Comments on: Bad Lede Writing 101 With Michael Klein: Episode 1, “The Generalissimo” http://www.philebrity.com/2008/08/12/bad-lede-writing-101-with-michael-klein-episode-1-the-generalissimo/ philly's longest-standing cityblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:04:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: RachelPeahttp://www.philebrity.com/2008/08/12/bad-lede-writing-101-with-michael-klein-episode-1-the-generalissimo/comment-page-1/#comment-6174 RachelPea Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:07:13 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/?p=14506#comment-6174 Perhaps right next door to "Bad Lede Writing 101" is your class,"Titling So Terrible I Don't Know Why I'm Considered A Writer." This, of course, is down the hall from the class that you teach as an expert in the field: "Scouring Other Publications for Content Written By Real Journalists to Rip Apart and Poke Fun At, So That You Can Call Yourself A Blogger."BTW: Writing about gossip columnists doesn't make you a gossip columnist. It just makes you seem desperate for material. K Thanks. Perhaps right next door to “Bad Lede Writing 101″ is your class,”Titling So Terrible I Don’t Know Why I’m Considered A Writer.” This, of course, is down the hall from the class that you teach as an expert in the field: “Scouring Other Publications for Content Written By Real Journalists to Rip Apart and Poke Fun At, So That You Can Call Yourself A Blogger.”

BTW: Writing about gossip columnists doesn’t make you a gossip columnist. It just makes you seem desperate for material. K Thanks.

]]> By: C. The Impalerhttp://www.philebrity.com/2008/08/12/bad-lede-writing-101-with-michael-klein-episode-1-the-generalissimo/comment-page-1/#comment-6146 C. The Impaler Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:40:47 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/?p=14506#comment-6146 Or the trolley crash. Or the trolley crash.

]]> By: C. The Impalerhttp://www.philebrity.com/2008/08/12/bad-lede-writing-101-with-michael-klein-episode-1-the-generalissimo/comment-page-1/#comment-6145 C. The Impaler Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:40:10 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/?p=14506#comment-6145 If you had to research it, yes you are trying to hard. He really meant "au courant" which simply means roughly "in fashion," "fashionable," "with fahsion/style" etc. I think he really really meant "couture" which I thought was just a noun meaning "high fashion" but I've seen used as an adjective a lot in the past year (the female lead in 30 Days of Night used it as a sorta adjectnoun throughout the electronic press kit for the movie).Speaking of stuff making no sense _and_ trying to hard. What's with taking the lede to an A&E puff piece so literally? I mean did everyone on staff drink too much viper wine, developing some sort of Aspergers spectrum disorder making y'all mega-deaf to jesting figurative speech? I'll just wait for Philebrity to become the National Review. This may be fun.Shoulda led with the rainbow. If you had to research it, yes you are trying to hard. He really meant “au courant” which simply means roughly “in fashion,” “fashionable,” “with fahsion/style” etc. I think he really really meant “couture” which I thought was just a noun meaning “high fashion” but I’ve seen used as an adjective a lot in the past year (the female lead in 30 Days of Night used it as a sorta adjectnoun throughout the electronic press kit for the movie).

Speaking of stuff making no sense _and_ trying to hard. What’s with taking the lede to an A&E puff piece so literally? I mean did everyone on staff drink too much viper wine, developing some sort of Aspergers spectrum disorder making y’all mega-deaf to jesting figurative speech? I’ll just wait for Philebrity to become the National Review. This may be fun.

Shoulda led with the rainbow.

]]> By: applesaucehttp://www.philebrity.com/2008/08/12/bad-lede-writing-101-with-michael-klein-episode-1-the-generalissimo/comment-page-1/#comment-6144 applesauce Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:29:52 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/?p=14506#comment-6144 I looked it up to make sure I wasn't missing an alternate meaning or something:Courant: Heraldry. (of an animal) represented in the act of running: a greyhound courant.Is it just me or does that make no sense whatsoever? Could it be that he meant "current"? Am I not smart enough to pick up on some clever play on words, or is it an honest-to-god homonym mix up where the more obscure homonym is accidentally used? Am I thinking to hard about this? I looked it up to make sure I wasn’t missing an alternate meaning or something:

Courant: Heraldry. (of an animal) represented in the act of running: a greyhound courant.

Is it just me or does that make no sense whatsoever? Could it be that he meant “current”? Am I not smart enough to pick up on some clever play on words, or is it an honest-to-god homonym mix up where the more obscure homonym is accidentally used? Am I thinking to hard about this?

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