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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Over lunch I was reading Hilton Als on Louis C.K., and the language had me thinking, WWMSS? (What would Mr. Shawn say?)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 19, 2020, 02:28:35 pm ---Over lunch I was reading Hilton Als on Louis C.K., and the language had me thinking, WWMSS? (What would Mr. Shawn say?)
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I'm sure Mr. Shawn has turned over in his grave so may times by now they had to reinstall the tombstone and replant the grass.
Was the Hilton Als piece good? I always hear him praised so highly but I have trouble getting into his pieces.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 19, 2020, 04:31:03 pm ---Was the Hilton Als piece good? I always hear him praised so highly but I have trouble getting into his pieces.
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I could take it or leave it. Not good, not bad. I read him because he's there. I wouldn't miss him if he wasn't. Mainly I read it because I knew Louis C.K. had got caught in sexual improprieties, and I wanted to read what Als had to say about it.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 19, 2020, 05:21:52 pm ---I could take it or leave it. Not good, not bad. I read him because he's there. I wouldn't miss him if he wasn't. Mainly I read it because I knew Louis C.K. had got caught in sexual improprieties, and I wanted to read what Als had to say about it.
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And then not only that but that C.K. attempted a return -- this time as someone who seemed to accept the creepy things he had joked about before. It's a sordid story, and I can't tell from my own sentence whether that makes me especially want to read it or especially not to.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 18, 2020, 03:20:39 pm ---I finished the profile on Harari last night.
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I might start this one at lunch today, but I'm also looking forward to the article about Britain's land, and the one about slavery reenactments ("The Fugitive Cure").
And I just noticed that there seems to be a new TV critic!
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