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All I Can Say is... (Reply to this comment)
by pet.advisor
All I can say is, sh*t, she sure is purty.
Simply,
Jane
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May 13 '02
4:32 pm PDT
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All I Can Say is... (Reply to this comment)
by pet.advisor
All I can say is, sh*t, she sure is purty.
Simply,
Jane
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May 13 '02
4:32 pm PDT
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Ambivalences (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray
Before her second (and more commercially successful bout as a novelist, Sontag was important in introducing a number of great European writers and film-makers to wider American audiences. I don't think that she or her backers claimed she had new ideas or theories of her own, but I was impressed by her determination to stage plays in Sarajevo while it was very unsafe. On the other hand, her essay "Fascinating Facism" annoys me.
I have met her twice and didn't regard her as tall. In some photos from long ago, she looks lanky, though. BTW, she was very amiable on unaffected on both occasions. Clearly, there is a lot of sour grape animus toward her.
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Feb 12 '02
6:43 pm PST
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You & Susan Speak For All Of Us... (Reply to this comment)
by 29th_Candidate
Having come out as a Republican lesbian not too long ago, I found myself confronted by many of the same struggles and inner turmoil that beset Ms. Sontag. It's not easy being a highly sexual woman who loves other women, trapped in a virile male body, running for national office on the *ackkk* Republican ticket.
Thank you for writing your fine review on this sapphic pioneer, whose courage to be an individual somehow eases the burden on the rest of us.
--29th
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Jan 18 '02
6:21 pm PST
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Asexual Personae -or- Egyptian Self Love -or- Lying Sac-o-Sh!t (Reply to this comment)
by suspecterrain
I've been reading Sontag ever since I discovered the deliciously peppered language exhibited in what I still think is her best work, Sontag On Soontang (1969, Rodale Press).
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Jan 17 '02
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Re: bring on the sapphos (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Donuts don't really light my fire, but donut holes.......NOW yer talkin.
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Jan 16 '02
4:10 pm PST
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Re: Re: Re: What's Terry Gross Think of All This? (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Terry Bradshaw is the lantern-jawed former Boston Bruins forward who wrote the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus series.
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Jan 16 '02
4:08 pm PST
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Re: You are so good at shortening my reading list ... (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
There's no money in this? What the FARK am I doing here??
You rock too! Oh look, we are just a mutual admiration society of two, aren't we now.
I really have no idea how one gets comments, but I think you have a better chance by being mean and nasty.
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Jan 16 '02
4:05 pm PST
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Re: If sex appeal ... (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Amy--
Thank you so much for noticing my hair! It really takes some of the performance anxiety away from my breasts.
Peterina
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Jan 16 '02
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Re: Another wonderful and illuminating review... (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Teresa, thanks. Your compliments, though misdirected, always mean a lot to me!
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Jan 16 '02
3:59 pm PST
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bring on the sapphos (Reply to this comment)
by Sordid-1
I don't give a rip what Kevin Costner has to say about her. I'm just here to watch the donut bumping.
Sordid-1
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Jan 16 '02
11:47 am PST
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Re: Re: What's Terry Gross Think of All This? (Reply to this comment)
by Christoff
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Terry Gross is a radio interviewer on the WHYY program Fresh Air, and i bet she'd have more of a problem with Martha than with a lesbian. Now who's this Bradshaw fellow?
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Jan 15 '02
9:04 am PST
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You are so good at shortening my reading list ... (Reply to this comment)
by Urbanist
But at this rate, it's still growing faster than you shrink it ... Sontag did one politically and culturally important act in her nonfiction, arguing that metaphorical readings of illness stigmatized victims and obstructed treatment. As far as I'm concerned, that work, later reinterpreted for AIDS, was her legitimate 15 minutes.
So this means I can sell The Volcano Lover back to Powell's? Cool. I never thought of Sontag as a novelist, and it's funny to remember that she started out pretending to be one.
As you know, you rock. Now tell me, how do I get 22 comments on my reviews? Or even 11, not counting the ones you wrote yourself? I have a recent one that remains utterly uncommented. Now that there's no money in this, comments are what it's about!
Cheers
Urb
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Jan 13 '02
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If sex appeal ... (Reply to this comment)
by niccy6
is all that is necessary to be taken seriously as an Intellectual, why aren't you out wooing the masses Peterina?
I've heard about that hairdo.
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Jan 11 '02
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Re: A captivating capsule of Sontag's life, your review..... (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Thanks Nick -- and really, there is no need to read the book now. And there are far more interesting and better reviews in the NY Times and Salon, incidentally.
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Jan 09 '02
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Re: Other than . . . (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Now wait a minute Ed...are you pulling my leg?
We thought Laura Ingalls Wilder was happily married to Almanzo Wilder...don't tell me "prairie grass love" is a euphemism for something else far more sinister!
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Jan 09 '02
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Re: Re: I believe... (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Ouch!
And obviously, you have the Bull Durham screenplay stitched inside your unnerwers. Would I get a papercut if I reached in there, you know, just to borrow it?
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Jan 09 '02
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Re: For Once, the French (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Whassa matter, you don't like fruit tarts and armpit hair?
I don't know if Susan would like me, but I did meet Camille Paglia once at a book signing and she made a comment about my name.
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Jan 09 '02
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Re: What's Terry Gross Think of All This? (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Sorry, there isn't enough space here to address your weird Martha Stewart fetishes, and I've never heard of Terry Gross, but I know Terry Bradshaw is never grossed out by the mention of lesbians.
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Jan 09 '02
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A captivating capsule of Sontag's life, your review..... (Reply to this comment)
by NFP
..which, in truth, leaves me wondering why I would even want to read this book, your concise overview and descriptions were so superbly written.
Kinda like a better quality Cliff's Notes.
Well done.
nick
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Jan 09 '02
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Other than . . . (Reply to this comment)
by ed_grover
recently being voted and honorary lesbian I know from nuthin on the subject. It's great though to claim "another one" for our side. And, I really like that French thing about being a writer and a person first. That's what the queer movement has been fighting for all along.
Your next subject is a lesbian expose of the Little House on the Prairie author. Get busy.
Ed
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Jan 09 '02
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Re: I believe... (Reply to this comment)
by Mr.Eyore
Yeah Curtis, and I believe in the soul,the small of a woman's back, the hangin' curveball, high fiber, good Scotch, that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing AstroTurf. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, wet kisses that last three days.
I don't really believe in quoting Kevin Costner though.
I keep all of Sontag's log-rolling essays stitched to the underside of my bedskirt, so that I know, every night when I get into bed, I will never be far from a lesbian giving a reacharound. That calms me some.
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Jan 09 '02
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For Once, the French (Reply to this comment)
by lessaleigh
have a good idea.
Ah, to be "first and foremost a citizen" and allowed the freedom to define oneself at will instead of adhering to narrow, rigid expectations from societal definitions...such bliss!
LG, this is a beautiful review. I think Susan Sontag would like you.
::mwah!::
Alessandra
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Jan 09 '02
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What's Terry Gross Think of All This? (Reply to this comment)
by Christoff
If i buy the two-dozen lesbians for 20¢ will individually wraping each in freezer paper keep them fresh enough for single serving use?
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Jan 09 '02
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Re: I believe... (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
They certainly sound like they are, but I haven't read any of her novels.
Hey, I never claimed I was the expert.
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Jan 09 '02
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Great one LG (Reply to this comment)
by jazzbocrow
I would love to see Sontag kick Camille Paglia's ass. Of course, in so many ways she already has since Paglia is never more unattractive than when she whines.
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Jan 09 '02
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I believe... (Reply to this comment)
by CurtisEdmonds
that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap, but that if anyone was going to get me to read about her, it would be lobstergirl.
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Jan 08 '02
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Well done! (Reply to this comment)
by hadassahchana,  in Books
Wow, lobstergirl, this was just wonderful! Very thorough analysis, even if I did have to wait till the comments section for a Mary McCarthy reference. Great job- I really enjoyed reading this one.
Regards,
Cindy
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Jan 08 '02
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Re: yup (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Gary, you know you're just standing around waiting for some girl-on-girl action.
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Jan 08 '02
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Re: Not one reference to Sontag's uvula? (Reply to this comment)
by Lobstergirl
Total silence on the subject of her uvula and the early Church Fathers!
I think Paglia just wants to start a cat fight with anyone. But the "female intellectual chain of command" catfight goes a way back; the book notes that according to Sontag, Mary McCarthy once said to her, "You're the imitation me." Then Paglia saw herself as the new Sontag, except more wild and crazy and lesbian.
I guess soon we will have a new Paglia -- my dibs are on Cristina Aguilera!
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Jan 08 '02
5:17 pm PST
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