I thoroughly enjoy each and every issue of Garden & Gun. However, one recurring feature always Gets my Goat and Grinds my Gears, and that is The High & The Low by Julia Reed.
It's not that she can't write; she has considerable talent. It's that her pieces are always about her, even when they're not. Now, this may be what she is tasked and asked to do. Yet, it borders on excruciating to read her name drop all her "famous" friends, the importance of her family, and the well-to-do with whom she frequently rubs elbows. Oddly enough, I'm expressing my distaste for her after reading the June/July issue in which she pens one of her better pieces. She doesn't mention Oxford, MS once, a rarity for her. No, my disdain for all things OM has nothing to do with why this was a better piece. It was about music and past summer soundtracks. I suppose she debased herself to write, for once, about something which everyone and every Southerner can relate.
Good Dog will always be the best feature of this magazine.
Rant over. We haven't had a "You know what really pisses me off..." thread in a while so I thought I'd get the ball rolling on this lazy Sunday before yard work commences. Don't tell my grandmother I'm doing so on the Lord's day!
It's not that she can't write; she has considerable talent. It's that her pieces are always about her, even when they're not. Now, this may be what she is tasked and asked to do. Yet, it borders on excruciating to read her name drop all her "famous" friends, the importance of her family, and the well-to-do with whom she frequently rubs elbows. Oddly enough, I'm expressing my distaste for her after reading the June/July issue in which she pens one of her better pieces. She doesn't mention Oxford, MS once, a rarity for her. No, my disdain for all things OM has nothing to do with why this was a better piece. It was about music and past summer soundtracks. I suppose she debased herself to write, for once, about something which everyone and every Southerner can relate.
Good Dog will always be the best feature of this magazine.
Rant over. We haven't had a "You know what really pisses me off..." thread in a while so I thought I'd get the ball rolling on this lazy Sunday before yard work commences. Don't tell my grandmother I'm doing so on the Lord's day!
