12/12/2023 0 Comments Slate audio book club next book![]() ![]() She writes, without much detail, about the end of her marriage, her grief over Donald Trump's electoral victory, the joy she takes in family and friendship, her hopes for a bright romantic future, and her steps toward self-acceptance and self-love. Slate's essays tend toward the short, casual, and mildly silly, and her language strikes a balance between oddly flat statements and endearingly specific word choices enlivened by the occasional Seussian rhyme, as when she declares that she will no longer engage in "rude and crude struggle." But Slate's rhymes and specificities disguise the fact that her essays' content is quite mainstream and sometimes fuzzy. Little Weirds, in contrast, slides by smoothly and vaguely. It keeps the viewer both off-balance and engaged. The result is pleasingly choppy and highly personal. In Slate's new Netflix special, Stage Fright, she mixes decades-old home videos and filmed interviews with her family members into the live stand-up set she performs. Mostly, I wish that Little Weirds were weirder, and more intimate. If I dislike Little Weirds, or find it in various ways wanting, am I no longer a friend to the world? Am I guilty of killing wild creatures? Or can I be a friendly, wild-creature-loving accepter of vulnerability and still wish that Little Weirds demonstrated more of the tonal range, irreverent wildness, and utter self-exposition that characterize Slate's stand-up? All Slate's tone-setting puts a critic in a tough position.
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