the ex- always said i was intellectually lazy...

... especially so when Wolcott flings this kind of doodoo around:

Siegel's I couldn't finish because when Siegel gets into his magniloquent mode, he gives every sentence the reverberating weight of Critical Judgment rendering an irreversible verdict and fluffs his wigged curls as if auditioning for Moliere.

Frasier Crane I'm not -- okay? -- contrary to popular schenectady.

Actually I was fine up until he said "Moliere." I'd Google or Wikipedia the feller but I'm feeeling laaaazy.