Wonkette Writes

...sort of. Never a fan of her reports of anal intrusions that passed for blogging, I was happy to see her leave the venue, and also happy to hear that her "book" sucks.

So did Steve and at his place he posted a link to a Newsweek review that contains the following:

"For someone who had a pretty original voice on her blog, Cox’s writing in her novel is surprisingly cliché. The pain is “searing,” the instincts are “base,” the linings are “silver” and the jujitsu is “verbal.” When things come apart “at the seams,” the characters are “left to their own devices.” But they step “gingerly,” and laugh “in spite of” themselves, which works “like a charm,” makes “time fly” and is, you guessed it, a “breath of fresh air.” To be fair, I did count three phrases that were well-written. The first is Melanie watching a “pantomime of flirtation” through a window. The second is when Cox describes a reporter with a notebook as “holstering his pen in its spiral.” And this: “Clothes hung out of Melanie’s suitcase like they had been shot trying to escape.” Regardless, you won’t want to touch this book “with a ten foot pole.”

Heady stuff. Just shows to go ya that lots of folks were right all along when they said that tits will get you into the arena, but you will not suddenly awake one morning with more talent than you went abed with simply because you've made it in blogdom. Did I hate her because she was a liberal loon, or a bad writer? Bad writer. People are entitled to their opinions but what sucks, sucks when it comes to writing.

Oh yeah; The chick on the right is some prostitute named Jessica Cutler who had her 15 minutes of fame banging half of Washington, and Ana Marie Cox is the one on the left who had HER moment in the sun fucking the brains out of the internet.