Comments on: Soon to be a major motion picture

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:02:33 +0000

Mel, I think you nailed it.

By: Roberta Lipp

Roberta Lipp — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:57:28 +0000

Mel, that helps.

And I don’t know about irony, but it was September 14th when some motherfucker in his big fat pickup truck cut me off on the highway. And I thought, our stunned tender caring for our fellow human is back to normal.

By: Melville

Melville — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:48:16 +0000

I felt as if she was directly, and unironically, quoting the phrase, the joke being (for us in the 21st century audience) that, in 1960, someone could do that without irony, as if the Sterling-Cooper people would genuinely be impressed by the citation.

Remember after September 11th, when commentators were announcing “the death of irony?” Supposedly the attacks had made us all too serious for sarcasm and snarkiness. How long did that last, anyway?

By: Glass Darkly

Glass Darkly — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:39:00 +0000

I buy that she would say that and be referring to the book jacket. The words become a sort of evidence — “even the book cover proclaims…”