Silence is Goadin'

[akirlu]

No one is commenting to me much. Must say something controversial.

Comments

[cobrabay.livejournal.com]

The reason may be that LJ is giving a lot of comment errors. I've had most of my attempts to comment today fail at least once.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

This post wasn't controversial, so I won't comment.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

OMGWTF HOW CAN U SAY SUCH A THING??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!?!?!?!/111111

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

You could post a description of the current TAFF situation ... though that might result in more response than you really need.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I feel bad for being a crap commenter--time has been horrendously overloaded with slog of late, and so my ten minute runs are too frequently cut to eight or five.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah? OH YEAH? And I suppose that's a controversial statement! Like something people would fight over! Grrrr...

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Talk about how wonderful and perfect the film "The Prestige" was. You'll get an earful from me.

[thirdworld.livejournal.com]

No comment.

[thirdworld.livejournal.com]

I liked it. An interesting story, though I understand the book was much better. Either way, "wonderful and perfect" it was not. Many holes.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

What he (didn't) say...

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I disagree. Why do you hate our troops?

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Actually, I commented on one of your recent entries today as I stood underneath some very tall redwoods near my office. "Hmm," I thought, "I am getting wet. These are not as efficent at keeping out rain as Ulrika's cedars."

Admittedly, unless you were psychic you missed that comment.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

It may also be that I've been writing the sort of self-contained posts which don't really inspire a response. I usually know when I've written a comment hook, as us old apahacks used to call them.

Then again, I may be getting rusty because I really didn't expect the volley of replies this garnered...

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

kthankxbye

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I have too much emmpathy for the person in the administrator's hotseat to stir that particular pot, thanks. But you're right, I'm sure it's a pippin. 'Specially if I cross post to anywhere that Certain Persons read...

[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

Not again...

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I feel bad for being a crap commenter

Oh, please. We're all crap commenters in somebody's LJ. I mean, thanks for sayin' an' all, but I was as much commenting on the sort of self-contained things I've been finding to say lately, and acknowledging that if I want people to talk back to me I first have to write things that provide enough grippy places to get a hold of, as I was using my LJ for its athenais-coined true purpose, as a Place to Say Wah.

LJ is not an obligation, and sometimes your social life has to take a backseat to the rest of your life, eh? I figure people will say something when they have something to say, and it's all good.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I liked it, but not as much as The Illusionist. There were some lovely visuals, like the top hats, and I thought of all people, Bowie turned in a note perfect performance, but neither of the two leads is quite believable in the role of pathological obsessive.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Funny, I've never thought of you as a bowl of petunias.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it's cool to know about it post facto. One just never knows what stray remark or observation will stick in someone else's head.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd have believed those two pathological obsessives no matter who played them (they're more believable in the book), but Jackman acts very well nonetheless. Bowie I thought a bit stiff next to Serkis.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

All true things. Though it only works when there is some interaction, and I feel kinda bad when I think "I should reply here" and don't, or say I will later, but don't have time, and it keeps happening. I do wish the workload would lighten a tad.

[tysolna]

Garlic bread...?

Less flippantly - I feel your pain. I mean, I post pictures of shoes to get responses!

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

RAE,BNC.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

U spk my langwich!

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I liked Serkis too, although I thought Bowie was fine in a one-note role. ("Bevare! Bevare!", to quote Bela Lugosi.) Anyway, he looked great with that little mustache.

I enjoyed the movie quite a bit as spectacle, although I saw half of the final revelation from three miles away. Not the other half, though.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

You keep out of this. He doesn't have to shoot you now!

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I say he does have to shoot me now! So, shoot me now!

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I post pictures of shoes to get responses!

And, does it work?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're right that it's interaction that makes the whole gigantic glass harmonica spin, and I, too, feel a certain level of obligation to make comments when they occur to me. I just don't waste a lot of angst on it. (And what would a very small unit of angst be? If an angstrom is a very small unit of length, would a very small unit of angst be a lengthstrom?)

[tysolna]

Considering that I received more responses to my shoe post than to many of my other posts, I would say yes.
There's always the "kitty picture" option, too.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I tend to think of them as assnibbles (as opposed to gigantic assgouge) but then I am a Smith, and our brains are the result of, somewhere down the evolutionary tree, to an unlikely encounter between a squid and a cabbage.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute, what season is it?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Turkey season, obviously.