I am mocking Rice.
You, on the other hand, are being whooshed.
So glad we could clear that up. :smack:
Sorry, but I absolutely disagree with ya, Bosda. You can claim early whoosh, but the truth is that some-many?-writers indulge their muse by writing material that is in no way connected to their lives but the most superficial way.
I’m a big ole Stephen King fan. I grok his work, I like his style, I admire his growth out of McShockers to pretty darned complete literature. I also admire Margaret Atwood. Will I be thrilled to learn that either of their spouses have died? No, not really.
An author, or really anyone, ought to be given the respect due in Ms. Rice’s situation. Necrophelia? Crappy taste, and not really befitting this board.
Try unspeakably heartbroken. Try bereft of words. Try imagining all of the color draining from the world that surrounds your every waking day, and walking the remainder of your years in a blur of pastel and silence. She speaks of him with such depth of love and respect, that I mourn for her loss.
Necrophelia. Whoosh. Oh boy, for shame. 
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Wow! Ann Rice really hit a nerve with you, didn’t she? However, since you list anime as one of your interests, I’m somewhat concerned about how you decide whether or not something has literary value. I mean, sure, who doesn’t like to see underage girls with kitty-kat ears dressed in school uniforms? Or a battle between our hero and some improbable flying robots? But I would think that finding enjoyment in these works would tend to breed some level of tolerance for the work of others.
Apparently, this is not the case. In fact, not only have you judged her work intolerable, but you have judged her undeserving of the common courtesy that most people extend when someone has suffered a loss in the family. I would be most interested if you could explain this to me.
Did you read what the cause of death was?
Brain Cancer.
I mean, my god. I think Rice is weird as all get out, especially when she’s going on about Lestat her “Dark Lover”, but her husband, who she obviously loved a great deal, just died. Horribly. I don’t know about his particular case but I have seen what other cancers do and I don’t even want to imagine what it must have been like for either of them knowing that cancer was slowing destroying his brain.
Sheesh, man. Some compassion for a fellow human wouldn’t be so hard to muster, would it?
What, that post was sarcasm? Not very good at it, are you?
LolaCC, Courtney Love was my first thought at seeing the title, too.
Has enough time passed that it’s acceptable to mock her and her dead husband?
Sublight…nope. Haven’t you been paying attention?..it’s not OK to make off colour remarks about anything that might be deemed unpleasant or upsetting.
From here on in all remarks that aim at humour must be relegated to rocks and other largely inanimate objects. But first make sure that they aren’t anyone’s pet rocks…because that too would be upsetting and meanspirited.
Sheesh.
Hell, yeah!
I mean, why not? We’re mocking Guy Ritchie’s dead career!
You can make fun of whatever you choose.
If you choose to be an ass and make fun of the suffering of others don’t play the martyr when people notice that you are an ass.
Comedy is tragedy revisited.
I thought this would be about Yoko Ono.
Martyrdom? I don’t recall seeing any of that around here lately. But then again I appear to be distinctly unqualified to notice such things. I’m glad that I have my betters keeping an eye out for me tho.
Really, I must have missed the point where this thread was locked down. Surely that is what you were bitching about when you claimed you weren’t allowed to joke anymore.
Joking about someone else’s suffering makes you an ass, that’s all anyone has said. Feel free to continue to be an ass, no one has silenced you no matter how much you like to pretend otherwise.
At the risk of belabouring the point (and with an eye to suggesting that you bothering reading a thread before laying down ‘Holier than thou’ nonsense). Please cast your eye back and find that point where I joke about someone else’s suffering.
The whole issue I was raising is that humour grows from the most unpleasant sources and people who protest and bitch about the fact that ‘death isn’t funny’ appear to have ‘death’ issues or at the very least ‘humour’ issues. If it doesn’t jive with what you’ve come to understand as amusing that’s your business but don’t play this game of reverse Martyrdom, “offended on the behalf of…”.
Specifically in this case the ‘humour’ detected by (some) of the readers herein was in the juxaposition of Anne Rice’s Oeuvre (well known it seems to the Straight Dope crowd), her rather eccentric personality, and the unfortune passing of her husband. It is grimly, twistedly amusing. For those of us who are soulless, grinning ghouls at least.
Not really, the only “humor” I see is a mean spirited attack on someone some people consider a freak. Maybe if someone had said anything actually humorous it would be different.
Laughing at a harsh situation is often done by the people actually going through it- in this case all I see is a few people who admit to not liking someone kicking her while she’s down. That’s pretty fucking low.
I “get” the “joke”. It’s not funny.
Naah, Yoko will never finish sucking the blood out of John.