And you're a grown up and still unsure.

[raybear]

When did Martha Stewart become Candace Bergen? I mean, not in personality or career, just looks and style and a little how she's moving, based solely on the opening sequence of her new show which I can't really articulate how much ridiculous love I had for it.. My normal post-breakfast routine includes e-mailing while watching Ellen, but they've moved it to the afternoon and I'm trying to not fall back into my addiction with The View. Luckily I've gotten over my compulsion to do things which unnecessarily raise my blood pressure.

Whoa, this show is awkward.

I have a phone meeting with my mentor this afternoon and I'm nervous. Not only about what feedback she'll give, but for some reason I'm afraid I'll accidently propose marriage. I've just been in a weird mood lately and it could make things awkward. I'm trying to seal that self-censorship door shut until at least after I graduate.

I'm almost done reading A.M. Homes The Safety of Objects which is just adding to my short story problem, as in, I don't really get short story collections, but it is still easier to read than Joyce, which I'm currently putting off and possibly avoiding. Also, I have a confession. I just think David Sedaris is okay. I feel like everyone absolutely loves him, and I certainly don't dislike him at all. I just think he's....okay. Sometimes pretty good.

Does anyone still have Sunday's New York Times and is located in Chicago and would give it to me?

Comments

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

Here's my confession...I hate Prince.

[kneidlach.livejournal.com]

Holy shit. You hate Prince. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that before.

BTW, Ray, i feel the same way about Sedaris

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

I know. I've pretended to like Prince for a long time because people just assume and it felt wrong to be the only one who didn't.

[little-octagon.livejournal.com]

Yep. I do. Just let me know and I will save it for you.

[drinkasyoupour.livejournal.com]

I always really want to get into short story collections and I just... can't. My brain doesn't like them. Including The Safety of Objects.

I also think David Sedaris is just OK. I think I thought I thought he was really awesome and then I read the last one and was like, "What's the big deal?"

Also, I miss you.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

i miss you too!!! i was just saying that to DYA last night.

this weekend?

[sebastian6.livejournal.com]

For some reason I just can't stand Martha Stewart. I can't quite put my finger on why. Maybe I just hate rich people. hmmm.

-s6

[raybear.livejournal.com]

i've had a compulsion/fascination with her that started in the early 90s when i was a wee fag-in-training watching her daytime cooking/house show. i remember my freshman year in college, my mom even sent me a clipping from a magazine that had an interview with her. then she blew up, and i just watched with curiosity from a distance. i can't say i love her or hate her or that i'm over her, only that i recommend everyone in the world watching Cybil Shepard's portrayal in the first tv martha movie, esp. the scene where she's in the truck and does a drive-by verbal harassment of the woman who had an affair with her husband.

hating rich people must make it hard to watch much tv or movies or sports! :)

[tracijean.livejournal.com]

I think David Sedaris started out with a bang and has been going pretty quickly downhill. I don't know. His last book was so totally MEH. He has some good moments, and it's fun to listen to him read, but yeah.

I loved The Safety of Objects! I like short story collections a lot because I am very very very very easily distracted and sometimes the idea of reading a novel is too intimidating for me because I just know I can't invest that kind of time or mental energy and that is when short stories are perfect!

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I definitely like to read A short story, but short story collections by one author, I'm still wrestling with as an entity and purpose and etc. etc.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

also, now that i think about it, i think my unenthusiasm with david sedaris is similar to short story collections, because i just read me talk pretty one day, and the essay collection has many similarities to the short story collection. in both cases, if i read each piece as an individual entity somewhere else, i'd probably enjoy them more, but reading them all in a row starts to numb me.

[cocolola.livejournal.com]

david sedaris is genius reading his work out loud. i have him on my ipod as my guaranteed way to cheer up if i'm crabby. i don't appreciate short stories (even though i write them). i'd rather read a novel.

[dommeyourass.livejournal.com]

i actually disagree. i LOVED LOVED LOVED david sedaris (btw...prefacing everything with LOVE LOVE LOVE is my new favorite thing, it'll pass...) when i used to read him. but then ray and i on our recent road trip listened to several stories on tape and i thought, "hmmm..i don't remember finding him so bland before." although i must say that when he had moments of brilliance, they were brilliant. perhaps because it was sandwiched in between lots of neurosis and good, but not fantastic writing, that i found them brilliant. who knows.

[kaileo.livejournal.com]

Another Martha fan here. It really has been interesting watching the post-jail Martha emerge and get back on the proverbial horse. I think she's working it like a charm, but it's still pretty early on. The show with her and Diddy was pretty funny, albeit painful at times -- the interview bit was pretty surreal but she had him helping make Chinese dumplings by the end. Badly.

[thirdreel.livejournal.com]

I do really enjoy Sedaris's writing, I really do. But the hype level can be overwhelming. I'd be happier if he were less well-liked. Maybe that's mean of me.

It will be interesting to see how Martha's Apprentice shapes up. It kind of fits with her persona--she's a badass business maven who's done time, but let's act like we're all going to be nice and civil to each other. Or have you watched that Martha show?

[kneidlach.livejournal.com]

Martha Stewart, Candace Bergen and Diane Sawyer are like a set of fraternal triplets with different personalities but this underlying sameness that is freaky yet strangely hot to me.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahahahahaha. yes.

[kneidlach.livejournal.com]

one day i will be diane sawyer's daddy... and she will be my sugar mama. simultaneously. she always wears such a nice shade of lipstick.

[lakenaiad.livejournal.com]

I pretty much agree about Sedaris. He used to be funnier back before his schtick got boring.

Why don't I ever see you anymore? :(

[lakenaiad.livejournal.com]

OK, so Bitches has this thing about fascist women - Martha Stewart, Madonna, Leni Riefenstahl.

I told this to someone the other night and they said, "What, like Margaret Thatcher?"

"Nah," I said, "She wasn't the fun kind of fascist."