[lbo-talk] For the expats in Russia - What's The eXile's Story?

[Dwayne Monroe]

A hyperlink from antiwar.com's news roundup page led
me to Mark Ames' interesting essay on the situation in
Georgia.

Curious, I checked out the rest of his stuff for the
magazine as well as the work of other contributors.

It's a odd thing; much of the writing therein reminds
me of a *homeless* fellow I use to see every morning. 
On trash collection day, he would tear open plastic
trash bags lined up neatly in front of peoples' homes,
dig deeply till he found the most rancid garbage,
scatter it on the sidewalk and walk slowly away.

I always imagined this to be his private war against
American middle class order and so it seems with the
eXile.

Ames, for example, writes with a sort of tough guy,
faux racialist patois - Blacks are always *negroes*,
Asians are *winkies* and so on - and seems to revel in
tales of hangovers, hallucinigens, sex pros and
general lifestyle mayhem.  The parallels to Hunter S.
Thompson are obvious.  A little too obvious perhaps.

It's all very entertaining (the film reviews are
hilarious and even a bit insightful) and there's
clearly some keen intelligence on-tap but I wonder how
seriously these folks want to be taken?


DRM

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