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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40622)8/28/2002 5:43:48 PM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 281500
 
Never ran across Lileks before. He's good. Reminds me of P.J. O'Rourke.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40622)8/28/2002 6:43:13 PM
From: carranza2  Respond to of 281500
 
Lileks is fabulous. Thanks for linking him.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40622)8/28/2002 7:48:47 PM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 281500
 
Lileks has a very funny new "Screed"

It takes a "Brit" to come up with "Venom" like that. Americans just can't do it, IMO.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40622)8/28/2002 11:09:59 PM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 281500
 
Doubletake. I have run across Lileks before - he is the author of The Gallery of Regrettable Food. For foodies, this is a truly great work.

lileks.com

>>Welcome to the Institute of Official Cheer - where old pop culture
is subjected to our patented Re-Ironization Process, and converted
into chipper, spiffy, feather-light postmodern commentary on
commercial culture. Or, to put it another way: there’s enough here to
kill two, maybe three lunch hours.<<

lileks.com

Genius, and political insight, too. A star is born.

Edit: this guy is good, she said, wiggling ecstatically. Take that, post modernism.

lileks.com

Edit again: man, check this one out. If Al Qaida said this was the reason to destroy our culture, would we argue?

lileks.com