the village voice is for postmodern-sleaze. it's audience is a bunch of single 33-year olds with more pretensions than income , education or intelligence. it's full of "causes" that people who aren't that smart and don't matter that much can understand, feel good about reading and debating with their loser friends.

tristan's made a career out of being a loudmouthed, self-promoting leader of the socially-liberal but fundamentally unimpressive.

say you're a dumb bitch who's got nothing going for her but being at least average looking(a few years ago, she's a sow with crazyface now) and you've got a degree from an expensive little CT college that's not disgraceful. what do you do if you want people to PAY ATTENTION TO YOU?

easy-you've got a window where you can use your age and the fact you went to college for AS MUCH SHOCK VALUE AS POSSIBLE BY REPEATEDLY ANNOUNCING TO THE WORLD YOU GET FUCKED UP THE ASS AND DO SLUTTY THINGS.

people paid attention to her only because she was a girl that should have been heading to some white-collar job in her 20's and she ended up being a totally-shameless whore.