#2 2008-05-24 10:16:25
She did not inherit her mother's writing talent, did she?
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#3 2008-05-24 10:19:49
Good find!
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#4 2008-05-24 10:38:09
George Orr wrote:
She did not inherit her mother's writing talent, did she?
I've always thought Alice Walker was overrated. White women love her because she supposedly writes about the authentic black experience from a feminist perspective, but I always found her to be tedious and her beliefs bordering on mental illness. I'm not a fan of Toni Morrison either.
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#5 2008-05-24 10:47:11
The only Walker I've ever read was The Color Purple, a fulsome melodrama but a satisfying story once I made it to the end.
I tend to pick up "feminist" writers out of a vague sense of duty, but I'm rarely sparked by what I read when I do.
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#6 2008-05-24 11:18:45
headkicker_girl wrote:
I've always thought Alice Walker was overrated. White women love her because she supposedly writes about the authentic black experience from a feminist perspective, but I always found her to be tedious and her beliefs bordering on mental illness.
I knuckle balled my favorite coffee cup into brick and ceramic shards at the redemption fairytale ending of The Color Purple.
The moral of her story is nothing destroys a natural stylist quicker than Oprah or academia. So it goes.
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#7 2008-05-24 11:25:59
choad wrote:
I knuckle balled my favorite coffee cup into brick and ceramic shards at the redemption fairytale ending of The Color Purple.
I went into it thinking of it as a fairy tale, so it didn't have quite that effect on me.
Popular criticism of the book was fawning and overblown, but with bestsellers that happens all the time.
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#8 2008-05-24 12:28:27
I saw this this morning-very interesting link. Reminds me of that old story told by William Faulkner's daughter, who described him as a terrible drunkard, who used to throw things and tell her how stupid she was and what a better writer he was than she.
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#9 2008-05-24 13:48:50
Daughter dearest is being fawned over by the right ight now. Usually they detest whiners who blame their parents and society for their failings.
On a side note my friend once brought Alice walker's house from her. In the staircase transom it had a large stained glass of Whoopie. Nice classic Victorian 7 sister, she couldn't find a buyer for years because nobody wanted to pay so much to live half a block up from junkietown on Fillmore St. He got it for about half the original listing and the next year they knocked down the projects and demolished the Fell st flyover thereby making the drive thru dealing impractical for the South City and East bay dopers. We had some fantastic rock n roll parties in that house.
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#10 2008-05-24 14:07:24
Which house is it, Johnny? I'm moving to Hayes Valley.
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#11 2008-05-24 14:35:26
Thankfully for you the Hayes valley of a few years ago is gone. That was some sketchy goings on down there. The house is the 2nd up on Alamo square, the first of the matching painted ladies. The one with the butterfly gates. I saw more dawns from that house and then shuffled off to work then I would have thought possible in my mid 30s. My friend sold it for a tidy profit a few years ago.
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#12 2008-05-24 14:41:02
Ah, I know the one. I lived a block over on Steiner for a while and used to take a blanket to the park to lay out and read.
It was also fun to watch the tour buses line up on Hayes, unload their passengers, herd them en masse to a hillock where they would all take exactly the same photo of the Painted Ladies against the skyline of the city, and then herd back to the bus, presumably to go to Pier 39.
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#13 2008-05-24 14:45:31
headkicker_girl wrote:
I've always thought Alice Walker was overrated. White women love her because she supposedly writes about the authentic black experience from a feminist perspective, but I always found her to be tedious and her beliefs bordering on mental illness. I'm not a fan of Toni Morrison either.
There has been a serious disturbance in THE FORCE; Headkicker Girl and I are on the same page about Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. Several explanations come to mind: (a) an event of some sort has affected our timeline (b) Headkicker Girl has been replaced by a twin from a mirror universe, or (c) I have somehow been transported to a mirror universe.
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#14 2008-05-24 14:53:09
Fortunately for us the tourist usually didn't show up till we had shaken off the evening's effects. If they only knew the likes of the funky fun and general bacchanalia that was going on behind that bright painted facade. Were you in one of the buildings up at the top on the next block? Another friend lived on the SE corner building of Hayes and Steiner. As she was a functional addict I always considered her building the beginning of the descent to junkieville.
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#15 2008-05-24 15:16:50
I was a few houses below that in the go-to-hell red place with the red and yellow stripes on the top floor (they're visible from Alamo Square).
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#16 2008-05-24 16:11:27
headkicker_girl wrote:
George Orr wrote:
She did not inherit her mother's writing talent, did she?
I've always thought Alice Walker was overrated. White women love her because she supposedly writes about the authentic black experience from a feminist perspective, but I always found her to be tedious and her beliefs bordering on mental illness. I'm not a fan of Toni Morrison either.
I don't know if I'd consider myself a fan, but I read Beloved, and I enjoyed it. She had a nice way of flowing around a subject so you suspected but weren't sure what the point was until she finished the outlines, kind of like watching a Bob Ross painting, but much less relaxing.
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#17 2008-05-24 16:29:05
Yes, happy little trees.
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#18 2008-05-24 16:37:39
I miss that guy.
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#20 2008-05-24 17:09:42
fnord wrote:
...(c) I have somehow been transported to a mirror universe.
Do you suddenly have a goatee? It's the only way to be sure.
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#21 2008-05-24 20:33:04
pALEPHx wrote:
fnord wrote:
...(c) I have somehow been transported to a mirror universe.
Do you suddenly have a goatee? It's the only way to be sure.
You have it backwards; my twin from a mirror universe would have a goatee. The way to be sure would be if a lot of my meatspace friends and acquaintances were suddenly sporting them.
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#22 2008-05-24 21:07:44
fnord wrote:
You have it backwards; my twin from a mirror universe would have a goatee.
Holy shit, you're the good Fnord?!
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