Oy

[tree_and_leaf]

Julie Burchill has got religion. Had my usual reaction to JB's writing, i.e. it inspires occasional moments of thinking 'that's a decent point', but mostly eye-rolling. Though the question (apart from why someone who is much more enthusiastic about the OT than the NT isn't Jewish) which presented itself most forcibly is how she reconciles her Protestant chauvinism with her admiration for Fr Gavin Ashenden, who sounds... fairly high up the candle.

Have started packing; need to find out if the rumour that you can abmeld online is true.

(My mind is all over the place at the moment, yes; why do you ask?)

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[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

All you might want to know, and probably far more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Burchill

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

Burchill was briefly married to Parsons, and frequently attacks him; she claims to have got through the "sexual side" of their marriage "by pretending that my husband was my friend Peter York".[3] After Parsons, Burchill married Cosmo Landesman, the son of Fran and Jay Landesman. Each marriage produced one son, both of whom live with their fathers.

I'm making such a D: face right now (though am at least glad for sake of the sons that they're not living with her).

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Julie Burchill has been an inexhaustible and inexpressible source of mirth to anyone in this country with a sense of humour, for a good twenty-five years now. I feel sorry for the poor Anglicans.

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

She sounds entirely mad. But yes, I can see where you'd be thankful to be well clear of the dubious benefit of her conversion...

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, except when she's making you feel embarrassed that she claims to be on your side!

... as if we didn't have enough problems as it is.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

As I said... I feel sorry for you lot. And it takes a lot to make me call you "the poor Anglicans".

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

Tony Parsons's irresistible remark about his ex-wife:

"hell hath no fury like an ex-wife run to fat"

I imagine both sons and their fathers agree with your thoughts.

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

*snort* That's rather a cheap shot, but given what she apparently feels free to say about him, I can't much blame him for firing it.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You might also wonder which of them turned out to be the better writer. She writes sex novels which get remaindered. He wrote the critically-acclaimed, movie-adapted international best-seller "About a Boy".