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Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Dear Sarah Bunting, you are my hero. And I quote:
And if you, dear reader, have chirpily told anyone, ever, to "smile," I would like to give you a piece of advice, to wit: shut the fuck up. I mean it. If you feel happy all the time, that's great, but I'll smile when I please and not before, and your telling me to isn't going to get it done -- it's irritating, it's intrusive, and it's a comment that's almost always directed at women, which makes it that much more irritating and intrusive since it implies that men can stomp around all grumpy if they like because they have Important Man Things to think about, but women ought to smile and speak in soothing tones or some shit like that, like, guess what? I run my own business, and it's in the red, so you can get a smile out of me by handing over a tax-free hundred grand. No? Then mind your knitting, Miss Merry Sunshine.
With the possible exception of beginning a sentence with "no offense or anything," telling another person with whom you do not have a binding legal or blood relationship to smile is the single most goddamn annoying conversational gambit in the world, and everyone BUT EVERYONE you say it to HATES it, and you. Don't fucking do it.
Go read The Vine right now.
P.S. Artwalk is this weekend. Don't forget.
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