I’ve somehow missed finding your blog until now. Glad to have done so.

I could expand on why, and how it’s wrong, but why bother?

Lileks on politics mostly pisses me off no end, and I’d be delighted to read a parody of him, whether on politics, or other stuff, but this just isn’t remotely a parody of his style, in my opinion. It’s something by someone — in my opinion — with no sense of the rhythm of a sentence, who uses some of the nouns Lileks uses. That’s all there is.

But it doesn’t sound/read remotely like him. I mean, not even remotely. Not a phrase. Have I said “remotely” enough times?

A parody that doesn’t remotely imitate the way a writer works, well, all that’s there, then, is the notion “I want to write a parody of so&so.”

Of course, I didn’t think Bored of the Rings worked very well, either, but that was at least funny some of the time.

Now, George Alec Effinger: he knew how to do pastiche.