Sunday afternoon update

[sabotabby]

New Gaybortion!: Overheard at Mitzi's Sister.

I finished reading The Trial of Henry Kissinger and it occurs to me that many of the things that irk me about Hitchens, such as his histrionic writing style, are present even when I agree with what he's saying. It's a good book otherwise.

Someone is playing music really loudly. I mean, it has to be incredibly loud for me to hear it in here. I can't move out of this building soon enough, I tell ya. The hot water tank is dying again.

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[one-serious-cat.livejournal.com]

One of the things I couldn't understand about the critical response to Martin Amis' Koba the Dread, was the acceptance by more than one critic of the author and Paul Berman's assertion that Hitchens' writing much improved after the end of the Cold War, over a previous, supposedly adolescent, play-to-the-left-wing-of-the-gallery standard (to paraphrase Geoffrey Wheatcroft). It seems clear that the two essay collections from that time, Prepared for the Worst (1989) and For the Sake of Argument, actually represent Hitchens at the height of his powers, when at least the theatrics were balanced by other idiosyncrasies that have since been smoothed out of his essays and reviews. Should one blame it on Vanity Fair?

[sabotabby]

I haven't read enough of his stuff to know. This and the Mother Teresa piece were the only vaguely Left things I've read; everything else was post-dark side.

[ocicat-bengals.livejournal.com]

Since Hitchens went over to the dark side, I've no use for his writings. Doesn't he fancy himself a Libertarian with a capital 'L' now?

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

I still sort of enjoy him. He's just such a whore. He would be kind of fun if he wasn't so dangerous.

[sabotabby]

It's like watching a train wreck. I'm entertained. Then again, I like right-wing punditry, so that isn't saying much.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

Interesing, you like right wing punditry.
I don't tend to admit this, but I often read Ann Coulter :) I hate her sooooo much (flames...on the side of my face...) but I find myself reading her hideous weekly article, yep.

[sabotabby]

I love reading Ann Coulter. I think she's hilarious. I have bouts of masochism where I deliberately read things that I know are going to offend and/or upset me.

A friend of mine's article somehow ended up on Free Republic once and they were all freaking out. That was funny.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I've submitted belated design input.

[sabotabby]

'Tis much appreciated. Wanna come up to Hogtown and knock some sense into 'em?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

And face Fearless Leader and his AK-47? I'd have to save up for another voyage: I just got out of debt from our Chicago adventure. And you just got out of a love triangle - you don't want to construct another ;)*

On the bronze porn front, someone just clothed our nipplicious sprinter in black sweats.





* Crush over, just flirting.

[sabotabby]

Heh. Well, Fearless Leader does not actually own an AK-47, as he doesn't live in Beirut anymore. He is quite a nice guy, really.

Also, you should add to the sprinter as well. Perhaps give her a jaunty hat, or an IWW t-shirt.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Have I told you that those t-shirts I bought from the Milwaukee Wobs are best for fall and spring? Despite the fact that they are black, my shirts are better for summer because they are one color and the spaces between the design's lines allow the shirt to breathe. By contrast, their solid, multicolor graphics do not and hence are better for wearing now.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Clarification: I wasn't dissing their shirts - just saying why they seem new to me now, after having bought them a few months ago.

[sabotabby]

Yes indeed. They're dreadful for hot weather; they stick to your skin.

At some point we're going to make our own. brownfist had some ideas and I vetoed all of them, hah.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Off topic: Have you seen Good Night and Good Luck yet? It's incredibly visual and just gorgeous to look at: Definitely something which should be seen on the big screen. There are a lot of awesome lines including some unintentionally funny personal ones such as when McCarthy accuses Murrow of having belonged to the IWW. On the other hand, despite being beautiful, funny, fascinating and superbly acted, it just didn't grab me emotionally. It's a powerful story, powerfully told; and yet, because I knew how it ended, the tension just wasn't there for me and it is very much a tension-based film. Still, an excellent film and definitely recommended.

Scroll up for the trailer which just doesn't do it justice. The sensationalistic negative flashes that appear in the trailer, thankfully, aren't in the film. Trailers really dumb things down - cinema-graphically as well as intellectually.

[sabotabby]

Not yet; my mom was raving about it, though. No one seems to want to go with me, so I may hold out a bit until it hits the revue circuit.

Was Murrow really in the IWW?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

No: It was just another of McCarthy's false accusations.

I think I'll make my mini-review into a full blown post. ...