Let’s make t-shirts.
 
In case you missed it, Philip Martin is still huffing over my 24 word jab about the grade he gave “The Love Guru.” This time in his On Film column. Here’s the link to the free edition (http://www.nwanews.com/adg/MovieStyle/229857/).

It’s largely a regurgitation of the polemic he posted on my blog earlier this week and it ends like this…

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I don’t mean to pick on the Rock Candy blog. It’s a good resource and I enjoy its existence. But questioning someone’s intellectual honesty ought not be something that’s done lightly. And if you do it, you better have your facts rowed up. To paraphrase an old baseball coach I knew, If you’re going to throw at the jackass, you’d better hit the jackass. Lindsey, you missed the jackass.

That’s some “I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE” craziness. Hey, creative types, make me a t-shirt!

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For handy reference, here’s what I originally wrote.

So critics continue to pile it on—A.O. Scott, writing in the New York Times, says, “‘The Love Guru’ is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.” But, ever the maverick, the Dem-Gaz’s chief film critic Philip Martin scores it an 85, which might be the highest score he’s given anything since “No Country For Old Men.” The review itself is fairly tepid, but you have to read pretty far to get that. So: the nation’s critics, on average, give it a 22 vs. Martin, who ranks it just 15 points from perfection. Wonder if Arkansas connections factor in?

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I’ll try to keep this short. I’m pretty invested in the idea that this has been a 200:1 war or words. And if I’m starting to get bored by it, then I’m sure you’re nodding off on the keyboard.

But since Phil is blustering about me not having my “facts rowed up,” a few responses.

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