Slater: Getting Medieval
I can’t… words fail… I don’t know how to describe… this is… this is unbelievable. I’m certainly laughing from an inner state of jollification, if I wasn’t before - and yet even with all the wine I’ve spilled over myself, I’m still not sure how I feel about the base degradation that now defines us both. Oh, just read it.
People in the Middle Ages knew how to throw a party that everyone was invited to.
That’s… an interesting way of putting it, Ailee. Not a History major, I’m assuming?
Early nominee for Column of the Year, I’m saying. At this rate, Ailee Slater should be all over the front page of the Huffington Post within a couple of years.
October 31st, 2005 at 4:46 pm
I had to quit reading the piece after that sentence. Sigh.
October 31st, 2005 at 4:53 pm
If only we were ALL invited to the carnivalesque wherein we might celebrate the frivolity of defecation, the world would be a far better place– that is, if nature teaches you that sheer seriousness is what you’re seriously seeing. Now I have a headache.
October 31st, 2005 at 5:54 pm
I read each paragraph twice as I went through. What an extraordinary column.
October 31st, 2005 at 7:11 pm
Owch, my head. I finally read the thing all the way through. This column is the definition of Slater-esque.
October 31st, 2005 at 7:16 pm
Man, I can’t let this go. This column is FUCKING unbearable. However, I must thank Ailee for essentially writing the entire Spew section for us. Oh, and if you think we cannot dedicate an entire spew section to one column, then you have clearly not read Ailee’s column.
October 31st, 2005 at 7:46 pm
“Bakhtin would probably comment that the carnivalesque is the definition of laughing with rather than laughing at.”
Uh, oh no he probably wouldn’t. My fucking god.
Incidentally, I think somewhere in here she’s taking aim at us:
“Humor in the modern age is usually satirical, cynical laughter, whereas the folk humor of the carnivalesque means that the people laughing do not place themselves above the item that is funny.
“The carnivalesque is not about making dry, intelligent, witty political criticism.”
October 31st, 2005 at 8:47 pm
Slater-esque? More like Slatertastic!
November 1st, 2005 at 1:28 am
I will debase her like no other, make her look just like her mother. Deficate all over the place, and laugh like I’m under cover, watching, waiting, to post, though I’d rather not- be reading her idiodic after-party, blow induced snot.
Thank you ailee for making my monday.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:31 pm
ATTENTION AILEE SLATER:
“Carnivalesque” is an adjective, not a noun. Please go back to seventh-grade English. Do not pass “go”.
November 3rd, 2005 at 12:24 am
I was just thinking about what kind of midaeval (my preferred spelling) party I’d like to attend. I have just two words:
Serf’s up!
Oh yeah, more tips for Ailee:
Lay off the reefer.Jerry’s dead, join the real world.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:18 am
I think I’d prefer an all knighter.
November 3rd, 2005 at 10:18 am
You mean, like a sausage carnivalesque?