Best Thing YOU Wrote This Year?

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Nobody's going to answer this because I know you're all too modest (ha!), but what do you think was the best thing you wrote this year? If you think of yourself as a 'writer' at all that is....feel free to link and I should cite rockcritics.com as an inspiraton here.

― Tom, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

An essay on pollution being treated as a negative externality and the use of taxation, pollution permits or bans to control it. A level Economics paper 2, June 2000.

― Greg, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Heh heh heh, a review of Chris T-T at the Monarch for some French fanzine. It's always weird reviewing a friend's show, but with this one, I knew he wasn't going to be insulted by anything I said, so I went all out, and basically described him as "like Robyn Hitchcock fucking The Pixies up the arse in the back room of the Twin Peaks Lumber Mill". He didn't speak to me for weeks, really.

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Toss up between:

Chapter 12-16 of my last novel 'No Rhyme Or Reason' which was written in a mad Sunday afternoon/evening frenzy (10,000 rather good words in six hours - I know I was impressed). It needs polishing but the energy I had writing it more than comes through on the page.

A commentary on The Nutty Professor 2 : The Klumps (comparing with the original Jerry Lewis verions and the first film) written in pencil on a poster of the film in Victoria tube station during John's stag night whilst waiting for the tube in a state of near extreme inebriation.

Oh and hopefully my new job description will be the most profitable thing I write this year.

― Pete, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

The best thing I wrote this year.....will be written next year. Ha!

― Phil Paterson, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

A concept album with my band about the first cloned human.

― Larmey, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

my personal statement about egyptian archaeology. really, it's a classic.

― bill, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"It's always weird reviewing a friend's show, but with this one, I knew he wasn't going to be insulted by anything I said, so I went all out, and basically described him as "like Robyn Hitchcock fucking The Pixies up the arse in the back room of the Twin Peaks Lumber Mill".

This is Josie Packard. Today, the mill will close. Perhaps you can go and spend time with your families. Push the plug.

― Andy, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

That long public hate mail about Fred I posted on my blog. That is the only entry this year to get me consistent fan mail/support mail back. I should do it once a week, I'd get some bloody attention from people besides professional writers and editors then.

― Ally, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

My piece on Charles Schulz, I think. It's one of those pieces where I felt I wrote well, but I wish I didn't have to write it.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Probably my history of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (revised / expanded version).

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Oh, and that's http://www.elidor.freeserve.co.uk/radiophonic.htm ...

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

It was a slow year for writing. I am somewhat happy with a paper I wrote in the spring about the analytic/synthetic distinction, but only somewhat. Otherwise: a couple personal things, which are floating around on my web page, and things written in personal emails, which you can't see unless I was sending them to you.

― Josh, Wednesday, 6 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

John's best man's speech rightly eclipses all this pop nonsense. But in terms of FT stuff probably the boy bands thing.

― Tom, Thursday, 7 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

A love letter, based on Sukenick's introduction to Federman's Take It Or Leave It, the combination of the book and introduction being, in my opinion, the height of American postmodernism.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 7 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Hmm. Maybe : http://www.poetrysoc.com/review/pr90-3/berman.htm

― Stevie T, Thursday, 7 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

This.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Probably the first draft of the first chapter of my phd. Interrogation of Derrida's _Politics of Friendship_ as a book about democracy, including the terrifying ambiguities of his description of "democracy-to-come" and his provocative claim "no democracy without deconstruction."

Or possibly the neat two liner in my last (in at least two senses) editorial for _Edinburgh Review_ in which I compare the Scottish Executive's attempt to intervene in Scottish culture, considered in its widest sense, to the situation of the small boy pissing into a very large river who is surprised that it doesn't change colour.

― alex thomson, Friday, 8 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

this.

― maura, Friday, 8 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

i wrote both the oh-so-zany flute solo, and unnoticeably bad hammond accompaniment, for 'be my postman' (by 'the chemistry experiment') which was, without question, the best record released last year to feature a postman eating a banana on the cover. http://www.chemistryexperiment.co.uk - it's a web of lies.

― f., Monday, 11 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

T his mini-review for the un-initiated, which was, naturally, a thinly veiled love letter. it didn't work, by the way.

― Jimmy Mod, Monday, 18 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

two months pass...

Someone had writ "meet me here at 12 noon saturday and i will suck you off" or "I Like Sucking Big Fat Cocks" or something like that, so beneath it i writ in large crude dumm-looking letters "YOU ARE A POOF".

― Duane Zarakov, Tuesday, 20 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In 2000: April Dreams England

― the pinefox, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where, if anywhere, can I read this, Pinefox?

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My assumption would be that 'hear' is the verb you're looking for. But yeah, seconded.

― Tom, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re: April Dreams England.

Am I allowed to make tapes for these good people, Mr Pinefox? Perhaps the fruits of that August Saturday have now ripened sufficiently to be more widely heard? After all, Derby County have caught Everton again - as they did that afternoon.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This feels like the start of something...one man and a sctrachy acoustic; where were you in 89? Certainly, it deserves to be heard. 'Day of Release' is still bollocks, though. I wrote one or two things last year, btw, few of them of any worth. Still, I'll be in print soon. Jesus.

― Ally C, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I fear you're right about 'Day Of Release', 96. It kind of ruins the whole thing. But it does have its admirers.

Its admirer.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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