David Denby on The Charlie Rose Show
The New Yorker's David Denby's been making news lately for essentially being a more less barbaric version of Buzz Bissinger as he goes around promoting his new book, Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal and It's Ruining Our Conversation, which basically lays out the case that blogs, and the internet in general, signify the end of Western civilization. And oh, he's also got a raging boner for Maureen Dowd and spends considerable time negging her into noticing him, but that's neither here nor there. Anyway, he was on the Charlie Rose show the other night yapping about all this, so I thought I'd share the interview here...
Oh and look, some snarky internet wiseass went and made a hilarious parody of the cover of Denby's book!
(via Mister Hippity)
8 comments:
I fisked that interview on my own blog. While agree with you that Denby would love to hate-fuck Dowd, I think the bigger issue is that he calls her rude names just because she doesn't stand 100% behind the candidates he supports.
What a petty, vile man.
And Mr. Hippity's cover satire is brilliant.
@mo modo...wait, mr. hippity made that? i had no idea! it just fell into my inbox without knowing what the original source was. kudos to mr. hippity. long live mr. hippity!
I work for a television station in the Midwest as a "web producer," and one of my duties is to go over our comments section in all the stories and flag the comments where people are being unruly assholes. And these aren't kids, mind you, these are grown-ups who love the anonymity of blasting everything and everyone with no comeuppance whatsoever.
This is NOT a kid thing. Adults have ALWAYS been assholes, they just now have the means with which to vent their bile against: the Jews, the blacks, the gays, the Democrats, the Republicans, the Muslims, the women, old people, poor people, rich people, fat people, the police, people arrested for selling pot, librarians, city hall, state government, the federal government, the President, the French, the Germans, England, Communists, Socialists, Fascists, racists, bigots, porn, child abusers, rainbows, moving companies, lawyers, bankers, doctors, and so on. Oh yeah, and bloggers, too, which these assholes don't even get, because they think their "comments" make them "bloggers." HEY ASSHOLE! If you make some not-so-pithy comment on a story about the morning news gal getting her true body fat assessment, it's NOT A BLOG. Fuckers...
I think denby is an insufferable jackass. He clearly has shit taste in movies being as he completely dismissed "The Wrestler" and was fellating Sean Penn the entire time on his last Charlie Rose appearance. "Milk" was a fine film and I am a Gus Van Sant fan but "Milk" and "The Wrestler" aren't even in the same league.
During the primaries you were constanting negging Hillary Clinton, Cajun Boy ... are you ready to admit you're carrying a torch for her yet?
@Mr. Held Over ... lol, just lol.
You know what, I tend to agree with him.
There's nothing more enjoyable to read (indeed, it consitutes the majority of my internet reading) than clever, well written snarkiness.
The problem is too many people are doing it 1) poorly, 2) just to pile on and three just for the sake of it.
Poorly aimed, poorly written snark is just annoying people who think they're clever.
Although I think Denby is cranky, I have to agree with him to some degree. Being intelligent and clever and biting with a point to make is one thing. Being nasty and stupid with nothing to say is another. I do think real conversations get busted up by idiots who 1)Often can't construct a proper English sentence and 2)Would not in a million years say the crap they say in person, hence all of the anons. I can't tell you how many times I've read great blogs and then scrolled down to the comments hoping for some intelligent wordplay and see nothing but a bunch of comments from illiterate idiots. And as Mr. Held Over says it's not just young people.
Yeah, that's my book cover all right! The original is on my blog, right here.
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