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Now choads are looking for a lawyer.
Perhaps Harlan Ellison's.
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How about: Own Your Age, Fire Your Agent.
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But since when have things needed to mean something? I'm so sick of this qualifying and deal-making with some unseen power. It's a new kind of religion, isn't it? This fear of being held accountable for all these terrible things people have done on the internet in the last fifteen years. But the funny thing is that it really doesn't matter. It's idle, silly chatter. Idle, silly chatter that gets lots of us through the drudgery of the day, through that sad sort of fattening laziness of dissatisfaction that, in years past, made people drink and cheat and drive cars to the edges of town, not sure what to do, after they'd punched out. I dunno. I feel like we move beyond ourselves through the internet, for good and for the awful, awful bad.
And, hey. Maybe that does mean something. It's astral projection, is what it is. All of us are having out-of-body experiences here, online. Liz Smith knows that. She's just sort of scrambling to make that junk, John Edward science something old and traditionally accepted. But the new world is moving faster than we can ever hope to move. We can't hope to keep up. We're just nagging and nipping and grasping for its heels. That's the internet. That's this blog. It's an ugly fact, but a fact nonetheless.
Oh, drinking.
02/26/09
02/26/09
Her other point seems to be fairly straightforward too: with so many sources of information, and so many of them new and unproven, it's hard for a reader to know whom to trust. Liz is saying that a columnist who's been around for 20 years is going to be very conscious of her reputation and so is not going to jump at a story unless she's got a strong sense it's true. So readers can trust that what they read in a Liz Smith column is reliable because Liz is a proven brand. Liz suggests that a lone blogger who's been in the business for two weeks can't offer that same kind of brand reliability, and who can disagree with that?
Mostly, though, Liz is old and understandably sad that a chapter in her life is ending. It surely must be tough to be forced out of a job when you're 80-something.
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I hope people aren't so ready to push you out with a broom when you hit your 80s...