[NewMusic] One of the better writeups I've seen (for the SFTMF)

[Michael Zelner]

On 2/1/09, Peter Nyboer wrote:

>Finally, about that snarky (I think the word was invented for this 
>particular writeup) bit - the part I don't get is, why devote
>precious ink and content space to promoting an event with sarcasm?

As seen in a recent book, it was coined by Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis 
Carroll, in 1876:

>Snark
>It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation
>By David Denby
>Simon & Schuster; 128 pages; $15.95

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/25/RVKE150J7U.DTL>


MZ

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