This must be so good that it's bogged down the mlsnet site. OMG what pitiful performance. Well maybe later tonight, I can read about it.
i think he does a really solid job actually, i usually enjoy reading his stuff a lot. this column wasn't that earth shattering though.
Agreed on all counts. Its called realizing at noon that you needed to get something in by 4 and having a very difficult case of writers block. Not to mention a case of "BossOverShoulder" syndrome. Ah yes. Boring? At least use something more creative! English is a wonderful language. Try using it. See if I were offering a critique of my work, I would have said something along the lines that it lacked coherence, seemingly unemotional and perhaps as vacuous as a twinkie. Then I would I have said that the author must idolize Jeff Bradley since his column was a very bad, and blatant copy of his first eleven. Paul
yeah. i've mentioned once before i'm in J-school so maybe i have a little more sympathies for these things. you're not always going to knock it out of the park.
what happened to the writer's block, you seem to be okay now with your paragraph-length dissertation on different ways to say 'boring.' well hey, if all it took was me knocking on your writing to incite you into action, feel free to ask for help next time you have a tough deadline.
Its called being at home, in shorts and a t-shirt and contemplating whether I should watch Victory, The Great Escape or a Zinadine Zidane dvd. Tough choice all around. Any votes? Paul
It was soporific. More vapid writing from Oliu. His hackneyed writing brought tears to my eyes (not the good type) and his adjective use on the whole was rather prosaic. I'm only kidding. Hooray for random SAT vocab words!
Not that you need it Paul, but I'll just throw in the mix that A) I teach writing, and B) An article of yours from a couple years ago on the Charleston Battery's Blackbaud Stadium is still the best piece of writing I've seen from a American soccer journalist. As for this column, I missed the Iraq game idea the first time around--good idea.
...a desperate man, at a complete loss for anything to say, sloooowly slipping into middle-age The over/under is three weeks before a Viagra reference finds its way into "Random Observations."
I thought it was fine. Short and fluffy. Not everything needs the length, depth and detail of the "Report of Board of Consulting Engineers, appointed to recommend a plan for the New York and Long Island Bridge across the East River, at Blackwell's Island".
You should combine your passions for prison escapes, the French, and Steve McQueen by watching Papillon instead
I like the Iraqi game suggestion. Leaving any political views about the war aside, I'm sure it would generate press...and MLS could use that. And it would also be a great international press thing, since the rest of the world would notice it more.