he's just sappy and overwrought and urgh
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
This is probably why I have not encountered this "New Sincerity" stuff. That and my devotion to genre fiction.
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This old essay kind of captures my issues with Sedaris' writing style and the idea of being "anti-irony"https://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @banalexistence
The funny thing is this piece cites David Foster Wallace's cruise essay as a piece of great writing the New Sincerity never could've created but DFW helped *start* that movement with his E Unibus Pluram essay about TV ruining culture
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I dunno, I don't think the divide he's talking about is nearly as sharp as he claims Every snarky satirist has something they very fervently and earnestly believe in that they'll give you hell for mocking
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Replying to @arthur_affect @banalexistence
Every Seth has his showtunes, you might say?
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I feel like this deserved more recognition
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @banalexistence
It's kind of more like Seth getting all self righteous about atheism
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @banalexistence
I just mean that snark and smarm aren't really separate or opposed at all, they always go together Snark is the offensive weapon and smarm the defensive one
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You only call it "smarm" when you don't believe what's being defended as untouchable actually is untouchable But no one actually just freely says "Joke about whatever you want, nothing's sacred, I can take it" They say they do but they're lying
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I mean that's where I am as a "humorless SJW" "Oh, you can't take a little attack helicopter meme, you think that's not something to joke about because it's sensitive" Yeah, I do, eat shit
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