Comments on: Brooks & Dunn Split; New Releases; Oklahoma Hall Inducts Carrie Underwood;

By: stewman

stewman — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:35:54 +0000

Looking back on B&D, the most surprising part is it took Ronnie Dunn 38 years old to hit. A guy with that kind of voice seemingly should have been a big star much earlier

By: Brady Vercher

Brady Vercher — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:42:04 +0000

Kerri, there’s a difference between addressing a public personality in an immature manner and a participant in the comments on this site more crudely. I don’t know how I can make it more plain to you, but that’s the way it is.

By: Kerri

Kerri — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:27:25 +0000

Dear Brady,

I will stop posting the name that rhymes with his when you delete the posts where he uses a rhyming name for my favorite artist. Go LOOK UP Brady. What’s good for the goose is also good for the gander and I see that his original post is still on. So in regards to your response to me which is quoted below,
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“Your speculation as to Rick’s popularity and affiliation with us is baseless. You have just as much “official” business here as he does, so feel free to participate, but please do it without resorting to calling other commentor’s names.”
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why don’t you tell him to leave comments without resorting to calling other ARTISTS names. Again, I’ve never seen you “shoot down” Rick. So if this is such a great blog, then remove all of the posts where HE uses a derogatory name that rhymes.

By: sam

sam — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:14:51 +0000

I agree 100%, Occasional Hope

By: Occasional Hope

Occasional Hope — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:50:48 +0000

I’ll concede that, but an assumption based on fairly strong circumstantial evidence.

By: sam

sam — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:36:24 +0000

I think it is a lot more reasonable to assume that Sara’s contributions to this book will be fairly small than it is to assume that she is an equal contributor.

But it is an assumption nonetheless.

By: Occasional Hope

Occasional Hope — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:51:17 +0000

Sure, there are genuine collaborations out there, but when it comes to books ‘written by’ celebrities, ghostwriting is the automatic assumption. At least Sara is being fairly up front by crediting her collaborator/ghostwriter on the front cover (as with Brooks & Dunn and their book which I would also assume to be mainly written by the ‘collaborator’, I’m afraid). Sara’s ‘collaborator’ Rachel Hauck has managed to write several previous books in similar vein all by herself – if you check on Amazon there are some extensive excerpts and the writing style is remarkably (or unremarkably, imho) similar to that of the book credited to her with Sara, which really does make one sceptical about the nature of Sara’s contribution.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:00:17 +0000

Collaborations in fiction are rare but not unheard-of; see, for instance, the fabulous Martin Beck mysteries written by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall. Assuming the nature of the Evans-Hauck collaboration is just that – making an assumption.

By: Brady Vercher

Brady Vercher — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:26:57 +0000

Kerri, I removed your comment for being crude and pointless. And now that I noticed it, I removed your first one as well.

Your speculation as to Rick’s popularity and affiliation with us is baseless. You have just as much “official” business here as he does, so feel free to participate, but please do it without resorting to calling other commenters names.

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:34:41 +0000

I think deleting profanity (or oblique profanity) is okay.

Probably keeping political references to a minuimum would be a good thing since there are plentl of such sites, both left wingnut and right wingnut, out there on which to vent.