tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3646457796720980773..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: The Great Project Continues, Ctd.driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72917431051849952392015-05-28T20:16:25.187-05:002015-05-28T20:16:25.187-05:00THIS is the evil alternate universe, not the other...<i>THIS is the evil alternate universe, not the other way around.</i><br /><br />Sometime during the Cheney adsinistration, I saw somebody blog the observation that we're living in a Bad Future of the sort that usually requires a time-traveling protagonist to go back and prevent it from happening.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-78506937205425837472015-05-28T18:56:45.502-05:002015-05-28T18:56:45.502-05:00i don't think there's anything wrong with ...i don't think there's anything wrong with The New Yorker -- a great publication in the main -- savaging the latest iteration of David Brooks without savaging all previous iterations. It's God's work, either way.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300961605043014522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20354251067473180762015-05-28T15:26:51.130-05:002015-05-28T15:26:51.130-05:00Brooks' writing career is as mystifying as the...Brooks' writing career is as mystifying as the vampire genre. Talentless hacks and shit-for-brains scribblers succeed, because THIS is the evil alternate universe, not the other way around.bluicebankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06821812102554488543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31628929186488967842015-05-28T12:18:02.985-05:002015-05-28T12:18:02.985-05:00an old Miami Vice episode which guest starred Phil...<i>an old Miami Vice episode which guest starred Phil Collins, who played a con man who escaped one step ahead of the law, only to reinvent himself as a tv preacher.</i><br /><br />So, basically a long-form video for "Jesus He Knows Me"?Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83645288260109258442015-05-28T06:32:16.822-05:002015-05-28T06:32:16.822-05:00With regard to David Brooks' recent trajectory...With regard to David Brooks' recent trajectory, I can't help being reminded of an old Miami Vice episode which guest starred Phil Collins, who played a con man who escaped one step ahead of the law, only to reinvent himself as a tv preacher. If I recall correctly, upon viewing one of Phil's broadcasts, Sonny Crockett is moved to shoot his tv.crweaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08928639816307260859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-14670645730321600512015-05-28T00:20:39.948-05:002015-05-28T00:20:39.948-05:00@Doug
I think, or at least I've heard a few t...@Doug<br /><br />I think, or at least I've heard a few times, that reporter/media types cut loose in their books. You read the book to get to the true person, not the marketed product in the news/movie/politics/ect. The public persona is always false, the book is a window into the private.<br /><br />If that is valid of course varies from book to book, but at least that's the logic behind reading a book from a famous person.<br /><br />How much of what part of David Brooks persona is utter bullshit is highly up for debate. But he wouldn't be the first type to realize his product is bullshit, convince himself it's not, and then have a public breakdown over it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-62494873254787551662015-05-27T23:13:02.824-05:002015-05-27T23:13:02.824-05:00I'm glad that I no longer take such statements... I'm glad that I no longer take such statements as challenges, or I would have to read that book just to be contrary. A smart and well read friend of mine once snarked that no-one had ever actually finished Gravity's Rainbow, after which I set out to read everything Thomas Pynchon ever wrote. Which I did, at the time. Then Mason&Dixon came out, and I really liked that, but haven't made it to his subsequent releases. That being said, I don't think I could finish a DFB book, as I can barely finish one of his columns. OK, I have finished two of them, and both of them pissed me off, so why do more? <br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-76006159461407697882015-05-27T22:56:38.559-05:002015-05-27T22:56:38.559-05:00Such was Brooks’s course, he hints: he wrote “The ...<i> Such was Brooks’s course, he hints: he wrote “The Road to Character,” he declares, “to save my own soul.” Brooks does not dwell upon the specific depredations from which his soul was in need of rescue. </i><br /><br />Holy shit! We should put David Brooks on suicide watch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com