{"id":623,"date":"2010-09-11T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T20:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2010-09-13T06:56:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T10:56:17","slug":"elderism-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #74"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I\u2019m older; I have a great love of the English parlance. I can\u2019t stand dipshit, tattooed, lacquered, varnished, depilatoried younger people talking their stupid shit, stage-sighing, saying \u201cIt\u2019s like, I\u2019m like, whatever,\u201d and talking in horrible clich\u00e9s, rolling their eyes when they disapprove of something.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

– 62 year-old crime novelist James Ellroy in an interview with Keith Phillips<\/a> in “The Onion’s” culture-centric sibling, “A.V. Club.” The author of L.A. Confidential<\/em> proudly admits to “unplugging” himself from current culture with the hopes of steering clear of “vile misogynistic horror films, white-trash reality-TV shows, neck-biting fucked-up vampire flicks, and stoned-out teenage-boy pratfall comedies” that “pander” to what is apparently one big “Real World” casting call of a generation.<\/p>\n

But Ellroy doesn’t spend all of his time complaining; he’s much more “party” than “pooper” these days. In the rest of the article he speaks about his recently-released second memoir, how he was “conjoined” with author Erika Schickel, and how he’s starring in an upcoming television series with his sidekick Barko, a womanizing, drug-dealing, badge-wearing, computer-animated bull terrier.<\/p>\n

“It’s a gas,” says Ellroy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I\u2019m older; I have a great love of the English parlance. I can\u2019t stand dipshit, tattooed, lacquered, varnished, depilatoried younger people talking their stupid shit, stage-sighing, saying \u201cIt\u2019s like, I\u2019m like, whatever,\u201d and talking in horrible clich\u00e9s, rolling their eyes when they disapprove of something.” – 62 year-old crime novelist James Ellroy in an interview […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}