More importantly to the Grove, an interview with local jazz trio, Sci-Fi, is coming soon… (very MMW-esque with strong shades of Herbie Hancock)

Those Barnraisers are raisin’ some barn, boy!

i simply responded to what i consider a jab. and when jabs fly, well, sometimes right hooks follow. no matter how you explain the statement, it comes across snarky. so i wouldn’t point fingers at how my response has nothing to do with the interview itself, considering your critique of my writing is leading the question—if not judging it—and does not prove objective in the overall scheme of things.

regardless, i hold no grudges. in fact, i am sure you and i could get along just fine whether we’re drinking moonshine or fine wine, eating collards or wasabi peas, sitting on the front porch in the mountains of NC or NY –if only because we do have a common ground: we both love the barnraiser’s music, and, well, that will give us something to talk about.

I have heard other GP contributors say they no longer want to post on the site for fear they may be ridiculed! Ouch. That makes me so sad. I want to hear from lots of fellow Wilmingtonians not just the ones brave enough to bear the threat of public censure.

Do I dare push the submit button? Have I offended anyone? Is everythhing spelled correctly? O.K. Deep breath, here I go…

It’s a paradox of growing up I wish we could skip.

Surely there’s another way …

Now, I don’t think the word “borderline” is a code word that always implies negativity. Read Shea’s piece and decide for yourself.

I find that the accussations of pretentiousness in both your replies are rather… pretentious.

I think where I’m from does indeed matter in this issue, b/c Shea’s reply is clearly an attempt to make a mockery of my own background.

In the future, I’ll make sure I anglicize all my word use so as not to offend any gentle vernacular senses.

That being said, I think what upsets me most is that Shea’s response actually has nothing to do with the interview itself, nor does yours. It has to do with my opinion of her writing. To that, I say get over it. To others, I say try to grasp the good of the overall interview, which Adam and Tiff told me was one of the most thought-provoking that they’ve had.

Again, I’m sorry if you don’t like it, but you can’t assume the whole thing is bad due to one writer’s opinion of my observations of her work, or b/c I spelled a word wrong in your estimation. That’s just downright ignorant.

That aside, I actually stopped reading the post originally when I got to the first line of the first question. I rarely find anything further of value in a piece of writing that confuses “chic” with “sheik,” not once but twice, especially in a question dripping with pretentious scenester posing - the very epitome of “hipper-than-thou.”

You may be from the South, but the original post makes you sound very much like the snob you describe, except that upstate New York necks are generally redder than those ’round these parts, so that attempted stereotypical description was just inane. And lest anyone presume, I have lived in both places as well as several others, but my roots are just as Eastern North Carolina as anyone’s can be.