Lazy, lazy writing

it's a great site, put together by the Columbia Journalism Review folks

http://casa.colorado.edu/~jcollins/shalit.gif

SHAAAALIIIIIITTT!!!

"garden state certainly is the catch of the day!"

Titanic: All clear for take-off!
Murder On the Orient Express: Rough waters ahead in latest Agatha Christie shipwreck!
Pirates of the Caribbean: Stays on-track!
Planes, Trains & Automobiles: More fun than a weekend in bed with comic books!
My Step-Mother Is An Alien: Merry Christmas, Julie Andrews!
Sex, Lies & Videotape: Houston, We Have a Hit!
Showgirls: Don't forgot your sunscreen!

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/screen/story/0,6903,1283171,00.html

"but if you type 'the Fulfords' into Google you currently end up with page after page of (f***ing) estate agents, though probably not for very much longer."

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1283233,00.html
(which manages to do both)

"The Oxford English dictionary defines a guerrilla as 'a member of a small independently acting group taking part in irregular fighting, esp. against large regular forces'. Type the word into any search engine, however, and you quickly get the sense that its old belligerent connotations are being nudged to one side. Battle fatigues, bullet belts and Marxism are nowhere to be seen; instead, the latter-day guerrilla is likely to be an advocate of a very modern, self-motivated creativity. As five minutes on Google proves, the term's use spans the arts - it may only be a matter of time before someone stages the first guerrilla opera."

grrrr

I haven't seen anyone use the dictionary definition lead in a long time. I thought it was a high school essay cliché outlawed many years ago.

You might be surprised.

And OTM about Google lede = new dictionary lede.

It's wrong. Yes, there are some amateurish moments - the boom falling into camera-view - but I like it a lot. I imagine that you object to the slow pacing and simplicity, which I take (gladly) as a reflection of Navajo life.

nice one

For an album that was effectively seven years in the making, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is about as Zeitgeist-y as it gets. ‘Spitfire’ is a fantastically bootylicious slice of mayhem, and like Aphex Twin’s ‘Windowlicker’, ‘Girls’ is a hugely infectious ode to high-octane smut. In short, the album is consistently refreshing and neatly experimental, although the collaboration with brother-in-law Liam Gallagher on ‘Shoot Down’ is just plain bizarre. Not in a good way either.

Add to that Howlett’s other collaborators (Princess Superstar, Kool Keith, Juliette Lewis and Twista), and you get an insight into the many stylistic directions in which he wants to take the album.

As Fat Of The Land’s follow-up, this album was always going to be something of a statement of intent. Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned makes for wonderfully vital listening.

Tanya Sweeney
Rating: 8½ / 10"

1. The readership is addressed in the plural. It's possible more than one person is reading it but readers don't think of themselves as being multiple entities.
2. "To those of you who thought X, think again" is a cliché.
3. "the boy Howlett". Ick.
4. "X years in the making" is a cliché.
5. "In short" is inelegant.
6. So is "you get an insight into the many stylistic directions in which he wants to take the album."
7. "makes for" should be replaced with "is" and "wonderfully vital listening" is hideous.

Not sure why I typed all this up but once I started I couldn't stop.

Quite frankly I have been on the Str4nge Fru1t mailing list for years tho and haf therefore seen all examples of worst-writing in the world ever so that Prodigy wotsit seems palatable to me.

Of course it is all spelt entirely inkorrektly.