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Having a little perspective goes a long way towards not imploding and Gilbert's wry humour is, I suspect, one way of regaining objectivity by seeing your own fucked-upness with a certain detachment -- irony as a way of keeping yourself sane.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

But however much we might be writing as an attempt to figurate an otherwise inarticulable awareness of our own fucked-upness (and to thereby comprehend and control it), the full reality may be less simple.

Genius in a Bottle Hal Duncan 2009

The correlation of bail bonding and fucked-upness in individual states is pretty strong (see also: title loans, payday loans) but I think that piece over-simplifies things somewhat, and it buries the lede here:

Matthew Yglesias » Adventures in Interest-Group Politics 2010

I regurgitated the fucked-upness that was my childhood onto reams and reams of 20# bright white paper.

Jane Devin: A Writer's Rant About Simon & Schuster's Dip Into the Celebrity Cesspool Jane Devin 2011

Having a little perspective goes a long way towards not imploding and Gilbert's wry humour is, I suspect, one way of regaining objectivity by seeing your own fucked-upness with a certain detachment -- irony as a way of keeping yourself sane.

Genius in a Bottle Hal Duncan 2009

But however much we might be writing as an attempt to figurate an otherwise inarticulable awareness of our own fucked-upness (and to thereby comprehend and control it), the full reality may be less simple.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

I saw it in theaters when it was released and thought it was horrible, but after parting with my stuck-upness I am going to give it an open mind view, something that I will indefinitely do now and have been for a couple years now.

Top 10 Overlooked Movies of the Last Five Years » Scene-Stealers 2009

Even if you could kill all of television and movies and every other media source, you and your children would still be exposed to the world and all it's messed-upness.

Study: Movies often show unsafe situations 2010

All renditions share the general screwed-upness that defines her.

Natasha Richardson has suffered a serious head injury in a skiing accident. Ann Althouse 2009

The irrationality is that there's no content-- no specific sort of fucked-upness, and no event that caused me to have the belief.

Root or Heart? Steven Barnes 2009