PJ O'Rourke
The conservative humorist PJ O'Rourke was interviewed for three hours on Book TV over the weekend. One caller compared him to Mark Twain which I thought was ridiculous, as I have read both - less of O'Rourke. Mr. PJ thought bloggers were absurd and he also was rather smug about the fact that he wrote with a typewriter rather than a computer or word processor. If you have read any of his books, they are just hard copy blogs - essays on his own opinion that may or may not be amusing to people depending on their prejudices. How is this in any way superior to a blog, unless the criterion was payment?
As for rejecting a technology that would make your work easier, better written, less work to edit, and easy to transfer to print, well I guess that just shows a lack of common sense.
As for rejecting a technology that would make your work easier, better written, less work to edit, and easy to transfer to print, well I guess that just shows a lack of common sense.
posted by Flimsy Sanity @ 8:34 AM
2 Comments:
At 8:49 AM,
Anonymous said…
I agree that O'Rourke and Twain and not equals. Twain is funny because he is so accurate and O'Rourke strives to create humor by exaggeration, IMHO.
At 7:16 PM,
Anonymous said…
In my humble opinion O'Rourke is to Twain as fishpaste is to Beluga caviar - though in fairness I'm not partial to either. It's all down to individual taste, I suppose. An American once compared my writing style to Rudyard Kipling, which at the time did much to lift this White Man's Burden, until I realized he probably had a very low opinion of Kipling's work. Personally, I consider O'Rourke a pseudo-intellectual snob, but it's likely he doesn't think much of me either. In fact, there's a fair chance he doesn't think of me at all!
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