{"id":116,"date":"2022-02-15T21:26:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/?p=116"},"modified":"2022-02-15T21:26:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:26:38","slug":"p-j-orourke-dies-of-a-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/2022\/02\/15\/p-j-orourke-dies-of-a-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"P. J. O’Rourke Dies of a Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s just the way he would have wanted it.<\/p>\n

P. J. dies of a Tuesday, and it’s just so obvious, no one sees the joke.<\/p>\n

P. J. O’Rourke reportedly died earlier today, aged about 74. He was best known for being a master of canned snark, specializing in making fun of people’s clothes and celebrating the anarchic drug culture he reveled in during the 1960s and 70s.<\/p>\n

He is perhaps best remembered for his 20,000 word travelogues published in Rolling Stone<\/em>, but before that he had a long career of achievements. Among other things, he totally destroyed the National Lampoon<\/em> in the course of five or six years in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

“It was humor for brainiacs when O’Rourke first came aboard,” recalled Aloysius J. McQuade, Executive Humor Editor for the NatLamp<\/em>, 1972-75.<\/p>\n

“After two years of him as managing editor, its readership consisted mainly of retarded 16-year-olds, and we were losing money hand over fist.<\/p>\n

“I hoped P. J. would do the same to Rolling Stone<\/em> when he moved over there, but I guess their readership was already pretty dumb to begin with.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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