Tonight at Suede: Progressive Politics With Your $250 Bottle of Grey Goose
Jesse · 01/04/06 03:25PMAh, there's nothing we enjoy more than emails promoting pretentious, bottle-service parties that also include some political commentary (bold added):
Ah, there's nothing we enjoy more than emails promoting pretentious, bottle-service parties that also include some political commentary (bold added):
When one sends an email off to a vast, semi-faceless organization, one expects a certain sort of a response (to the very limited extent one even bothers to expect a response at all). From some places — oh, say, us — you wouldn't be astonished to receive a raunchy and expletive-laden reply. From most organizations, though, you'd expect something fairly tame. And the Oxford dictionary folks seem to fall squarely into the latter camp.
You have no idea the opportunities in life that are closed to you when people mistakenly think you're the daughter of a multimillionaire developer and newspaper publisher. There are so many perks — so many interesting people to meet, so many freebies to be snagged — that are available to average folks like us but suddenly become off-limits when people think you're boldface spawn. And so we can understand why New York magazine contributing writer Alicia Zuckerman felt compelled to send this email to her colleagues today:
Email accounts around Manhattan — including ours — are receiving this important message today. It's full of barely repressed rage, just-offstage drama, and allusions to hijinks so debauched they cannot be mentioned.
We know what happens if we go to Google, type "failure," and click "I'm feeling lucky." It's the same thing that would have happened if we did that at any point in the last few years. It's not new, your friend wasn't the first to discover it, and, no, we don't need to act quickly before Google "fixes" it. (First Nexis mention: December 2003, in The Washington Post.) We understand you mean well, but, please, stop emailing about it.
We find most newfangled warning labels ridiculous — yes, a plastic bag is not a toy; no, you shouldn't use the hairdryer in the bathtub; TV-MA-VSL means, well, what? But here's a warning trend we can get behind: Obnoxious, gratuitous emailers pre-announcing their incoherent rants.