From "Susan Orlean explains her drunken viral Twitter thread, candy-coated fennel seeds and the comfort of cats" (WaPo). Susan Orlean is a much-praised New Yorker writer, best known for "The Orchid Thief."
There's an interview with Orlean — after she recovered from her drunkenness and learned how popular her drunken ravings had become. Excerpt from the interview:
At some point, my husband came in and said he had gotten a few texts from friends saying they thought that my Twitter account had been hacked. And I said, “It hasn’t been hacked!” I was incensed at the thought that someone thought it was hacked. Then he said, “Are you sure you want to be tweeting in your condition?” I said, “Yes, yes, it’s fine. Everything’s fine.” But I was just sort of tweeting, and I wasn’t looking to see if anyone was responding. I was just typing, stream-of-consciousness, without giving a great deal of thought to if anyone was reading it. To me, it was late at night, even though it wasn’t late. I had gone to bed at 8:30, because I was hammered.I noticed the tweets at the time, and it revived my interest in Susan Orlean. So whatever that crazy stuff was it was effective in boosting her visibility and maybe even her reputation. It caused me to go read the article of hers in a recent New Yorker, which I'd noticed but skipped with a vague plan to get back to it later. The article is about rabbits: "The Rabbit Outbreak/A highly contagious, often lethal animal virus arrives in the United States." Sample paragraph:
In the universe of human-animal relations, rabbits occupy a liminal space. They are the only creatures we regularly keep as pets in our homes that we also, just as regularly, eat or wear. Fitting into both the companion-animal category and the livestock category means that rabbits are not entirely claimed by either. A number of animal statutes—particularly, felony-cruelty provisions—are specific to dogs and cats, but not to rabbits. Laws protecting livestock, such as the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, don’t apply to rabbits, either, even rabbits being raised for meat, because the U.S.D.A. does not officially recognize them as livestock. There is probably no other animal that is viewed as diversely, and valued as differently, by its various partisans. Simply being a rabbit person doesn’t mean that you look at rabbits the same way as another self-identified rabbit person. Any of the almost twenty thousand members of the American Rabbit Breeders Association are just as likely to be raising a prized Jersey Wooly that sleeps in their bed and is primped for rabbit shows as they are to have hundreds of caged rabbits that will end up as stew.And now I just bought her book "The Library Book." There's also "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend."
२८ टिप्पण्या:
"Susan - tell me about the rabbits!"
I will take "Staged Crazy Tweets For Attention".
Drinking to excess is an indication of personal conflict. Let's celebrate her choice.
Hmmm... well, there's nothing funny or attractive about a lush, so I don't follow the appeal. And I'm not too big on marsupials as house-pets, but that's just me, I suppose. She does have a good point about the multi-functionality (cuddly pet, food, clothing). Also reminds me that "Rabbit Fur Coat" is a fine album by Jenny Lewis.
If you're going to talk about how diversely we view and use rabbits, you are remiss in leaving out the mocked but ultimately fearsome the guard rabbit.
I am impressed that she has the confidence to drunk-tweet fearlessly in this era: she either has a clean conscious, including subconscious, or truly does not give a fuck. In a world where prominent people choose their words increasingly carefully, Susan Orlean is an oddball.
This virus has just shown up in San Diego County. Pet rabbits are now on lockdown with us humans. Also, dogs should wear booties when they go outside. No, really that’s what they said. We are all becoming inside cats.
Keep dogs on a leash when outside so they don’t interact with wild rabbits; consider having dogs wear booties when outside, or wash their paws before they come inside. Keep dogs and rabbits in separate areas of your home.
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/deadly-rabbit-virus-detected-in-san-diego-county/
OT but what the hell was Kamala Harris thinking when she got all that "work" done?
She looked fine before...the frowniness even gave her some gravitas! She just took herself out.
Sue that consultant, whoever it was.
But I was just sort of tweeting, and I wasn’t looking to see if anyone was responding.
Since Twitter is about all Scott Adams wants to talk about, I gave in a month ago and signed on.
I don't get it. It seems disjointed and hardly seems "sticky". I have only done the web version and not the mobile, so maybe that is different and more fun.
As to Ms. Orlean, I'm guessing she has FU money and not afraid of being cancelled.
Drunken twitter seems dangerous to a career. I'm reminded of Roseanne's alleged Ambien-induced tweeting that ended her newly revived career, and even canceled what was then the most popular show on broadcast television. Sure it came back in homunculus form as "The Connors" but it didn't really last.
As far as the erstwhile rabbits go, I want to say that Guinea Pigs occupy a similar role in a mountainous South American country, maybe Bolivia? Where there will be Guinea Pigs that run around a house and the kids and even adults play with them, but then every so often one of them winds up in a stew or whatever. In fact that is probably even more of a dual role than the rabbits. Because at least in this country, generally the households that keep a rabbit or rabbits as pets only keep them as a pet, and those that may raise them for food will raise them only for food.
Then he said, “Are you sure you want to be tweeting in your condition?” I said, “Yes, yes, it’s fine. Everything’s fine.”
You know, when your spouse, who loves you, says something along the lines of "Honey, do you really think you ought to be doing this?", 19 times out of 20 the answer is "No, I guess I shouldn't be doing this, huh?".
Tweets are a minefield in the best of circumstances. Tweets while drunk just seems to be inviting the cancellation police in the front door & into the foyer.
"liminal space"
The term "liminal space" is extremely trendy at the moment. It usually references images of empty offices, parks, playgrounds, shopping malls, and other vast human made areas that are devoid of humans. People seem to have uneasy feelings viewing images of empty places that are designed to be filled with humans for some reason.
White Rabbit
Follow the White Rabbit
Do we really need to know this much about rabbits?
Has Susan drunk-written this piece? It reads legit. Is she that good?
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Pets or meat
In Organic Chemistry lab, we converted the essence of fennel seeds into its stereo-isomer, oil of peppermint. Fun times!
Maybe Kamala was drunk when she went to the plastic surgeon recently.
Scratch that. Maybe the plastic surgeon was drunk when Kamala went to the plastic surgeon recently.
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/02/15/meryl-streep-is-susan-orlean-notes-on-adaptation/
"just as regularly, eat or wear"
Evidence?
Didn’t read the tweets. Incline to Yancey Ward theory: faked
"I'm reminded of Roseanne's alleged Ambien-induced tweeting that ended her newly revived career, and even canceled what was then the most popular show on broadcast television."
It was going to be something. They had her on 24-hour cancel-culture surveillance. She was way too positive about Trump.
Well, she didn't have to walk naked toward the police line yo get attention... Yet.
to not yo
Her choice of words in calling herself a "rabbit person" is interesting. It puts me in mind of r/K theory. In evolutionary ecology, r and K describe two fundamental psychologies seen in nature, designed to adapt an organism to either a glut or a shortage.
Rabbits are r-strategists, designed to exploit free resources, like fields of grass. The five psychological traits inherent to the r-strategy are docility/conflict-avoidance, promiscuity/non-monogamy, single-mom'ing, early sexualization of young, and no loyalty to a competitive in-group. All help this glut-exploiting psychology to out-reproduce everyone else by avoiding danger, mating widely starting young, booting offspring early to mate again, and never risking for others.
Wolves are K-strategists, designed for when resources are too limited for everyone to survive. The five traits of a K-strategist are competitiveness/ aggressiveness/protectiveness, competitive mate monopolization/ monogamy, high-investment two-parent rearing, only mating when mature, and high loyalty to one's competitive in-group. All these traits either help you win when you have to fight, or produce and protect fitter offspring, so they will win in a dangerous world that culls the weak.
Going K is gonna be painful.
she seems nice,
As a kid we would always "tame" one steer in the feed lot every year. Tame being a pretty squishy term. We would get the steer to stay put when we approached and allow us to pet his face, and scratch his ears.
One of the "pets" was taken to the local butcher and became meals for the family. He tasted great, and I'm sure the dark humor around the supper table would get us a visit from some govt agency today. Living on a working farm, reinforced the circle of life. Dominion of Man. Death being a very natural event, not something to dread or fear.
Inga's brainwashing schemes are creative but weak. But seriously, choose your poison is not funny. This is as to why rock stars are created. Choose my poison ? Why not a cocktail or most, etc. Hopefully no overdose. I'm no Santa nor Santana, but I envy your html skills. One of of these days, one of these days, straight to the mooon......You purchase the coffee !
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