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She just wishes she was Isabella Rosellini. Makes her mad.

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Papier-maché the fucking thing, and make a piñata out of it. If it can't be art, it can at least be useful - and taking a whack at the piñata would be that much more satisfying.

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But a piñata, normally, is filled with sweets, toys and good things for young children.

Somehow this book found a way to have none of that. S

Perhaps, If I wrap it in some ham, Chris Christie will find and eat it.

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Or "leather-faced, crepe-paper-wearing" fossil. They're interchangeable.

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Gonna have to paraphrase a Dana Gould line again:

"Camille Paglia, not only are you great, but as host of 'Tales From The Crypt,' I loved you."

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I've got a decade on all of you :-) and I've always thought she was utterly deranged.

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Wormwood is certainly appropriate here, as Paglia's brains have definitely gone absente.

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When do all her columns come out? Next Tuesday!!

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A righty for sure. The real Vichy motto is "Travail, Camille, patrie!"

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I, too, was unaware of this loon. This is perhaps because I grew up in St. Louis where we had Phyllis Schlafly in our backyard. The din of her misogyny and I-hate-everybody shrieking drowned out the background noise of others of the same ilk.

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But she is dingbat!?!

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I don't know who Bobby Rydell is

Don't worry; you didn't miss much.

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But "deranged" as a synonym for "genius" is a unicorn-and-rainbows fantasy that dies very hard.

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Use a classic recycling hack: leave a good sheaf of pages at front and back and carve out a hole in the rest to hide -- whatever it is you want to hide that isn't too big.

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Some of us mastered that art before our junior year.

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