{"id":38722,"date":"2011-01-19T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanhthonextract2.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/19\/best-critic-dis-ever"},"modified":"2011-09-23T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:00:00","slug":"best-critic-dis-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/best-critic-dis-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best critic dis ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good critic disses come from many sources (and include famous one-liners by the likes of George Bernard Shaw) but this one is my current favorite. Who wrote it? Who knows\u2014just another anonymous sad sack halfway down a long comment thread on <i>The Onion AV Club<\/i>, following one of their &#8220;Staff Inventory&#8221; features, in which the Club Staff all answer the same question. The anonymous commenter does not like AV Club staff critic Tasha Robertson, prompting this wonderful Howard Beale moment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tasha, I don&#8217;t know how you manage it. It seems like every week there&#8217;s some article in which all the AVCers are invited to whine and whinge about something, and your entry nearly ALWAYS manages to be the most soul-crushingly clueless in them. I&#8217;m baffled as to why you went into pop culture criticism in the first place. You have the keen eye of a tax attorney, the perceptive ear of a dental hygienist, the jolly sense of humor of an insurance adjuster, and the soul of a prison warden. Your writing suggests that you have willfully embraced drabness, dreariness and literal-minded stubbornness. Lots of critics have an even lower batting average than you\u2014I&#8217;d say you&#8217;re somewhere in the .198 range\u2014but few manage to be as maddeningly BLANK as you are, week in and week out. When you participate in podcasts, even your voice suggests a kind of flatness or emotional deadness. What puzzle me is that you seem BORN to the life of a professional bureaucrat, some mid-level government functionary toiling joylessly in some nondescript office somewhere. And yet, here you are&#8230; reviewing actual CREATIVE works which serve no immediate practical purpose and, therefore, make no sense to you. It&#8217;s mind-bending. You don&#8217;t even seem to have a paradigm for what this &#8220;comedy&#8221; thing actually is, and yet you&#8217;re actually PAID to give your opinions about comedy. It&#8217;s incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Please, Tasha, I say this in all sincerity: switch jobs. You should be proofreading long, dull technical manuals somewhere. Creativity, humor, art, poetry\u2014these things are not in your data bank. No wonder they don&#8217;t compute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other commenters joined in, on either side of the question of Robertson&#8217;s critical skills. Anyway the above was music to my ears, because I&#8217;ve often had the same set of questions about other critics (Like, Why are they even <i>doing<\/i> this if they have so much trouble finding something they can dig?).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/fascinating-premise-bland-results,50035\/\">http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/fascinating-premise-bland-results,50035\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/17244873-3151778475059952619?l=horrorthon.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good critic disses come from many sources (and include famous one-liners by the likes of George Bernard Shaw) but this one is my current favorite. Who wrote it? Who knows\u2014just another anonymous sad sack halfway down a long comment thread on The Onion AV Club, following one of their &#8220;Staff Inventory&#8221; features, in which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horrorthon_posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38722"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41175,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38722\/revisions\/41175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}