tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post115490652290372137..comments2024-01-14T23:07:20.775-06:00Comments on dcat: A Long Critique of a Silly Articledcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post-1156369130282452612006-08-23T16:38:00.000-05:002006-08-23T16:38:00.000-05:00David -- Thanks for reading. As I said in my piece...David --<BR/> Thanks for reading. As I said in my piece, it seems as if Hajdu had a critique in mind and he shoehorned whatever he felt that he had into pressing his indictment. Throughout, he looks for the most nefarious angle (his dubious use of "Opus," his assertion about the way Starbucks homogenized something that in fact may have never existed, etc.)<BR/> Oh well -- my guess is that Hajdu will never see this piece, nor will his superiors at TNR. I missed my chance at fame, I tell ya!<BR/><BR/>dcatdcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post-1156368221128615182006-08-23T16:23:00.000-05:002006-08-23T16:23:00.000-05:00Had the same thought about "opus," which is actual...Had the same thought about "opus," which is actually "A creative work, especially a musical composition numbered to designate the order of a composer's works."<BR/><BR/>Also, on the question of whether Starbucks has "replaced little Mom and Pop coffee shops all over the country" or "merely brought coffee shops to places where, in the Starbucks cafe format, they simply never existed," James Surwiecki has written in the New Yorker that the latter is mostly the case. "During the nineties," he writes, "the number of coffee drinkers rose by almost forty million. More than seven thousand new coffeehouses have opened since 1996."<BR/><BR/>"Silly" is definitely the right word for Hajdu's article.David Haglundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06913404125288244902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post-1155780921451996302006-08-16T21:15:00.000-05:002006-08-16T21:15:00.000-05:00Yup.Yup.dcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14383626.post-1155780267614409462006-08-16T21:04:00.000-05:002006-08-16T21:04:00.000-05:00Also, Opus doesn't mean "collection." Sheesh,...Also, Opus doesn't mean "collection." Sheesh, the guy's a music critic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com