“Paul Gauguin never sold a painting in his life. Van Gogh struggled. Now there are many talented artists around, better than 80% of what’s in galleries….” This most banal argument of creative suffering under capitalism we endured from the perpetually unshaven, cupcake eating blogger Newscorpse. Not via the web but where the Legman was out tasting the Zeitgeist the other day, at the Oaks in Franklin Village, a single Hollywood block that evokes the Upper West Side. Whining about again failing to land a story on Huffington Post, the wannabe pundit babbled on… about Law and Order and Glen Beck. “I wrote the better story, the one that ran was innacurate, it said Dick Wolf didn’t write the epsisode but he did. ” Now listen and listen good, Newscorpse. Dick Wolf is making culture and you ain’t. You think your opinions merit 20,000 hits a day? Chances of that are the same as a brother in a hoodie catching an uptown cab on Madison Avenue. Your writing is like that manure mix Mexican gardeners spread over LA streets. Not a dog shit stink, but a tinge of unpleasant. Witticism escapes you as much as opportunities to hit big stories. You ran into the Governator at a Venice café, and dropped the ball. Your “street art” is derivative, predictable. We got a 73 year old tagger but your counter cultural stance stops at vandalizing public property. Which reminds us; Shep Farey failed to smack you down when you confronted him with your toy stickers? That’s a story you missed. All your pontificating leaves you clueless about hitting the big time, but we’ll expound. You have nothing profound to say (thought of picking up an advanced degree in foreign affairs or public policy? No, that GRE is a bitch) nor confrontational and fresh. That leaves Newscorpse in the middle, the Salieri of the blogosphere. So instead of wasting my time with your twattle, Netflix Amadeus and mouth along
“Mediocrities everywhere. I am your patron saint. I absolve you… I absolve you… I absolve you… I absolve you… I absolve you all. “

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