Doh?
Can someone explain to me why the Simpsons are scattered throughout the pages of today’s New York Times Book Review? Multiple choice:
A) Apu has a new tell-all memoir out, with shocking homosexual revelations.
B) Gore Vidal has selected Barney Gumble as our “most literate American”
C) It’s their “Summer Reading” issue and what says lightwieght, fun-in-the-sun more than those loveable scamps from Springfield?
D) The section has finally wisened up to the fact that their smug, boring, stuck-at-Portnoy’s Complaint approach to books is missing a huge swath of the reading public that hasn’t yet hit 50 and their ham-handed attempt to curry Gen-X favor by splashing the Simpsons about is as shallow as it is desperate.
But don’t let me try to sway you. Vote now…