Jeff—Either your long absence from blogging coincided with a long absence of sanity or, which is entirely possible, I don’t have any idea what your blogs mean.
I know I’m not on the cutting edge of pop culture, but why would you take time to confirm what Sontag will or will not eat. She’s as old as dirt and twice as filthy.
He’s saying she’s unpatriotic. But since you can’t accuse anyone of being unpatriotic without John Kerry paying you a visit in nothing but bicycle shorts and a megaphone (and since any old hack can call a stupid cunt a stupid cunt), the chosen approach is somewhat indirect.
At least that’s the way I interpret it. YMMV.
In other news, someone needs to bitchslap that woman.
I understood that the list included Americana and that Sontag is a reluctant American at best, but my questions was more like “Why do we care about her?” Her rantings have become part of the background buzz that may have been taken seriously 30 years ago, but today seems as quaint as Old Richard’s Almanac.
I’ve checked the indices of the last forty years of Reader’s Digest but I haven’t found a single reference to Susan Sontag. She must not have written anything important worth summarizing.
Well, she did have that big NYTMag story this past weekend that was picked up by much of the foreign press in an attempt to beat us over the head with our own self-proclaimed aesthetes. There’s that.
But yeah, to a lot of people she’s irrelevant. Like, say, Richard Brautigan or 80s music.
Jeff—Either your long absence from blogging coincided with a long absence of sanity or, which is entirely possible, I don’t have any idea what your blogs mean.
I know I’m not on the cutting edge of pop culture, but why would you take time to confirm what Sontag will or will not eat. She’s as old as dirt and twice as filthy.
If there is some secret meaning, pls explain.
They’re supposed to mean something…?
He’s saying she’s unpatriotic. But since you can’t accuse anyone of being unpatriotic without John Kerry paying you a visit in nothing but bicycle shorts and a megaphone (and since any old hack can call a stupid cunt a stupid cunt), the chosen approach is somewhat indirect.
At least that’s the way I interpret it. YMMV.
In other news, someone needs to bitchslap that woman.
I understood that the list included Americana and that Sontag is a reluctant American at best, but my questions was more like “Why do we care about her?” Her rantings have become part of the background buzz that may have been taken seriously 30 years ago, but today seems as quaint as Old Richard’s Almanac.
Does she have any meaning in today’s culture?
That’s because for Sontag, eating liver and onions is like eating a relative…from the better smelling side of the family.
Hydrox
Bama jelly
Anything bought at a Piggly Wiggly or Winn Dixie (might consider Publinx, though)
I’ve checked the indices of the last forty years of Reader’s Digest but I haven’t found a single reference to Susan Sontag. She must not have written anything important worth summarizing.
Nothing in Sports Illustrated or Maxim, either. I’m still checking Popular Mechanics.
Well, she did have that big NYTMag story this past weekend that was picked up by much of the foreign press in an attempt to beat us over the head with our own self-proclaimed aesthetes. There’s that.
But yeah, to a lot of people she’s irrelevant. Like, say, Richard Brautigan or 80s music.
In other news, someone needs to bitchslap that woman
sent this letter to Sontag via the NY Times:
“I just read Susan Sontag
That was fantastic Mary.
I agree. Very nicely done. Would’ve said so sooner but I’m just now getting to today’s comments.
Thanks! Maybe I should send a copy to the Guardian too..
Mary, you need to start your own blog.