In less than a week I have posted:
the reviews and the poster for Funny Games
The corruption in figure skating
Quantum Leap: Season 1, Episode 4 - part 1 - wherein I reference Mohammad Atta, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, Casablanca, the Hamilton-Burr duel
Quantum Leap: Season 1, Episode 4 - part 2 - wherein I reference Andrew Wyeth and Spencer Tracy
To those of you not in on the joke - in the space of one week, maybe a year ago, I got two irate emails - one accused me of being "shallow" because I was blogging about, oh, Project Runway, and one accused me of being an "elitist" because, whatever, I read The New Yorker or something retarded like that. In the same week! It cracked me up and made me realize: you cannot please everyone. I am somehow shallow AND I am an elitist. The "you're an elitist" crowd seems to have an undercurrent of, "What ... do you think you're smart or something??" in their response to me. And I'm like, "Uhm ... not sure what to say ... let me think about that for a minute ... hmmmmmm. Well, after great consideration, I have to say in answer your question: Yes. I do think I'm smart. Sorry you find that so upsetting." I mean, what are you gonna say?? (I suppose I could point them in this direction, but that would probably be pouring fuel onto the fire.) So after that one week of "You're shallow, no, you're an elitist!" I stopped worrying about the factions - although I still obviously enjoy making fun of those people. I stopped trying to write for one or the other side ... and just wrote what I wanted. If I need to reference Sartre in a post about the glorious Tyra Banks because it's appropriate, I will. This bothers people. Hysterical!
Oh, and speaking of hysterical: I am now on the 2nd Google Search page for "Obama-Macedonia" because of THIS. What?? If I become #1 on Google for that - a topic I don't give a rat's ass about, I'm throwing a party. It's not as funny as me being on the first page of Google Images for Sean Young - because I posted pictures from a makeup class in college 5,000 years ago - but it's close.
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