Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Feud A-Brewin'?

Angry call from Jeff McNeil. He claims that Dr. "M." is hijacking the "blog"... from him! "All she has to do is sneeze and you put it on the 'blog,'" he raged. "I don't even know who she is!" He then made sneering queries about GILMORE GIRLS and VERONICA MARS, the plots of which I tried soberly to explain. I compared MARS to Chandler, the way Philip Marlowe was always having to trudge up to a mansion, the crisp dialogue, the issues of class and money, honor and shame. "I don't think I'd like it," he said. "And what's with the GILMORE GIRLS? Is it a guilty pleasure?" I replied that I didn't feel guilty about it, that I thought people used "guilty pleasure" as a cop-out. McNeil wasn't buying it. He wanted me to feel guilty!