satire
January 31, 2009
- 'An Interview with Pat Guppy' for 'Her Ladyshipness Magazine'Questions posed by Hyacinth Bootley-SmytheQ: If you aren't able to persuade the postmaster to allow for the mixing of your husband's ashes with the postal ink, and have to fall back on having commemorative stamps produced, do you have any ideas for the design?A: Well, in actual fact I've had designers working on the project for a couple ...
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January 28, 2009
- 'An Interview with Pat Guppy' for 'Her Ladyshipness Magazine'Questions posed by Hyacinth Bootley-SmytheQ: You chose to have a quiet funeral, with only family and close friends attending. Why was that?A: Well, as you can imagine, I am such an incredibly popular and well-loved local personage that the guest list, had I not decided to make it a small affair, would have been hundreds of pages long. ...
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January 26, 2009
- Rush Limbaugh believes that he has become a target of Barack Obama’s, since this allows the Democratic Party to scapegoat him. His comments came after President Obama told Republican leaders “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” Rather than downplay his significance related to policymaking Mr. Limbaugh apparently believes that he is of vital import to the ...
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January 26, 2009
- 'An Interview with Pat Guppy' for 'Her Ladyshipness Magazine'Questions posed by Hyacinth Bootley-SmytheQ: Firstly, I'd like to offer my condolences for the loss of your husband. Perhaps you could tell us a little about your husband?A: Benjamin was a good and honest man, loved by everyone who knew him. He never took a drink in his life or raised his voice to a living soul. He was a good Christian ...
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January 8, 2009
- Pat Dillon's novel The Last Best Thing is by far one of the funniest satires of financial bubbles, particularly the dot com bubble of the late 1990s. Dillon satirizes J.P. McCorwin or J.P., head of a start-up who like many heads of Silicon Valley companies is charismatic and legendary. J.P.s legend began when he headed R & D of Infinity Corporation where he had helped develop many new spiffy ...
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January 6, 2009
- Referring to my neighbours, Richard asked, here, 'Do you feel able to say what the worst thing they ever did was?'I have a lot to work with, so this took some thought. I couldn't choose just one thing, so I went for three. Third place would have to go to my neighbours' attempts to squash me under the wheels of their car. Luckily I am agile enough to fling myself out of harm's way, so there was ...
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January 4, 2009
- I've been an avid collector of antiques for a number of years, and one of the things you learn when you collect antiques is that one man's rubbish is another man's treasure. I'd never, however, taken this entirely literally until the first time I saw Mr N, my delightful neighbour, up to his elbows in the garbage bags that my husband had taken out to be picked up by the refuse collectors the ...
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December 28, 2008
- Zuckerman Unbound recapitulates the post-publication notoriety/misery Nathan Zuckerman experiences in the wake of releasing his novel, Carnovsky (a stand-in for Portnoy's complaint.) Progressively, he detaches himself from his third wife, his New York anonymity, his dream that he'll be rescued by a goyim actress, his father (who dies), his mother (who is unfaltering in her protection of him), ...
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December 26, 2008
- Yesterday, whilst waiting for the Brussels sprouts to boil, inhaling the aroma of a Quorn roast in the oven, and listening to Bing Crosby sing about peace on earth and good will towards men, I was visited by the ghost of Christmas past and he gave me cause to wince a little. It's not that Christmases have ever been entirely ruined by our nuisance neighbours in the past, but that was never for the ...
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December 23, 2008
- Thomas Jefferson said 'Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.'There isn’t anything terribly funny about living above, below or alongside nuisance neighbours, but the individuals themselves, being typically quite ridiculous, can be the source of a good deal of amusement. I discovered, after joining a few support groups when my own situation was ...
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