Thursday's Child (lauri8) wrote,
Thursday's Child
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The Quintessential New Yorker Piece on Ol' Dirty Bastard

It's got everything an archetypal New Yorker piece should have: it's conceptual, tangentially about what it isn't really about, and detachedly bemused by current cultural phenomena, as though a genteel, monocled gentleman had been asleep in a cave for a century or so and, upon waking, lurched out cheerfully to write about this "I say, what a curious turn of affairs" world around him.

And it's about having the same name as O.D.B.
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