Not too elite to respond

April 24, 2003 2:21 PM

Author writes back! [Well, I sent her the link but still... it's kinda cool.]
posted by adrober to MetaFilter-Related at 2:21 PM (12 comments total)

Now that the condescention has been uncorked (by the author herself): What a bunch of tripe. I suppose that living in Missouri is the first step towards becoming culturally enlightened?
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 3:14 PM on April 24, 2003

Well, KC maybe, but not St. Louis :)
posted by sonofsamiam at 3:23 PM on April 24, 2003

And this is in MetaTalk because...?
posted by JollyWanker at 3:26 PM on April 24, 2003

oh, i just posted it because i remember once on the main page there was a sidebar about how cool it was that the original author chimed in on a metafilter chat.
sowwy.
posted by adrober at 4:10 PM on April 24, 2003

Well, I'm a bitter loser, er, member, on a glorified semi-famous bulletin board so I'm going to add my two bits: She's not Madonna. She's not even Pam Dawber in True Grit. But she's entitled to her opinions as much as anyone here and--unlike us here--she's getting paid for expressing them. ([Sarah Bryan Miller] Ha Ha [/Sarah Bryan Miller])

I'm ambivalent to indifferent on Starship Troopers, the film, myself, but frankly I think she gave the book far too much credit. Not that it matters. She wrote adrober-- good for adrober. Stop picking on him.
posted by y2karl at 4:42 PM on April 24, 2003

Well, KC maybe, but not St. Louis

Yeah, everything's up to date in Kansas City.
posted by kindall at 4:52 PM on April 24, 2003

Kansas City is sort of a Detroit that doesn't know it has a problem yet.

Wait, what am I doing here?
posted by mrbula at 5:22 PM on April 24, 2003

i just posted it because i remember once on the main page there was a sidebar about how cool it was

No doubt the author's permission was obtained in advance of posting her private e-mail in a public forum?
posted by hama7 at 5:35 PM on April 24, 2003

hama7 — I was wondering the same thing.
posted by letitrain at 6:42 PM on April 24, 2003

Rolls out a nice big wheel of midwestern cheese to go with all the whine being spread around here...
posted by Space Coyote at 9:14 PM on April 24, 2003

MetaFilter: A Nice Big Wheel Of Midwestern Cheese.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:03 AM on April 25, 2003

Empire of cheese
posted by clavdivs at 8:29 AM on April 25, 2003