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mallorys_cameraWow. This is kind of interesting: apparently novelist Jay McInerney wrote an entire book about John Edwards' mistress with the weird name. It's called Story of My Life.
Okay. I kind of did like Big City, Bright Lights (or was it Bright City, Big Lights?) even though it was entirely written in the oh-so-annoying second person singular. McInerney can string a sentence together. At times he reminds me of Scott Fitzgerald.
But a Scott Fitzgerald stuck in This Side of Paradise. Jay, Jay, Jay -- the guard changes. You are so fuckin' eighties.
Generally when writers discover they're no longer the cutting edge of youth, they turn into right-wing nutcases. McInerney was no exception.
Rielle Hunter -- and what kind of a fucking name is that? You'd think that any sane man at a party hearing, "My name's Rielle" -- pronounced, I imagine, "real" -- would run, run, run for the nearest exit sign.
I have no problem with the affair. I have something of a problem with his coy insistence that Elizabeth was in remission when it happened. What's implied by that?
If I had given money to Edwards, I'd certainly have a problem with the affair since Rielle Hunter's sinecure was subsidized -- at least at first -- by campaign contributions. At the very least I think Edwards should be forced to return those campaign contributions.
As to the rest of it... Wow, his friends love Edwards so much they acquire a 3.3 million dollar house for his erstwhile mistress? How can I get me some friends like that?
Okay. I kind of did like Big City, Bright Lights (or was it Bright City, Big Lights?) even though it was entirely written in the oh-so-annoying second person singular. McInerney can string a sentence together. At times he reminds me of Scott Fitzgerald.
But a Scott Fitzgerald stuck in This Side of Paradise. Jay, Jay, Jay -- the guard changes. You are so fuckin' eighties.
Generally when writers discover they're no longer the cutting edge of youth, they turn into right-wing nutcases. McInerney was no exception.
Rielle Hunter -- and what kind of a fucking name is that? You'd think that any sane man at a party hearing, "My name's Rielle" -- pronounced, I imagine, "real" -- would run, run, run for the nearest exit sign.
I have no problem with the affair. I have something of a problem with his coy insistence that Elizabeth was in remission when it happened. What's implied by that?
If I had given money to Edwards, I'd certainly have a problem with the affair since Rielle Hunter's sinecure was subsidized -- at least at first -- by campaign contributions. At the very least I think Edwards should be forced to return those campaign contributions.
As to the rest of it... Wow, his friends love Edwards so much they acquire a 3.3 million dollar house for his erstwhile mistress? How can I get me some friends like that?
