"Well in my opinion, she just went from self-obsessed too skinny to self-obsessed too muscular," another commenter wrote.
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This article was originally published on BarBend.com. Self-obsessed. Insecure. Narcissistic.
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They just think we're self-obsessed, tech-obsessed, and it's all narcissistic.
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Of course, exaggerated claims are the norm for this self-obsessed regime.
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So by being self-obsessed you get these micro self-obsession payoffs.
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"It's always anyone with red hair, because apparently I'm self-obsessed," Gibon says.
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This sort of millennial generation who is self-obsessed and who wants recognition.
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A Disneyland actress has gone viral for being unflinchingly cruel and self-obsessed.
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Stay out late, and let your self-obsessed ego dissipate on the dancefloor.
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Another suggestion basically swapped those roles, having Ralph become a self-obsessed internet celebrity.
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"Ross is an emotionally abusive, self obsessed, classist, intellectually superior PoS," Jamie Sykes replied.
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And Greer Childs (Cleo Anthony, of Extant and Transparent) is a self-obsessed photographer.
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The only reason we're self-obsessed is that's what we've been raised to think.
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She's self-obsessed, always late, and has a crippling case of Peter Pan Syndrome.
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He's a calmer speaker, a more confident lover, and a little less self-obsessed.
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It wouldn't band behind an individual, and certainly not one so unabashedly self-obsessed.
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A self-obsessed narcissist who cynically exploits fear, Trump has governed as he campaigned.
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Mr. West is a self-obsessed rabble-rouser who brags about not reading books.
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We're already watching the warning smoke bellow, but everyone is too self-obsessed to notice.
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The students were generally so demanding and self-obsessed that afterward she felt completely drained.
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Over-sharing comes across as self-obsessed and insensitive to the balance of the conversation.
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Of course, Mr. Shandling's comedy, on stage and screen, was always inward looking, even self-obsessed.
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She's been so blindly self-obsessed that she didn't realize she'd alienated those closest to her.
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These faraway glimpses at Amy are what make her seem self-obsessed, even underserving of kindness.
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At least we'd get rid of one awful self-obsessed New Yorker in the White House.
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What could be better for the self-obsessed snowboarders, surfers, or mountain bikers that dominate GoPro advertising?
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But selfies are discussed in op-eds as a symptom of a self-obsessed and materialistic culture.
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LWWWD is an incisive portrait of a self-obsessed industry hellbent on succeeding by whatever means necessary.
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I kid, I kid; only a stereotypically self-obsessed San Franciscan could think that this is about them.
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Facebook became the processing mechanism that quickly turned compassion into a kind of self-obsessed and paralyzing fear.
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I also stopped being as self-obsessed—not in a shitty way, just in an 'I'm 21' way.
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When we're introduced to him at the film's outset, we learn that he's fundamentally selfish and self-obsessed.
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"Millennials have at times been described as the 'me, me, me generation,' self obsessed and narcissistic," says Haidermota.
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SELFIE How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us By Will Storr 403 pp.
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ROME — The campaign before Italy's national elections on Sunday has been self-obsessed and often petty and unedifying.
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Married duo Lisa (Monica Barbaro) and Arthur (Bobby Lee) are totally in love, totally self-obsessed, and total weirdos.
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These money diaries, self-obsessed as they can be, might serve as a clumsy first step in that project.
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"How people can equate sharing photos of yourself or your body online as being utterly 'self obsessed,'" she wrote.
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It's a very specific group they're trying to reach—they're very young, they're very white, cool, and self-obsessed.
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It's a kind of self-obsessed narcissism that actually degrades virtuous living into something much less good for humanity.
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But at least, we'll always have the fake movie trailer where two self-obsessed leaders believe they can create peace.
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And we all know the personalities of these ladies tend to fall on the self-obsessed side of the spectrum.
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Greenfield doesn't explain how she secured her remarkable access, though she clearly has a gift for wrangling the self-obsessed.
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Like any self-obsessed millennial with a vaguely defined media job, I have a Google Alert set for my name.
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Like many of the things that millennials dive into, plastic surgery has been oversimplified as unnecessary, self-obsessed and harmful.
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"He is a deeply delusional and self-obsessed narcissist, and, you know, good luck to America once he's out," he said.
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"Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that's just the tip of the iceberg," the show's synopsis reads.
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He is very concerned about becoming a self-obsessed monster and accepting only certain kinds of roles to perpetuate the momentum.
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However, I believe Jenna Lyons took an unfair dive for J.Crew; her self-promoting, self-obsessed ways made her an easy target.
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Doctor Manhattan believes that a world of endless adulation and obedience would be great for a self-obsessed, nervy man like Veidt.
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Director Daniel Goldhaber turns in a feature debut that's a little bit noir, a little bit glam, and forgivably, appropriately self-obsessed.
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Then I found it to be utterly self-obsessed with a wordless pie-eating scene that stretched on for at least 10 minutes.
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They've figured out that ... Because people are essentially self-obsessed by proxy of staying alive, if you went somewhere dangerous you'd probably die.
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I see a whiny narcissist of a child, self-obsessed, constantly demanding attention to the detriment of my brother's own airtime (parental attention).
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But it was also exactly those self-promoting, self-obsessed ways that took a forgettable brand and turned it into a global phenomenon.
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I think there may still be a little bit of stigma, but everyone's so self-obsessed now that people aren't worried about it.
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Amy Jellicoe was as unlikable as heroines got on TV in 2011: a high-strung, self-obsessed do-gooder who exudes weaponized optimism.
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That's maybe not such a high bar to clear in this confessional, self-obsessed age, but for a woman in the 15th century?
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Those Americans don't believe Trump is on a mental precipice or that his frenzied, self-obsessed tweeting makes him unfit for the presidency.
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Present Laughter follows a successful and self-obsessed comedy actor Garry Essedine (Kline) as he prepares to travel for a touring commitment in Africa.
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Together, they suggest a growing interest in exploring social media obsession, sometimes even beyond the usual demonization of women as shallow or self-obsessed.
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Portia is a self-obsessed actress, and Hagner's portrayal brilliantly satirizes the archetype of the narcissistic millennial while infusing the character with unexpected warmth.
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Not because it's hipster (what hipster uses a Segway?) but because it does capture our tech-and-self-obsessed culture at its most unbearable.
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"Kaj and Andrea", a pair of puppets, are sweet friends, but also goofily flawed: Kaj is terribly self-obsessed, Andrea is warbling and neurotic.
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His forthcoming book, " Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us " (Overlook), opens, alarmingly, with a chapter on suicide.
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Every generation has at some point been labeled too self-obsessed and entitled and apathetic, yet also somehow too political and progressive and idealistic.
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In a recent fashion feature in The Reporter, she comes off as a steamy, self-obsessed vixen, aptly costumed in form-fitting black leather.
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And on Twitter, some users are picking apart the pilots' motives as "greedy" and "self-obsessed" while gawking at their six-figure pay package.
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It would be easy to say that our self-obsessed culture, rampant cynicism in politics and the decline of traditional dating are all recent trends.
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America's most self-obsessed grandstander will not retreat, tail between his legs, to live out the rest of his days in Howard Hughes-ish solitude.
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The self-obsessed King belted out the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber-created lyrics as he mockingly asks Jesus to prove his divinity by performing miracles.
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They were hilarious, improbable, completely self-obsessed, and often full of moments that broke the fourth wall and referenced the sheer extravagance of it all.
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As he claims, he might not be as self-obsessed as he used to be, but there remain bright—nearly blinding—flickers of an ego.
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He's a misogynistic, self-obsessed creep who won't take "no" for an answer, and LeFou's main personality trait is that he's Gaston's perpetually loyal lackey.
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Chandler is an indulgent portrait of self-obsessed masculinity, while Monica's terrible taste in boyfriends recurs as a punchline about women's inability to understand men.
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Kurt's victims are usually as unpleasantly self-obsessed as he is, so with the exception of Jessie, it's hard to get invested in their fates.
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On Instagram, I worry if my captions and Stories aren't witty enough, that I'm posting too many selfies, that I seem vain and self-obsessed.
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The Cuomo campaign denied Nixon has had an impact on its plans, and dismissed her as a "self-obsessed" actress in an interview with CNBC.
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It's a trip from living in a self-obsessed present to one where all you care about is making a nice future for the next generation.
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The clan is made up of self-obsessed academic parents Audrey (Holly Hunter) and Greg (Tim Robbins) and their four children, who span the racial rainbow.
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" The British works, he said, "seemed to be neurotic and self-obsessed and usually to do with four young people in a room expressing their angst.
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If you do participate in the beauty system and you let your labor show, you are a gullible fool and also high-maintenance and self-obsessed.
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If the media had its way, millennials would go down in history as self-obsessed destroyers of everything that our forefathers fought so hard for (like divorce).
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Which might be why Boiler Room fits perfectly into our self-obsessed world: both DJs and the audience alike are on camera and visible on a livestream.
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But still, it doesn't sound far out of the realm of possibility, and we surely all know someone self-obsessed enough to actually suggest something like this.
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Sally, an actress hovering around the age agents start telling up-and-comers they might be past their sell-by date, is needy, self-obsessed, and insecure.
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Let its eternal presence in space and the viral documentation of its trip be a monument to our time, excessive, self-obsessed, and delusional as it is.
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I think it's also because confessional writing seems foolish, like only a dumb narcissistic self-obsessed girl would spew and reveal all this shit about her life.
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The fact that Kim was fully owning her public image—including the criticism that she was vapid, talentless, and self-obsessed—was seen as bold and revolutionary.
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A recent example: Has there ever been a more infantile, witless, impotent, self-obsessed, intellectually-bankrupt pus-filled cockstump to perch, temporarily, on a seat of power?
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Out there, watching birds drift across an evening sky like campfire ash, I could sense something before and greater than the self, and the self-obsessed present.
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Paula plays the titular Clara, who has spent years neglected and mocked by a husband and kids who are too self-obsessed to notice how much she's struggling.
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A similar self-obsessed tone could be heard in a Wednesday morning tweet: Harley-Davidson should stay 100% in America, with the people that got you your success.
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Texans have a hard time supplying a definitive explanation for why the state has become so self-obsessed that even sharing a hamburger chain with outsiders raises hackles.
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Fans, though, best remember Banks' self-obsessed stunts, like the day she made an episode about people's biggest fears into a soap opera about her fear of dolphins.
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Does the idea of playing a self-obsessed, faded reality-TV star who is prone to making racist jokes feel a little less charming than it used to?
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"The biggest difference is that you're telling someone else's story as opposed to being completely self-obsessed and narcissistic – as I'm used to being in my life," Bareilles joked.
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Self-Obsessed: Individual sentient figures of worth, meaning I personally find them worthy and/or worthwhile in this world we live in; history present for the future (history haha).
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Pushy, judgmental, tart-tongued and self-obsessed, the photographer at the heart of Otis Mass's penetrating documentary, "The Incomparable Rose Hartman," is, like her snapshots, a piece of work.
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And where self-obsessed Instagrammers rely on the retouching apps to buff, clean and fictionalize themselves, Ms. Sherman is paradoxically using her feed to let her many masks fall.
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In a self-obsessed culture, identity politics suit institutional diversity goals—and flatter the woke global elite—while systemic critiques of capitalism (and its gentrification, awkward!) are effectively marginalized.
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Interviewed by cohost Isaac Fitzgerald, Jamil, who plays Tahani Al-Jamil on the show, teased that her self-obsessed character may be getting lucky in the love department this season.
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Along with the compulsive selfie-takers busy distracting everyone else with their self-obsessed ways, there's also the amateur videographers who will freak out every time somebody stands their way.
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Newly published research from Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley finds self-obsessed CEOs are more likely to get their company named as a defendant in lawsuits.
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Other journalists narrowed their focus to the specific rich kids and chaotically self-obsessed men who were actually involved, situating Fyre Festival in the timeless context of our nation of scammers.
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Only a pathological structure in desperate need of an overhaul would allow someone as ill-equipped, self-obsessed, and stunningly unpopular as Trump to rise to the top of its ranks.
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Or to make him so self-mortified, so loathsome, so inadequate, so isolated, so self-obsessed, so boring and bored, so guilty that no one could possibly love or desire him.
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"Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us," by Will Storr, a British reporter and novelist, is an intriguing odyssey of self-discovery, in two senses.
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This is actually a very long season of 'The Office,' with our new president playing the role of a self-obsessed buffoon who clearly thinks he's smart, funny, kind and successful.
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Dunham's Hannah is as neurotic and self-obsessed as ever, but also trying desperately to keep her family together in the wake of her father coming out at 60 years old.
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There's a line on "Sunshine"—"I don't take compliments well, but I'm so self-obsessed"—that I imagine resonates not only with me, but a load of other semi-awkward "millennial" women.
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Indiana's reviews swing wildly between incisive criticism, pastiche, and self-besotted, self-obsessed, auto narrative: something perfectly appropriate for his brilliant fiction, but practically useless for non-fan-boy theoretical application today.
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To many, Fidel Castro was a self-obsessed zealot whose belief in his own destiny was unshakable, a chameleon whose economic and political colors were determined more by pragmatism than by doctrine.
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As we've come to realize over the last two decades, the original High Fidelity film is defined by its decision to turn a self-obsessed manipulator and general jerk into a hero.
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It might be a shitty conclusion, but it's one that self-obsessed singles and the people who often try to guide us rarely take the time to consider: The answer isn't simple.
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Indeed, some of the unfathomable art on view here looks like the kind of self-obsessed artwork used on the covers of overindulgent, noodling, progressive rock concept albums from the early 1970s.
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Actress Allison Williams might be best known for playing self-obsessed characters like the well-meaning but hapless Marnie Michaels on Girls or the sociopathic Rose Armitage of 2017 breakout hit Get Out.
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Although his outward appearance might fit all the clichés of a self-obsessed football player — the hairstyle, luxury cars, and designer clothes — one detail is striking: Ronaldo's body is not covered in tattoos.
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He manages to be manically sex-crazed, entirely self-obsessed, and still the best that a Yelper can be, giving an informed review of an establishment from a refreshingly assertive place of narcissism.
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But even if the sirens aren't for them, Sabine has shown that she's self-obsessed and will continue to use Elodie has her personal plaything, including asking Elodie to steal again for her amusement.
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We're supposed to think Beck's friends are all self-obsessed monsters in their own separate ways (one of them is played by Pretty Little Liars favorite Shay Mitchell, dripping in the best fall wardrobe).
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This week's Drone Class lesson: No Drones class, but Charlie does teach us if you're going to sign a self-obsessed revolutionary's $1 million liability insurance claim, it's best to also be legally dead.
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A running joke in "The Armies of the Night" is that many of the people who went off to demonstrate were affluent egghead types—unsure, self-obsessed, squeamish, and, in many ways, pretty conservative.
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The site delineates the different types of bad parents, from overpowering or self-obsessed mothers to competitive and angry fathers, as well as the various feelings these parents will likely trigger in their children.
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At best, she's a half-assed grifter, seemingly more concerned with plastering "Self-Obsessed Mess" on a cap for profit than with looking inward as to why doing so is her response to criticism.
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Though the film features Tim Allen as a self-obsessed dad — much like in his iconic flick The Santa Clause — the 1997 Jungle 2 Jungle's premise isn't quite as cutesy as the aforementioned Christmas movie.
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On the title track, she eviscerates a phony, self-obsessed poet with annoyingly excellent sexual prowess with a weariness so laid-back she may as well be murmuring from a hammock while being fed grapes.
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In Nothing Lasts Forever, Sina Grace outlines the years after his first book, Self-Obsessed, was released, when he struggled to find and maintain romantic relationships and to forge the next step in his career.
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There is only one Ronaldo, a supremely gifted player, yet one so self-obsessed that he only seems to score so he can take his shirt off and expose his eight-pack to the world.
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Which means that all Hollywood has to do this year — to prove that it's not shallow, self-obsessed and completely out of touch with Real America™ — is NOT give the Oscar to La La Land.
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As narcissistic and self-obsessed as the process might seem, is it possible that pictures that document this equation of self and object might simply be an extension of the way we already unconsciously process art?
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That disastrous first month of the general election — the news cycle–hijacking inflammatory statements; the self-obsessed, tone-deaf response to the Orlando shooting; the pathetic fundraising haul; the firing of loyal campaign manager Corey Lewandowski?
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Today he proved he's a next-level stan when he tweeted some Rick and Morty fan art that imagines himself as the misanthropic, self-obsessed scientist from the show with his wife, Kim Kardashian, as his sidekick.
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"A corrupt, self-obsessed, inept moron who somehow becomes president of the United States — that's the character that I play on HBO's 'Veep,' " Louis-Dreyfus says in a video released Tuesday by Local Majority, a Democratic PAC.
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And Brosnahan's Ellie is just the latest in a recent string of shallow, self-obsessed, dipshit younger women characters in Allen's films, an archetype that's perhaps best exemplified by Rachel McAdams's terrible character in Midnight in Paris.
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The book's tone is similar to that of Ling Ma's Severance; both combine millennial (or simply self-obsessed) ennui with decay: the Berg, for example, is overrun with mold, and things constantly break down, making life there seem precarious.
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Neither is it exactly like other popular television programs that gawk at out-of-control "bad" girls like the delinquent teen guests we've seen on Dr. Phil or the criminally self-obsessed aspiring reality stars of the 2010 E!
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Mainly, though, and here's the whole story behind this blessed and unholy union, Conor McGregor is the first man Floyd Mayweather has ever faced who is as trash-talking adept, self-obsessed, self-promotionally-focused, and money-consumed as he is.
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So if The Boss Baby is making a statement about Trump, it's mainly that the president belongs to a long line of self-obsessed megalomaniacs climbing the tallest ladders they can find, and acting like babies if they run into trouble.
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The Comey memos suggest Trump has a scattershot and self-obsessed mindset, brooding about his subordinates, leaks, his campaign and his inaugural crowd size and not appreciating or caring about protocol boundaries that separate the White House and the Justice Department.
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And he's now being Pelosi-ed by a Democratic super PAC with a new ad showing a man who's supposed to be Ryan drinking champagne, admiring his hair and working out in the gym in the most self-obsessed manner possible.
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Written by a different author, they wouldn't be: Penny, especially, is the kind of self-obsessed faux-bohemian who responds to a shockingly personal family letter with a casual request for money; she could easily come across as vapid with less careful treatment.
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In "Ms Ice Sandwich", her latest novella to be published in English, the young narrator's father is dead and his self-obsessed mother is oblivious to her son's first sexual crush, on a young woman behind the counter of his local supermarket.
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Eventually Eleanor, Chidi, and their new friends — Tahani (Jameela Jamil), a self-obsessed philanthropist, and Jason (Manny Jacinto), a sweet but dumb bro from Florida who, similar to Eleanor, is masquerading as a monk — figure out that they're actually in the Bad Place.
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Netflix won three Peabodys, including for "Beasts of No Nation," a movie about child soldiers in Africa; "Master of None," Aziz Ansari's comedy about self-obsessed young adults in New York; and "Marvel's Jessica Jones," a moody superhero crime drama starring Krysten Ritter.
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This production, opening with a manic tarantella-like dance, actors in various degrees of undress, and a menacing, rotating set, was an avant-garde interpretation of the text, which chronicles the struggle between a self-obsessed widow and her long-neglected adult children.
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For more than a decade, during the 10-season run of his Comedy Central program "The Colbert Report" and on "The Daily Show," Mr. Colbert had played the role of a character called Stephen Colbert, a fatuous, self-obsessed conservative political commentator.
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The convention started in a similar vein when a New Yorker article appeared in which Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter for Mr. Trump's autobiography, "The Art of the Deal," described his subject as a self-obsessed sociopath who had a childlike attention span.
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And Darren Aronofsky's wild-eyed, visually staggering, and altogether self-obsessed latest is certainly provocative, and art—to the former's point, even by the loosest standards, it's hard to imagine many people liking this movie, or even at the least enjoying it.
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Still, keep this in mind: Though much of the debate has focused on blaming them for being self-obsessed, there are many economic reasons that have placed Millennials at a disadvantage and forced them to put off many of these traditional markers of adulthood.
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Life in the "Portland-ish town of Fairhaven," is a self-obsessed hipster utopia of craft beer bars and jogging paths, and is protected from the Brush by a literal Bubble set up by a corporation called Tandem, which has its own ulterior motives.
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Haters on Twitter called the promo "offensive," saying it stereotyped millennials as lazy, self-obsessed snowflakes who all care about the exact same things—though, as a millennial, I can tell you that we do, and that the Biscuits nailed them right on the head.
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Even though she has collaborated with Mr. Crumb for The New Yorker over the last two decades, the pioneering quality of Ms. Kominsky-Crumb's own work — nakedly self-revealing and self-obsessed years ahead of the rest of the culture — has largely been overlooked.
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But you can't entirely discount the idea that, like the self-obsessed, media-driving president he sometimes works for, Giuliani might know what he's doing; that he knows he has our attention and still knows how to keep it to get what he wants.
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While watching Groff's Ford fall further and further into his own ego as a hotshot special agent throughout Mindhunter season 1, it was really difficult for me not see flashes of Howerton's shining portrait of a self-obsessed monster, It's Always Sunny In PhiladelphiaI's Dennis Reynolds.
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The portrait of Mr. Trump that emerges from these books, old or new, serious or satirical, is remarkably consistent: a high-decibel narcissist, almost comically self-obsessed; a "hyperbole addict who prevaricates for fun and profit," as Mr. Singer wrote in The New Yorker in 1997.
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Not to mention I felt like a self obsessed psycho while real issues are out there in the world needing to be dealt with I was sitting in front of a mirror going thru strand by strand like my hair and what it looks like actually f—ing matters!
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But, rather than giving us a rap on the wrist, or telling us to delete all our apps, or labelling us self-obsessed narcissists (as many headlines do), this book offers a realistic step-by-step approach to taking back control over social media's place in our lives.
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As invaluable as he has been to the Republican Party, as Pied Piper and lightning rod, diversion and screen, the president is too self-obsessed, too ignorant, and too disinterested in the workings of government to be anything more than a rude kochleffel, the spoon endlessly stirring the pot.
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Played by Tracy Camilla Johns, she is pursued by men and women alike, unashamedly enjoys sex and has it regularly with a persistent square named Jaime Overstreet, a ludicrous B-boy named Mars Blackmon — played by Lee — and an equally preposterous, self-obsessed male model called Greer Childs.
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She shared the screen with one of the greatest TV casts ever assembled: Ed Asner as Mary's boss, Lou, Valerie Harper as her best friend, Rhoda, Ted Knight as self-obsessed newscaster Ted Baxter, Cloris Leachman as Mary's neurotic neighbor Phyllis, and Gavin MacLeod as her coworker Murray.
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The tragedy of mass extinctions and an ice-less Antarctica makes all the plans my partner and I have seem like what they are: the kind of delusional bougie dreams that are a by-product of the self-obsessed culture that got us into this mess in the first place.
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Within hours of John Kelly's swearing in as Donald Trump's second White House chief of staff, the retired general and former Homeland Security secretary had guaranteed himself good opening night reviews by firing the president's self-obsessed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, who had been on the job for just ten days.
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A HEAVILY trailed speech by Donald Trump on counter-terrorism, delivered in Ohio on August 15th, included little that made sense as a plan for keeping America safe, but offered some fresh insights into the self-obsessed, fact-scorning temperament of the businessman who wants to hold the world's most powerful job.
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The luxury- and self-obsessed yuppies of the "greed is good" eighties demanded that the romantic market deliver partners tailored to their niche specifications, developing early versions of the kinds of matchmaking services that have been perfected in today's digital gig economy, where the personal is professional, and everyone self-brands accordingly.
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Trump's reaction -- calling Streep a "Hillary lover," telling the New York Times he wasn't surprised that "liberal movie people" attacked him, and ultimately, the next day, going on a Twitter rampage tweeting that Streep was "one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood" -- revealed just how self-obsessed and out of touch with reality our President-elect is.
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From the moment McGregor off-handedly mentioned boxing Mayweather during an interview on Conan O'Brien's talk show in 2015, a fight between the two men has evolved from a fantasy into a reality by the sheer force of will and creativity of two self-obsessed master showman who, after years of practice, had come to recognize just how to spin hypotheticals into gold.
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" Not one to shy away from launching personal jabs at the president Conway ridiculed Trump for being "self-obsessed," and said the second volume of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation (over alleged obstruction of justice) wouldn't have happened if Trump had "just shut up about it and not tweeted 'Witch Hunt' 600 times and not just played golf for two years.
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It's all fun and games to try to game out, in non-pandemic times, when the boomers will be dead so their self-obsessed generation won't wield disproportional power political over the rest of us anymore, but it's another story when you're talking about condemning thousands of elderly people to drawn-out deaths that can feel like two weeks of asphyxiation.
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But that's not quite right, or at least that's the argument that Will Storr makes in his book Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us. Western culture has always been this way, Storr argues, and over time we've built up a culture that conditions us to overstate our role in our own successes and failures.
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Mayya marries Abdallah, the son of a wealthy merchant; Asma marries Khalid, a self-obsessed artist for whom the ideal wife is someone who will fall "into the orbit he had marked out, who would always be there but would also always stay just outside, yet without wanting to create her own celestial sphere, her own orbit"; and Khawla, after many years of loyal patience, marries Nasir, her childhood sweetheart, whose idea of marriage involves spending most of his time in Canada with a girlfriend, returning every two years to impregnate his wife.
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Mr Knausgaard captures the torture of a child's interactions with a difficult and self-obsessed parent: the longing for approval from someone who is incapable of giving it, at least with any consistency; the highs and lows as this object of awe praises him one moment and scorns him the next; and the emotional turmoil as a complicated man slowly becomes deranged, moving in with his mother (the author's grandmother), persuading her to join him in his drinking binges, and finally drinking himself to death, surrounded by filth, from discarded bottles to unwashed clothes and human excrement.
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Some of the minds behind "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" trade that show's dingy bar lighting for the fluorescent shine of a video game studio in this new comedy series, the latest entry in Apple's quest to shake up the world of streaming TV. Created by the "It's Always Sunny" stars and producers Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day along with Megan Ganz, another producer of that show, "Mythic Quest" centers on a fictional video game company headed by a controlling, self-obsessed creative director (McElhenney, whose character does things like bring his own PowerPoint remote to somebody else's presentation).
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Whether she even needs to do this sort of thing is questionable, given the relatively newsworthy nature of her antics—this is the same woman, after all, who broke a $500,000 book deal and got herself in over $100,000 in debt; canceled her "tour" of $165 creativity workshops at the beginning of this year; sold merchandise such as $303 caps that say "Self Obsessed Mess" (hearkening back to a VICE headline); and sold boob paintings for $80—but griping about coverage in ways that, at the very least, come off as calculated to draw more coverage would seem to be within the purview of an influencer's job.
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