There’s a psychedelic quality, too, to David’s writing and speech, a facility with metaphor that reminds us his synapses might have seen a few extra chemicals in their day. (Two of my favorite workplace Davidisms: Outsize jerks in the office are “asymmetrical threats”; fighting your boss is “throwing spitballs at a battleship.”) “His voice bears a relation to the dialogue in Deadwood,” says Andersen. “This mixture of grotesque profanity and quasi-Shakespearean orotundity. And then there’s all this really weird custom-made slang. When we first met, he talked about ‘adjacencies.’ ” David still uses that one, actually, as in, Eva Braun was adjacent to a greater evil, Adolf Hitler. “To people who don’t know him,” says Andersen, “it’s, ‘What the fuck are you talking about?’
Is David Carr a Truth Junkie? — New York Magazine
There’s a psychedelic quality, too, to David’s writing and speech, a facility with metaphor that reminds us his synapses might have seen a few extra chemicals in their day. (Two of my favorite workplace Davidisms: Outsize jerks in the office are “asymmetrical threats”; fighting your boss is “throwing spitballs at a battleship.”) “His voice bears a relation to the dialogue in Deadwood,” says Andersen. “This mixture of grotesque profanity and quasi-Shakespearean orotundity. And then there’s all this really weird custom-made slang. When we first met, he talked about ‘adjacencies.’ ” David still uses that one, actually, as in, Eva Braun was adjacent to a greater evil, Adolf Hitler. “To people who don’t know him,” says Andersen, “it’s, ‘What the fuck are you talking about?’
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