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Very funny piece in McSweenys by Pasha Malla.

sp!ked review of books | Blimey, he’s dead Dickensian and a lot like us!
What gives the Dickensian-era grammar an absurd feel is the desperately arcane vocabulary, where words from ‘bagatelle’ to ‘trachea’ gleam amidst the cock-er-nee syntax like big, shiny badges of the intellect. This applies even more to the references to, amongst others, Jackson [...]

Power of Nightmares and Century of the Self were spoiled by exactly this kind of sweeping generalising and simple minded visual storytelling.

Some fun stuff @ NPR and on Christian Lander’s blog.

Amusing fellow.
lander, satire, stereotype, subversion

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around - Catherine Townsend, Columnists - The Independent
…my passion for British men was reignited this week after I agreed to a blind date with an American. “This guy is a writer too, and he’s really emotionally aware,” my friend Victoria said.
I should have known that this would be the death knell for [...]

Armando Iannucci: Want to be mildly rich? Read on | Comment is free | The Observer
‘The Willpower Pathway to How to Get Absolutely Something of What You Want’
Adopts a new psychological approach to material goal-setting, using a methodology known as ‘transformative goal adjustments’ whereby the individual is taught by means of a number of sophisticated [...]

You couldn’t have made recent headlines up. Poor lib dems. First Charles Kennedy, then that gay rent boy habit, there’s Menzies Campbell generally, which has the unfortunate habit of giving the whole party the air of a nursing home, and now Lembit Opik, weak-chinned ‘wild-man’ of the Liberal Democrats, is dating one of the pair [...]