At one point Sontag writes: "I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification.
If I make a spectacle of myself on the plane, it's usually worse when I have to get my luggage.
"Don't want to make a spectacle of myself, you know?" The last time I saw Norris was the morning of Mother's Day, May 14.
"The valet guy came to me and then just turned around and went away without even talking to me … I'm a shy sort of fellow, I don't like to make a spectacle of myself, [but] I had to take off my shirt and blow my nose because they had taken away all the napkins.
At the time I didn't care about losing friends, but later I regretted making such a spectacle of myself.
Frankly, I had to learn not be wasteful by promoting the value of bal tashchet and placing it above other values, like being a polite, compliant guest and not making a spectacle of myself.
Some whispered that I was setting a bad example; here I was, unmarried, making a spectacle of myself with this bastard baby who I dared nurse on occasion in my supervisor's office.
I may appear wild, as I discuss sex in a frank manner, have much of my body tattooed and make a sexual spectacle of myself with my comedy and politics; however, I am one of the most vanilla, boring, lifeless, selfish and easily tired lovers of all time.
Last weekend I watched Date Night -- and while I made a rather un-ruley spectacle of myself rolling in the aisles with laughter, the comedy also contained some important messages, straight out of The Rules for Marriage, by Ellen Fein & Sherrie Schneider (Rule #28: Have a Date Night).
Shtick created the spectacle.
