What I Love About Cathy Seipp
But, first, the context. Cathy writes in National Review about her "testy relationship" with columnist Nikki Finke, whom she described as "semi-sane" in the media column she wrote for LA's old Buzz magazine in the early 90s:
She complained to my editor that she was offended because she'd written serious articles about the serious problem of schizophrenia, so as I recall we had to run an apology.Now for the record, if anyone called me semi-sane in print, I wouldn't send a letter like that. I'd send a jagged piece of broken mirror in an envelope with "I AM NOT SEMI-SANE" scrawled on it in lipstick or blood, but I guess we all have our own style when it comes to handling these things.
Yes, and like Cathy, I happen to favor psycho-chic. I also like to put my hate mail in my promo pieces (to sell my column). We're doing a new one now, and one dissatisfied reader's "I'd like to shove a stiletto heel up your ass" will be right at the top.