approve of for other reasons!David Pringlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221462436404686786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-66961611504474785272009-04-27T12:39:00.000-05:002009-04-27T12:39:00.000-05:00If you can't accurately read news reports to know ...If you can't accurately read news reports to know that Ballard did not commit suicide, how can you expect to comprehend Ballard's works. This piece illustrates your ignorance above all else.Monroehttp://rrmonroe.tumbler.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-73274206040445403762009-04-27T11:09:00.000-05:002009-04-27T11:09:00.000-05:00I cant figure out if you are incoherent out of der...I cant figure out if you are incoherent out of derangement or stupidity, but one thing is clear, you dont really understand any of these things of which you speak, do you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-44423311295179931632009-04-27T09:44:00.000-05:002009-04-27T09:44:00.000-05:00Do you have a source for Ballard's suicide? Everyt...Do you have a source for Ballard's suicide? Everything I have read has suggested his death was due to cancer.robhttp://twitter.com/rrmonroenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-41184270253299936922009-04-27T09:30:00.000-05:002009-04-27T09:30:00.000-05:00I am unfamiliar with this piece of news that Balla...I am unfamiliar with this piece of news that Ballard's death was a suicide. What was your source?Tadpole316https://www.blogger.com/profile/16295803058330011028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423868999082505525.post-90806452409403213042009-04-27T09:16:00.000-05:002009-04-27T09:16:00.000-05:00Staggeringly inaccurate. He didn't commit suicide....Staggeringly inaccurate. He didn't commit suicide. He lived out the last of his days with his partner while she cared for him.<br /><br />Is the rest of your blog equally factually redundant?<br /><br />http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23678206-details/Literary%2Bgiant%2BJG%2BBallard%2Bdies%2Bof%2Bcancer%2Baged%2B78/article.doPaul Williamsnoreply@blogger.com