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

[Firky]

I think I want to invent some isms of my own.

Spellingism. I am being oppressed by a spelliarch.

 

[Athos]

You can only look clever if you spell it correctly.

Firky rejects your literate-normative spelling privilege.

Eta: he beat me to it!

 

[cesare]

Firky rejects your literate-normative spelling privilege.

 

[sihhi]

By the way Laurie Penny's favourite work she ever did in 2012 was this:

London, baby, you’re beautiful just the way you are. It’s tempting to see the city the way it sees itself sometimes, as an ageing diva, swelling and spreading and prone to hot flashes, painfully aware of losing its international relevance. London forgets that there is witchcraft in these old bones, and dirt, and the sort of power that accretes in any filthy old body with a tendency to consume its own young.

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
I wrote well over a hundred essays and articles in 2012, but this is my favourite. London, Underground: for @newinquiry http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/london-underground/ …

Where she lives with Nick Lezzard is a 'hovel'.

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
THE HOVEL I AM IN YOU. Finally home after months of travelling. @nicklezard has hugs coming at him from all over the shop.

Nothing of the exchanges here impacted on her year:

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
In 2012 I got a job, took a bus across the USA, went to Greece and wrote a book, got heartbroken several times, and I don't regret a thing.

Yes Laurie Penny, you win, well played.

 

[Firky]

Firky rejects your literate-normative spelling privilege.

Eta: he beat me to it!

 

[Firky]

She posted a photo of her hovel (maybe on twitter?), it's a room big enough for a double bed (complete with full linen) and is quite modest but a mile away from being a hovel, but she's probably never even been in a damp council flat with no room for a fridge let alone a double bed.

 

[Firky]

The hovel

 

[weepiper]

The hovel

no amount of artfully unmade bedlinen can hide the nice clean wall-to-wall fitted carpet and lack of black mould up the wall, chuck.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

There's a fucking window & a bed for starters. Hovel fail.

 

[cesare]

Firky rejects your literate-normative spelling privilege.

Eta: he beat me to it!

He only beat you cos he sneakily edited

I'm not sure that posting pictures of LP's bedroom is a good idea, btw.

 

[Firky]

He only beat you cos he sneakily edited

I'm not sure that posting pictures of LP's bedroom is a good idea, btw.

It's on her blog and on her twitter.

I wouldn't post if she hadn't put it out in the public domain.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Also it's in Marylebone isn't it? How much rent is she paying on a small double room in a shared flat there?

 

[cesare]

It's on her blog and twitter.

So what?

 

[discokermit]

she's probably never even been in a damp council flat with no room for a fridge let alone a double bed.

council flats are usually quite spacious. especially in comparison to privately rented equivalents.

 

[Firky]

I wouldn't post if she hadn't put it out in the public domain.

 

[equationgirl]

@sihhi

Did you read the London 2012 essay she wrote? It was quite good, but again, she uses the plight of a disabled person as part of her work. This person was concerned she would lose her benefits after an Atos assessment.

Does LP ever do any follow-up articles on the people she writes about, or is she uninterested in their plight once her writing is finished?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

That London underground essay was very reminiscent of Mieville and Gaiman's writings on London to be honest, I'm thinking particularly Kraken and Neverwhere.

ETA or maybe Morrison in the Invisibles which is blates her and her NY chums bible

 

[Firky]

I like Neverwhere.

 

[butchersapron]

London is a city of contrasts Fucking lazy drivel.

 

[killer b]

Are there any cities that aren't?

 

[goldenecitrone]

London is a city of contrasts Fucking lazy drivel.

Lazy but true.

 

[butchersapron]

Lazy but true.

Indeed, even want-wits like you could have written something so lazy.

 

[love detective]

That London underground essay was very reminiscent of Mieville and Gaiman's writings on London to be honest, I'm thinking particularly Kraken and Neverwhere.

ETA or maybe Morrison in the Invisibles which is blates her and her NY chums bible

Don't say blates

 

[Delroy Booth]

we used to dream of living in a hovel

 

[butchersapron]

Oh god

 

[goldenecitrone]

Indeed, even want-wits like you could have written something so lazy.

I'm sure sad saps like you would be hanging on every word I wrote.

 

[butchersapron]

I'm sure sad saps like you would be hanging on every word I wrote.

Step one: know your market.

 

[discokermit]

Are there any cities that aren't?

birmingham. it's all shit.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

we used to dream of living in a hovel

Who said that?

 

[cesare]

Who said that?

A take on the Yorkshire Men sketch, I presume. Footlights privileged scum etc.