tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19766924.post113900339421572568..comments2007-02-14T22:27:45.384-05:00Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14485477702193993859noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19766924.post-1139009459001687992006-02-03T18:30:00.000-05:002006-02-03T18:30:00.000-05:00I think my least favorite part of the Times magazine—after Safire, of course—is the column about diagnoses. Eww. I don't do medical stuff. But truth be told, I read less and less of the magazine every week.<BR/><BR/>I always get the feeling that Deborah Solomon's interviews have the shit edited out of them (literally and figuratively, I suppose), because they don't read like any conversation two people would have in real life. They're much too succint and pithy. Who talks like that? And what am I supposed to get out of reading these oversimplified baiting sessions? <BR/><BR/>Deborah Solomon strikes me as being the weird evil twin of Toni Schlesinger from the Village Voice, who writes the "Shelter" column. She sometimes goes off on these weird tangents and seems to be a little off her rocker, but she doesn't verbally accost people in the way that Solomon does. Or if she does, whoever edits her columns takes those parts out.Katynoreply@blogger.com