I like the Arts & Letters website. They usually do a wonderful job of linking to the most interesting articles on the web...erudite, whimsical, funny...you name it..they cover it. Which is why I was surprised when I clicked on today's articles of note link, and landed up
here. It was a silly article really. Clearly, she is bitter and unhappy. Even more clearly, she is also self-absorbed and narcissistic. I feel for her, as a person. As a reader, I cringe. There's really nothing she has to say that is at all important. All she has are stories of her girlfriends who all seem to have sucky marriages and sexless lives and a rather disenchanted piece of advice about avoiding marriage because love is fleeting. So, it didn't work for her, so nobody should get married? Sour grapes anyone? She is the anti-
Sanford. He, of the sappy e-mails, and rambling press conferences. The only thing they have in common is their unhealthy obsession with themselves.
David Brooks wrote a rather nice
article in the NYT about the loss of dignity in America. (Which aldaily linked to!) The Sandra Tsing Lohs of the world need to give it a dekko. She is a writer and a commentator..must she not strive to bring dignity to her writing? And if she isn't capable of doing that for any reason, can't she just go on vacation or something? Not churn out some crass piece which makes my head explode at 10pm at night, because of its sheer idiocy.
PS: I was trying to think of more dignified people. Here's my list in random order: Hema Malini, Naseerudin Shah, Rachel Maddow, Julia Roberts, Sachin Tendulkar, AR Rahman, Michael J. Fox come to mind immediately.
