Kitsch Breeds · 20 December 2002
What a fucking bore James Lileks has become. Look at him into an eyeglazer from Canada’s least enjoyed newspaper. The gist of the bit? Coupla wooly-headed idiots denounce Christmas. That’s it. Har har, yet another reason to hate the unconservative: now they want to cancel Christmas. Typical prefab stroke material from the National Putz, unworthy of a second look.
But Lileks takes it so seriously that he forgets there’s ridicule already dripping from the piece (and that everyone in the web’s dank neocon circle-jerk has already linked to it) and puts on the tired old threadbare fisking gloves to dance like an idiot and have a lazy go at tapping out the exact same ridicule. Might as well have simply written ‘Do you like me Glenn? Do you like me?’
How shocked they’ll be when soon they see
Mosques rise in place of steeples.
Yawn.
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