The watusie
The twist.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
The Difficult Brown
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
the Cornell cornhole
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
The Dartmouth dunk
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
The RISD ruffle
The tootsie roll
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
the Penn pump
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
it doesn't surprise me much that vidal privately was something other than the roman consul/mr spock image he affected in public. his mental decline towards the end was visible even in interviews and tbh i'm not sure it's something anyone outside his family needed to know about.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
remember Hitch's column?
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/hitchens-201002
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
haha, i remember that! it's largely and sadly otm, though vidal would have been entitled to write a response hatchet job, since hitch's decline was even uglier than vidal's dabbling in pearl harbor/911 truthism. vidal's polanski remark was undeniably appalling but hitch said comparably awful things on a regular basis at the height of his deranged neocon phase -- calling the dixie chicks "fat fucking slags," some pretty awful stuff about cindy sheehan.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
:( at Vidal slagging off Idries Shah, altho I suppose I shouldn't be surprised
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Bitchiness was an essential part of his public style. When he directed it properly, he made it a virtue, but he wasn't always wise in his use of it.
― Aimless, Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
also, FRED ASTAIRE???? ewwwww
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 October 2013 04:28 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that I was wondering about.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 October 2013 12:04 (ten years ago) link
Flying Down to Eeeeyeeeew
― chimped the keeper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 October 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
on the new documentary
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/22/how_one_sexy_gay_novel_derailed_gore_vidals_literary_career/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
The new doc, available on demand, is a hagiography. Any hour spent watching YouTube clips is more entertaining.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
yeah i'm certainly not gonna spend $13 to see it
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/JamesWolcott/status/558683822729232386
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
is he dead yet
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
lol @ "America's most controversial writer"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Alfred: he lives in the very cigarette ash you ignore.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
michael mewshaw abt him on charlie rose --
i remember he was very kind to guests that we had invited to meet him at our house for dinner and he talked to these ppl uh most patiently put up with all their questions about lincoln and they were a business couple and then when we sat down to dinner he said id like to ask you a question now, and they perked up and said yes gore, "What do women think about anal intercourse?"
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 23 May 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
:D
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 May 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
I always want to know!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 May 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Not long ago Alice Longworth managed to startle even me by announcing, at a dinner party: "Daisy Harriman told me that every time she was alone with Senator Gore he would pounce on her. I could never understand why he liked her. After all, he was blind. But then Daisy always smelled nice."
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 29 November 2015 08:24 (eight years ago) link
Netflix to shoot this in Gore's villa! What would he say about Spacey?
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/kevin-spacey-to-play-gore-vidal-in-netflix-original-biopic-exclusive-1202502213/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 July 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
how is it that spacey is still in the closet
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 July 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
I should've been cast. I've been honing my Vee-dal for months.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 July 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
If Spacey goes Method in the villa, what will the budget be for teenage boy 'day labor'?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 July 2017 01:35 (six years ago) link
ughhh why does it have to be Spacey :(
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 July 2017 01:39 (six years ago) link
No matter how hard Kevin Spacey (or the script) tries, I don't think he (or it) could ever faithfully capture Gore's caustic personality or the degree of contempt in which he held 'the opposition'.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 22 July 2017 03:42 (six years ago) link
Spacey is about 58, I wonder what ages he'll be playing GV? He was 43 at the big TV tiff with Buckley.
Obv the Young Vidal years would require someone handsomer.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 July 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 21, 2017
The film is in the can, and Netflix will not release it. Gore wins!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius),
uh wrong. Young Vee-dal was gorgeous.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
i know! i meant handsomer than K.S.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=QwflYHGtZuk
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 March 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link