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

Dwayne Monroe idoru345 at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 1 06:56:38 PST 2003


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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