At the movies with Fat Jerry: The Queen
Lady Penelope
The relative attractiveness of certain politicians has been much in the news of late. John Spencer called Hillary so ugly he can’t imagine why Bill ever waited at the end of an aisle over her, Hillary protested that she was “a cutie,” Spencer swore he never made such a comment, the reporter came forward with, “He said it, and worse,” and now a Spencer aide explains the whole situation with, “he meant that she was ugly as a person.”
There is so much ugliness in the world, and so many different ways to embody it. Ugly can result from brutality, an inattentiveness to appearance, a bad attitude, among many other possibilities. That man at the ASPCA who wanted to leave his dog alone in the ASPCA waiting room like one leaves a car at the mechanic, he was ugly to me, but so was the chick eating the gyro on the subway platform (it smells like pee there!). My boss was wretchedly ugly this morning when she scoffed at my suggestion that the Port Authority has a relatively inexpensive bowling alley. “Eww, who would go there? That’s trashy.” “Trashy” made me feel incredibly ugly, which made her suddenly look ugly, and if she hadn’t been so empathetic lately about my cat, I might’ve disliked her for it.
A lack of empathy is possibly the ugliest quality I know. We all, at times, find …
On "Girls Raised by Wolves" and other tales of wonder
Murdered Duchess
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, by Karen Russell, offers a dystopic surrealism in the vein of Carol Emshwiller and George Saunders. Here, the dark psychic realities of growing up and incorporating oneself into the world are juxtaposed with bleak glimpses of what that reality …
You’ll get a bad review of a Ray Carver book out of me just after a bad review of a TVPs album, that’s true. But then we hit “Call If You Need Me"--The Uncollected Fiction and other Prose. I saw it, I had to have it, I …
At the Bookshop With Fat Jerry: George Saunders' "In Persuasion Nation"
Murdered Duchess
There are certain points in my life that I always associate with a particular song, or book, or painting. Like when I think of my last year of high school, I think of Cake (the band, not the food) and Picasso’s “weeping women” series. Likewise, when I …
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The relative attractiveness of certain politicians has been much in the news of late. John Spencer called Hillary so ugly he can’t imagine why Bill ever waited at the end of an aisle over her, Hillary protested that she was “a cutie,” Spencer swore he never made such a comment, the reporter came forward with, “He said it, and worse,” and now a Spencer aide explains the whole situation with, “he meant that she was ugly as a person.” 
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, by Karen Russell, offers a dystopic surrealism in the vein of Carol Emshwiller and George Saunders. Here, the dark psychic realities of growing up and incorporating oneself into the world are juxtaposed with bleak glimpses of what that reality …
You’ll get a bad review of a Ray Carver book out of me just after a bad review of a TVPs album, that’s true. But then we hit “Call If You Need Me"--The Uncollected Fiction and other Prose. I saw it, I had to have it, I …
There are certain points in my life that I always associate with a particular song, or book, or painting. Like when I think of my last year of high school, I think of Cake (the band, not the food) and Picasso’s “weeping women” series. Likewise, when I …
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