{"id":10370,"date":"2006-11-30T14:44:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T19:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/11\/30\/10370.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:40","slug":"rhymes-with-koosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/11\/30\/rhymes-with-koosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhymes with Koosh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK, I&#8217;m all for actors getting drunk and rambling anti-authoritarian incoherency, but that does <b>not<\/b> mean that I want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,,1961075,00.html\">hear about<\/a> Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman getting busy all over the Lincoln Bedroom. I mean. Ew.\n<p>On the other hand, I was happy to see Danny DeVito referred to as <I>louche<\/I>. Sometime this morning, or this week anyway, I came across a reference to somebody as <I>louche<\/I>, and I thought the fellow in question was not <I>louche<\/I> at all. I think to be <I>louche<\/I> you have to be very nearly respectable. Not actually respectable, true, but I don&#8217;t think you could call, say, Flavor Flav <I>louche<\/I>. There has to be a sense that if the fellow cleaned himself up and stopped drinking (let&#8217;s say drinking, I think drunkenness is far more <I>louche<\/I> than being a cokehead) he could pass for respectable, if you weren&#8217;t looking closely.\n<p>Can women be <I>louche<\/I>? Was the late great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anitaoday.com\/\">Anita O&#8217;Day<\/a> <I>louche<\/I>? What about Thelma Diamond?\n<p>You know, there was a time in my life when I wanted to be <I>louche<\/I>. I totally dug myself staggering through the streets at dawn, showing up for dinner parties already in the bag, having the barman (who would be an buddy from way back, of course) lay out seventeen shots of whiskey across the bar of the White Horse Tavern. I never wanted to be a fireman, but for a year or so I thought it would be romantic to be <I>louche<\/I>. I&#8217;m glad I never was; I haven&#8217;t the stomach for it.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I\u2019m all for actors getting drunk and rambling anti-authoritarian incoherency, but that does not mean that I want to hear about Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman getting busy all over the Lincoln Bedroom. I mean. Ew. On the other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17901,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370\/revisions\/17901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}