Comments on: Instant Coffee

By: Stevie Knepel

Stevie Knepel — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:07:07 +0000

Thanks for one of the few sane posts here. I guess people don't like the notion of their sacred cows being played with, slaughtere-d or milked. But can you imagine a literary world in which storytelle-rs were forbidden to use previous characters and stories simply because they were thought to be sacred? No Homer, Euripides nor any other Greek playwright-, no Virgil or Ovid, no Chaucer, no Milton or Goerthe, no Shakespear-e... Granted, PD James isn't Shakespear-e, but then according to some, Shakespear-e wasn't Shakespear-e.wow gold

By: Ricasso

Ricasso — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:53:06 +0000

lol hey serious I really like your articles.they are thought provoking(excuse the cliche) entertaining and human,cheers

By: James McGoram

James McGoram — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:00:42 +0000

Now you’ve made me blush…thanks for the love :)

By: Ricasso

Ricasso — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:56:02 +0000

well Mr McGoram those times when you feel average in your chosen profession think how incredibly bloody superb you are as a writer.

By: Ellatron

Ellatron — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:58:43 +0000

Yes, agreed. The good must come with the bad in this case.

Bring on the caffeine-fueled soul searching.

By: Dobbo

Dobbo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:58:58 +0000

it would be fair to say that those many millions of minions, the hacks, the purveyors of imperfect offerings are a necessary evil in order to create the wondrous heights of elegant design, or creation, or whatever you peddle. If there were no starbucks, how would jeremy’s coffee stack up.. would he, a master craftsman, be deemed a hack as the other million baristas turned out equally good or even slightly better java hits?

By: Ellatron

Ellatron — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:52:34 +0000

**connoisseur**

C’mon, that’s a tricky one :)

By: Ellatron

Ellatron — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:37:39 +0000

So so true. Lots of people eat Mc Donalds, drive SUV’s, read Cosmopolitan, drink Corona and use comic sans, but that doesn’t mean any of them are any good. I think, for the people NOT specialised in the particular field, this has something to do with following the crowd. People consume these things because everyone else seems to think that they’re pretty good, so they must be. I think it doesn’t occur to some people to try something different. Again, here Starbucks is a good example of this.

But for the ones in the know, they’ll choose something good. A real beer conissuer will not drink Corona. The ones who know how to write code will create elegant, functioning programmes. So, yes I agree that sometimes we don’t know what the hell we are doing, but you have to admit, we have a better idea than some other people!