Comments on: BBQ Sauce Jar http://significantobjects.com/2009/10/27/bbq-sauce-jar/ ...and how they got that way Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Walker http://significantobjects.com/2009/10/27/bbq-sauce-jar/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Rob Walker Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:04:42 +0000 http://significantobjects.com/?p=2155#comment-978 Several writers have used real people, and I definitely think it's okay to use real events, if the object's role is fictionalized. (Which it would have to be, given that none of what we're selling has any verifiable Significance that we know of.) Mimi Lipson's story involved Andy Warhol, Kurt Andersen's involved James Dean, Lucinda Roselfeld's included Norman Rockwell, and I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting. In this case, the sort of backdrop is historic, but I don't think that, say, Nesbit actually bought White a Bar-B-Que Sauce jar. That's my perspective, anyway... Several writers have used real people, and I definitely think it’s okay to use real events, if the object’s role is fictionalized. (Which it would have to be, given that none of what we’re selling has any verifiable Significance that we know of.) Mimi Lipson’s story involved Andy Warhol, Kurt Andersen’s involved James Dean, Lucinda Roselfeld’s included Norman Rockwell, and I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting. In this case, the sort of backdrop is historic, but I don’t think that, say, Nesbit actually bought White a Bar-B-Que Sauce jar.

That’s my perspective, anyway…

]]> By: Tom http://significantobjects.com/2009/10/27/bbq-sauce-jar/comment-page-1/#comment-968 Tom Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:53:53 +0000 http://significantobjects.com/?p=2155#comment-968 Good story and very well written...but isn't it kind of against the mission statement of this project to use actual people and events? The Significance isn't invented through pure fiction, it's just borrows its Significance from actual people and events in a ficticious way. You can make anything more interesting just by saying it was used by/beloged to something or someone famous or infamous, in this case. Good story and very well written…but isn’t it kind of against the mission statement of this project to use actual people and events? The Significance isn’t invented through pure fiction, it’s just borrows its Significance from actual people and events in a ficticious way. You can make anything more interesting just by saying it was used by/beloged to something or someone famous or infamous, in this case.

]]> By: Joshua Glenn http://significantobjects.com/2009/10/27/bbq-sauce-jar/comment-page-1/#comment-967 Joshua Glenn Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:34:18 +0000 http://significantobjects.com/?p=2155#comment-967 Top bid currently at $51 -- not bad! Top bid currently at $51 — not bad!

]]> By: Dani http://significantobjects.com/2009/10/27/bbq-sauce-jar/comment-page-1/#comment-955 Dani Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:11:12 +0000 http://significantobjects.com/?p=2155#comment-955 Loved it! Great job! Loved it! Great job!

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