tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post2352488623625183564..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: All Right, Jamesy. Let Me Up, I'm Fuckin' Serious This Time.James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-57412731941069117932008-11-27T12:07:00.000-05:002008-11-27T12:07:00.000-05:00At the end of the day, I remain over the moon abou...At the end of the day, I remain over the moon about Doghouse's use of, like, "Look" as a type of visual flag. He is Doghouse, after all, and I find it impactfull and empowering, because a Doghouse "look" means that I sit up, take notice, and very possibly receive a treat. I don't mean to push the push the envelope envelope: I am not an innovator. See, I love Doghouse, technically by proxy, butAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-9341845744316938062008-11-26T23:38:00.000-05:002008-11-26T23:38:00.000-05:00I wish that people I really admire and love to rea...I wish that people I really admire and love to read and/or listen to - you, Doghouse, and Paul Krugman - hadn't allowed the initial "Look,..." to invade their prose. It's a hiccup on a par with the endless "in terms of" that has swept, forest-fire-like, through the defenseless structure of spoken English for several years now. <BR/><BR/>Li'l InnocentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-30335501846958242302008-11-25T21:56:00.000-05:002008-11-25T21:56:00.000-05:00I was actually at the NY Public Library event, and...I was actually at the NY Public Library event, and I didn't mind Joan Didion's commment. But then, I'm cynical enough to vote for Hillary, and while I like the guy, Obamamania kind of passed me by. Joan actually didn't speak much after her initial comments. But Doghouse, for sheer event-long pretentious, Gary Willis wins the Grand Prize. Michael Tomasky and Andrew Delbanco actually had culurielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09339175273685091573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-63111619498120428872008-11-25T20:06:00.000-05:002008-11-25T20:06:00.000-05:00You guys and gals (un-PC alert) are way above my p...You guys and gals (un-PC alert) are way above my pay-grade.map106https://www.blogger.com/profile/04613387280188680760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-80314045000759366372008-11-25T18:23:00.000-05:002008-11-25T18:23:00.000-05:00I bluntly refuse to believe that anyone who ever l...I bluntly refuse to believe that anyone who ever looked at Dominick Dunne across a thanksgiving table and stuck her fork in the turkey lacks a sense of irony.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652601001680591056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-25153814803130313942008-11-25T16:10:00.000-05:002008-11-25T16:10:00.000-05:00Take the middle out of fire truck a few more times...Take the middle out of fire truck a few more times and see if I don't become one of your nonsubscribers! As Reagan said, when he was ripping holes in the economic safety net, "Make my day."<BR/><BR/><I>Ms. Didion lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama had become an “irony-free zone,” a vast Kool-Aid tank where “naïveté, translated into ‘hope,’ was now in” and where “innocence,James Stripeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13437334325501974461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-58578808397111973382008-11-25T14:40:00.000-05:002008-11-25T14:40:00.000-05:00I stopped reading the quoted article when I reache...I stopped reading the quoted article when I reached the un-ironic "conservative humorist P. J. O’Rourke".<BR/>"...Vexatious Fops for Charles Cotesworth Pinckney..." Do you see, P. J.? This is how humor is done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com