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Thursday, June 26, 2003
I cannot help it, no. Despite the noisy and constant protestations of a legion of friends, relatives, and otherwise intelligent acquaintances, I am heartsick at the sight of so many enlightened front-car F-trainers devouring the new Harry Potter book like locusts on a farmgirl's eyes. Oh, I know it's "actually quite good," and "surprisingly smart," or any of a zillion other red-faced or too too nonchalant apologies, but here's a tip, kidlets: if you have to apologize for reading something, you know it's crap.
Hey, but don't I love crap? You've seen the CDs that spin through my 3-disk changer; some of it's good, some of it achingly trendy, and some of it just crap crappity crap. I'm not ashamed, and I don't apologize. How many times have you heard me say that the A*Teens' version of "Mamma Mia" is better than the original? Probably a billion. I love the crap I love in that complicated postpostpostpostmodern (shut up) way that makes it exponentially impossible to discern how serious I am, so that it's just easier to assume that there is no irony involved, that my love is true. Irony as practiced by today's hipsters sucks because a guy wearing a hat with fake dogshit on the bill -- no matter how ironically he does so -- still has dogshit on his hat. Would you like some Sweat of the Blues Explosion with your hot bowl of dick, you feckless assmonkey? Fuck, mang, it's so hot that girls be using linen tampons and shit. Um. So, my point is that Harry Potter is unrepentant crap, so you shouldn't repent. I also know that some guilty week, while stranded in Berlin or Trieste or Swakopmund, I will read all five books in one chainsmoking sitting. But also I am saying that I don't want to see you reading the books on the train, because you make me look even smarter, and if I look any more brilliant I am going to seriously blind some people. See? Don't be ashamed, but do act ashamed: read the book in your own home. You want to buy a book that you will never have to read? Buy Hillary Clinton's book, and you may get to see that neocon fucktard Tucker Carlson eat his shoes on national television. It was fun when Werner Herzog did it for Errol Morris, but this is like, awesome. 0 comments |
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