<![CDATA[Comments from City_Dater]]> <![CDATA[Comments from City_Dater]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Oh Snap! Christian Siriano Disses 'Girlicious']]> This could so easily escalate into a slapfight during some Bravo event. Duck and run, Tim Gunn, duck and run!

"Weird orange rutabaga" is now going to play in my head over and over when I watch the show until Blaynelicious is eliminated. Really lovely.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Lifestyle Magazine Is Ashamed Of Itself]]> Mr. Peanut declined their request for a cover story.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on No One Can Be a Secret Lesbian in Peace Anymore]]> @NobodyLikesMe:

Better they're doing it on a messageboard the contentedly childless have no reason to read than on their cell phones, loudly, while standing behind us in line at the grocery.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Coming Out of the Bat Cave]]> Yep, there they are again, in the closet...

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Youth Told That Barack Obama Goes Both Ways]]> @hypocriteoath:

If we're all going to wait for the ideal candidate before we cast a vote, we might as well dismantle our democracy now, because no one will ever vote again, ever.

I think Jinxy's got a point; voter apathy and ignorance, especially among the youngest voters, was part of the mess that got Bush elected. And Nader. But don't get me started on that.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on James Wood Is Vexed]]> @BeRightBack:

Exactly!

DeLillo isn't mocking the reader, by any means, and the sophistication of his language is anything but condescending.
Jack's frantic rush to learn enough German to bluff his way through the conference is competely perfect and well within the rules of the world DeLillo creates. WHITE NOISE isn't a realistic work; it's a social satire with absurd tendencies.

You might as well pick on Mark Twain for the time travel in CONNECTICUT YANKEE on the grounds that "it could never happen, and King Arthur was a myth anyway."

And I would LOVE to read a well-written comic novel about a physicist who secretly counts on his fingers! That's why they call it "fiction," baby.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Gay Wars: New York Wins!]]> We had already won on the "get as drunk as you want with no need to drive, ever" point, hadn't we?

It always makes me sad when an actor who is out and proud in New York moves to Los Angeles for TV and film and gets closet-y.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on No One Can Be a Secret Lesbian in Peace Anymore]]> Proof that if you stay home all day with small children, you morph into something truly strange, and perhaps not entirely human.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on We Have Been All Wrong on Commenters]]> @Banjo Kitten:

Her foster parents call her "Nummie," though she plans to change her name to "Jane" next year.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on James Wood Is Vexed]]> @JacquesPaysan:

So it's only funny when someone's making fun of something YOU don't take seriously?
Pretty poor reason to dismiss a fine writer.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on ScarJo's Private Life Revealed In Graffiti]]> I shared Pop-Rocks with Ellen Page, and then she tried to kiss me.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on James Wood Is Vexed]]> @JacquesPaysan:

WHITE NOISE is hilarious, and most of the hysterical praise of UNDERWORLD is justified.

Would I want to pal around with him? Probably not, but that's as relevant to a discussion of writing as it is to a discussion of presidential politics.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on What Andrew Giuliani's Expulsion From Golf Says About Civilization]]> So Guiliani's kid is the bratty one in the loincloth and the facepaint, and the coach is Ralph, or Piggy?
Golding cannot possibly be on the Golf Reading List at Duke; this analogy doesn't work.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Updates: Bayer Rep Says Baby Ads Are A Hoax]]> Someone in Creative had a giggle, never meant for viewing by the client or the account exec, and magically the joke found its way on to those pesky internets.
Tee hee.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on The Kennedy Assassination Can Capture Your Very Soul]]> Obsessions with historical minuatia are sexy, but there's just too many cooks on the JFK thing now. Someone needs to start getting crazy about Garfield. Well, someone besides Sarah Vowell.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Exact Same Poster Spells Doom For Both TV Show and Movie]]> @lawyergay:

Talking about who got it more wrong, Frank Langella or Bela Lugosi...

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Touring New York's Restaurants With Mr. Zagat Himself]]> An evening combining Food Porn, Interior Design Porn, and Porn Porn.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on A <i>Saved By the Bell</i> Tell-All Book? Yes.]]> @PilgrimSoul:

I haven't read any Jezebel comments since they GirlStomped me months ago, but the bar seems to be set so low over there, I don't feel too badly about viewing them as an amorphous mass of "I totes agree" and "that makes me stabby."
Anyone who's hanging in over there trying to raise the tone has my good wishes, but I bet she'll bail soon too.

And I know he's got time to spare, but why on EARTH is Screech writing the tell-all? Surely Tiffani Amber-Thiessen is the one who knows where all the bodies are buried...

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on You People Are Monsters]]> I love all of you!

Well, except some of you sexist little dweebs there in the back...but you can't help it, really.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on A <i>Saved By the Bell</i> Tell-All Book? Yes.]]> @PrincessKashmir:

The commenters at Jezebel, to be blunt, combine a crippling level of stupidity with a knee-jerk, unexamined Girlyism (basic premise: "if you disagree with me, you are against women everywhere.")
A sizable number seem to fear the F-word because if they use it the boys won't like them, and they splash around way too much contempt for the second-wave feminists who made their lives possible.
I'm sorry you got GirlStomped. When I was still reading them, I noticed they reacted especially badly to nuanced arguments. There are no shades of grey in Girlyism! Surprising how unamusing and downright rude they are without getting Ketched, or whatever they have over there instead of a Ketch.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Like the Designer Himself, Christian Siriano's New Collection is Tiny and Strange]]> Thank you!

Christian may have made entertaining television, but someone needs to gently explain to this child that no matter how much Posh Spice likes his impeccably tailored versions of Peter Murphy's old costumes, he didn't invent the '80s.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Rain Delay at Tropicana Field]]> Family Lures Rampaging Grizzly With Memorial Cake.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Andrea Peyser Didn't Want To Hear That Whore Talk Anyhow]]> Thankfully Andrea Peyser is already making some man miserable... "Out of the frying pan and into the fire," indeed.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on WEDNESDAY EVENING NEWS DUMP]]> @Multiphasic:

Or saying how much we like her shoes. Or her hair.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Danielle Steel Can't Stop, Won't Stop]]> After the first couple of her books sold, she just went back, changed all the characters' names, the location, and the career of the brave lady protagonist who in spite of herself falls in love with the man who pissed her off on the third page. Saves a ton of time.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Bayer: Barbecuing Babies Guilt-Free]]> To be fair, the ad says nothing about eating the babies after cooking them over the open flame.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Why Does A Flack Want To "Help" A Reporter?]]> Well, you know what they say...you get what you pay for.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on The New Old Gay Boys Are Back in Town]]> I'm troubled to think that there are gays among the pathetic fashion disasters called the Willamsburg Youngs, even though I know full well "fabulous" isn't a guarantee just because boys make a boy's heart beat faster.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Big Black Car: Prince of Darkness Mows Down Pedestrian In DC Mêlée]]> This is just like the time Andrea Peyser stabbed the woman ahead of her at the manicurist's and took the earlier appointment.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on <i>Real World: Brooklyn</i> Moving to Red Hook]]> They'll just bus them into Manhattan whenever they want to film them getting drunk in a bar.
Like many a Brooklyn resident before them, the Real Worlders will have the opportunity to stand around holding forth about the superiority of their neighborhood to wherever they are currently drinking, even though apparently there is no place in their neighborhood to perform the activity in question.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Madonna's Brother's "Giant Orgasm"]]> Bale's mother is an ex-circus clown. How many times in his career has he probably wanted to yell at her in public but restrained himself?

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on How Did Edwards Affair Stay Hidden?]]> Men who never intend to leave their wives tend to cheat with women who are nothing like their wives--it's not that these guys are looking for someone better; it's usually that they're looking for a worshipful fan rather than yet another complex relationship with an equal. See: Lewinsky, Monica.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Junk Mail Industry Decides To 'Go Green' Somehow]]> Does this mean I won't be getting a Fingerhut catalog addressed to the previous tenant of my apartment anymore? She only died seven years ago, so I can understand why they might still view her as in the market for a new Clapper or some personalized pencils.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Cheating On Your Sick Wife An Old Political Tradition]]> @if_i_only_had_a_heart:

Exactly! I'm so looking forward to the day when blatant shitty hypocrisy is bigger news than merely sleeping around... Unless Edwards is going to change his party affiliation and start blatting non-stop about family values and the sacred bonds of man-woman marriage, this isn't all that exciting.

@ADismalScience:

Well, he was certainly qualified for something more than an internship. Since he wasn't involved in drafting legislation to make life easier for these people in exchange for that paycheck and never ran on a platform that would imply such in his future, it's hardly a case of influence-peddling. Another Whitewater--looks seedy if you want it to, but there's nothing that exciting there.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on John Edwards In Mistress- and Secret Love Child-Having Scandal]]> Maybe it's all those years of watching Ted Kennedy behave like an ass out on the town with his date rapey nephews while maintaining a truly exemplary voting record on women's issues, but I have to note that what politicians do in their private lives often has fuck all to do with their fitness to be in office.
It's depressing, but if the worst thing a politician does is cheat on his wife (with or without her tacit consent), he's still better than most.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Bodyguards Are The New Handbags]]> I've wanted Adam Baldwin to follow me around since 1980. So here I sit, ahead of the curve...

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Ever Traded Sex for Favors? CNN Wants to Know]]> There just isn't any sex act anyone could perform for me that would get me to help with a move.

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Deep In The Heart Of Nilla Brooklyn]]> @CodePink:

Stop it!!! The first bad neck tattoos and too-tight jeans I see drinking in any of my local bars, bitching because the Mud Coffee Truck won't come uptown, I am sooo blaming on you!

]]> <![CDATA[City_Dater commented on Deep In The Heart Of Nilla Brooklyn]]> @edisdead:

There are places, but those of us who live in them don't want these people to find our neighborhoods and ruin them.

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