tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post3630077478462704614..comments2024-01-20T23:55:26.269-08:00Comments on The Detritus Review: Zest and Zeal and Editors and SentencesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-34703335410797294762008-09-25T13:35:00.000-07:002008-09-25T13:35:00.000-07:00The point is that there is an expectation that som...The point is that there is an expectation that someone in Flynn's position should not have to be prompted or "prepared" for a reference such as the one he tried to make. He should JUST KNOW!!! He's the Director of Cultural Programming and Classical Music for a major market radio station for f*&%# sake!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-74678988341819786032008-09-08T18:40:00.000-07:002008-09-08T18:40:00.000-07:00Greetings All, musical Houstonian type here. . . A...Greetings All, musical Houstonian type here. . . <BR/><BR/>All this said, the main idea of preparedness comes to the fore. And Mr. Flynn has proven, again and again, that he simply wishes not to be prepared to discuss, in any substantive way, those things his job would seen to require. <BR/><BR/>Charles hit it on the head with the word "embarrassing" and your BLOG continues to hit the same nail on the head by exposing the vapid, the uninformed, the amateur posing as professional, and the downright stupid. <BR/><BR/>Keep it up Sator. . . . <BR/><BR/>Fred RicoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-76977899506651693862008-06-03T17:02:00.000-07:002008-06-03T17:02:00.000-07:00Or founder, as it were.Or founder, as it were.Empiricushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629835829400843701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-23039880397879634222008-06-03T12:10:00.000-07:002008-06-03T12:10:00.000-07:00Easy on the oats Trigger--too much and they'll mak...Easy on the oats Trigger--too much and they'll make you flounder.Empiricushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629835829400843701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-69523137623304475392008-06-02T17:34:00.000-07:002008-06-02T17:34:00.000-07:00Flynn doesn't need any help looking bad. He handle...Flynn doesn't need any help looking bad. He handles that quite well already.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-27359266955318869362008-05-26T13:04:00.000-07:002008-05-26T13:04:00.000-07:00SA,You are a gentleman and a scholar, sir. I appr...SA,<BR/><BR/>You are a gentleman and a scholar, sir. I appreciate your comments.<BR/><BR/>Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-36016734330196974142008-05-26T11:04:00.000-07:002008-05-26T11:04:00.000-07:00Mr. Flynn,I'm sorry if I seemed rude or overly har...Mr. Flynn,<BR/><BR/>I'm sorry if I seemed rude or overly harsh to you. This was not about being mean, it was about being funny.<BR/><BR/>Also, it wasn't about you, it was about Mr. Ward. Your comments confirm that...well, he...is sometimes deserving of our little snarky criticism.<BR/><BR/>The facts that he 1) knew you were misinformed, and 2) chose to send you up anyway, and 3) LEFT EARLY, are all terribly...terrible.<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>SASator Arepohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00006808744513156317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-11406086882303199242008-05-25T00:29:00.000-07:002008-05-25T00:29:00.000-07:00This is St.John Flynn, the "director of cultural p...This is St.John Flynn, the "director of cultural programming" referred to in this piece.<BR/>I'd like to say in my defense that, yes, I did get Mr. Smirnoff's new appointment wrong; however, I was making remarks to the audience from a list of bullet points given to me 10 minutes before the concert by the orchestra's communications director. The information was inaccurate and that was a shame. It made me look bad, and that was a shame.<BR/>What I should point out here is that, immediately after the concert, the orchestra's communications director went home and emailed Mr. Ward at the Houston Chronicle to explain that the mistake was her own and not mine. Ward had this information before he filed his review and yet still chose to devote the longest paragraph in his review to something that was nothing to do with the music.<BR/>It should also be noted that the program included a fourth piece of music, not noted in the concert program, which Joel Smirnoff introduced from the podium. The orchestra rounded out the concert with Milhaud's "Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit." No mention of this is made in the review because Ward left before the end of the concert.<BR/>It's one thing to point out mistakes that are relevant to the music being performed, and an entirely different thing to spend six lines of a short review to something that made me look like an idiot, especially when you've been told the mistake was not my fault.<BR/>I'm sorry Ward felt he had to make me look bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-75111644409234397532008-05-07T07:50:00.000-07:002008-05-07T07:50:00.000-07:00...Smirnoff. I love Yakov Smirnoff. I love his b......Smirnoff. I love Yakov Smirnoff. I love his brand of non-sensical, fun and laughter-packed, pseduo-jingoistic Branson. MO family values humor. <BR/><BR/>In America, you drive car.<BR/>In Soviet Russia, car drives you!<BR/>In America, you open door.<BR/>In Soviet Russia, door opens you!<BR/>In America, you slaughter cow.<BR/>In Soviet Russia, cow slaughter you!<BR/><BR/>Okay, not really.<BR/><BR/>SA, good stuff. I'm not sure what else there is to say...plus I'm quite uncomfortable with this idea of a mummy in the Alps. In 1991 for God's sake! Though, at least the music was comfortable, and apparently always played with an agreeable piquant flavor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-17902205574821941422008-05-06T17:59:00.000-07:002008-05-06T17:59:00.000-07:00I hate the "highly tuned technique" phrase the wor...I hate the "highly tuned technique" phrase the worst. <BR/><BR/>Also, your voices are quite distinct again. Un-merge complete.<BR/><BR/>Afgesqe: The long-lost French Canadian tribe of the second cousins to the Duke of Albuquerque.Murderfacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01220337199108444992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-67575943094576348032008-05-06T16:30:00.000-07:002008-05-06T16:30:00.000-07:00I think my favorite Bach is the one where the orga...I think my favorite Bach is the one where the organist quotes from Thelonious Monk's "Bemsha Swing." Crazy, baby.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16371363571092946834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-43362843380833266162008-05-06T15:25:00.000-07:002008-05-06T15:25:00.000-07:00Isn't the minuet a pseudo-tribal dance?YJYRN: Bjor...Isn't the minuet a pseudo-tribal dance?<BR/><BR/>YJYRN: Bjorn's brother.Empiricushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629835829400843701noreply@blogger.com