Steely instant bummer

[Paul Mackin]

A resounding second to John M on the entitity calling itself ironbrain.

				P.

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> From: MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Steely instant bummer
> Date: Monday, January 27, 1997 8:36 PM
> 
> >I am glad Steeloid closes his latest screed w/ a quote from H. Adams about
lies and little 
> boys.  They got you good, Steely, so good that it seems you are still just a
poor little boy.  I 
> am really tired of your narrow-mindedness coupled w/ your long windedness. 
Not that I 
> mind being insulted, but you rarely support your insults except w/ stupid
slapdash 
> pseudo-rationales.  I usually resist being drawn into any discussion you are
a centrally 
> involved in, but this just takes the cake:
> >
> >Ever since Mascaro weighed in with his astonishingly moronic commentary on
> >that Kenosha Kid, Orson Welles (Gregg Toland's cinematography alone vaults
> >CitKane to the top five films of all time), I've only read about one out
> >every 20 postings to this list, which seems to be ensared in an entropic
> >tailspin.
> 
> So, I'm supposed to say, like, wow, steely, you sure showed me?  I still say
the film's 
> overrated, but more to the point, the whole Welles exchange was characterized
by fun, 
> play, a little wit, a few good puns.  I learned some stuff from goodman Don
L. and had a 
> good feeling about the list, a feeling I usually have until you drop one of
your methane 
> stink bombs in amidships.  You, Steelman, are a shit, ok?  You are what we
used to call in 
> college an *instant bummer.*  You have NONONO sense of humanity (much less of

> humor), or of the relativitiy of good people's thoughts.  Though I agree w/
much of your 
> attacks on mainstream, McKinnonian feminism--though not w/ your personal
attacks on 
> DYB whom I know to be a person of integrity and good will--I think it's about
time 
> someone pointed out to you, fella, that fucking JOURNALISTS are much more 
> responsible for keeping the Man in charge than are academics or feminists. 
You guys are 
> the real running dogs of lackey imperialism.  OH,OH,I forgot, your personal
politics and 
> mode of life are, I am sure, utterly pure, yet you are tarred with the same
brush you wield 
> so stridently in your wholesale denigrations of all those professions you
deem unworthy.  
> A-and stop dropping names alla time about your *good friend* Alex Cockburn
etc.
> 
> I noticed you never even acknowleged that Penny Padgett awhile back had
responded to 
> your churlish challenge to quote some good VINELAND passages; she dropped a
coupla 
> real winners, but no acknowledgement from you.  This is a typical Steeldroid
ploy.  Most 
> folks on the list believe in some mode of civility, some give and take
betwixt us.  Only 
> boreasses like you, smugly convinced they have all the answers, seem unable
to 
> acknowledge that learning is a lifelong task and that all of us can learn
somethings from 
> each other.  Sorry that schoolteacher fucked up your little boyhead so badly,
Steely.  Good 
> thing there's still people who will publish you, two-fisted writer that you
are, putting your 
> bread on the table and your foot in your mouth.  I am glad that my moronic
post got you 
> to cut down on your p-list reading.  Now if only I could figure out what to
write that 
> might make you so disgusted that you'll just kinda--go away--for good, and
leave us 
> morons to the infinitely more rewarding task of teaching things to each other
rather than 
> bullying and browbeating.  
> 
> But I want to repeat:  Journalists have bloodier hands than either academics
or feminists.  
> Write that twenty times on the board, little man, before you go to recess.
> 
> john m
>