Alexi Pappas Article--why is the NYT so dumb

Alexi Pappas is the best person who has ever existed or ever will exist. Every article, program, video and thought from everyone should only be about Alexi.

me me me me me me me wrote:

Alexi Pappas is the best person who has ever existed or ever will exist. Every article, program, video and thought from everyone should only be about Alexi.

Her feet don't get blisters, but her shoes do.

She can speak Russian… in French

Her tears can cure cancer, too bad she never cries

She once brought a knife to a gunfight… just to even the odds

When she meets the Pope, the Pope kisses her ring

If she were to visit the dark side of the moon, it wouldn't be dark

She once won a staring contest with her own reflection

Her signature won a Pulitzer

She lives vicariously through herself

Roses stop to smell her

She has won the lifetime achievement award… twice

She once had an awkward moment, just to see how it feels

Mosquitoes refuse to bite her purely out of respect

Panhandlers give her money

When she goes to Spain, she chases the bulls

Her shadow has been on the 'best dressed' list twice

Two countries went to war to dispute HER nationality

When in Rome, they do as SHE does

Presidents take her birthday off

Her business card simply says “I’ll call you.”

She is the most interesting person in the world.

She doesn't always finish in front of anyone, but when she does, she prefers to post it on twitter, instagram and facebook.

She is the most interesting person in the world.

She is a world class: singer, actor, poet, writer, director, athlete, model, photographer, chef, physician, engineer, race car driver, sailor, equestrian.

She is the most interesting person in the world.

Hipster Doofus wrote:

Cerveza wrote:

She doesn't always finish in front of anyone, but when she does, she prefers to post it on twitter, instagram and facebook.

She is the most interesting person in the world.

She is a world class: singer, actor, poet, writer, director, athlete, model, photographer, chef, physician, engineer, race car driver, sailor, equestrian.

She is the most interesting person in the world.

She falls in love with herself at least 50 times a day.

She is the most interesting person in the world.

Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:

A Pretentious, Bitter Shut-in wrote:

"Kyle Hendricks is a baseball player who went to my college. We called him Baseball Kyle because we already had a Hockey Kyle. College is fun and can shape the type of person you become."

You left out 2 very important parts of the essay:

1) Alexi Pappas is an Olympic runner. Alexi Pappas is a professional runner. Alexi Pappas. Alexi Pappas. Alexi Pappas.

2) Leaves and people are different.

1. She took the easy way out to an appointed place on the Greek team, no guts to race for the US team.

2.WTF

You have an editor at the Times that has a crush on her. Her writing talent well lets just say is not there yet.

Film production capability, have they got a distribution deal yet? No theatre time, straight to Netflix, maybe not.

Lots of enthusiastic energy, yes.

it's kind of a sweet article. maybe you're jealous of her for going to Dartmouth?

Dear. God. That piece reads like something created by a teenager, and not a talented one either. The content is poor and so is the prose. Could this girl be any more annoying?

"Now a professional long-distance runner, I often spend time alone, sometimes with just the leaves. Leaves are great, and I love how they change, but leaves don’t change like people, and especially not like college kid"

Is this crap for real?

Dartmouth....sheesh

I read the article ready to buy into you all being overly harsh and jealous. I was wrong. That was truly terrible. Surprisingly so as I assumed there wa some sort of oversight at newspapers. Does the NYT not have anyone to proof read this stuff before they accept it for publication? Or does someone hate her and want go humiliate her by publishing this embarrassment?

Including high school newspapers, that was the worst piece of writing I've ever seen published in a paper. I know I now sound as harsh as the people I erroneously thought were harsh but it can not be overstated how bad that was.

You people ripping on Pappas need to get a life. Her article is more interesting that there was more than just one future pro athlete on her floor at Dartmouth. Methinks jealousy here.

Flagpole wrote:

You people ripping on Pappas need to get a life. Her article is more interesting that there was more than just one future pro athlete on her floor at Dartmouth. Methinks jealousy here.

You teach English, Flagpole? Papas is no more of an artist/writer/filmmaker than Ahmed the clock maker is a talented scientist. She needs to get a real job at Starbucks somewhere.

To expose your jealousy wrote:

The purpose is to to expose your childish jealousy of her.

POT

the NYT "article" was bad enough. But take a look at the latest issue of Runner's World. She's on practically every other page. Look! There she is running some relay in Oregon. There she is posing for the cover with Kevin Hart! There she is in a full-page advertisement for Garmin watch!

We were already treated to a long NYT feature about Ms. Alexi last spring.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/sports/alexi-pappas-track-star-veers-far-from-her-lane.html?_r=0

Why? What has this young woman -- who represents Greece, not the U.S. -- done to merit such attention in American media?

Many American distance runners won medals at the Olympic Games a few months ago. How abougiving Evan Jager or Matt Centrowitz or Emma Coburn or Clayton Murphy their due?

Flagpole wrote:

You people ripping on Pappas need to get a life. Her article is more interesting that there was more than just one future pro athlete on her floor at Dartmouth. Methinks jealousy here.

Nice try. LOL

Like I said, I am jealous of her. I'm jealous of the fact that she gets to be paid to write "essays" and "films" of staggering stupidity, and then be endlessly worshipped for it like her work is comparable to Shakespeare. i'm jealous of the fact that she has cast an illusion of her amazingness on the world, while it is really just a calculated marketing scheme. I wish I had those skills of self-promotion.

Her writing skills? Well, I passed 6th grade English, so nah.

Decent runner though.

wutt wrote:

Dear. God. That piece reads like something created by a teenager, and not a talented one either. The content is poor and so is the prose. Could this girl be any more annoying?

No, I do not think it's possible.

connois-sour wrote:

malmo wrote:

I've always wanted to be a leave, but leaves are not like people. Leaves change, but people don't. Well, some people change but not like leaves. Leaves fall, in the fall, which is also called autumn. People fall sometimes, but not like leaves. When people fall they get up. Leaves dont get up, not like people. Some people are called Autumn, but not leaves. Leaves are called leaves. Most people named Autumn are strippers, whose panties fall down, like leaves, leaving them bare, like trees, in autumn.

Well turned! Truly.

Yes that was done very well. Kudos to malmo!

+1

Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:

connois-sour wrote:

Well turned! Truly.

Yes that was done very well. Kudos to malmo!