Yet again I am completely bemused by the persistance of Marika Klambatsea (Winner of Worst of the Fringe 2005)’s representatives in commenting on my blog (which after all is just my own opinion and documentation of experiences!) … maybe It’s because I’m second in a Google search for her name ;) 

(I am curious, however, to know how the people at Sweet ECA got on with this “diva” with her show “Snow White and The Seven Scars”)

No sooner had I posted my own rebuttal to their random and irrelevant quotation of one of Aesop’s Fabels (and subsequently closed comments on that article as it was getting out of hand) do I get a comment in both “Edinbrugh Parking” and “JustMac Cards..” which I consider to be nothing less than spam, the first line of which is “You are too young to argue with me, especially in the sound field you say you like” and they honestly expect me to leave that there?… 

Now disregarding the sound field comment, which frankly makes no sense, I dispute that I am too young to argue with anyone, I know 12 year olds that can argue with most people too … it’s not exactly an age-dependant skill is it?! … all they’ve successfully done is shown how backwards some cultures (or at least people) can be when it comes to age discrimination.

My reply was this;

Please do not continue to post comments in unrelated sections of my blog.

I have closed comments to the original post because I do not see any reason to continue this debate.

Your opinion is noted but your arrogance based on age is not something I am willing to tolerate. Furthermore the 5 star review she received this year is from an independent on edfringe.com. None of the respected journalists reviewed the show. I could just as easily post my own one star review on that site without even seeing the show.

Effective immediately you are not authorised to post comments on any site operated by me including but not limited to iRoss.net. 

Always one to have the last word, I recieved this in reply;

serious young man ?
tolerate ?  I’m 53 and Marika is 52. What do you expect then ?
you are speaking over your head or you forgot something about respect, hierarchical aspects, not to speak more.
you are right that this ”comments” must be ended, so a nice movement will be to delete all of them. You cannot understand that the Marika’s art is above your knowledge and generally of British opinions around this kind of art because the very classic is still in power there [ and not only there in order to not let you upset patriotically].
If you are in business, don’t tell me about respected journalist. The artist is the bread for them, thy produce nothing but word, nice or less.
Be wise and let’s finish this here.  

Now where do I start, can anyone decipher this?! “serious young man?  tolerate? I’m 53 and Marika is 52. What do you expect then? ” … how about a sentence for starters? and a few less question marks when the first two groups of words aren’t a question? 

Next up “you are speaking over your head or you forgot something about respect, hierachial aspects, not to speak more”… now I’m not an expert linguist by any means but all I can read from this is that they seem to think that age == respect or something to do with hierarchy… 

Then we get to the attempts at censorship, “so a nice movement will be to delete all of them” (not would, will… that’s arrogant if ever i saw it :P) not to mention a nice movement to me refers to a piece of dance :P 

“You cannot understand that the Marika’s art is above your knowledge” - Nope, I just agree with ThreeWeeks and The Scotsman that it’s not that good and certainly not to my tastes. Irrespective of this the only reason I ever criticised her in the first place is because of her actions towards techs and the public, not her art.

The rest of that paragraph doesn’t make enough sense for me to bother trying to interpret… “If you are in business don’t tell me about respected journalist. The artist is the bread for them, thy produce nothing but word, nice or less” … Now, lets drop the bit about being in business, it’s irrelevant and meaningless. And of course reviewers produce words, there wouldn’t be much point if they produced art would there? people would have to review and interpret the review? how would that work ? ; )

p.s. yes, i’m being sarcastic, but I do hope this marks the end of this pointless chain of events. I agree with the reviewers that don’t like Marika’s work, but that’s irrelevant. It wasn’t her work I was criticising… I just liked the fact that we made The Scotsman :)