Sigh. It must be nice to be able to get The Guardian to include any old cobblers you think up.
How is it that Lucy Mangan gets a two-page spread in the G2 today about all the plot points she wants resolved in Lost this evening? Much like her previous bilge about The West Wing, most of her questions could be answered by looking it up on the Internet. The episode on tonight aired in July in the US and there have been nearly a dozen since.
Clearly, I'm using the wrong pitching strategy.
Note to self: must think of obvious articles that ask questions I already know the answer to and which anyone else can find the answers to by typing them into Google then clicking “I'm feeling lucky”.
Further note to self: must use italics less in future blog entries.
Updates and related entries
May 29, 2006: Lost's finale was just so plain weird and wacky, it deserves its own entry in my continuing season finale guide. Worry ye not, UK viewers, I won't spoil it for you. Most of the second season has been dull....
March 27, 2006 | Reply
Have you seen that she's got an agent, now, too? I think that before too long, we'll have the novelisation of Lucy, too. Heaven knows, what we all need is a little more information about what it's like to be a middle-class Cambridge-educated girl whose father got her a job at the Graundiad when it turned out she was too thick to qualify as a solicitor.
(And incidentally, don't feel any need to post this - my ID is rubbish etc - the sole purpose of this 'post' was to embrace, as it were, a kindered spirit who finds this tiresome creature, well, tiresome.
April 12, 2006 | Reply
Lucy Mangan is one of the reasons I am no longer interested in a journalism career. Her articles read like she's articulating a stupid, half-quirky thought she had about herself on the bus that morning, but has made heavy use of a thesaurus to justify its lack of substance. Smug doesn't come close. God knows who keeps indulging her with all those column inches, but perhaps it's the same person who decided Alison Goldfrapp's little column was of any interest. If you can say this of writing, this has anti-flair:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1570986,00.html
May 11, 2006 | Reply
As that new Guardian 'Comment is free' blog-type thing makes clear, hating Lucy Mangan is a fast-growing hobby. It's interesting how many of the comments on her articles are about how sh*t she is, rather than whatever half-arsed topic she's supposed to be writing about.
June 8, 2006 | Reply
o my god, you envious waste of spacers. Someone writes entertaining copy and you just bitch about it, and kindly make it personal too. Maybe take a look at yourself and your writing, write something that people want to read and stop being such a bunch of bitter miserable jealous twats.
BTW - i don't know Lucy Mangan but if Eleri gave up her journalistic 'career' because of one person's column then she can't have wanted it that much, maybe there-in lies the difference.
August 31, 2008 | Reply
Sigh as much as you like. Lucy Mangan is a great writer. [Edited by Rob for minor abuse]
September 2, 2008 | Reply
I have no opinion on this. However, it looks like an appropriate thread to post this cartoon I came across the other day: http://www.basicinstructions.net/2008/07/how-to-discuss-television-show-with.html
September 3, 2008 | Reply
My views on Ms Mangan have mellowed somewhat over the last two and a half years (as have my views on allowable comments: my, didn't I let some fun stuff get through here!). Although I still have to find a single article she's ever written either funny or interesting, despite my best attempts, others appear to differ so it's clear she just doesn't "speak to me" in any way. And I haven't spotted any more blatant "just f*ckin' Google it" transgressions either.
Nice cartoon, Electric Dragon.