tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400847995145087948.post7275563374826141943..comments2023-10-21T03:14:46.020-07:00Comments on AlterEgo: In Memory of Debbie GoadUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400847995145087948.post-15216333712464317592010-09-10T17:44:40.345-07:002010-09-10T17:44:40.345-07:00Readers should remember that this is an imaginativ...Readers should remember that this is an imaginative essay and doesn't have to be factual any more than Walter Savage Landor's _Imaginary Conversations_ needed to take place in real life.<br /><br />That said, I don't know how useful it is to project unanswerable questions onto the private life of a couple you don't actually know. You seem to be asking in earnest about things that a writer like Peter Sotos would assert with ridiculous certainty and have a lot more fun doing so. Ironically, asking in a thoughtful chin-stroking tone makes the effect less reasonable than insisting on the worst possible conclusions facetiously. Why exactly are you so sure their union was barren in terms of fulfillment? Isn't it just as likely that Jim Goad could have flipped out at the thought of losing his wife as it is that he simply stopped caring? And how exactly would we get the real story from parties engaged in self-promotion at the veritable turning point between zine and blog culture?<br /><br />I agree that Debbie Goad was often a memorable writer -- but so was Jim Goad, as evidenced by his entries in the Suicide Issue (the descriptions of Plath and others are classic, carefully polished and tasteless all at the same time). <br /><br />Answer Me was probably the most painstakingly written and revised amateur zine of the 90s. No one seems to realize that because they find Jim Goad's politics repugnant (even though he clearly started on the left at John Jay and argues his case well).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400847995145087948.post-72576271381961106832010-05-21T19:46:19.328-07:002010-05-21T19:46:19.328-07:00This was genius. I particularly enjoyed the Vingin...This was genius. I particularly enjoyed the Vinginia Woolf analogy. It appears that someone's toadie is trying to make points via an anonymous comment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com