tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post5203383899375140676..comments2024-02-20T08:25:06.177-08:00Comments on Confessions of ignorance: factitiousseana grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-20872801294392898172015-01-25T23:29:28.727-08:002015-01-25T23:29:28.727-08:00I'm sure he can find someone to write a better...I'm sure he can find someone to write a better blurb than that. seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-36815829484177811872015-01-25T23:03:25.669-08:002015-01-25T23:03:25.669-08:00"Larry King is among the least obnoxious of t..."Larry King is among the least obnoxious of them."<br /><br />Sounds like a cover blurb for a Larry King biography.Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-55888046408743449152015-01-25T22:56:19.384-08:002015-01-25T22:56:19.384-08:00I don't mean as a put down of popular culture,...I don't mean as a put down of popular culture, and sometimes I am a willing fan, but a lot of the time I don't understand at all what rises to the top. Larry King is among the least obnoxious of them. seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-32781568315599135172015-01-25T22:46:57.806-08:002015-01-25T22:46:57.806-08:00I would see him on late-night television, and I wo...I would see him on late-night television, and I would think: That's someone whose face could scare young children. And that his movie reviews would be quoted in ads and on posters is an indiction of cultural decline.<br /><br />One half-thinks that for that man to have obtained the celebrity he has must be do to some depraved circumstance out of James Elroy's Danny Getchel stories. So no, I don't get Larry King.Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-24177606141552435562015-01-25T22:41:37.825-08:002015-01-25T22:41:37.825-08:00I don't know all that much about it, but I fea...I don't know all that much about it, but I fear you are, having seen him a few times.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-2777218895814120542015-01-25T22:27:40.190-08:002015-01-25T22:27:40.190-08:00I wonder if Larry King's columns could have be...I wonder if Larry King's columns could have been satires of gritty urban One-Line Runyons.<br />Nah, I'm probably giving him too much credit.Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-51834004359004730772015-01-25T20:46:47.383-08:002015-01-25T20:46:47.383-08:00What else is a successful columnist to do except p...What else is a successful columnist to do except pose as his former self?seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-69569818749142636802015-01-25T18:53:41.239-08:002015-01-25T18:53:41.239-08:00I neglected to mention that Mike Barnicle was a lo...I neglected to mention that Mike Barnicle was a longtime columnist at the Boston Globe who maintained his wisecracking streetwise pose long after he moved out to a rich suburb. Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-23329596853444059912015-01-25T18:50:42.235-08:002015-01-25T18:50:42.235-08:00Well, I have been known to recycle an old post fro...Well, I have been known to recycle an old post from time to time. But newspaper columnists seem to think the tradition is delightful, It can, it the columnist has sufficient wit to make his or her aperçus worth reading. Most do not, Or rather, most did not, when newspapers mattered.Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-9533763158268843232015-01-25T18:04:39.834-08:002015-01-25T18:04:39.834-08:00It could happen to bloggers as easily--except for ...It could happen to bloggers as easily--except for the salary part.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-12386094332214046022015-01-25T16:49:59.510-08:002015-01-25T16:49:59.510-08:00That sort of thing is a standard trope of exhauste...That sort of thing is a standard trope of exhausted, self-important newspaper columnists who realize they can still draw a salary without working. Mike Barnicle used to begin his similar columns "Not that it really matters, but ... " and he was right. It didn't. Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-25155846208340857332015-01-25T14:57:39.917-08:002015-01-25T14:57:39.917-08:00I think the only time I've ever read USA Today...I think the only time I've ever read USA Today is when one was lying around in a coffee shop and there was absolutely nothing else around. So I had to look up Larry King's columns, and came across this poem <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/80127/larry-king-poem-usa-today" rel="nofollow">entirely compiled from them</a>.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-13667969810578938502015-01-25T14:44:56.000-08:002015-01-25T14:44:56.000-08:00I remember Larry King's factoids from that cra...I remember Larry King's factoids from that crazy steam of consciousness newspaper column he used to have in USA Today. How we all tolerated that amiable lunatic for so long is beyond me. adrian mckintyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349942973907386269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-88136342277110139402015-01-25T13:56:33.280-08:002015-01-25T13:56:33.280-08:00Got it. For some reason, I thought I already under...Got it. For some reason, I thought I already understood what you were saying, but now can't reconstruct it.<br /><br />Of course we have both face and facetious to make it all more blurry.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-24736727389006696632015-01-25T13:53:34.974-08:002015-01-25T13:53:34.974-08:00Er, let me continue that thought:
" ... spec...Er, let me continue that thought:<br /><br />" ... specially since the letter c often if not always, is <i>pronounced with the hard-c sound.</i>"Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-42285692886099615122015-01-25T12:15:49.239-08:002015-01-25T12:15:49.239-08:00I think this would be a good one for me to write u...I think this would be a good one for me to write up here, Peter.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-3597855096093337752015-01-25T11:34:34.824-08:002015-01-25T11:34:34.824-08:00Let's revive it, then.
Your thoughts about ...Let's revive it, then. <br /><br />Your thoughts about this word make me wonder about the origins of that simple monosyllable <i>fake</i>, especially since the letter c often if not always, is Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-36586222037383204792015-01-24T14:24:37.262-08:002015-01-24T14:24:37.262-08:00Peter, if you don't know it, it's well on ...Peter, if you don't know it, it's well on its way to being obsolete.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054888927218536027.post-53632052920678788822015-01-24T14:21:00.611-08:002015-01-24T14:21:00.611-08:00Damn me, but I don't know this word. Thanks.Damn me, but I don't know this word. Thanks.Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.com