Aujourd'hui, nous sommes tous Ryan Boudinot

(Never forget)

Their board just sent out a letter saying that the City of Literature effort is "shuttering."

Love that the stranger glossing over the part where he talked about wishing more abuse on victims of child abuse. Maybe people were upset about that?

Update on ye olde solid adage - "You can't judge a story by its title page"

This guy AGAIN?!? People only have an opinion about this dude because you won't shut up about him. Christ, I hope this Boudinot character gives good blowjobs.

This article makes me miss Paul Constant all the more. How the SLOG has fallen...

Ryan Boudinot alienated many of his former colleagues and students with his essay -- he's smart enough to know he was burning some bridges with that piece. The decision of the board to resign doesn't impinge upon his freedom of expression, which is clearly intact. The former board members have their own freedom of expression and freedom of association, after all. His continued ability to earn a living working in his dream profession is, sadly, not a right and is not guaranteed. I'm sure he'll be okay though.

@7
Don't fret!! Paul Constant is working on a highly anticipated Novel.
Due this Fall -- "Critiquing is Third-Rate Creativity"
Shroud of mystery as to how much is autobiographical.

I'm more inclined to believe that Mr. Boudinot is in [frequent] conversation with Mr. Frazelle's hairy ass crack.

The Stranger is an actual publication, are they bound by the same ethical rules as a daily newspaper?

It figures that Ryan B.'s douchebag past, present, and future would catch up with him.

@10 promoting the interests of friends is either not covered in the code or there is no code.

http://i.imgur.com/02NJHQw.png

”we cannot set the precedent that a writer's opinions—however unpopular or provocative—can lead to the loss of that writer's livelihood". Did this guy suddenly get sponsored by Fox News, because this sounds like the asinine rhetoric every time one of them says something racist, misogynistic, homophobic, etc.? (And the comparison to massacred hebdo journalists is particularly Fox-esque and cringe worthy) So the guy who wished further child abuse on one of his students thinks that society owes him a living? I'm honestly fucking befuddled.

He wrote some click bait. He knew it was click bait, and apparently he's pissed that the notoriety generated isn't exactly to his liking. Fuck him, and welcome to the real world asshole.

@12 Oh, I didn't think these two were friends, I'm assuming that it's some kind of sex-for-news-coverage arrangement. Fuckin, #strangergate or some shit.

IIRC, he just said that some grad students are no-talent ass clowns who shouldn't be in grad school. that's not news in any major: MFA, MArch, etc. it's impressive so many knickers are twisted by such an obvious observation.

People need to calm the fuck down and respect other people's right to have opinions that they don't agree with. Occasionally hearing things that you find offensive or even hurtful is a normal and inevitable part of life, and if you burn bridges with everyone who ever says stuff you don't like, eventually you are not going to have any friends except sycophants who never challenge you and allow your intellect to slip down the rabbit hole of ever-increasing idiocy.

The people quitting the board of Boudinot's nonprofit over this may not technically be violating his rights or acting outside their own, but their actions still show contempt for the principle of free speech and clearly represent an effort to discourage others from expressing their opinions in the future. Just because it's not coming from the government doesn't mean it isn't having an impact on our freedom of speech.

This guy is seriously the gift that keeps on giving. Now he's comparing his situation (being such an arrogant jerk and violating the ethics of the teacher/student compact to the extent that now people don't want him to be representing Seattle when it comes to literature) to writers who are imprisoned or worse in fucking Badgad? Stranger if you want to help this guy out, stop giving him new opportunities to exhibit what an ass he is.

Sounds rough being the Cynthia Whitlatch of creative writing.

Fuck this guy and every other white man who thinks it's an injustice that people call them out on their bullshit. Look Ryan, juis suis ne pas Charlie. You publicly shitted on your students, many who are part of the Seattle writing community you claim to represent.

No one is made that the article said students need to read and write more. People are made about the shitty ton and the fact Ryan shits all over his past students. If Ryan can't own up to it and apologize then he shouldn't be representing Seattle.

And Chistopher, you're fucking smarter then this.

Boudinot is awesome for saying what he believes in, and then standing by it—refusing to apologize. He is obviously thinking about art on a different level from that board, which capitulated to the public's requests and got so frazzled being a part of anything controversial. The best quote is when Boudinot wrote "now the unesco bid is back where it started—one writer." That's exactly what it needs to be. I mean Boudinot is a real author, and like he wrote in his essay, some people don't get it. It is sad that this all fell apart though.

@18 fuck head, people are expressing their free speech. free speech is for everyone so if you say something I do like I can say you're a fuck head. Fucking liberal white men saying stupid ass shit and then whinny when people call them on it.

@17 -- Your dismissal of everyone who disagrees with you as illiterate isn't just a shining example of your own literacy, it's a testament to your mastery of rhetoric as well!

The Stranger isn't the fucking New Yorker, get back to your job covering racism and gender and local politics and stop dicking around muttering on and on about privledged white attention whores. Want to take on something brave? Do some godammn investigative journalism on the billionaire business owners in this city and what their longterm plans are for Seattle's lower income class neighborhoods. And yes, that means something more than photographing idiots blocking the Microsoft buses.

I recall once publishing a peer's short story that was nearly identical to the above Boudinot writing sample in tone, content, and clumsy attempts at ironic-detachment body horror...

It was a space filler in my high school arts paper and the author was 14.

Four controversy-manufacturing articles in, would anyone care to provide evidence that this self-fellating Boudinot fellow has even an ounce of talent or artistic maturity to stand on?

@26, well he certainly can string words together in a skilled manner (although I found a few errors in the "Hello Friends" letter he wrote above; not surprising that he thinks HE doesn't need editing). The problem with writing something (and the reason I find it so scary) is that it reveals the person underneath. It's why Seattleblue's writing always sounds like "ranting douchebag dumbass." This guy's writing sounds like "arrogant immature cruelty" or something, to me, and no amount of "skill" can cover that up.
I'm reminded of advice from Robert Persig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (I'm going to paraphrase extremely heavily here): "If you want to become a good writer, first become a good person and then just write naturally" or something like that. The word-stringing part is actually the easy part, in other words.

Also, for comparison, witness the modesty of a Mr. Ben Franklin describing how he became a genuinely great writer.

"By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language.”

http://seattlish.com/post/113982681386/r…

Can we please have Paul back? Or at least someone other than Frizzelle covering books? Dude doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

The Ryan Boudinot brouhaha had the effect of making me pay a lot more attention to his work. I may not agree with all of what he said, but I certainly agree with most of it. I hope his future ventures go well. Much respect.