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The Underminer is a compressed comic classic of New York, a kind of anti – E.B. White fable that focuses on the one unavoidable character everyone in New York runs into, usually a "friend" but really an urban predator of the psyche, bred out of an unstable fusion of ambition and envy, of Schadenfreude and Gluckschmerz.
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And The Underminer is the friend who has mastered a third technique: the subtly destructive Negative Reframing Device.
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And then when you move to New York and get into an internship program at a happening art gallery, The Underminer is your friend who says, "Boswyck Gallery?
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Among my favorites: The Underminer is your friend in college who you run into on graduation day and says he (or she) has to run off "to the dean's small cocktail party for honors students and then I had to hurry up and turn in that Green Form so I could graduate.
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And The Underminer is your friend who "consoles" you after a breakup: "Are you OK?
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… "Rule No. 1: The Underminer is a master of applied paranoia.
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And, years later, when you're trying to promote your work, The Underminer is the friend who somehow sleazes his way into power at the gallery and makes the following demeaning pretense at generosity: "You know, you should come by and leave flyers next time you have a show.
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Mike Albo "The Underminer" said he was too broke to be parsimonious.
Authors in Dickens Marathon Lizzie Simon 2010
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—Mike Albo, writer, performer, and author of The Underminer
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010
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—Mike Albo, writer, performer, and author of The Underminer
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010
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