What a profoundly unpleasant article (the Guardian piece that is). Liz Jones may indeed be odd to put it mildly but this is considerably nastier than anything of hers I've ever read.
@greatsheelephant: Really? Every piece of hers I've read has her describing her "friends" as stupid, ugly, flabby, hideous, disgusting, idiotic, etc.
This piece seems pretty mild by comparison. In fact, there was really nothing negative that she doesn't already reveal in her own writing, and there were even some sympathetic elements (like the parts about her rescuing animals, even if she seems to project her own high-needs personality on them).
Speaking of Irene Dunne comedies, I highly recommend The Awful Truth, about a small-town girl who writes a scandalous bestseller under a pen name, has her life turned upside-down by the big-city cover artist/suitor who follows her home, then chases the boy back to town and proceeds to give him merry hell.
Sadie, you are a master of understatement. Anyone who can throw in
(she vacuumed her lawn)
as an aside deserves that title. In brackets! Fucking genius.
Also, WTF Jezebel? Pages take like 20 minutes to load, and there are hardly any comments, so I assume everyone is having the same problems. It was like this yesterday, but it was back to normal last night - what happened?
08/04/09
08/04/09
This piece seems pretty mild by comparison. In fact, there was really nothing negative that she doesn't already reveal in her own writing, and there were even some sympathetic elements (like the parts about her rescuing animals, even if she seems to project her own high-needs personality on them).
08/03/09
08/03/09
08/03/09
(she vacuumed her lawn)
as an aside deserves that title. In brackets! Fucking genius.
Also, WTF Jezebel? Pages take like 20 minutes to load, and there are hardly any comments, so I assume everyone is having the same problems. It was like this yesterday, but it was back to normal last night - what happened?