Archive for the ‘Drivel’ Category
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Gail Collins/White Guys Are Back The Short Version: Barack and Hillary are chasing after the undecided demographic. In her words: “The candidates have already resigned themselves to wooing people with political attention deficit disorder.” Score: B- (Blah) Some days we love Collins’ brand […]
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Tags: Democratic Primaries, Gail Collins, Montana, The New York Times, Timothy Egan, White Guys
In which The Gay Recluse updates his informal but rather telling quantitative analysis of Modern Love, the weekly Style Section (of The Times) column in which openly gay writers almost never appear, and even less frequently describe a romantic relationship. This week’s piece: When The Chutney’s Gone Subject: A very frightening woman describes a soulless […]
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Tags: Daniel Jones, Gay Modern Love, Modern Love, Stereotypes, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse provides a gay alternative to this week’s Modern Love offering in The Times. Those looking for our quantitative analysis should click here. When The Chutney’s Gone (or Before I Came Out as a Lesbian, I Was the Worst Kind of Scary Sadshaw) By SUZANNE FINNAMORE and THE GAY RECLUSE Published: […]
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Tags: Coming Out, Daniel Jones, Divorce, Gay Modern Love, Lesbian, Scary Sadshaw, Suzanne Finnamore, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Gail Collins/A Black Hole Rating System The Short Version: Well, these are not exactly the best of times. In her words: “Let’s prioritize. Rank all your causes for concern on a scale of: ! (unfortunate development) to !!!!! (Large Hadron Collider has a […]
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Tags: Black Holes, China, France, Gail Collins, Hadron Collider, McLympics, Nicholas Kristof, Roger Cohen, The New York Times, Tibet
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. David Brooks/Pitching with Purpose The Short Version: The key to life (and baseball) is mental discipline. In his words: “Not long ago, Americans saw the rise of a therapeutic culture that placed great emphasis on self-discovery, self-awareness and self-expression.” Score: D (Destroyed) Although we […]
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Tags: Baseball, David Brooks, Mental Discipline, Rick Steves, The New York Times, Therapy, Timothy Egan, War on Drugs
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Paul Krugman/The Dilbert Strategy The Short Version: Any “reform” of the financial markets proposed by the Bush administration is a joke. In his words: “Oh, and the Bush administration actively blocked state governments when they tried to protect families against predatory lending.” Score: […]
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Tags: John McCain, Paul Krugman, Regulation, The Maverick, The New York Times, William Kristol
In which The Gay Recluse posts love letters from crazies. Remember a couple hundred years ago when Arthur C. Clarke died and we made fun of him for being a closet case? And how not everyone thought it was funny and we laughed at them too? Well, some people are still upset and can’t resist […]
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Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, Bastards, Closet Case, Copycats, Defamation, Faggots, Hate Mail, Love Letters, Slander, Smell
In which The Gay Recluse updates his informal but rather telling quantitative analysis of Modern Love, the weekly Style Section (of The Times) column in which openly gay writers almost never appear, and even less frequently describe a romantic relationship. This week’s piece: How We Got from Grief to Pancakes Subject: A woman finds a […]
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Tags: Daniel Jones, Gay Modern Love, Homophobia, Modern Love, Stereotypes, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse reads a book five years later and says wtf. Last fall, after we posted our thoughts on the suffocation of the gay voice in American literature, a reader suggested that for the sake of comparison we check out The Yacoubian Building, by Alaa al Aswany, which said reader described to […]
Filed under: Decay, Dissonance, Drivel, Gay, Literature, Sickness, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, Writers-Egyptian | 4 Comments
Tags: Alaa al Aswany, Egypt, Gay Characters, Stereotypes, Yacoubian Building
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Paul Krugman/Taming the Beast The Short Version: We need financial reform. So far none of the candidates seem to have noticed. In his words: “But you don’t have to be an economic radical, or even a vocal reformer like Representative Barney Frank… to […]
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Tags: Cohen, Death, Financial Markets, Kristol, Krugman, Obama, Race, Reform, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse provides a more accurate obituary for Arthur C. Clarke than the one that just appeared in The Times. (For the AP version, click here.) Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 By GERALD JONAS and THE GAY RECLUSE Published: March 18, 2008 Arthur C. Clarke, a writer […]
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Tags: 2001, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Clarke, Gay Obituaries, Gay Stereotypes, Gay Voice, Gay Writers, Homophobia, Sri Lanka, Stanley Kubrick, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse provides a more accurate version of Arthur C. Clarke’s obituary than the one that was just released by AP. (For The Times version, click here.) Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and THE GAY RECLUSE Published: March 18, 2008 Filed at 6:41 p.m. […]
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Tags: 2001, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Clarke, Associated Press, Gay Obituaries, Gay Stereotypes, Gay Voice, Gay Writers, Homophobia, Sri Lanka, Stanley Kubrick
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Nicholas Kristof/The Pimps’ Slaves The Short Version: Save the girls! In his words: “Pimps crush runaway girls with a mix of violence and affection, degradation and gifts, and then require absolute obedience to a rigid code: the girl cannot look the pimp in […]
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Tags: George W. Bush, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, Pimps, Prostitution, Slaves, The New York Times, Whores
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