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parma_violets

A Parma Violets LJ Spot The Difference Contest

Oct 22, 2005 05:51

We know, of course [said Christopher Hitchens in the Wall Street Journal], why the Nobel judges were so keen on this "very poor man's Beckett": they wanted to reward him for his rancid anti-Americanism and "pseudo-intellectual European hostility to the regime change in Iraq". Pinter is famous for his long pauses: let us hope for a long silence ( Read more... )

ann coulter, politics

Comments 5

mr_e_2_me October 22 2005, 06:41:51 UTC

I give up. Is there a prize involved?

parma_violets October 22 2005, 08:21:55 UTC

The prize is a weekend with Christopher Hitchens. Truly, a case of "every loser wins".

baron_scarpia October 22 2005, 06:55:27 UTC

I'm just wondering what Graham's doing by being up so early...

parma_violets October 22 2005, 08:22:30 UTC

This happens sometimes when I get drunk the night before - I fall into a very deep and drunken sleep and wake up at some genuinely horrifying hour of the morning. It can actually be quite a nice feeling.

baron_scarpia October 22 2005, 08:26:01 UTC

I've encountered that once or twice. But then I can count on the fingers of both hands the number of times I've got truly drunk.