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"Passing Through The Absurd En Route To The Grotesque"
"'You will surely make noise when I take you deep,' texted Representative Anthony Weiner, the great BlackBerry lover, to his virtual inamorata, Lisa Weiss, the famous dissident, aviatrix and Vegas blackjack dealer. 'Yes I will,' she texted back. 'I will be sore for days.' This past year took the world deep, and the world made noise, but unlike Ms. Weiss, it had, in its soreness, no luxury of bed rest."
—Awl pal Dana Vachon's review of the past year is pretty much required reading and almost balances out that other thing in the Observer today, that thing we're not talking about.
Your suspense. You are killing me with it. Is it the article about the Yale prof defending James Franco's honor?
Even I made a noise when reading the first few lines. It sounded like ACHKKKK!
that other thing in the Observer today, that thing we're not talking about.
Oh come on! You never let us have any fun. What if we all promise to click on the sponsored post a whole buncha times, then will you let us talk about it???
@jolie There's gotta be a backchannel for this. I wanna talk about it so bad!
@boyofdestiny Well you know? There are more of us (commenters) than there are of them (Choire and Balks) so let's declare a commentariat uprising and just discuss it here. GO ON, TRY TO STOP ME WITH YOUR NEWFOUND SPAM FIGHTING MACHINES, CHOIRE.
@jolie So, to summarize. This woman had sex with someone she met on the internet. Then she wrote a really long article about it. But she gave her hook-up a DIFFERENT, MORE FAMOUS name in the story. For ART. Then hook-up's girlfriend finds out because there's a letter in Dear Abby and someone goes to Paris. People are quoted, things are said, feeling are felt.
@hockeymom So many points where I should have hit "close tab." I don't want to know who Carles is!
@hockeymom Proving once again that the "kale salad" Cooking the Books is secretly the cornerstone of basically the entire internet.
@jolie Or maybe it's that thing about Tumblr. One of the two.
@hockeymom: It's so much worse than that. Writing first-person porn is not the same as striking a blow for feminism (or art). The whole effort is sophomoric.
@sharilyn Please. She's a junior.
@Multiphasic I still can't do the math on that Paris hotel offer.
that thing we're not talking about
So are you not talking about it, or not "talking about" it?
Woof, sometimes writers make themselves look so bad that you can't even make fun of them in public.
Hasn't this happened to everybody on the internet?
Not sure how he can "TAKE her deep" without turning her inside out, but then I've lived a very sheltered life.
Yay, figured it out. Me and my #189,952 are feeling extra accomplished today.
At first I was so mad that you were not linking to the thing that was raising so much ire, but now that a colleague pointed it out to me I have to say THANK YOU FOR NOT LINKING. It's really almost too horrifying to discuss, and I certainly don't want to drive traffic over there to reward their awful, lowest-common-denominator link-baiting.
But now I kind of want to discuss it.
You will surely make noise when I take you deep
Does the noise go like this? "Fuck, another touchdown! I thought I had safety help on that route!"
@Clarence Rosario – I was thinking more along the lines of John Sterling.