Title: Smart kid seeks validation with 'in' crowd
Product review: So sixty-nine of you (out of 84) gave this four to five stars? Relentlessly jocular (you can almost see the sweat), doggedly ingratiating (will you be my friend?), grimly populist (I'm smart but I'm just like you really), excruciatingly condescending (and I'm only doing it for the money), shockingly trivial (the fact that these were commissioned, from a variety of publications - Gourmet, Premiere, Rolling Stone - is no excuse), often poorly written (people's phonecalls on 9/11 not making *rational* sense was a nadir - what other kind of sense is there, exactly? - but he seems to think slackness is a virtue), crassly and unfairly offensive (Mrs Thompson; Tracy Austin), often interminable (Authority and American Usage; Up, Simba) - so what's to like? Trite, smug and - as we now know - desperate; I cringed even as my heart went out to him
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