The Great Leader
"He hit the radio OFF button when someone on NPR used the turd word 'iconic'. He used to keep track of these obtuse Orwellian nuggets. A few years ago it was the relentless use of the word 'closure' that raised his ire and then with Iraq the silly term 'embedded'. In general Sunderson had no use for pundits. It reminded him of a recent article in the Marquette newspaper interviewing a local girl who had tried to make it in Hollywood who said, 'Just about everyone you meet out there is a producer.' Pundits reflected his idea that everyone in America gets to make themselves up whole cloth, and also the hideously mistaken idea that talking is thinking."
Jim Harrison
The Great Leader
Jim Harrison
The Great Leader
Gravitas. You forgot gravitas....would you like some sausage gravitas on your biscuit, sir? Here, I made some pomegranite gravitas for you. Careful not to get a brainfreeze.
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I tune in NPR, hear some vogue word or cliche or "turd word" -- or Charles Schumer's voice -- and before I know it the back of my right hand is hitting "the radio OFF button." It's as if the hand has a mind of its own. This has been going on since I bought my first car that allowed me to turn the radio off by hitting a button instead of turning a dial.
Glad to know that Jim Harrison, one of my favorite novelists, understands.
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