Josh Olson wrote an article for the village voice where he was rude. I would never, ever, ever, tell anyone that I will not read their fucking script, book, short story, or whatever. I just don’t have it in me to be that rude. But having said that, if you read the whole article I have to agree with his point. The point is that most of the people don’t actually want you to criticize them. They want to be patted on the head and told they are wonderful.

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