only if that baby was born 4 months premature and it’s holding a crab apple.

This must be a common theme around the Culturemap water cooler. Yes, I did apply for Steven’s job but I also applied for hundreds of jobs at publications all across the country from the large, Dallas Morning News, to the small, Long Island News. If I harbored resentment at each and every publication that didn’t hire me for whatever reason they gave (wrong part of the country, not sure about the tone of my writing, overqualified, et al.) I’d never get anything done.

I’ve been in this business too damn long for childish grudges.

You made me curious and so I jumped over to see this voice of a generation and have to say I was pretty much impressed but not in the way you guys obviously are. Honestly, when reading his introduction to his trendysomething blog, my brain seized at this little paragraph.

“More importantly, public events at art collectives provide free kegs of microbrewed IPA and efficiently consolidate a critical mass of generally attractive pseudo-intellectuals – people like me.”

I guess he’s trying to be funny but it just comes across as vacuous. I mean, maybe he is speaking for a segment of the Houston community but it’s not a particularly interesting one and because of this his prose is rife with words like “trendysomething” and needless abbreviations like “toho” because he’s trying very very hard to impress you how hip he is.

The rest of the columns are dull and dim. Take the one on the 4th of July which is nothing more than unfocused rambling that makes Grandpa Simpson seem short and to the point in comparison. The article on the ZaZa is also brutal to suffer through but at least he kind of has a bit more focus.

Look the thing is, the hacky Press Release inspired stuff he does is neither here nor there, but you would think if he was going to write this column which should reflect him as a person, he’d have something to say and the fact of the matter is, he doesn’t. It’s shallow and soulless work which in turn makes him out to be a tacky boring douche.

Maybe he’s nice, maybe he’s funny, maybe he’s intelligent, but you’d never know it from reading “TrendySomething in SoMo” and, since he is the Writer and Assistant Editor, the only person who is to blame for his portrayal is himself.

I could care less one way or the other if he’s rich, poor, privileged, struggling, or whatever – the one thing he owes anyone reading his column is to be interesting and have something to say. He offers neither.

It’s also laughably pretentious whilst critiquing pretentiousness. Your complaining about him having fancy brunch whilst Houstonians “were slaving over their tax returns” and your indignation that someone would dare speak ill of artwork all reek of fake populist rage.

Congrats on using a bunch of big words to say a lot of nothing!

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Your take on Thomson is hardly credible (or even funny) considering you applied for his job and were not hired. You sound like a heartbroken 16-year-old bashing an ex-boyfriend in the lunchroom.

But it’s nice to know you get your “positive outlook on life” from Hotel ZaZa. Tell me, how many pairs of blinders come standard with the Hotel ZaZa Positive Outlook package?

If youre the girl with the huge bombs in the attached picture of Steven in this article, please feel free to get in touch with me.
I will be everywhere but Zaza and Cava.

Thanks,

all x’s no o’s
Steve