Well, well, well. We’re back and we’re bad, and we’ve resuscitated the DUCHIES (pronounced, DOUCHE-ees) because Jenny D.’s recent review of a mixed bill at BRIC Studios in Brooklyn has us fired up. The interesting thing is that C.C. was personally involved and invested in one of the pieces she took down.
Now, before we all [...]
Okay, it’s not too late to sneak in a little douche before the New Year. You know C.C.’s pet peeve is lazy critics, and arts writers who think they’re too above general standards of journalism to be bothered with reporting seriously on the arts. So, when we read Anne Midgette’s year-end wrap-up–all six slender paragraphs–supposedly [...]
We know we’ve only been in action since May, but we’ve been toiling away like little Christmas elves to bring you the badest, most awesomest, completely ridiculous critical commentary out there. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve tore a few new holes. But mainly, we’ve been genius. So we’re going out in 2007 by honoring the [...]
Now, y’all know we could eat us up some Claudia La Rocco like, any day. And you know, this is going to hurt us more than it hurts her, but what must be done, must be done.
Thus…in her otherwise erudite and kick-ass endorsement of Doug Elkin’s Sound of Music inspired dance piece at Joe’s Pub, [...]
THE FIRST EVER: MEGA DOUCHE
It’s pretty rare these days that one critic will call out another critic for his/her work. Well, okay, except for here at Counter Critic. So how awesomely surprised were we when we found out that hacky old retard with an Arts Journal blog, John Perreault, sent a flaming bag of shit [...]
L. Ro. is a poet. And you’ll know it when you read her review of the girl/boy double bill of Beth Gill and Daniel Linehan at DTW, so we’re giving her the Mini-CADDY
Dunning is just…dry in her review of Gina Gibney, so she gets a Mini-Douche
Roslyn Sulcas gets a Mini-CADDY for using the word “denuded” [...]
It’s John Jasperse Day!
We’re slapping the full DUCHY on Jennifer Dunning for her poo poo all over John Jasperse’s Misuse liable for prosecution, which we just reviewed (yummy). And, to make a long story short, we thought it was super sweet.
And it’s not just cuz we disagree with D. Dog that we’re giving her [...]
We really don’t care about Harry Potter here (unless it’s naked pictures of Daniel Radcliffe), but The Times has decided to drag us into this crappy Dumbledor being gay controversy by running Edward Rothstein’s retarded editorial. And we’re giving him a mega douche, even though he isn’t reviewing anything, as much as he’s just [...]
I can’t give Roslyn Sulcas the full douchey for her harsh review of Alexandre Roccoli’s Unbecoming Solo that ran last weekend at Chez Bushwick as part of fi:af’s “Crossing The Line” series. Why? Because she isn’t altogether wrong in her descriptions. The performance was inchoate, and for all its use of pre-recorded [...]
I’ll forgive Ms. La Rocco for apparently not reading our review of Jeremy Wade’s “…and pulled out their hair.” I’m sure she’s busy, what with all the insightful, awesome reviews she writes. (I’m being serious here.)
But I cringed (on the inside) when I read the first line of her review:
For one night at least, the [...]
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