May 2008
The Archives
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05.25.08YOU GET MORE WITH GORE.Gore Vidal is the sort of person whose interviews I read not because I enjoy or respect (or, erm, am familiar with) his work, but simply because I hope that some sort of internet-negotiated mental osmosis might bless me with his covetsome verbal acrobatics--I yearn for his ability to insult with a detached elegance; instead, my own sense of humor is increasingly shaped deformed by a Gawker Media-influenced sense of crude snark.1 Snark ain't in the dictionary? Get on it, Webster! You too Merriam!↩
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05.20.08MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE.I think if I am ever personally confronted with the ostensible short-comings of my generation, I will widen my eyes in disbelief, furrow my brow in mock concern, lower my voice in full and somberly declare, "We survived 9/11."
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05.18.08JUST LIKE 10TH GRADE.Realizing with glee that there's a new Death Cab for Cutie album early on a Sunday morning makes me a little ashamed and a lot happy.
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05.13.08HATTED HIPSTERS!Why is it that I am the only person I know1 who is truly charmed by the obnoxious hipsterish cook Spike on the current season of Top Chef (example: he does not hesistate to declare himself as from "Williamsburg" instead of the apparently staid and boring "New York")--it disgusts me that I might find myself attracted to such an unremittant nincompoop; I never thought that I would be so weak as to find myself enamored with so cliche an affectation as perfectly-cocked hats or perfectly-pursed lips or a perfectly-clipped beard...I guess there's no accounting for poor taste in mildly-hirsute scenster ...
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05.10.08WRINKLES? DO WANT!All of the visual media I have consumed over the past two weeks--the uninspiring movie version of Ghost World, almost the entirety of the inaugural season of 30Rock, and the first half of The Big Lebowski--have featured the singularly peculiar personage of Steve Buscemi, a strange and delightful series of coincidences that leaves my interest piqued for May-December romance with a snaggletoothed curmudgeon.