Frank Kogan

(1) Yeah, that final line of mine is very poorly written - not sure how anyone will make sense of it, will know which bullshit I'm talking about (the world's? Britney's?) or how Britney gets me out from under it (whatever it is). Comes from finishing the column at the last minute. In any event, I meant that Britney's messy recalcitrance is an antidote to the world's bullshit and platitudes, since she somes uninterested in cred or figuring out the most politic thing to say - so I find her liberating to observe, but still, she's stuck in her own mess (even if it doesn't match the world's bullshit; and if she's genuinely an addict in denial, I'm sure she's bullshitting herself a lot).

(2) My guess is that even the people going "everybody's getting snookered but me" identify their former pre-wised-up self with the snookered. I'll have to think about this more, why I like the complicity story most. Is very Stones and Dylan.