Check out the feisty on this new chick Drew!
I love it when folks get passionate about screenwriters, and the only misfire in the masterful thingamajig you pen-scribbled above was the missed opportunity at the very end: You should have concluded with a mock-pitch for a show called The Gawker, girl!!!!!
Come on, everyone, who's gonna play who?
Forreal. Thou shalt not suckle at America's great teat while simultaneously plotting her destruction. It's just.. rude.
(In all seriousness, you raise a very good point in your first graph--much agreed.)
She finally figured out she could get more attention by funding internecine wars among the republics of the formerly Soviet Central Asia.
Ha! I think you're riding a beam here, apparently Foreign Policy once ran an editorial titled Milton Friedman Was Right, Thomas Friedman Is Not (which is also funny because FP is supposed to be a limousine liberal rag, right?!
Sorry, what do you mean--"related"?! The hackmeister Friedman of today is the same person who was a sterling wartime reporter in the '80s/early '90s.
Re: The mustachioed metaphor mangler: His first + second Pulitzers are totes legit.
He won them for his coverage of the Lebanese war, and respectively, the 1st Intifada. The material he produced during that time is collected in his first book, From Beirut to Jerusalem--which is taught in journalism schools these days. It really is a towering achievement in terms of wartime reportage, at least in my view.
The aphoristic bullshit he's been churning for the past decade is bizarrely lame by comparison.
OOps, correx: Ouroussoff was only apparently short-listed for the 2006 Pulitzer in criticism, but did not win.
John, you made my day with this righteous rant. I tend to heartily agree, and will simply add two footnotes:
1. One should mention, if only in passing, the Janet Cook debacle (WaPo journalist awarded Pulitzer in the early '80s for extraordinary feature writing series on child heroin addicts, subsequently revealed to have been completely fabricated.)
2. I sat in the vicinity of a future Pulitzer Prize winner in my olde days as LAT intern: Nicolai Ouroussoff, then the resident architecture critic. (He won the Pulitzer after he moved to the NYT.) No particular insights on him--for whatever it's worth, I found his writing at the time somewhat pompous, but I was clearly wrong.
The only other Pulitzer-winner I had some professional interactions with is Dan Neil (2004 Pulitzer for automobile reviews/criticism), and he was/is an insanely inspiring, talented, awesome stand-up guy. He actually sued the Tribune Co. at some point in a class-action suit over some of the dick-fuckery underfoot during Sam Zell's tenure--particularly because he sensed his Pulitzer would lend gravitas to fellow LAT employees' claims of outrageous mistreatment..)
AWESOME! Did not know that--nor did I ever watched that movie, will now Netflix pronto.
Meh x 2. The vaunted gold stars are obvi not worth much these days if a--forgive me--mental patient such as yourself can get 'em so easily for sheer professional trolling.
God bless, etc.
With that I conclude this troll-feeding session. #crosstalk
Fair enough. Rather belabored sarcasm, if I make take the liberty to say so--but Peyser's initial analogy is also quite belabored.
Meh. Seth Abramovich was the only person who ever "took away" my star (my precious! my beloved! my much-adored! star) because I made a--in retrospect, rather flippant and unkind remark about him being Anne Volokh's bitch. Thought he'd appreciate it--from one former Hollywood Life/Movieline slave-bitch to another.
FYI, your multiple starred/non-starred personas are glaringly sock puppets of the same individual--same voice, same style of fabulistic anecdotes, same, same, same, same.
Whatever make you feel self-actualized + happy, gurrl. Carry on.
Adolf Ausgezeichnet being the aforesaid film's director--who went on to become a much-awarded producer of infomercials.
Fair enough. Rainer Maria Rilke is a Romantic poet who wrote exquisitely on the theme of unrequited love. I was actually making a little joke, methought, but it clearly landed with a thud.
Thanks for your initial reply and be well. #crosstalk
Thanks for your initial reply and be well. #crosstalk
O HAIIII American Dreamer! Whatchu been up to, gurrrl?
Please look for me in the room next door, dear. #crosstalk
You're really taking this unrequited love thing to Rainer Maria Rilke-ian heights of self-flagellation. =) #crosstalk
Aha! Good to know. Then I won't click, because, what's the point? AND WHAT DOES THAT stupid empty star mean?
PS: Still hooked on Aubrey Plaza + have you at last made contact with her?!!
OK, x-talkers, I have a question of a technical nature:
I noticed that sometimes, after I post a comment, my avatar displays the contours of a star next to it. I hovered my mouse over it and the star fills out and turns gold. Then the skeleton star goes away after a few minutes.
I wonder what happens if I click on it, but I am mortified at the thought that, if the star turns gold, it will appear as if I "starred" myself.
Has anyone else experienced that?
Should I click on it or not?
'K thx bai!
#crosstalk
#firstworldqueries
OK, x-talkers, I have a question of a technical nature:
I noticed that sometimes, after I post a comment, my avatar displays the contours of a star next to it. I hovered my mouse over it and the star fills out and turns gold. Then the skeleton star goes away after a few minutes.
I wonder what happens if I click on it, but I am mortified at the thought that, if the star turns gold, it will appear as if I "starred" myself.
Has anyone else experienced that?
Should I click on it or not?
'K thx bai!
#firstworldqueries
YES!!!! And has a great house with a swimming pool in Beverly Hills!!!! Good-looking for a 50-something chick, too.
ETA, since your question is too short to reply to: To the best of my knowledge, she owns ZERO cats. Unless she keeps them locked up in a trunk while she has visitors.
