http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/01/13/how-peculiar/ Sociology and other distractions Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:33:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/01/13/how-peculiar/comment-page-1/#comment-2279 Crooked Timber » » What was that all about? Were fat people involved? Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:32:07 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=224#comment-2279 [...] I missed this over the weekend, but here’s Garrison Keillor tearing a strip off of Bernard-Henri Lévy and his book about America. (The San Francisco Chronicle liked it a bit better, but only a bit.) Based on Keillor’s review, it sounds like BHL has a case of the disease that Bruce McCall brilliantly parodied in his travelogue “In the New Canada, Living is a Way of Life.” That article (which I’ve talked about before) is written in the prose characteristic of the cultural tourist/feature writer touring around Russia, c.1982 for Readers Digest: serious, curious, with an outsider’s eye for paradox and an uncanny ability to miss the point altogether: [...] [...] I missed this over the weekend, but here’s Garrison Keillor tearing a strip off of Bernard-Henri Lévy and his book about America. (The San Francisco Chronicle liked it a bit better, but only a bit.) Based on Keillor’s review, it sounds like BHL has a case of the disease that Bruce McCall brilliantly parodied in his travelogue “In the New Canada, Living is a Way of Life.” That article (which I’ve talked about before) is written in the prose characteristic of the cultural tourist/feature writer touring around Russia, c.1982 for Readers Digest: serious, curious, with an outsider’s eye for paradox and an uncanny ability to miss the point altogether: [...]

]]> http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/01/13/how-peculiar/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Jane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=224#comment-292 This is very funny...I hadn't seen it before. This is very funny…I hadn’t seen it before.

]]> http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/01/13/how-peculiar/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Jeremy Osner Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=224#comment-293 Truly hilarious. I started laughing -- discreetly, you understand -- at "to make her reply her way of dealing with a query..." and didn't leave off til some time after the end. Truly hilarious. I started laughing—discreetly, you understand—at “to make her reply her way of dealing with a query…” and didn’t leave off til some time after the end.

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