Bagatellen and my apologies to Derek Taylor

[Lois Gilbert]

I deleted a thread that Derek started about Bagatellen. I thought it was another forum rather than a magazine. My mistake, and Derek feel free to start your posts again.

Thanks Lois

[achilles]

what is eai?

[Enforcer]

Lois here is some free advice from an ex amublance chaser:

[Uli]

Be that as it may, I don't see a link to JC on Bagatellen. Do you?

Under Points of Interest, I see a link to the "O" board, but not a link to JC (or AAJ).

I am quite sure that's just an inentional oversight and can be easily fixed.

[bluenoter]

I am quite sure that's just an inentional oversight and can be easily fixed.

You're throwing a twig in Lois's direction so she won't trip over a log (or something like that). One can tell that you were a lawyer.

Why should Bagatellen link to JC if it's neglected or declined to do that so far? More fundamentally, what's the frickin' point of discussing another board on either board?

[Uli]

Ok, bn, I am dropping my free mandate.

[bluenoter]

Either that link to JC's Speakeasy was added five minutes ago or I need to get my new prescription for glasses filled faster than I thought. I apologize if it's the latter.

That may or may not overcome Lois's objections to threads about Bagatellen on JC.

[walto]

That may or may not overcome Lois's objections to threads about Bagatellen on JC.

Are you sure?

[Uli]

That may or may not overcome Lois's objections to threads about Bagatellen on JC.[/size][/font][/b]

My hope is that it will.


Discussions about bagatellen in the future might be better placed in the Alley, so.

[bluenoter]

Are you sure?

Walto, my profundity is profound.

Wait a minute--did I leave out a possibility?

(It's rhetoric, son!)

[bluenoter]

BTW, I posted in one of the former threads about Bagatellen. I advised Derek to e-mail Lois with his request that his extra, unwanted thread be removed, and I wrote that so far, Bagatellen seems like a class act to me.

However, facts is facts--Bagatellen isn't a print magazine, as Lois seems to think.

[Uli]

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However, facts is facts--Bagatellen isn't a print magazine, as Lois seems to think.

Blue, nowhere does Lois talk about a print magazine. Bags is certainly more like an online magazine than just a talk board.

[bluenoter]

Blue, nowhere does Lois talk about a print magazine. Bags is certainly more like an online magazine than just a talk board.

Uli--

Indeed, maybe Lois knows that Bagatellen is online, has seen it, and has made her decisions accordingly. In that case, I'll feel like an idiot. That's not my guess, but I could easily be wrong.

[Lois Gilbert]

I would appreciate people not talking for me but instead sending a pm or an email. I've requested this before. I know what Bagatellen is and I should've called it more like a fanzine, but at first I thought it was a forum.

[Derek Taylor]

Thanks, Lois. My apologies for the confusion.

Actually it’s more of an online ‘zine’/blog combination. There’s a roster of “authors” who contribute content (articles, essays, cd reviews, interviews, etc.) and a comment function that allows interaction between readers (and authors) as to what’s published. It’s definitely not a BBS.

Uli’s right about the lprevious ack of a JC link- it was an unintended oversight. Marc Medwin, one of the Bagatellen authors, has rectified the slight.

As to the question: “what's the frickin' point of discussing another board on either board?” As I mentioned above, Bagatellen isn’t a “board" & its content has been mentioned/discussed at JC repeatedly since it's inception (see the current vitriolic trainwreck that transpired recently on the Eai 3.0 thread for one unfortunate example). I posted the poll because I wanted to get some feedback, that’s all.

[Gary Sisco]

What's it matter? There's always a back and forth of the same people from there to here or from here to other boards and back again. There's nothing at all new about that.

[sonic1]

*gasp*

people post on other boards besides JC ???!!!

Those sluts!

[Gary Sisco]

And they post here!

Run for your lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bluenoter]

I apologize for my role in creating confusion, and I apologize for speaking . . . not for Lois, but to her and about her.

I probably shoulda stood in bed yesterday (instead of posting).

Gary and Sonic, what sometimes creeps me out is a sort of meta- mutual masturbation (or closed-circuit circle jerk) wherein lots of space on two online fora is devoted to discussing the goings-on at the other online forum. That's not the same thing as having posters at each forum hop between them, now, is it?

I do apologize.

P.S.--When I looked up the plural of "forum," I found a war among the dictionaries.

[Dr Dave]

Bagatellen is a different scene. I enjoy reading it, but it is a little bit intimidating, too.

[sonic1]

BNer It is more rare than it seems to date, this discussion of other forum activity. There was a blow up recently as you probably know. But normally things are not like that.

[bluenoter]

BNer It is more rare than it seems to date, this discussion of other forum activity. There was a blow up recently as you probably know. But normally things are not like that.

I don't know that firsthand because I haven't followed the eai threads closely, but I believe you.

[achilles]

well, the recent dust-up has driven Joe Milazzo away from Bagatellen; see his comments at the site. A shame, as I liked Joe's writing as much as anyone who writes/posts there.

[Uli]

Milazzo rules!

np

[Gary Sisco]

Another non-issue.

[Derek Taylor]

Gary, what crawled up your ass?

fwiw (not a hill of beans in the larger scheme), I'm with Uli as far as Milazzo's enduring reign.

[Pete C]

Gary, what crawled up your ass?

Yeah, it's one thing to be hard-boiled, but if you boil an egg too long it gets rubbery.

[bluenoter]

As some of you know, Bagatellen is now being archived. It's still open for comments, but it's turned its

lights out.

[Pete C]

I apologize for my role in creating confusion,

Is this blanket coverage?