[lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy

[B.]

John Dolan's a comedian? A reviewer at Amazon.com, of
his bitter novel _Pleasant Hell_, wrote: "If you like
extremely well-written loser books, especially losers
who steadfastly, bitterly, proudly remain losers, this
is a must." That's all I needed to know! Also, he *is*
a good writer, and he did nab Frey way before TSG, for
whatever that's worth.

No, I wouldn't pay him to do any shtick, and I
wouldn't pay Roy, either.  Al Franken sucks for
playing a USO show at Abu Ghraib. Unfortunately, Joan
Jett played a USO show in Afghanistan and Henry
Rollins has played them in Iraq. Screw them for doing
that.

-B.

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> But you wouldn't pay him to do his schtick, and most
likely few would.
>
> Can't a comedian find a more worthwhile target than
a woman who happens to be more famous than him (though
male ressentiment of this sort doesn't quite compare
to the low of playing a USO gig at Abu Ghraib and
posing with a dog there).
>
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi