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Re: Books
« Reply #405 on: May 24, 2019, 04:22:20 pm »
If I admit that I'm currently reading a David Sedaris book, will I get publicly flogged by members of this board?
Probably just me. And honestly, a few seconds in, all the vitrol will be off of you and onto that milquetoast bore. He's the literary equivalent of Modern Family on downers. He only exists so our bigoted septuagenarian aunts can claim cover for their evangelic hate by going, "but I am reading a book by a gay man!" Fuck David Sedaris.

Wait, David Sedaris is gay? And that's why we're supposed to hate him?
No. Hate him because he's a humorist that has never been funny or amusing.
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« Reply #406 on: May 24, 2019, 04:22:58 pm »
I mean I guess he is accusing you of virtue signaling...seems a big issue for him



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« Reply #407 on: May 24, 2019, 04:26:53 pm »
there is this thing he keeps going to that DS is the way for people who are 'bigoted septuagenarians' to say 'hey who are you calling homophobic...I read Sedaris"
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Re: Books
« Reply #408 on: May 24, 2019, 05:21:38 pm »
there is this thing he keeps going to that DS is the way for people who are 'bigoted septuagenarians' to say 'hey who are you calling homophobic...I read Sedaris"
This is absolutely true. I maintain that is a large reason for his (and Modern Familys) popularity. They are not-in-your-face examples of homosexuality that’s palatable for people who don’t like homosexuality.
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« Reply #409 on: May 24, 2019, 05:38:13 pm »
I know plenty of people who like Sedaris or Modern Family and have zero issues with homosexuality

I happen to like neither but unlike you do not ascribe for myself the power to read the minds and motives of tens of millions of people I don’t know



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« Reply #410 on: May 24, 2019, 05:39:28 pm »
I just started reading Shantaram

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Re: Books
« Reply #411 on: May 24, 2019, 06:44:34 pm »
I know plenty of people who like Sedaris or Modern Family and have zero issues with homosexuality

I happen to like neither but unlike you do not ascribe for myself the power to read the minds and motives of tens of millions of people I don’t know




Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Re: Books
« Reply #412 on: May 28, 2019, 10:08:45 am »
Finished Room To Dream (1/2 David Lynch memoir and 1/2 bio of David Lynch) SOOOOOOO GOOD. What a gift. Highly recommended.

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« Reply #413 on: May 29, 2019, 08:03:55 pm »
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« Reply #414 on: May 29, 2019, 11:49:22 pm »
Moby Reads the Room and Cancels His Book Tour

upon first read, i assumed that "reads the room" was a reference to a book based on the movie "The Room".  at which point i asked myself, "why the hell would anyone write a book version of the worse movie ever?"

then i clicked, and i learned.
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« Reply #415 on: May 30, 2019, 12:23:37 am »
Moby Reads the Room and Cancels His Book Tour

upon first read, i assumed that "reads the room" was a reference to a book based on the movie "The Room".  at which point i asked myself, "why the hell would anyone write a book version of the worse movie ever?"

then i clicked, and i learned.

When I started seeing references to The Room, my first thought was why all this sudden love for an obscure 80s band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuTLaWLMR-Y
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Re: Books
« Reply #416 on: May 30, 2019, 02:21:25 pm »
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Re: Books
« Reply #418 on: May 30, 2019, 03:01:12 pm »
this is a good read
The Secret Oral History of Bennington: The 1980s' Most Decadent College
The Julian's America thread is over there.
been meaning to ask...your screen name...assuming it's lifted from LTZ...which was lifted from American Gigolo
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Re: Books
« Reply #419 on: May 30, 2019, 03:05:52 pm »
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