Comments on: Could “localism” help dilute “narcissism”? http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/05/29/could-localism-help-dilute-narcissism/ I am a mongrel - O ma! A gremlin... Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:34:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Yule http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/05/29/could-localism-help-dilute-narcissism/comment-page-1/#comment-9008 Yule Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:13:46 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/05/29/could-localism-help-dilute-narcissism#comment-9008 Well, I'm a big fan of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/abfab/" rel="nofollow">AbFab</a>, so I'm not immune to what I imagine SATC to be about. In the AbFab episode "Donkey," Eddie imagines herself as Sarah Jessica Parker -- and realizing how ridiculous her notion is, goes on a boot-camp mission to restructure her body. The episode pushes the viewer's <i>Schadenfreude</i> buttons, and I'm not at all immune. Not at all. . If I had tv reception, I probably would have watched SATC, too. But basically, it's the manufactured brouhaha that turns me off (which accounts for my prissy & sour tone, above). That (i.e., the brouhaha), and the fact that this Gould person probably made more money with that one article than I make in two years scribbling for the local magazine! (Susceptible to <i>Schadenfreude</i>, I'm also not immune to envy...) Oh well. . And I got a kick out of this article too: <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/06/vivienne_westwood_couldnt_sit_1.html" rel="nofollow">Vivienne Westwood Couldn’t Sit Through ‘Sex and the City’</a>, especially given the AbFab / Vivien Westwood connection. . Looks like a case of life imitating art -- gotta love that! :-) Well, I’m a big fan of AbFab, so I’m not immune to what I imagine SATC to be about. In the AbFab episode “Donkey,” Eddie imagines herself as Sarah Jessica Parker — and realizing how ridiculous her notion is, goes on a boot-camp mission to restructure her body. The episode pushes the viewer’s Schadenfreude buttons, and I’m not at all immune. Not at all.
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If I had tv reception, I probably would have watched SATC, too. But basically, it’s the manufactured brouhaha that turns me off (which accounts for my prissy & sour tone, above). That (i.e., the brouhaha), and the fact that this Gould person probably made more money with that one article than I make in two years scribbling for the local magazine! (Susceptible to Schadenfreude, I’m also not immune to envy…) Oh well.
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And I got a kick out of this article too: Vivienne Westwood Couldn’t Sit Through ‘Sex and the City’, especially given the AbFab / Vivien Westwood connection.
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Looks like a case of life imitating art — gotta love that! :-)

]]> By: Davin http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/05/29/could-localism-help-dilute-narcissism/comment-page-1/#comment-9006 Davin Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:44:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/05/29/could-localism-help-dilute-narcissism#comment-9006 If it's of any condolence, I find Sex and the City completely irrelevant - though to be honest, occasionally entertaining, until the final, gutless, shoe-box moral is delivered at the end of each episode. But still ultimately irrelevant. If it’s of any condolence, I find Sex and the City completely irrelevant – though to be honest, occasionally entertaining, until the final, gutless, shoe-box moral is delivered at the end of each episode.

But still ultimately irrelevant.

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