Cathy Seipp, one of the great sources for stellar writing, common sense, and humor in the blogosphere has passed away. To honor her memory, allow me to share links to some of her writing that I found especially good over the past couple years:
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Cathy wrote on Bob
Newhart;
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And Richard
Feynman (bet you never thought you'd see both Feynman and Newhart
this close together in a single post);
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She did a great interview
with Matt Stone and Trey Parker from South Park;
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A perceptive
(and prescient)
look at TV shows 30 Rock and Studio 60 on the Sunset
Strip;
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She looked at online
privacy (funny article title: "Gladys Kravitz Nation");
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A digression on
journalistic
ethics, managing to be hilarious on a serious topic and
proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that New York Times
reporter David Cay Johnston is a self-important
humorless weenie;
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Her skeptical
take on gay marriage;
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Her devastating
review of an idiotic book about Charleton Heston;
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Her experiences in trying to find an Oriana Fallaci book
at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, and her funny and smart blog post
on the fallout from her article;
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Her response to feedback she encountered
to one of her LA Times op-eds on parents obsessed with getting
their kids into selective colleges, containing the timeless observation:
I guess they detected, just beneath the surface, my usual impatience with officious blowhards and took it personally.
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And finally, something she wrote back in October 2005 about her illness. It
probably should be bookmarked by anyone who might need to know
someday about how to handle a dreadful disease with extraordinary
bravery and class.