My friend and former colleague Susan just shared a UK Guardian column by Charlie Brooker (apparently the UK's answer to Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post) describing its author's addictive fondness for really terrible writing. Excerpt from "Joe Mott's blog heaves with demented beauty":
Everything he said incensed me. He gushed a wild river of bullshit, which I swam through open-mouthed, savouring the taste.
And, describing the blog in question:
At the top of the page squats a photo of our hero, grinning like a man who has just found £10,000 up his arse, beside the legend "Joe Mott's HOT". The word "HOT" appears to be made of gold. Over this, a little textual strap informs us that Joe Mott's HOT is "AWARD-WINNING". Sadly it is not clear what sort of award it was. Perhaps he entered a competition to see who could devise the most infuriating byline imaginable. If so, he deserved to win.
Lovely.
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