Pej points and drools. Me, I’m just stunned. And sickened. And a bit annoyed, frankly.
I mean, thank Christ this kind of rationalizing bookhumpage wasn’t charged with defeating Nazism. Getting too much to bear, is it dear? No problems. Just pen some wistful, world-weary words (a few fat paragraphs ought to convince people of your sincerity), strain a few analogies, and then its off to Starbucks to share a Caramel Macchiato and a rasberry scone with your pathos. (Or, if you’re feeling particularly melodramatic, you can maybe hide out in a neighbor’s attic or something and write journal entries until the world is dusted in irradiated ash — or until the Stoli vanilla runs out, whichever comes first).
Jesus. Just fall on your pen already. Get it over with.
Hey, I followed the link and I was so moved…so moved…I was moved to ask….mind wandering…flicking out a speck of dirt spied under my pinkie-nail…moved to ask…hey Jeff, what <i>is</i> that a picture of underneath the “wisdom” in your site banner? Always wondered about that.
Full agreement on that post.
Moira, good question. What is it Jeff? It looks like a HR Giger version of the internal body cavity.
It’s a hemoglobin protein.
Either that, or a close up of one of my shirts from the eighties. I was into paisley and rasberry berets…
The admiration some people have for “Asparagirl” has baffled me since I started blogging. I guess she’s supposed to be some kind of great writer or something. Folks, Lileks is a great writer. Asparagirl is just another blogger, like me.
Am finishing up an overview of this mess. Needless to say, we are in agreement.
I didn’t “point and drool.” I merely said that it is compelling writing. For the record, I don’t agree with the substance of her remarks, but I think she made her point well. I’m hardly the first person ever to make a distinction between the substance of an argument, and the style with which it was presented. And I hardly call that “drooling.”
Jeez, what is it with people around here? First Moore trashes me, and then Goldstein? Is it too much to ask that disagreements be phrased in a somewhat more civil manner around here? Or has the Blogosphere turned into one big giant USENET group?
Maybe my opinion isn’t worth much to you, Jeff, but I expected a little better than this. Feel free to take down the link to my site if you don’t like my “point[ing]” and “drool[ing].” I might do it some more in the future (although I just call it “commentary”) and I’d hate to think I was keeping you up at night, enraged beyond measure.
I think my saying you pointed and drooled is in keeping with the tone of MY blog, don’t you? You know—quippy and earthy, colloquial, etc.
I was hardly “enraged” by your pointing and drooling (which incidentally was quite in keeping with the fact that you <i>yourself</i> make playful quips about pining after Asparagirl, even in the comments section of the VERY post I referenced!) On the other hand, I was kinda cheesed by the content of Asparagirl’s post, which I think I made clear.
Obviously you’re entitled to do whatever you wish, but I don’t think you should take anything I wrote as an attack on you personally.
P.S. I’m hung like a Clydesdale.
Jeff:
Agree with you 100%. But I, too, am disappointed in you. Why did you show so much restraint? You were much kinder than I’d have been if I had blogged it. Pej needs to buck up and thicken up the old hide if he’s going to endorse pathetic drivel like a-girls’ post. Or maybe they should just fuck and get it over with already. Hopefully a-girl brought her strap-on home…
Jeff,
You say it perfectly. Sorry I just now got around to your post.
Huh. Hemoglobin. And all the time I’ve spent crossing my eyes over that image, trying to make out the Magic Eye naughty bits.
Good call, Jeff, re: ‘Aspara-shlock’
Pej, calling that drivel ‘compelling writing’ is an insult to the many good writers out there. Also, I have a feeling if a male had written it, you would have been all over him.
Quippy, earthy, and hung like a Clydesdale, huh?
Remind me not to write something that pisses you off or get in your way at a urinal.
Make at least some allowance for the fact that she is young. Time of the month can also be decisive. I read it this morning, too, and thought it odd, out of character, and ultra depressing. But it’s just an opinion at one moment in time.
I know. But I read it, got angry, vented, then felt better. She can have her opinion at one moment in time, I can have mine.
I have nothing whatever against her personally. That post—coming as it did on the heels of two horrible attacks—just ticked me off.
I didn’t agree with her post, but after terror attacks I usually feel the same kind of despair. That’s why I often wait a few days before commenting. I thought Asp wrote a good post (even though I disagreed with her thesis). She pushes my emotional buttons.
I liked Jeff’s reply too. As Lileks says, this is a conversation, not a lecture.
The rest of you need to chill.
If you think Asp is overrated then go read something else. I hear that Patio Pundit is very good.
Also, I have heard that Howard Stern is also hung like a Clydesdale.
I suggested its truly big idea.
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