Four Things Currently on My Mind
1. You know you’re jaded when you stumble across this so totally not-safe-for-work pic and the first thing you notice is that the guy owns not one, but two Thomas Pynchon novels, a judicial potboiler by John Grisham, Paul Krugman‘s latest cultural/political conversation-starter, and Bill Clinton’s autobiography, and you start to think, “Well, okay, this guy’s clearly a leftie, possibly an intellectual, possibly even a trial lawyer–I mean, you can’t afford that many hardcover editions on a teacher’s salary–and given the subtly tasteful carpeting and the solid-wood Queen Anne sidechair on which he’s sitting, he might even be gay” instead of addressing the more obvious issue: what the hell happened in this guy’s childhood?
2. That carrot-topped model on Project Runway? The one with the cheekbones and eyes of my friend Lesley? The one who I kinda loathe when she’s in bangs ’cause it looks like she’s wearing a fright wig straight from the Wal-Mart Halloween leftover aisle? The one who, at first sight, reminded me Aeon Flux’s red-haired counterpart in the short feature “War”? Well, it turns out, she’s from here. Odd and totally random, I know.
3. While this article on JT Leroy is certainly interesting and intriguing, it’s still not enough to get me to finish one of his novels. There, I’ve said it. Does that make me a bad person?
4. When did I become so goddamn boring?
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