On Flicked Off: '2012' is Awesome and Haters Can Suck It
It is clear that the author of this entry rules the world, and we have only a limited time in which to line up and obey. After that, there will only be men here â€" need I say more. Mary is tougher than tough, and also probably lethal with the language of fans.
(Although, since I'm a fan, I ought to know something about that!)
Question: does HK stand for Heavul K'neavul?
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On Flicked Off: "Capitalism: A Love Story"
(Forgot to say "Thanks, Choire!" Sorry!)
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On Flicked Off: "Capitalism: A Love Story"
Capitalism has always been about paying as few human beings as possible, since way back before the Industrial Revolution. In fact, the Industrial Revolution happened because it was possible to mass produce goods by using machines that were tended by far, far fewer human beings than would have been required to produce those goods without the machinery.
Most stable businesses today, from the dry cleaner to ConEd to your landlord, would be better run as not-for-profits. Capitalism, so important for start-ups and entrepreneurs, makes established busineeses worse. Consider Simmons!
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On Classic Gluttony With Simon Duncan-Herbert-Featherstonehaugh, 13th Viscount Ukridge: Bagged Tea
Genug schon with the funny names. It hurts when I laugh!
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On Columbia University English Department Promises To Undermine Its Students
Yes, please; like one of the victims in "Untraceable," you can blink it to us in Morse.
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On This Is Our Roman Polanski Post
Be sure to let us know!
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On Awl Readers Are The Best Readers On The Internets
Are you angling to be taken out for lunch on Monday, at readers' expense, on the theory that you won't be missed by Internet-fasters?
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On Help Me Prevaricate With My Physician
The correct answer is "too much." When the doctor asks, what's your idea of too much, just tell the truth: you can't remember how much, exactly, you had to drink. Because you're always having too much fun to count!
Then move on to colonoscopies.
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On Hands Off That Rumpus, Dave Eggers!
I dislike everything about this story â€" not least the clumsy prose in which the wild things are mired â€" but what felt like an insult was the magazine's publishing a "young adult" or "kiddie lit" story in a place where I expect to find writing for grown-ups. In other books, Dave Eggers has shown himself to be an unparalleled master at writing about the assorted agonies of childhood and youth, and it may be that, with this novelization, he will enchant young readers. But for The New Yorker to publish the story was to fill its fiction slot with news. I do hope that no one over the age of twenty-five derived any literary satisfaction from the final third of the excerpt.
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On A Thanks from Our Poster Boy Zack
What a cool calendar! I don't know what I'll do with mine, but I feel swell just having it.* I encourage everyone to buy at least one; there's a hearty wink for every month. Plus the satisfaction of stretching dire blue-state tentacles deep into the heartland â€" and having a blast. Happy New Year, Zack!
*Took part in a recent discussion of the demise of "swell." Swell ought to be redeployed just for Zack.