Comments on: Wow. http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:44:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Dave http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20445 Dave Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:03:36 +0000 http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20445 Hi y'all. I'm a critic so I obviously have a different slant on this. In my reading of the review, she's trying to comment (fairly ineffectively) on the popular stereotype that women aren't funny. And looking over the review, the positive to negative ratio of what the reviewer says is about 50 to 1. She praises just about everything about you all, down to your fashion sense. And then, in a probably ill-considered move, she tried to be funny or ironic with her last line and you all are hanging her with it. Haven't you ever done a killer routine and then kind of muffed the last line? It seems like what happened here. This kind of reaction is the kind of thing that makes me pretty bitter as a critic. I've heaped praise on all sorts of aspects of a show and then been accosted because I said something less-than-positive about the set or the lighting. Would the only appropriate last line have been "go see these chicks because the sun shines out of their collective ass"? Hi y’all. I’m a critic so I obviously have a different slant on this. In my reading of the review, she’s trying to comment (fairly ineffectively) on the popular stereotype that women aren’t funny. And looking over the review, the positive to negative ratio of what the reviewer says is about 50 to 1. She praises just about everything about you all, down to your fashion sense. And then, in a probably ill-considered move, she tried to be funny or ironic with her last line and you all are hanging her with it. Haven’t you ever done a killer routine and then kind of muffed the last line? It seems like what happened here. This kind of reaction is the kind of thing that makes me pretty bitter as a critic. I’ve heaped praise on all sorts of aspects of a show and then been accosted because I said something less-than-positive about the set or the lighting. Would the only appropriate last line have been “go see these chicks because the sun shines out of their collective ass”?

]]> By: Kenny G. http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20433 Kenny G. Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:44:18 +0000 http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20433 I had something to say here..... But it was already said (quite well I must add.)..... So, to say what I wanted to say.... while being lazy... i'll just blatently plagiarize: "Catie Says: June 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm I can maybe see where she though she was being sarcastic…but it didn’t work. Haven’t been able to come to a show (*removed quote that does not apply to me :-)* - Kenny g.) but from what I read on here and see on your videos, you two ladies manage to blow right past smart and funny to brilliant and hilarious." Big props to Catie for writing a post spot-on enough for two.... But, after reading the actual review on Glennis’s blog.... I do have to add..... Megn Striklan!!! You couldn't compose sarcastic, ironic prose if you.... um... I dunno... Had SARS, were in a cast.... and maybe it was made of iron..??? ( I ran out of ideas... too much beer.... and you can't write straight when you are this offended with media irresponsibility.... ) Nuff said... except.... gotta say.... you both look SMOKIN HAWT in the photo.... but that's just my opinion.... :-) - Kenny G. I had something to say here….. But it was already said (quite well I must add.)….. So, to say what I wanted to say…. while being lazy… i’ll just blatently plagiarize:

“Catie Says:

June 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I can maybe see where she though she was being sarcastic…but it didn’t work.

Haven’t been able to come to a show (*removed quote that does not apply to me :-)* - Kenny g.) but from what I read on here and see on your videos, you two ladies manage to blow right past smart and funny to brilliant and hilarious.”

Big props to Catie for writing a post spot-on enough for two….

But, after reading the actual review on Glennis’s blog…. I do have to add….. Megn Striklan!!! You couldn’t compose sarcastic, ironic prose if you…. um… I dunno… Had SARS, were in a cast…. and maybe it was made of iron..??? ( I ran out of ideas… too much beer…. and you can’t write straight when you are this offended with media irresponsibility…. )

Nuff said… except…. gotta say…. you both look SMOKIN HAWT in the photo…. but that’s just my opinion…. :-)

- Kenny G.

]]> By: Michael Simon http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20420 Michael Simon Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:28:32 +0000 http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20420 ladies, that is a really nice photo. ladies, that is a really nice photo.

]]> By: Lonnie Bruner http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20419 Lonnie Bruner Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:47:26 +0000 http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20419 I think that writer is regretting saying that at the end of her article. She probably wrote it thinking it would sound one way, but came across in another, completely horrible way. I do that sometimes, too. ;-) I think that writer is regretting saying that at the end of her article. She probably wrote it thinking it would sound one way, but came across in another, completely horrible way. I do that sometimes, too.

;-)

]]> By: Lonnie Bruner http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20418 Lonnie Bruner Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:43:55 +0000 http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20418 Wait, Charleston has a "City Paper"? Wait, Charleston has a “City Paper”?

]]> By: Morgan http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20416 Morgan Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:09:16 +0000 http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20416 Hey, I read the (otherwise rave) review over at Glennis's blog, and I have to ask... are you sure she wasn't just trying to be facetious? But was ironically not smart or funny enough to pull it off? I hope that's what it was. Hey, I read the (otherwise rave) review over at Glennis’s blog, and I have to ask… are you sure she wasn’t just trying to be facetious? But was ironically not smart or funny enough to pull it off?

I hope that’s what it was.

]]> By: M- http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20415 M- Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:30:00 +0000 http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20415 Maybe the writer isn't a REAL woman... Maybe the writer isn’t a REAL woman…

]]> By: catie http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20414 catie Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:24:31 +0000 http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20414 I can maybe see where she though she was being sarcastic...but it didn't work. Haven't been able to come to a show (poor Midwestern college student blah blah) but from I read on here and see on your videos, you two ladies manage to blow right past smart and funny to brilliant and hilarious. I can maybe see where she though she was being sarcastic…but it didn’t work.

Haven’t been able to come to a show (poor Midwestern college student blah blah) but from I read on here and see on your videos, you two ladies manage to blow right past smart and funny to brilliant and hilarious.

]]> By: d http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20413 d Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:18:36 +0000 http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20413 Maybe she meant "in a bizarro world where women aren't funny." Or maybe this was her pitch for a science fiction movie preview. Maybe she meant “in a bizarro world where women aren’t funny.” Or maybe this was her pitch for a science fiction movie preview.

]]> By: eliza http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20412 eliza Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:36:05 +0000 http://www.elizaskinner.net/2008/06/02/wow/#comment-20412 I didn't want to link to the actual article because I'm a little embarrassed for her. She meant to praise us, but just did a terrible job of it. I don't want to sick the internet on her for bad writing. I didn’t want to link to the actual article because I’m a little embarrassed for her. She meant to praise us, but just did a terrible job of it. I don’t want to sick the internet on her for bad writing.

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