Comments on: David Kamp, Blog Snob

By: zac

zac — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:30:46 +0000

It’s true. Kamp has never done a day of hard labor in his life. I think he probably blows Graydon because it’s hard to explain his arc as a writer otherwise.

By: zac

zac — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:27:33 +0000

I know Kamp personally and his mother cut his meat for him until he was like 17. He’s a panty waist who fancies himself as some super didactic expert on all the things he touches from why we eat arugula, the sic American Dream or why Norman Rockwell somehow resonates more now than ever. The fact is, he is a stuck up snob and he doesn’t hardly ever nail his subject. If he thinks he’s some kind of keen observing Tom Wolfe of the new milleneum, he need get his head out of his ass. He mostly writes about himself up against a deadline bunching up his scribbles and I agree that he could use a punch right in the fucking face.

By: Derek Catermole

Derek Catermole — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:47:24 +0000

The new purple color scheme is terrific for your resurrected blog, Ed. It matches your prose.

By: Patrick Stephenson

Patrick Stephenson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:55:04 +0000

Yes, Peter, while I don’t think this is Ed’s BEST work, I do think you need to improve your reading comprehension:

“If the NYTBR has any good sense, it will have a team of security guards punch David Kamp in the face if he ever tries to set up a lunch meeting with Sam Tanenhaus or Dwight Garner again.”

C’mon.

By: ed

ed — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:11:04 +0000

No backpedaling at all. Either you get the point of this post (as others here did) or you don’t. I wish you the finest reading experience possible with Mr. Kamp’s less sophisticated offerings.

By: Peter L. Winkler

Peter L. Winkler — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:38:14 +0000

Now you try to backpedal from your failure by accusing me of being unable to recognize a satire. Of course I am quite capable of recognizing a satire, but only when it is intended as such and is successfully executed.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:11:04 +0000

Fantastic, Peter! Have fun with the snob books! While you’re at it, you may want to look into this interesting new thing the kids are all talking about these days called “satire.”

By: Peter L. Winkler

Peter L. Winkler — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:44:43 +0000

You are really losing credibility with these reviews of book reviews of yours where you prove to be far guiltier of the sins you purport others to have committed.

I went and read Kamp’s review. It was well considered and eminently fair. It is clear that he did read the book and gave it a fair hearing. You jump on irrelevancies, such as the use of the word snob in the titles of Kamp’s books, and then conclude that he’s probably an insufferable asshole. Now that’s really unfairly jumping to conclusions.

I happened to have read some sample entries from his film snob’s directory in Vanity Fair, and thought they were spot on and funny. I’m far more inclined now to read one of Kamp’s books than more of your hair-trigger tantrumy effusions.

By: Bud Parr

Bud Parr — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:27:18 +0000

True to your URL, Ed. You may be right about Kamp, but I came to the same conclusion as he. If Lizzie weren’t in it, there’d be nothing notable about it for me as a blogger and an observer of the blog medium

By: Patrick Stephenson

Patrick Stephenson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:58:13 +0000

Haha, I love these entries with lengthy rants about people I’ve never heard of.

By: Levi

Levi — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:56:03 +0000

How did poor Jerry Garcia get dragged into this?