On What Is The Real-Real Thing?
"Anxiety over this is the wellspring of the recent nonstop discussion of the TV show "Girls."
You know, you didn't have to go all Baudelaire, Sartre and Calista Gingrich's French Horn on us if you just wanted to make sure you were part of the recent nonstop discussion of the TV show "Girls."
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On Show Disliked
It would be great if a young woman wrote a recap or review like that. When old guys or old guys in women's bodies (Roiphe) write reviews or recaps like that, it just means that watching the show makes old guys wish they were young again.
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On Stephen King Film And Television Adaptations (Excluding The Sequels And Remakes), In Order
Misery is not a good movie. And it has absolutely nothing to do with what is actually Stephen King's best book.
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On Here Are Five Random People I Follow On Twitter
Three Emily Gould posts today? Will the next one be commenter executions?
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On Man Finishes Job
Trying to reconcile loving Sam Sifton and the price of opera seats with supporting the Occupy Wall Street protests, and now find my head exploding, endlessly, so if anyone could help with a fire extinguisher or explanation, I would forever be in their debt.
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On What Makes A Great Critic?
"it's almost all "magisterial" this and "lyrical" that, with the odd hatchet-job thrown into the mix for flavor"
I wonder how many critics actually read and think about what they're critiquing? The speed with which you need to get your piece to press to avoid being beaten to the punch means that you really have to read and write quickly. I have a feeling many critics skim a chapter or two, play a six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon game with how soon they will bump into the writer at a party, and scan their twitter/rss the second their Freedom time expires. More time reading a thinking might lead to more interesting things said.
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On Alleged DSK Rape Victim Knows Bad People and Also Drinks!
An immigrant who uses lots of cell phones? Yup, definitely unusual. But why are the Post, News, Times, et al so excited to set DSK free after they were so excited to presume him guilty? It's like journalists use hyperbole to sell newspapers and generate Web traffic. That's never happened before, either.
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On Scandals and Aftermaths
Presented without comment.
http://floydreports.com/does-hillary-have-a-lesbian-connection-to-weinergate/
Or am I the last person on earth to hear about this?
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On Poking Back, Part 2: Cheering Zuckerberg In Seattle; Like Watching 'Terminator' in a Room Full of Robots
You walked out of a movie because it was bad and because it was filled with people you hate. It seems like you hate:
1 Computer nerds
2)People who like Mark Zuckerberg
3)People who like characters in movies who are supposed to be gigantic dildos.
4)Entrepreneurs
5)Businessmen
6)Entitled people
I get the feeling that this is one of those quasi-reviews that says more about the reviewer than the reviewed. As a pop culture writer for online magazines with a tumblr account it would seem like you've earned a living because computer programmers gave you the opportunity to hone your talent and reach an audience. I'm guessing sitting on the shoulders of programmers makes you feel a little inadequate - you're worried that people may somehow undervalue six hundred words on Hoobastank when faced with someone who can code world-changing web sites in six weeks. This would explain why you hate people who like Mark Zuckerberg: they're the computer nerds that gave you your outlet. They should be cheering for your SXSW tumblr posts.
Group three is a little more interesting: you hate people who like a character who isn't supposed to be likeable. This makes more sense. As a critic part of your job is to set tastes. If you find Pavement overrated you want to run into the street and make sure no one else likes Pavement. If you find someone who likes Pavement, you can't stand them because they disagree with you. It's terrible when a critic is confronted with people with different tastes. It's an awfully vain critic who decides that those people are beneath him.
And then we get to entrepreneurs, businessmen, and entitled people. I have a feeling that you have book proposals that have been turned down, like "This Band Could Be Your Life" for Arcade Fire and Tokyo Police Club or something. I imagine that you have a record label or some such that you've started or would love to start. I imagine that you have three web sites of pop culture hoo-ha and an online literary journal you're trying to get off the ground, too. All of these projects need money, of course, and I bet you've heard "no" an awfully lot from people with money: entrepreneurs, business, and entitled people. They should be funding your various projects, but instead are giving money to computer nerds movies portray as gigantic dildos.
You didn't hate this movie - it hit incredibly close to home. How come this guy who doesn't go to cool parties or do anything cool or understand what cool is gets money for his ideas and I don't get any for my incisive critiques? I bet when people cheered at "The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing," you wanted to scream, "Yes I can! I am intellectually and creatively capable of doing stuff! It's your stuff that is worthless!"
I'm sure you can do stuff. But you shouldn't be so hostile to people who do different stuff. People who are hostile to people who do different stuff don't fail because they're not capapble. They fail because they're assholes.
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On Guided By Voices (Classic Lineup), 1992-1996, In Order
Tractor Rape Chain isn't number 1? You're just trolling.