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Mr. Blow takes things a bit too serious. With all that’s going on in the world he’s ruffled about Marty? There’s plenty of non-fake reports & writers to rail against. Hmmm… perhaps I’ll re-launch my fake blogger character.. Dick Hertz.

I just wish that Marty would stop with the columns and get his friggin’ Day Job work product done on a timely basis.

I found Steve Blow’s column to be brilliant. I ,too, tend to feel the same kind of disdain toward the pretentious and elitist mentality often associated with big-money Dallas. I have even gone as far as being horrified that there are people in the world that can wake and sleep simply scoffing at $7,000 for a handbag while most of the world’s populous lives in poverty. I find it to be offensive and inhumane – But, I don’t live such a life so that is purely a personal decision.
Politics aside – this is exactly the kind of goal / reaction that “Mr Cortland” is trying to create.
It is my personal belief that he wants everyone to hate him. Why not? It brings readers. It breeds discussion. The very thing that grabs attention. So, although I feel rather sorry for “Mr Cortland” and his dismissive and uncaring (as it seems by his pen) spouse, I can see where this would make for fodder to the masses. The reaction desired is exactly what has been produced.

Does it change anyone’s thinking to know that Marty Cortland is not paid to write his column and that, at his direction, we give the money instead to a local charity?

Reid, I know you’re not really this superficial, but we all know some Parkies who are. But, then again, they really don’t care what anyone outside The Bubble thinks, do they?

Maybe you could do a counterpoint column by someone at the bottom of the heap, like the guy who picks up roadkill for the city … now that would be interesting (and quite Onion-esque).

Steve, if you don’t like Marty, don’t read it. Better yet, don’t buy the magazine. Even if it is still available at Wal-Mart. (Won’t that tweak Marty to know who might be pawing his text?)
It’s not required reading. It’s not required buying. But think about all the people who are talking about this column who may feel compelled to check it out. And YOU, Steve, are contributing to their curiosity.

Tim, should we just admit to everyone that it’s Jim Moroney?

Dave Little is Marty Cortland.

The joke’s on Blow. Ha ha, Blow is a humorless stick-up-his-ass reactionary hack. Ha ha.
But that doesn’t mean the joke — ham-fisted social satire — is funny.

Is it time to go to the Old Monk yet?

The whole damn D crew is apparently a bunch of 5 year olds.

I think it is more like they are given a small allowance and a big playpen which I find adorable beyond belief.net

Let’s be honest…a column each issue written in such an “insider” fashion and with such a predictable premise is less than interesting. Once, perhaps. But every month? I just fear that the D folks will equate a high volume of blogging about the column and the DMN story to an endorsement of a quality product.

I agree it’s not funny and have voiced that clearly in other posts. Blaming D or a fictional columnist for a perceived socio-economic divide is assinine. On the other hand, the column itself is assinine, not to mention vulgar. As Gwyon so accurately pointed out, this was a column that pleased the editors. The joke, though, may be on them, because the readers en masse don’t get it. If you have to explain the punchline, then either the content is lacking or the delivery is poor. Satire is the most difficult type of humor to pull off. It works in The Onion because of the limited demographic, age, interests of students and recent grads. D has a large and varied readership and it doesn’t work. If, that space had been devoted, for example, to satirical jabs at Houston or Atlanta,it is likely that more poeple would have gotten it. Like I said before Tim…

Marty sounds a wee bit like a certain Mr. Abthernabther, no?

HOW COME YOU NEVER SEE THEM BOTH AT THE SAME BENEFIT GALAS? HUH?

methinks Tim, Eric and Gordon Keith got drunk at the Old Monk one Friday. And that they agreed ONE of them was clever enough to pull off a Tony Clifton-style dual-identity column featuring a snobby Dallasite. And then it was agreed that ONE of them would do it.
And then the oh-so-very hip Quick debuts snobby Abthernabther. … and then the deeply satirical D Mag debuts Marty.
What’s next? Since Eric, Gordo and Tim were all at that picnic table (THREE gifted Twainish satirists), and since there is a Marty and an Aberbhtnany (TWO brilliant Twainish satires, … there is one more of these look-at-me exercises waiting to hatch.
PS: When I say ‘Twainish,’ I mean Shania.

Damn.

I told Tim that I thought Marty was made for the back page of D when Marty made his first appearance there.

Either I have no taste or Steve Blow doesn’t.

I suspect the latter.

Here’s why I like Marty on the back page of D. First because by the time you get to the back page of D you’re in need of entertainment. Besides that, I like the way Marty does rich.

If one of us talked about rich like he talks about rich we’d come across as phony rich. He doesn’t come across as phony rich. No sirree, he comes across as the real deal, rich like we know rich.

the amanda.
Do you make sense to anyone other than yourself/alias

What does this mean?

But that’s no fun, and for those of you not in on it, yeah, it’s a little funny, but doesn’t rise to the level of comedy.

and

it was meant to be really funny, and the Mensa members were supposed to get it…right, Mensa member? Mensa member?

Now that’s satire.

Nor does mine Marty.