I Am Chuck Bass

Discussed: The Downfall of Established New York Publications, Imagined Sexual Fantasy Animals, Jealousy Only Makes You Weaker, Losers, Don’t Hate – Participate, Potshots of the Unfashionable and Uninformed

LAZY JOURNALISTIC CRITICISM, A BLIGHT ON NEW YORK MAGAZINE: TRANSPARENT JEALOUS ATTEMPT TO TAKE DOWN CHUCK BASS FALLS FLAT

“‘What names does he call you when you make love?’ Honestly?
What names does anyone call each other when they ‘make love’?
In high school.”

Well, well, well New York Magazine. I bet you think you’re awfully awesome and oh-so-irreverantly snarky with what you must think is this shrewd and accomplished take down, as found in your weekly Gossip Girl episode recap and “Reality Index”. Call the Pulitzer Board!

I think at this point we all know what the deal with Mssr. Chuck Bass is, having established himself as well above and beyond the usual oft-bland/immature constitution of your average high school student, emo, whispy-banged or otherwise.

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Discusssed: Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1777 Comedy of Manners, Variations in Menu Ordering Options for Straight Men, The One That Got Away, Royalty Are Insane, Overcoming Your Inner Douche, Being So Emo It Hurts, The Deus Ex Machina, The Dick Wolf Hedgemony, Electric Vs Manual Razors

OMG. Or, more precisely, OMFG.
Tonight, in our book, was Season 2’s first real episode of Gossip Girl.

This is where it all really starts, setting the action back in the city, with the bulk of it in the penthouse of ill repute – The Waldorf School for Scandal. While the previous two episodes were all well and good, they merely were the buffalo wings before the fried chicken as C would say, or as I would say, the Lemon Baby Arugula Salad before the Olive and Caper stuffed Grilled Trout. (more…)

Discussed: Mumblecore Tween Brainwashing; Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’; Foul-Mouthed Line Flubs; She-Tears; Love Shenanigans; Bertolucci’s Late-’70s Aesthetics; The Ascension of the Chuck Bass as Everyman

Now, I’m sure it didn’t take you long to realize the reason to watch and real moral centerpiece of this whole deal was, and is, Chuck Bass.

No one really makes this clear up front. Least of not Chuck Bass himself.

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Two guys (B & C) blindsided by their love of Gossip Girl, bring you a slightly more masculine take on the Best Show On Television.