As a recovering workaholic I took an unannounced day off yesterday. I’m also unprepared
\ntoday. If the world were right side up, it would matter. But it’s not. So I’m relying on my old
\nfriend Skeets Gallagher to bring me around, and he’s no model of efficiency. Skeets is still
\ncatching up with last week’s Hollywood issue of The New Yorker.<\/P>
\n
“Just tackled David Denby’s piece on Pauline Kael,” he says. “Sad. The guy exchanged his
\nchops for the fickle approval of a better writer, and he’s haunted. Some guys think Noel Coward
\nwas joking when he remarked that ‘certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.’ If the
\nold darling were around today, he might have said ‘certain men, too,’ and added ‘lobotomized.’
\nSubmit or suffer being like everybody else!” <\/P>
\n
Meantime, Skeets hopes we’re all catching Also, in an entertaining but equally enlightening mode, here’s As a recovering workaholic I took an unannounced day off yesterday. I’m also unprepared today. If the world were right side up, it would matter. But it’s not. So I’m relying on my old friend Skeets Gallagher to bring me around, and he’s no model of efficiency. Skeets is still catching up with last week’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“Lapham is possibly the sanest man ever to emerge from a gated community,” Skeets says. I wish
\nI could offer some samples of Lapham’s editorials, but I can’t find them online. Instead I
\nrecommend one of his essays,
\nopinion, and his most recent book,
\n
\nStewart<\/EM><\/FONT><\/B><\/A> a couple of months ago on “The Daily Show.” (Beware
\nthe pre-interview movie trailer. Arrghhh!)<\/EM> Pushed for political definitions, Lapham equates
\n“dyed-in-the-wool liberals” with “true conservatives” and “compassionate conservatives” with
\n“radical nationalists” aka “utopian anarchists.” Makes sense to me.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"