Xander ,'Selfless'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
People are strange, askye. Maybe someone is suspicious of his or her spouse.
Dana, I'm pondering the dining options. I'll e-mail as we approach the date. This'll be my first vacation that doesn't involve going to someone's wedding or visting family since my honeymoon. I'm excited.
I haven't read your stuff yet (yet!) Allyson, but from the descriptions I've seen? Those words weren't aimed at your kind of work. Not even in the same vicinity.
nothing of yours I've read is similar.
We're in the same family, I think. Arrogant and bitching about the inane.
I think the major difference between them and me is a level of such staggering self-involvement that they're completely blind to the consequences of what they write, or to feel any sort of empathy for their subjects. But the bones of it are the same.
Do you call the number back to see who called? Or ignore it? Or what?
Sometimes I ignore it. Sometimes I pick up and answer. But usually I don't bother.
I love my caller i.d.
You'd call your writing "candid," Allyson? Noting that the quotes are there for a reason.
is a level of such staggering self-involvement that they're completely blind to the consequences of what they write, or to feel any sort of empathy for their subjects.
Aaaand, after many failed attempt to describe the genre that bugs me, you just did.
I think the major difference between them and me is a level of such staggering self-involvement that they're completely blind to the consequences of what they write, or to feel any sort of empathy for their subjects. But the bones of it are the same.
I think the major difference between you and them is that you have a sense of humor and it shows. I get the impression that you're far closer to Sedaris than to any of the aforecomplainedabout writers.
You'd call your writing "candid," Allyson?
I do.
On another kind of journalism altogether:
When a Man Dies in a Sex Act with a Horse -- What's a Reporter to Do?
Allyson, I think your writing definitely springs from your subjective experience but it's not really confessional in the way people were criticizing.
Your writing is bracing in its undiluted venom and snark, while streaked with hopefulness and appreciation and community. It's not cringe-making at all.