Free-Floating Hostility

Thursday, March 30, 2006


Accountability in Punning

It has come to my attention that some of you are still confused about the term "Hostylefax" and that others of you are already aware of what it means, but are putzes. So, to clarify: "Stylefax" is the quondam title of André Leon Talley's column in Vogue, in which he writes in about his travels throughout the world of the glitterati. When my last subscription lapsed, "Stylefax" had been retitled "Life with André," presumably because faxes were no longer hip (and I say so advisedly, putz). Hostylefax is a pun on Stylefax and on Free-Floating Hostility. Capiche?

Good thing Nabokov never had to put up with this shit every time he referred to something obscure.

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