I think you're not familiar with the construction. Where I'm from, "I did so and so like a bitch," very often means, "I did this very aggressively." To wit: "I tore through that turkey like a bitch," "I reeled that fish in like a bitch," or "Eli Manning screamed through that defense like a bitch."

No, but it can be self-congratulatory or demeaning. The dichotomy isn't the same dichotomy, but both are still dichotomies. As it were.

Maybe it's just in the northeast, but that construction is very, very familiar to me.

Eh. It's one of those words that can go either way depending on context. Consider motherfucker. "I'm the motherfucker who's gonna…" is usually used positively. But nobody wants to be called a motherfucker.

How does Scott Adams know my dad, is what I want to know.

Well, I think the point of talking about this is twofold: 1) There is a certain percentage of Trump-pledged voters who don't care about misogyny or racism or, really, anything except their professed allegiance to the integrity of the United States. Trump's in-bedness with Russia might by the thing that tips them our…

Huh? Casting the lead in The Parent Trap was as easy as casting any other movie. It's just one person. Potentially, doubling up the lead onscreen might have been a bit of trouble, but that was figured out looooong before Orphan Black.

I'm baffled as to how I've never noticed the similarities between David Byrne and Daniel Day Lewis. Baffled.

I mean, your response reads like you don't understand the difference in the two premises, and rather than copping to that after I explain it, you're digging in with your fingers in your ears. Just to clear this up: foresight and self-awareness are different things. The first was a joke about the former; the second a…

This is a guy whose response to a conflict instigated by women involves arguing that women don't like conflict.

Right. But I read it as "women don't like interpersonal conflict, so they don't understand the role of conflict in comedy."

I mean, you just said what he said with more words. It starts with the tension, i.e. conflict.

Yeah. He also wrote Martin and John, which I haven't read, but which I know is important to a lot of people. Take from that what you will.

… no? The original joke was that he realized later that he couldn't think far enough ahead to avoid ruin. My joke was that even after experiencing said ruin, he also couldn't think backwards to realize he caused it himself. Mine is a bit of doubling down on the original premise. Do keep up.

I know Dale Peck fairly well, and I'll tell you this: his feelings re Moody are almost certainly as they're expressed in that essay and if he's satirizing anything, it's his own reputation for self-aggrandizing bombast. He's the type of narcissist who talks endlessly and needlessly about other people in order to put…

I haven't read that story, actually, but I'll keep an eye out for it. For the record, yeah, I find Moody better sometimes than others but think he's overall a pretty damn good writer; I was referencing Dale Peck's notorious essay in Hatchet Jobs.

Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation.

I seriously doubt that would be the answer. If he could display that level of self-awareness on this particular topic, his life wouldn't have taken that trajectory.

The reason this book is stupid is the same reason I think Midnight in Paris is stupid.

Shears and drier.