Mike

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Eisenscher wrote:

>While Mike is rubbing pot bellies with
>the good ol' boys at the tavern

While Mike (Moore, not Eisencher) certainly has the belly for the job,
there aren't any such taverns in the neighborhood he lives in, which is
also mine. Except that I live in a tiny rent-stabilized apartment, and Mike
lives in a $1 million co-op.

>there are a lot of working folks whose
>lives and interests are far more textured and interestings that he suggests

This was the substance of Cockburn's critique. Moore essentially takes the
mainstream caricature of w.c. life - a bunch of subliterates who belch and
fart in front of the TV - as accurate. In that, he seems to have in common
with our old friend Bob Malecki. The guy is immensely talented, but as
Cockburn also says, he takes a patronizing, Lettermanesque view of much of
humanity. I think it's unfortunate that Alex launched this attack in a
right-wing paper like the New York Press, though (a paper which, it must be
admitted, is a lot more fun to read than the increasingly dreadful Village
Voice).

Doug