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Kate DriesJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
3/30/16 3:18pm
My favorite part:

We all know most of our colleagues at work are incompetent frauds but it is the smallest unexpected change in our routines that reveal how easy it would be for our collective inefficiency to bring about destruction—how close we are from complete collapse.
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  TedCruzsDoubleChinKate Dries
  3/30/16 3:19pm
  I have never worked at an office where this would not apply.
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  Nine-Leaf CloverTedCruzsDoubleChin
  3/30/16 3:26pm
  Your username suggests Ted Cruz’s campaign HQ.
  
  Please please says it is so.
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Adrastra, patron saint of snarkJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
3/30/16 3:40pm
...Romantic from early 19^th century, a time when painters started depicting fires, ruins, decay and painted people from the back in a rebuke to the sickening self righteousness of the Enlightenment and by extension as a Dada trying to destroy art.

This is someone who remembers very little from the one semester of art history they took trying very hard to write about art history in an impressive manner.
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  jesuislaburnAdrastra, patron saint of snark
  3/30/16 5:01pm
  As an art historian, can confirm. Except for putting Romanticism in the correct time period, none of these words go with the others.
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  Rando CalrissianAdrastra, patron saint of snark
  3/30/16 5:31pm
  Hey, lay off! This is about ETHICS IN FASHION JOURNALISM.
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deerlady83Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
3/30/16 3:31pm
I think the cold meds are kicking in because I have no idea what I just read. This is about a guy who just ruined his writing career by calling out some big names and emailing everyone his complaints? Is that it?
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  dark swan queendeerlady83
  3/30/16 3:52pm
  That's it.
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  Toheroadeerlady83
  3/30/16 4:23pm
  Everybody is sick and tired of fucking Anna Wintour
  
  ... is the one absolute truth that I found in this piece.
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AP BearJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
3/30/16 3:53pm
I wish I could have made it through this whole thing. Just stopped by to say I love CdG. Too broke to own any of their good stuff, but I so would, if I could. Just one piece of art. You adequately described Rei Kawakubo as a “designer/artist/genius”. Their clothes make me feel like a Bjork song.

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  mreasyAP Bear
  3/30/16 4:09pm
  same. I tried so hard to find something second hand I could justify the expenditure on by wearing to my wedding, but I couldn’t find anything fancy enough in non-tiny sizes. SIGH.
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  SpookAP Bear
  3/30/16 5:30pm
  I want that middle one so I can be a traffic cone that sprouted legs for Halloween.
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dark swan queenJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
3/30/16 3:50pm
This is also really homophobic. He keeps bringing up gay men in disparaging (and unnecessary) ways. Nobody cares about your gay friend who liked to hit on straight guys and now lives in his mom's basement, Jacques.
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  Jackie_Jormp_Jompdark swan queen
  3/30/16 4:59pm
  That part really threw me as well. Like, what does that have to do with ANYTHING related to the subject?
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  mc789Jackie_Jormp_Jomp
  3/30/16 5:22pm
  I was enjoying it up until that point. Then I was like, “Duuude....” and slowly backed away.
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BlondeGoddessJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
3/30/16 3:34pm
Bizarrely self-obsessed, vain and pretentious as only a French male can be. I wonder who his ‘writing partner’ is - I have never heard of such a construction, and I’ve been a freelance writer for 20 years.

ETA Underneath The Guardian piece it says: additional reporting by Emily Lembo. Would that be this writing partner, or is she someone who had to do a substantial edit? The Guardian piece is fine, but in tone very different from the over-flowery prose of the Observer piece.
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  DerDuhsvilleBlondeGoddess
  3/30/16 4:42pm
  I swear to you, when I read this I thought, “Yeah, French writer who worked at Charlie Hebdo. That sounds about right.” Glad I’m not the only one.
  
  The only thing that bugs me about this whole thing is that if he were a woman, he’d get blacklisted, but because he’s a dude, his incoherent ramblings got him MORE WORK. < : /
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succubusdeathglareJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
3/30/16 3:35pm
Hmm. I am pretty divided. Yes, I can point to a couple things I’ve written where I simply became tired of fighting an editor even though I knew I was right or a piece became something I never wanted it to be and the framing was all wrong. When you find “the one” — the editor who inspires you and gets what you’re saying but also challenges you to better — that’s a magical and rare thing to find. Most of the time, it’s somewhere in the middle, which is fine.

But when I first started as an editor I remembered 50-something white guys who hated, HATED that a 20-something woman would have any authority over their work. I would hear that maybe so and so gave Evan a hard time but that the personal attacks were over the top and ridiculous. Eventually my male supervisor (also an editor) had to get involved and tell him to calm down. And then he calmed down. That was the worst part. I knew that he just needed a male voice to show him he was being unreasonable. It didn’t matter what approach I took with the writer. I don’t know if this guy is sexist or just an egotistical jackass, but I am tired of this sort of crap.
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  dark swan queensuccubusdeathglare
  3/30/16 3:55pm
  Even if this had nothing to do with sexism, he's still weirdly hypocritical. Like how he gets all offended that someone thought he might be lying about when he sent the piece to the editor, and then a few paragraphs later starts claiming the editor is a liar because he never got her emails?
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KennethCJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
3/30/16 3:19pm
Hyzagi, pioneer of schlong-form journalism ...
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PerlinPimpinJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
3/30/16 4:24pm
I was startled to see the Observer piece going viral when I saw the writer’s name because I actually was in a few classes with him as an undergrad at the Sorbonne about 25 years ago. He was already a self-important sexist prick who always told us he had more important things to do than whatever we were doing in class (but then, why was he staying in the program, he could have dropped out anytime)

He was the kind of guy who never bathed (you could smell him 100 yards away), carried impressive-looking books on his arm rather than in his backpack to show us he was so smart pretending to read Bataille and Nietzsche, and certainly was very broke (as we all were) though I was under the distinct impression then he was sponging off everybody. He was already fibbing a lot, making up self-aggrandizing stories, to the point that when I read the Observer piece I wondered if he had really met ‘Rei’ though when I saw the article in the Guardian it seems more than legit. Not sure he was ever actual “staff” at Charlie Hebdo though because before the attacks the paper was rather confidential and not a place a blowhard like Hyzagi would have wanted to publish in. Or maybe he had something in it once 15 years ago and that was it, I wouldn’t know.

I’m surprised to see he’s still alive and publishing. At the Sorbonne he was always telling us he was the next Jean-Luc Godard, forever waiting for some grant so he’d go study at NYU and make the feature film that was going to revolutionize the history of cinema or something. I guess that didn’t happen. The guy was rather repulsive to me (the smell…) so I didn’t really hang out with him, but to the other commenters posting about his art history knowledge, he did get good grades in the class we attended. He was smart, just totally insufferable, sexist, and unhinged in his special stinky way.
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EileenOnSundayNightsAfterAllInTheFamilyOnCBSJulianne Escobedo Shepherd
3/30/16 4:56pm
I like what Racked has to say about all this: http://www.racked.com/2016/3/30/1133…

More to the point, some guy who wrote for Charlie Hebdo (meaning (A) he’s an asshole and (B) like all Hebdo writers and artists, thinks he’s above everything and everyone working anywhere that isn’t a serious “important” magazine as they like to imagine Hebdo is) does a massive takedown of soft targets (Fashion? Really, Jacques?) in the NYC publishing world, thus earning his easy brownie points with the Eurotrash pseudo-intelligentsia set. The “self-destruction” indicating a deep well of other takers for his jejeune work or deep well of a private family income.

The smell of the 16th is all over this fool.

Oh! And look! He’s got a history of this. Except in this case, he actually talked about a real scandal that means something to everybody and not just a takedown piece that affects him solely: http://nypost.com/2012/09/17/liu…

But WAIT! There’s MORE! Apparently Hyzagi is above it all in oh-so-many-other-ways to others who he thinks beneath his regard. Like Robert Crumb: “It’s hard to say how much the distortions and words put in my mouth by [interviewer Jacques] Hyzagi were deliberate. He taped the interview but as English is not his first language it’s possible that he simply misunderstood some things and put his own interpretation on them. That’s possible. He sent me a first draft which was so bad that I rewrote some of it but was reluctant to mess with it too much for fear of offending him. He was “pissed off” anyway, accused me of being “manipulative” and trying to “control my image.” He did leave in most of my rewrites but he also put some things back in that I had taken out and even added things and did not send me a final draft before going to press. I didn’t even know the article was out until a friend told me he read it on the Internet. I regret now that I didn’t just rewrite the whole thing. It was badly written. It’s still not very good.”—-http://slumgoddess.blogspot.com/2015/11/r-crum…
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  PerlinPimpinEileenOnSundayNightsAfterAllInTheFamilyOnCBS
  3/30/16 5:19pm
  OK so first of all I would like to say that some people who work and worked at Charlie Hebdo are absolutely lovely and not assholes, but that’s beside the point, if only because there’s no proof Hyzagi actually ever worked there. One thing is certain though, if he’s the same Jacques Hyzagi I went to the Sorbonne with about 25 years ago, he definitively wasn’t 35 year-old in 2012 as stated in that NY Post article you linked to. He’d be close to 50 now.
  
  And, uh, I feel stupid asking that but as English isn’t my 1st language, I don’t understand what “The smell of the 16th is all over this fool” means. What is “the smell of the 16th”?
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  EileenOnSundayNightsAfterAllInTheFamilyOnCBSPerlinPimpin
  3/30/16 6:03pm
  It’s the same guy. Unless Hyzagi is a common French name carried by more than one “Jacques” who all happen to be writers working in America currently.
  
  The smell of Les Peoples as opposed to that of les peuples.
  
  The Hebdo massacre was a crime and appalling. But the journal itself was a shit-stirring mess. And remains so. (the nonsense with Stromae on their cover this week is a PERFECT example of Hebdo assholism.)
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