Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
His writing is too busy. He tries to jam too many references into every sentence which makes each individual sentence difficult to read. He's got no flow.
He should actually craft a paragraph that builds on itself and sets up his jokes or the references that he passes off as jokes. It would make it a much easier piece to read.
Just like his craps, I usually give up on his writing about midway through the 2nd paragraph as the whole thing is too manic.
I didn't necessarily think that his writing style struck me as "manic" per say, although I'm coming from a place of being myself and having a "style" that could easily be described as "manic" on a slow day ---- but i'm with you on the forced omnipresence of just about every clever reference that he can muster.
I previously used the term cookie cutter to describe the writing convention he used where it was blah blah blah for a paragraph and then THE POIGNANT STAND ALONE SENTENCE that acted like a veritable typewriter head(?) recoiling after reaching the end of a line.
It's almost like he went out of his way to use that BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH -- one-liner -- BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH -- one liner -- BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH --one-liner -- style to show off to his new ALS over @ BP that he's a PROFESSIONAL WRITER who doesn't merely plop his portly ass on the proverbial barstool that is an open dialog box and just "let'er rip" like us FUCKING AMATEURS DO, oh no, this chicago sports MAN archetype plotted out his whole damn gimmicky format because that's what PROFESSIONAL writers do; they adhere to structures.
whenever i go about my longwinded rants, I basically just sit down with an idea or an argument and just go stream of consciousness and let the tetris blocks fall where they may. If I were writing professionally I'd go back and edit my piece, trimming and toning it down into a properly presentable article structure. When you try to do that vice versa as I presume Mister Buffet did, well, the result is the polished turd that we're all gawking at en masse.
I just can't get over the smarminess of it really.... Seriously, it's like he's in some sort of a secret society / cool kids club and he's trying to patronize them in order to prove to them (read: himself) that he belongs amongst their ranks. Suffice to say, I don't think the guy would really mesh too well with the SABR crowd; like I said before, check out baseballprimer.com if you wanna see how those guys roll. They're usually pretty cool guys whose geekiness isn't wielded like a righteous scythe of self-validation; this is why the revelation in the last ~8-10 replies that the dude is a fattycaeks is FAR from a surprise to me.
Now I'm going to go to the bar and talk to some women.
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