STOPPIT

By por_ben
July 26th, 2006 @ 1:24 PM Rants & Raves

Seriously, O, stop making stupid shit up. You’re like that one guy at the party who makes those jokes everyone just winces at.

(Via b!X, who saw it on BlueOregon…)

4 Comments so far

  1. Jonpaul (unregistered) on July 26th, 2006 @ 3:40 pm

    I found that article clever and funny and I really like Mark Acito’s writing. Not only that he’s a super nice guy.

  2. b!X (unregistered) on July 26th, 2006 @ 4:29 pm

    No accounting for taste.

    (And just so we’re clear, my issues with the piece have nothing to do with the topic or the targets/subjects. I just think it’s actually not clever but instead what people pass off as clever in our judgement-impaired reading society.)

  3. PAgent (unregistered) on July 26th, 2006 @ 4:47 pm

    There is a precedent.

    As I recall, in Lisa Birnbaums seminal 1980 work “The Official Preppy Handbook”, Reed College was held up as an example of a “Bohemian Preppy” school. Where the dogs on campus wore bandanas around their necks, those workers cleaning out the gutters were students on work-study, and student-faculty liasons were grounds for discussion, not grounds for dismissal.

  4. Betsy (unregistered) on July 27th, 2006 @ 6:53 am

    Finally got a chance to read this late last night. My objection’s actually with the abbreviation: PoBo (or whatever it was), which I find (as I do all of PDX’s lame efforts to christen stuff that way) incredibly arch and affected.

    Not to mention done to death already in places like NYC.

    I find it ironic that it’s being used to describe a movement that celebrates individuality, but oh, well…


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