Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[butchersapron]

Really? Seems fairly harmless really for your theatre loving hampstead luvvie...

Bitchy

 

[killer b]

Yeah you're probably right...just doesn't seem quite right. My experience of the media, and guardian journos etc tells me there's a bit more to this...

yeah, they had a 1200 word gap in the colour supplement and three hours to deadline.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

yeah, they had a 1200 word gap in the colour supplement and three hours to deadline.

Yeah...as I said you're probably right.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

She looks like a thin you.

narcissm

 

[kavenism]

That man has a startlingly slappable face. And Penny is quite cute; but then so is Pixie Lott, I wouldn’t recommend reading a feminist tract by either.

 

[temper_tantrum]

He looks quite fuckable actually.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

I wouldn’t recommend reading a feminist tract by either.

 

[rekil]

i doubt that piece will do her any favours

Vodka guzzler in the newstatesman piece and teetotaller in this. Brand LP in need of a reboot.

 

[killer b]

i was thinking the 'virtual teetotaller' bit didn't gel with the many exciting pissed up tweets i've seen from her over the past year. must've taken the pledge fairly recently (mind you, she seems to have given up twitter recently. or i've unfollowed her, dunno which).

 

[rekil]

i was thinking the 'virtual teetotaller' bit didn't gel with the many exciting pissed up tweets i've seen from her over the past year. must've taken the pledge fairly recently (mind you, she seems to have given up twitter recently. or i've unfollowed her, dunno which).

I got the impression she lived in a big nutty house, like the Monkees, except with loadsa booze, scrapes with the man, and the internationale at the end of every evening.

 

[frogwoman]

if i sang the internationale at the end of every evening i'd get sick of it very quickly.

 

[imposs1904]

Hey normals, check this out. Laurie's flatmate is a 48 year old guardian journo. Crazy.

Bollocks.

I can't help feeling that the picture editor of The Guardian dislikes one or both of them. The picture screams 'smug wankers'.

 

[redsquirrel]

I got the impression she lived in a big nutty house, like the Monkees, except with loadsa booze, scrapes with the man, and the internationale at the end of every evening.

Sounds like some weird liberal journo version of big brother.

You could have LP, Hari, that Kitten(?) off Big Brother

 

[Random]

That man has a startlingly slappable face.

I have to say I still feel like I owe Lezard a debt of gratitude for writing a glowing review of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces, about 17 years ago, which connected me to Society of the Spectacle, which weaned me off Social Democracy (via various pamphlets from AK Press).

 

[butchersapron]

Sounds like some weird liberal journo version of big brother.

You could have LP, Hari, that Kitten(?) off Big Brother

Solomon, rebel warrior

 

[rekil]

I can't help feeling that the picture editor of The Guardian dislikes one or both of them. The picture screams 'smug wankers'.

I suspect that some photographers imagine that the fag aloft pose evokes an appropriate sense of bookish boho sophistication. I remember a Mark E.Smith interview where he refused to do it. And also one where Guy Chadwick happily obliged.

 

[butchersapron]

Says it all. Arthur Miller/Nin cunt.

 

[temper_tantrum]

? Henry Miller ?

 

[Athos]

I suspect that some photographers imagine that the fag aloft pose evokes an appropriate sense of bookish boho sophistication. I remember a Mark E.Smith interview where he refused to do it. And also one where Guy Chadwick happily obliged.

It's just so louche, darling.

 

[Athos]

Says it all. Arthur Miller/Nin cunt.

Didn't Arthur Miller smoke a pipe?

 

[butchersapron]

Sorry, meant arthur mullard

 

[Athos]

Sorry, meant arthur mullard

 

[rekil]

Exhibit b.

 

[DotCommunist]

Hey normals, check this out. Laurie's flatmate is a 48 year old guardian journo. Crazy.

Bollocks.

he has no right to smoke amber leaf. He is smoking amber leaf as an affectation.

 

[Random]

he has no right to smoke amber leaf. He is smoking amber leaf as an affectation.

Who gets to smoke amber leaf?

 

[Orang Utan]

their house must stink

 

[DotCommunist]

People who buy it for the free rizla. He can afford normal fags.

 

[rekil]

Nah, I bet they have a cleaner.

 

[Orang Utan]

Nah, I bet they have a cleaner.

rollie smokers houses always stink.

 

[Random]

People who buy it for the free rizla. He can afford normal fags.

We all do odd things to keep in touch with our youth