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July 31, 2003
Elsewhere
If you still haven't gotten around to reading the essay absolutely every author I know is buzzing about, Kathryn Chetkovich' "Envy," go here. (For those totally out of the loop, Chetkovich is the girlfriend of Jonathan "The Corrections" Franzen.)I'm not the envious type (at least I don't think I am), so for me it was the approximate equivalent of reading a brilliantly written piece of pornography describing a taste I don't share. But if the green monster has ever come calling on you, my guess is that you'll hear an echo deep within your psyche:
When the subject of his success came up, often enough a friend would say, "The great thing is he really deserves it." Were they kidding? This was precisely what made it so hard. For once, the gods hadn't made the stupid mistake of smiling on another no-talent, well-connected charlatan.
Which somehow reminds me of the title of the first song in Avenue Q, opening tonight on Broadway: "It Sucks to Be Me."
For those of you who read Demolition Angel's review of Edge, the one-woman play about Sylvia Plath, I am pleased to direct you (courtesy of the very amusing Maud Newton, of whose blog I am a daily communicant) to a very naughty parody called Sylvia Plath's Gangsta Rap Legacy.
O.K., I am soooooo Nineties, but I only just found out about the Postmodern Generator (thank you, Artnotes!), an amazing piece of software that creates totally meaningless essays written in PoMo jargon. To try it out, go here. Don't do it while you're eating, though, or you'll make a mess....
Posted July 31, 2003 12:03 PM
