1) If a reviewer appears batshit crazy on the first round of review, you should not assume that you can reason with or placate him/her. Madmen are only enraged by appeals to logic. Get the reviewer rejected before resubmission or you will regret it, forever.
2) Chocolate chip cookies, standard recipe: after substituting in 1/2 whole wheat flour in response to the Mom-voice in your head, also add 1/4 tsp ground cardamom. NOM.
3) Synecdoche, New York is not, as its title might suggest, a charming pastoral about the vagaries of upstate.
15 years ago
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I haven't seen the movie but it is a Kaufman.... that would've given it away a bit. Was it crazy? Good? huh?
In regards to the reviewers, if you can remove the madmen, lovely... otherwise, bite the bullet and rinse and repeat. Good luck!
my impression of synedoche was that it was long.
i usually am able to get more out of thoughtful movies than that.
but there was so much to it, that i couldn't remember the amazing insights it had caused me at the begininng by the time we got to the end.
and for some reason, i was really distracted by how much makeup-induced aging was done to the actors. although i don't know how else it could have been done realistically.
perhaps others have more insightful comments.
Yeah, the combo of long and Kaufman-y was a bit much for me. It had interesting elements but never quite managed to engage me. Found the age-makeup very distracting--I spent a lot of time thinking about how it worked, and what age makeup can't cover (the eyes just never look right).
I fell asleep watching Kaufman (or whatever that one was with Nicholas Cage and himself playing twins). I'm not a fan of age makeup, so I guess I'll skip Synedoche.
re: batshit crazy reviewers, what do you do when you have 3 out of 3 like that and you just wasted a month?
ugh.
Ms PhD--Tell me about it. We were on a revise-and-resubmit, feeling pretty good that we'd addressed virtually everything the reviewers said....and still it got dinged. And the competition has submitted a paper already too. I'm resigning myself that not only have we lost the high-profile cachet, we're also likely to be Second to Publish ie no one will ever care. AWESOME. We're just going to try to get it out as fast as possible....
I just got a review back and one crazy mofo said REJECT with 3 sentences including the web address of the abstract of what s/he thinks is "majorly scooped" by Big Cheese et al. The mofo didn't bother to READ the fucking paper!
I love it when a mofo reviews my shit. They are easy to rebut *because* they are a batshit crazy mofo.
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