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In what may be the ultimate postmodern self-referential auto-commentary in contemporary popular culture, Mak begins "" with a radio phone-in in which the host is discussing 2Pac's previous record, on which the rapper taunted the Notorious B.I.G--who he believed had a part in his 1994 shooting--with a reference to Mrs. B.I.G.: "I fucked your bitch, you fat mutherfucka."
Not only do they "retreat into bedrooms which seem as self-contained as an astronaut's capsule, each with its own TV, stereo-system and wired-up computer," but into an "increasingly self-referential and self-validating" worldview.
Though a few stories are on par with his earlier work, most reviews find the collection riddled with self-referential tics and self-consciousness.
You're right about the magazine's sameness, however; it's the same damn thing each week, and it's the same as the other slick, self-referential, celebrity gossip mags around.
His obituary for Mad artist Antonio Prohias in the New York Times magazine was, for a tribute, unbearably self-referential (two paragraphs discussed Prohias, the other five discussed Spiegelman).
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