Letters to the Editor
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Have you ever had to endure being in surgical ward with people like that?
Cast ye the first stone, suckaz. Would you have preferred an ad that portrayed a stuck #1 train in Brooklyn, no AC, middle of August and some crackhead scratching his stank ass fleas? Or does objecting to that strip you of your trust fund Marxist street cred?
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Heather's credentials
For years I would click to suck.com on Wednesdays and laugh and laugh. HH would tell me my life and my world, only she'd make it funny instead of depressing.
I Like to Watch doesn't move me like Filler did, but it is still occasionally very funny. HH doesn't purport to be the TV guide critic who must watch everything and tell us about it--she plays favorites and watches a lot of shows for the wonderful badness of them--this is what we must do in the era of "The Apprentice".
So there, tomreedtoon--her credentials. I really don't understand your literary stalking of HH. I mean, it's a TV column--certainly your rage could be put to better use criticizing pundits who spread political misinformation to our already misinformed populace.
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all trumped out
i gave up on this show rather early in the season. it is utterly humorless. the addition of the two trump children really sealed the deal for me. perhaps they are decent and nice people but they scared me. so into daddy and his place in the world. yes, without that caroline k. it got stale and silly with the campouts. i am hoping that runway comes back soon, and kind of follow workout on bravo. otherwise it is news and more news for entertainment. i mean the political stuff not the latest tragedies. a funny and well written article for me.
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Tripe this!
I hate that word tripe. I think it is so elitist. When I read "anonymous" comments a bell rung in my head. I quickly queried salon.com's search box for the word tripe and there it was: the particularly nasty interview and comments about the (very) young writer Lauren Weisberger, author of “The Devil Wears Prada,” being called tripe. That commentator as this one, was so disappointed that Salon would choose to cover such "tripe" material. I read both Weisberger’s book’s and they made me laugh, out loud, just as Heather's column does every weekend. For all you elitist who love this word "tripe," and I assuming are very well-educated to be dictating to a major news organization would they should cover and would they shouldn’t: Did you forget your undergrad studies where it was taught that Shakespeare was very much considered "tripe," in his day? He wrote his plays for the masses and the under-classes…not the court or the aristocracy.
While, I have no indication what gender “Anonymous” is, the first “triper” was a woman. I do hope that none of these criticisms are being leveled based on gender, as has been uncovered and fervently discussed on-line at Salon in the past couple of months. What has also come up in these discussions unfortunately (and I think disgustingly) is that sometimes women are their sexes own worse enemy. Would people be so critical and so vicious of these two very talented and very funny young women if they wrote as men? (And here I am not referring just to the tripe comments - it is also worse things I have seen as I dug deeper.) But I will leave you all with the point I previously made but believe it is really, really worth bringing up again – Shakespeare was considered tripe. Just the use of the word in this context glares of not only of an over developed sense of self-importance, but also of snobbery and arrogance – but also shows no sense of humor and complete ignorance when it comes to literary history! (Therefore I think making anyone that ignorant disqualified to use the word tripe…)
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i think that's the point, lillianjane
all the other threads are *serious* - war, sexism, mass murder, guns, racism. this is trivial - one of the few trivials left. it's his *hobby*. a symbolic bitching about all the ails what ails him. and since it has to be via something, who better than heather havrilesky? heather has a new baby and a husband and the rent paid (no, the *mortgage*). she's not going to be reading it on a beautiful Earth Day. he gets to air those gripes, and have a conversation and raise blood pressures (one *needs* a bit of pressure, you're dead if it's zero). what if it turned out he was a disabled vet? or a patient in a nursing home. or a not so golden oldie whose scooter's batteries ran down?
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but Julia, i thought you knew! Shakespeare *was* a woman.
here are some more definitions of tripe. first, the literal, the lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food, next the metaphoric(though how they got from the literal to the metaphorical completly escapes me), nonsensical writing, synonyms, codswallop, folderol, trumpery, applesauce, rubbish, trash, drivel, garbage.
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Hello!!?? Quinoa-Eggplant Salad?
Am I the only one who wanted the reference to "quinoa-eggplant salad" to be a link to a recipe?? I've scoured the web and can find nothing. Now I'll have to experiment endlessly until I can find the pefect combination of (I would think nicely roasted) eggplant and yummy quinoa. Anyone got any good recipes?
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StubborninSF
i got over 100,000. too many. (started with |google recipe|, got to http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/recipe.html and searched on quinoa eggplant salad). that's where i left it. it didn't seem appealing. quinoa's not going to be available here. and eggplant hates my stomach.
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The Fantasy Island Generation
To young people, Goldblum must seem like one of those stars who did cameos on "The Love Boat." As kids, we knew that Carol Channing and Mickey Rooney and Zsa Zsa Gabor must've done something at some point, but to us, they were just cheesy, seemingly talentless old people who fell in love on a cruise ship, and slipped their old bones into "something more comfortable," all of which grossed us out and made us count the seconds until "Fantasy Island."
Yes! You get me; When all those stars would walk onto the Loveboat I instinctively knew that they were "someone" very important. (Maybe soundtrack told me?) I just couldn't tell who, so I took their word for it.