Might it be said that those who can be funny will come out shinier in a post-post-modern world? The larger story behind the blowup might look to Paul Constant leaving the stranger, along with a host of other writers of late; the stranger’s willfulness for controversy (sometimes at the expense of a goaded and goading writer) and of course a subsequent and general lust for indignation-fueled take-downs. The aggrieved (and mostly anonymous) public moved almost immediately to have the dude ousted from his project work.

Now why is that?

It takes people time to have something to say. It helps to have experience with other writing (and with living).

If we are careful, we can write without stepping into an ambition shit-pit devised mostly by others. Posturing while ambitious has its risks. Intelligence is in the planning, the keeping and the revising.

Something I read in one of the comment streams: “God is in the details.”