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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-01-23 18:43:00
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Did you know we're responsible for the fall of civilization?
So, New Yorker film critic David Denby wrote a book called Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation. Tell us how you really feel, David. Or even better - how about everyone else telling us how they really feel?

(NEWSFLASH: Keith Olbermann NOT snarky. Film at 11.)

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[info]mcity
2009-01-24 05:40 am UTC (link)
I'd argue that snark can be as valid a form of criticism as any other. God knows we need a lot of laughter these days. Heck, one of my favorite writers, SJ Perelman, frequently turned in articles that bear an eerie resemblance to an MST. Not to mention Mark Twain's review of the Last of the Mohicans.

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[info]mmanurere
2009-01-24 07:35 am UTC (link)
Hm...I think I'm one famous dead writer away from gathering the Holy Trinity of Snark. Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, and...Mary Wollstonecraft? Voltaire? (Hell, just about any famous dead French writer could at least make a guest appearance.) Maybe it should be a sentai team.

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[info]funwithrage
2009-01-24 05:10 pm UTC (link)
Could we get Alice "If you can't say anything nice, come sit right here by me" Roosevelt in there as well? Maybe as their enigmatic mentor?

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[info]ayezur
2009-01-24 05:25 pm UTC (link)
DOROTHY PARKER, you damned philistine. Her, Wilde, and Voltaire.

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[info]some_dude
2009-01-25 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Jonathan Swift!

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[info]jat_sapphire
2009-01-27 12:30 am UTC (link)
Swift uses a jackhammer. Snark is more daggery. I still go for Parker.

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[info]singe
2009-01-24 07:54 am UTC (link)
simpers along with an airy, complacent, monkey-with-a-parasol gait

I love that man.

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[info]bienegold
2009-01-24 09:57 am UTC (link)
Seriously. I can't read [most of] his fiction, because I have a huge impediment with reading dialect, but I love his essay THIIIIIS much. This essay and the one on German are just the best ever.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-01-24 12:55 pm UTC (link)
"... until he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with the verb in his mouth."

(or as they used to say on AOL, me too.)

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[info]singe
2009-01-24 06:43 pm UTC (link)
the one on German

I'll have to look that one up immediately. Thanks!

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2009-01-24 09:03 pm UTC (link)
Audio books are your friend...

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[info]sarracenia
2009-01-24 07:29 pm UTC (link)
Somehow, reading that soothed my memories of having to sit through day after day of illiterate classmates having to attempt to read Last of the Mohicans aloud. If only Mark Twain had survived to read Twilight! The snark would have been beautiful

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[info]hallidae
2009-01-24 08:52 pm UTC (link)
Is Perelman the one who usually teamed up with Al Hirschfeld?

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[info]mcity
2009-01-24 09:45 pm UTC (link)
I'm not sure. I know he travelled with Hirschfeld for Westward Ha!, but I've never seen his columns in print format.

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