Well, this blog is not usually a forum for celebrity gossip, but I like the expression "radioactive bucket of stress." I'm going to take to using it myself when the chance arises. Which, I hope, will not be often.
The fact that the phrase came to my attention through a bit of celebrity gossip is, then, incidental.
Salman Rushdie, the renowned novelist who has written Midnight's Children (1981), The Satanic Verses (1988), and The Enchantress of Florence (2008) along with much else, has been romantically linked of late to Pia Glenn.
Thereafter, in the big 8th grade corridor that is the modern celebrity world, Salman and Pia had a falling out, and it was Pia who first saw fit to tell the world about it.
The world being, of course, best informed through Page Six of The New York Post.
Some novelists of Salman's stature might have seen fit to refuse to dignify that with an answer, and maybe to write a nasty caricature of Pia into one's next novel. But Rushdie is apparently made of more contentious stuff.
Here's the relevant link from Gawker. [Link fixed - ed.]
Okay, there's no reason for anybody to care. But I didn't have any other great ideas for a blog entry today anyway. And, as I say, the whole exchange did produce the expression "radioactive bucket of stress." That's writing. [See Cicily's comment below to get the proper context for that phrase.]
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Chris,do you really mean to send your readers to the Social Science Research Network, rather than to the Gawker? Please don't risk lumping yourself with the sloppy celebrity reporters and bloggers.
They misleadingly report that Rushdie called his ex-girlfriend a "large radioactive bucket of stress," when in fact he is quoted as saying she merely carries around said bucket. There's a big difference between carrying around a large bucket and BEING a bucket.
The link to the rag which did the interview is http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/salman_rips_pia_as_unstable_BSEcxM5wOVuqKO8tASB6IP
Harpers has a good article this month about the death of the print newspaper. Maybe you should blog about THAT.
Cicily,
The Onion assuresus that the print newspaper has at least one solid base of continuing support: kidnappers.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_majority_of_newspapers_now
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