Urban v's the Commentariat

[DaveCinzano]

Matt Bellamy: the Crack Years

 

[killer b]

Matt Bellamy: the Crack Years

I was wondering who it reminded me of, and it's definitely Matt Bellamy.

Apparently he's promoting his debut novel, which sounds - if it's possible - even more excruciating than this photoshoot: it's about a maverick druggy journalist at the dawn of the New Labour years.

 

[cuppa tee]

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aboutt to do his karaoke rendition of ’the pina colada song’....

 

[tim]

Has Laurie Penny made it to GBNewts, yet?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Has Laurie Penny made it to GBNewts, yet?

She's busy being a telly drama scriptwriter in Murkah

 

[Orang Utan]

She's busy being a telly drama scriptwriter in Murkah

quite prestige material too - The Nevers (wonder what she has to say about Joss Whedon) and The Haunting Of Bly Manor

 

[DaveCinzano]

Mic on Pesto

The thrilling adventures of Pobert Reston! What Peston's ropey roman-à-clef tells us about modern journalism...

"I really enjoyed your novel ... way of writing a fucking awful story."

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

 

[danny la rouge]

Wasn’t sure where to put this. I don’t even know where to begin. It’s part of a baffling discourse that rumbles along on Twitter that trans rights will make Scotland like the Handmaid’s Tale (in ways that I can’t comprehend and frankly don’t make sense).

There’s absolutely no way to engage with this level of bonkersness.

 

[DaveCinzano]

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your dad cosplaying a chip-shop saveloy

In case anyone missed it

 

[co-op]

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Wasn’t sure where to put this. I don’t even know where to begin. It’s part of a baffling discourse that rumbles along on Twitter that trans rights will make Scotland like the Handmaid’s Tale (in ways that I can’t comprehend and frankly don’t make sense).

There’s absolutely no way to engage with this level of bonkersness.

I thought this was the Subject that May Not Be Discussed on U75?

 

[rekil]

It's chrisssssssmas so here's two pro-plague genocidal liberal shitshovelling hottakes for the price of one.

 

[tim]

It's chrisssssssmas so here's two pro-plague genocidal liberal shitshovelling hottakes for the price of one.

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You must be the only person posting here who Laurie Penny hasn't blocked. You're letting the side down.

 

[rekil]

You must be the only person posting here who Laurie Penny hasn't blocked. You're letting the side down.

@nazihacker1488 likes this

 

[8ball]

It's chrisssssssmas so here's two pro-plague genocidal liberal shitshovelling hottakes for the price of one.

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I'm not sure I fully understand your post.

 

[8ball]

You must be the only person posting here who Laurie Penny hasn't blocked. You're letting the side down.

She hasn't blocked me yet.
Anyone got a message to pass on?

(I'm not sure I remember who she is, but the name sounds like some kind of liberal trustafarian)

 

[Jeff Robinson]

 

[8ball]

Well, that's put a spring in my step for 2022..

 

[rekil]

Louis Allday is from the bonkers beeleyite commentariat wing whose cv consists mostly of "I was a research intern at the British Embassy in Damascus. In 2009"

 

[The39thStep]

The brightest girl in the school gets a shoeing

Sexual Revolution by Laurie Penny review – playing fast and loose with the f-word

Poorly researched and lacking serious analysis, this ‘searing critique of male dominance’ is almost comically relentless

www.theguardian.com

 

[Brainaddict]

The brightest girl in the school gets a shoeing

Sexual Revolution by Laurie Penny review – playing fast and loose with the f-word

Poorly researched and lacking serious analysis, this ‘searing critique of male dominance’ is almost comically relentless

www.theguardian.com

It may well be a very lightweight book (I've not read it and don't know) but I think it's a very dishonest review in which LP was never to be given a chance because she's taken the 'wrong' position on trans issues, according to the guardian mafia. Slight giveaway here: "who therefore has some trouble with the word woman". But otherwise I think the reviewer is studiously avoiding the thing she's most annoyed about, and which is the real reason it was decided that LP should be given a kicking in the guardian.

 

[NoXion]

Regardless of the merits (or lack thereof) of the book in question, I can tell that review is fucking shit.

It should also be noted that there are currently a lot of authoritarians around: Bolsonaro, Johnson, Putin, Trump, Jacinda Ardern … No, not Ardern. Ha, I almost got you there, didn’t I? Actually, Penny doesn’t mention Ardern at all, nor even Angela Merkel.

Does this reviewer think that Jacinda Ardern and Angela Merkel are authoritarians? If not, why the fuck even mention them?

 

[Brainaddict]

Regardless of the merits (or lack thereof) of the book in question, I can tell that review is fucking shit.



Does this reviewer think that Jacinda Ardern and Angela Merkel are authoritarians? If not, why the fuck even mention them?

Yeah that was fucking weird. Ardern is authoritarian because she used government powers to stop lots of people dying in the pandemic perhaps? Merkel I can't even guess what she's trying to imply.

 

[killer b]

I think she's just sore about her favourite girlbosses not being in the feminism book

 

[JimW]

However shit the review is, the book does sound pretty execrable too if she's even halfway accurate with those quotes, and the accusations seem vintage Penny - convenient anecdotes from circle of friends etc.

 

[rekil]

It should also be noted that there are currently a lot of authoritarians around: Bolsonaro, Johnson, Putin, Trump, Jacinda Ardern … No, not Ardern. Ha, I almost got you there, didn’t I? Actually, Penny doesn’t mention Ardern at all, nor even Angela Merkel.

I don't think she's accusing Ardern or Merkel of being authoritarians, just pointing out that they're inconveniently powerful women. My main beef with the review is that the 100% cancellable expression "no shit sherlock" gets wheeled out.

 

[ska invita]

The reviewers stripey top is a warning sign

 

[rekil]

However shit the review is, the book does sound pretty execrable too if she's even halfway accurate with those quotes, and the accusations seem vintage Penny - convenient anecdotes from circle of friends etc.

The important thing is that she made it in LA and you didn't.

Spoiler

On the other hand the patreon is down to €1600 a month. Enmeshed in a world of poverty redux.

 

[equationgirl]

The phrase 'girlboss' is infantalising and unnecessary ever say 'manboss' or 'boyboss', Guardian reviewer?

 

[rekil]

The phrase 'girlboss' is infantalising and unnecessary ever say 'manboss' or 'boyboss', Guardian reviewer?

It was popularised by this person apparently.

Sophia Amoruso - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

/shudder

Sophia, a misfit, discovers a passion for fashion, becoming an unlikely businesswoman in the process. As her business grows, however, she has to learn to cope with life as her own boss. This show is loosely based on the true story of Nasty Gal Founder, Sophia Amoruso.

Girlboss (TV Series 2017) ⭐ 7.0 | Comedy

26m | 15

www.imdb.com

Oh dear.

Lawsuit: Nasty Gal's #GIRLBOSS Fired Employees For Getting Pregnant

A new lawsuit claims that hip, woman-led clothing company Nasty Gal is “a horrible place to work for professional women who become pregnant,” accusing the company of illegally firing four pregnant women. The suit, filed by ex-employee Aimee Concepcion, says Nasty Gal terminated her and three...

jezebel.com

 

[killer b]

The phrase 'girlboss' is infantalising and unnecessary ever say 'manboss' or 'boyboss', Guardian reviewer?

Don't think the reviewer used the phrase tbf, that was me