by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I was listening to a VOX podcast and the people talking about Bari Weiss were extremely effusive about how great and wonderful she was. They all but spooged themselves talking about how she generated content for people who were “politically orphaned” because of the rise of MAGA.
Bari Weiss
From what they said about her, on paper she seems like someone I might be interested in reading. AND YET, there is the meta element to it all. In this age of MAGA and Trumplandia, I fucking hate people who hide behind the cloak “centrism.”
Centrists in the age of Trump are nothing more than Vichy collaborators who don’t want to out themselves.
From what I can tell from the podcast, the person that Weiss reminds me of the most is Jennifer 8. Lee, also formerly of the New York Times. Both women have a knack for making many, many friends.
Which gets me thinking about my own ability to schmooze at cocktail parties. If I was about 20 years younger and living in LA, I probably could get a four picture deal by the end of one high powered party.
But those days are numbered, I suspect. Even if fell into the money necessary to get to LA and live there for a while, I’m just not as cute as I used to be. I still have a lot of “rizz” as the kids say, by the context is totally different.
Ugh.
Don’t quite know what I’m going to do. Maybe the Singularity will happen and I’ll be able to live for a few more hundred years and finally get my act together in a cool way.
