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"Wonky guru".

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

penmania begins anew!

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Was there a 'penmania'?

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha - ask Mark S. :)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

hehe, it's mark's quote in the body of my first message.

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

From Sreynolds -

Ian Penman enters the blogosphere!!! The Pill Box is a chance to eavesdrop on of one of our great minds thinking aloud---at the moment, mostly on matters (geo)political rather than musical/cultural.

One of our great minds... oh, really?

― Michael Dieter, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I would say IP was one of our great minds on the basis of his 1984ish NME tv column alone, Michael.

(Not to mention his late 80s SJ Perelman-meets-Karl-Kraus Face period and the 90s Wire-y stuff.)

(As a writer, his encounter with Theory is a great deal more interesting than that of 95% of the cultural studies industry.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The only 'live' Ian Penman I've ever read is in Uncut (and latterly, Wire) and his writing can be opaque, and dense, often bilious, often beautiful.

His dishing of Zappa is exquisite. Despite, perhaps, quietly betraying some of the qualities that he openly disdains in Frank.

Link to NME tv column archive is U&K but probably, sadly, non-existent.

'Daring adventurous in the sentence' & 'the rustle of the language'.

As a writer, his encounter with Theory is a great deal more interesting than that of 95% of the cultural studies industry.

And better written than 99.9%.

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Here is some prime Penman. I love the sentence: "There was in Galton and Simpson's simple exercise precisely the tone of black and delirious absurdity that the Strippers desired, but could only ploddingly schematize."

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

And some more:
http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/tgface.htm
http://www.hyperprism.dial.pipex.com/nme_78.html
http://home.nikocity.de/heaven17/reviews/h17rev92.htm

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The NME!!!!!!!!

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm pretty taken with "lifetime air, huge mood"

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

He's got the same blogger template as me. Is he related to Thomas Penman? Does he like shitting himself?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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