Red Mosquito

McParadigm wrote: Ava Bigtree

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Rodion Raskolnikov
Cash Bundren
Oskar Matzerath
Abel (House Made of Dawn)
Biggus Dickus
John Yossarian
Ava Bigtree
Ebenezor Scrooge
Ralph, who wept for the darkness of man’s heart.
Eeyore
Primo Levi doesn't count, but Primo Levi
Captain Picard

This will take me a minute to digest, but it's intriguing.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Rodion Raskolnikov
Cash Bundren
Oskar Matzerath
Abel (House Made of Dawn)
Biggus Dickus
John Yossarian
Ava Bigtree
Ebenezor Scrooge
Ralph, who wept for the darkness of man’s heart.
Eeyore
Primo Levi doesn't count, but Primo Levi
Captain Picard

This will take me a minute to digest, but it's intriguing.

I'm 90% sure he's kidding.

I only recognize a few of the names, so I wanted to do some googling before I made that judgment.

durdencommatyler wrote:I wonder if I've ever looked to fiction for role models. I must have when I was younger, I suppose. But I don't remember a time when that was true.

durdencommatyler wrote:I wonder if I've ever looked to fiction for role models. I must have when I was younger, I suppose. But I don't remember a time when that was true.

bada wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I wonder if I've ever looked to fiction for role models. I must have when I was younger, I suppose. But I don't remember a time when that was true.

When I was a kid in the 80's Arnold Schwarzenegger and by extention the characters he played was the closet thing to a hero I had....thinking about it now thats kind of sad.

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Rodion Raskolnikov
Cash Bundren
Oskar Matzerath
Abel (House Made of Dawn)
Biggus Dickus
John Yossarian
Ava Bigtree
Ebenezor Scrooge
Ralph, who wept for the darkness of man’s heart.
Eeyore
Primo Levi doesn't count, but Primo Levi
Captain Picard

This will take me a minute to digest, but it's intriguing.

I'm 90% sure he's kidding.

I only recognize a few of the names, so I wanted to do some googling before I made that judgment.

Me too! I actually don't know who most of these characters are. And I have no idea whether or not McP's being serious.

Simple Torture wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Rodion Raskolnikov
Cash Bundren
Oskar Matzerath
Abel (House Made of Dawn)
Biggus Dickus
John Yossarian
Ava Bigtree
Ebenezor Scrooge
Ralph, who wept for the darkness of man’s heart.
Eeyore
Primo Levi doesn't count, but Primo Levi
Captain Picard

This will take me a minute to digest, but it's intriguing.

I'm 90% sure he's kidding.

I only recognize a few of the names, so I wanted to do some googling before I made that judgment.

Me too! I actually don't know who most of these characters are. And I have no idea whether or not McP's being serious.

Based on the ones I knowI'm going to mention to my students tomorrow that McP mentioned Ava Bigtree; we just read her story together. You're going to be famous in some English classes in Rhode Island, McP.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.