On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>> --- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>> If anyone has anything interesting to say about
>>> _Empire_ or "popular
>>> culture" or anything else, go ahead and say it,
>>> rather than simply
>>> insisting that it can be interesting, significant,
>>> relevant, or
>>> whatever.
>>
>> This is classic Yoshie. Let's recall the steps
>> leading up to the above statement. First she casts a
>> slur on "Empire" by stating that it was just a pop
>> phenomenon, and that therefore we should "move on".
>> Then people asked what was wrong with a pop
>> phenomenon. Now she has turned the tables, and
>> encourages people to talk about "Empire" or any other
>> form of "pop culture", instead of just insisting on
>> the attributes of pop culture! Got to hand it to you
>> Yoshie, you are the Houdini of rhetoric. Wow!
>>
>> Thomas
>
> See, you have more to say about critics of _Empire_ than _Empire_
> itself. One of the noteworthy things about threads on _Empire_ on
> LBO-talk and PEN-l is that those who say they like _Empire_ have
> little to say about it.
> --
> Yoshie
>
>
and you walked right into her trap! double-whammy!
pretty sneaky, sis.
j