Elizabeth Wurtzel: Dud or DUD?

Oh nm just got to end of article. That was a lot of words for the number of ideas in them.

Has she been introduced to our friend Momus?

I made it maybe halfway through that NY Mag thing.

Possibly the two most infuriating things I've read by her:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/16/elizabeth-wurtzel-antisemitism-israel-gaza
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/health-wellness-articles/looking-better-at-45-than-25#slide-1

Actually, the latter is more surreal than anything.

I made it maybe halfway through that NY Mag thing.

Me too, then I skimmed to the bottom in the hope that there might be some kind of pay-off. Nope. What a self-regarding pile of self-regard. (Also thought the backhand at David Remnick was odd, but probably he's turned down a lot of pitches from her.)

I mean, who even writes like this?

I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous.

in fairness, there's nothing wrong with the WAY that is written; it's the sentiment that is off-putting

I want everyone to try as hard as I do to please be gorgeous, because it's not that hard, girls. Looking great is a matter of feminism. No liberated woman would misrepresent the cause by appearing less than hale and happy.

LOLWUT

OTOH that first sentence Nicole just quoted is constructed terribly

I mean, who even writes like this?

I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous.

teenage girls in the 70s is the correct answer

in fairness, there's nothing wrong with the WAY that is written; it's the sentiment that is off-putting

True. What I really mean is, who even thinks like this?

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I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous.

--bob marley

In a world gone wrong ... a pure heart is dangerous!

This spring, Anna Paquin IS Elizabeth Wurtzel

in

FREE SPIRIT

In a world gone wrong ... a pure heart is dangerous!

This spring, Anna Paquin IS Elizabeth Wurtzel

in

FREE SPIRIT I CRY A LOT

I should probably track down a copy of Prozac Nation just to satisfy my circa-2002 curiosity/Ricci-crush.

I mean, who even writes like this?

I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous.

teenage girls in the 70s is the correct answer

haha the correct answer is that jean-jacques rousseau is a teenage girl in the 1770s

huh learn something every day. is j-j r responsible for this chesnut too

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^^on every late 1970s female college dorm room wall ever

I lost lots of helium balloons that way...

its funny how she gets all up on finance for ruining new york and then shes... a lawyer

i mean she did the thing every ambitious directionless person does and went to law school and somehow tries to paint it as an act of pure fuck up love, lady youre not lost youre doin the same shit as everyone else

lol i just read this

it was pretty good

had to just scan the last third, it kinda dragged

"If you need somebody, call my name
If you want someone, you can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
If you want to hold onto your possession
Don't even think about me
If you love somebody, set them free"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

wurtzel's prutzels

i always think wurtzel is the author of the popular wurtzel-bat series.

" I like Mumford & Sons a lot, but I don’t own any complete albums. But maybe that just proves I am more of the times than I care to admit"

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/128313/in-bed-with-bob-dylan

http://theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/i-refuse-to-be-a-grown-up/274918/

I used to do cocaine and go running; now I just go running.
I used to do cocaine and go running; now I just go running.
I used to do cocaine and go running; now I just go running.

how to not grow up: stop doing drugs, go to law school, exercise

how to not be self involved: submit yr inner monologue for publication

Nothing is more bracing than not being concerned about what other people think. I have no idea why anyone cares. Trust me: No one is looking. I know: I am looking. People are self-involved. They are all waiting for you to ask about how gifted their kids are. I wish people were judging each other a great deal more, and more carefully, but they are not. Knowing this, I have no trouble being myself. It works well. I will die screaming.

dear EW, can you hear me rolling my eyes?

I like how she doesnt care about what people think about her being obsessed about what other people think. It's an intriguing paradox thats at the center of all her recent work.

'intriguing'

I just think it's like, an aporia in the logic of her texts that give them a certain tension, or vulnerability, that is mildly compelling, which is why she manages to be both very readable and insanely self-centered.

I fully expect to be the only person who thinks this.

But my answer to the thread title is dud, i guess, but i read her pieces when i stumble across them and think she has a distinctive voice.

more like elizabutt squirtzel

dude, that pun is the worstzel

From Led Zeppelin to Breaking Bad: The Lamest Generation
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Kids used to take big changes, but the crazy energy of youth seems to have subsided. Elizabeth Wurtzel on why today's youth need to take a page from Led Zeppelin.

she suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks so haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrd

a page from led zeppelin

yeah I read that article it's such fucking terrible shit garbage that it's not even worth engaging individual "points"

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