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Sunday, September 17, 2006
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Blogoscopy: The Psychotic Blogger The New York Times interviews Lee Siegel: ...[D]on’t you think it’s intellectually lame to express one’s opinions anonymously? I do indeed. Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self. You yourself comfortably adopted a false persona when you had Sprezzatura comment about one of your critics that he “couldn’t tie Siegel’s shoelaces.” Doesn’t that show great immaturity on your part? I am too childlike to be immature. Is that just doublespeak? No, I’m saying it under my own name. Artists are allowed to be ill-mannered brutes without diminishing the quality of their work, but shouldn’t critics be balanced and self-analyzed individuals? Of course they should. I’m thoroughly analyzed. I can show you the receipts. But as Sprezzatura, I wasn’t practicing criticism. I was indulging my temperament and abandoning my intellect. Look, putting a polemicist like myself in the blogosphere is like putting someone with an obesity problem in a chocolate factory. What are you talking about? How dare you question my authority! Seriously, the blogosphere strips argument of logic and rhetoric down to the naked emotion behind it. ----------------------------------------- Update: Oso Raro says Siegel  looks hot. I guess if you like chipmunk cheeks... Let's do a little compare and contrast ... 
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