David, ha! You just basically summed up why I hate Vanity Fair. (The magazine, not the book, of course!)
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Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Awesome hat, msbelle!
I don't even know who Christopher Hitchens is.
He literally achieved nothing except being the blowhard in the middle of the cocktail party.
But he did it on a wider stage and made more money at it than the average blowhard. He also faced a miserable death with panache.
I felt mostly the way David does about Christopher Hitchens, but instead of Hec's analysis of his writing, I just thought he was kind of a twat. But I did come to feel some respect for him with his writing about his cancer.
Oh, and this is why I came here originally...Good Stuff fodder for sure.
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But he did it on a wider stage and made more money at it than the average blowhard. He also faced a miserable death with panache.
If you want to argue that a massive narcissist made a grand exit, I'll buy that.
Hearts on David.
Bad date of the year award. Nominee #1:
Deputies in Florida say a man stole a woman's car while they on a date at a Tampa area movie theater.
The St. Petersburg Times reports that 27-year-old Michael Pratt told the woman he needed to get something from the car while they were watching the movie. She gave him her keys. When he didn't return, she called him. Authorities say Pratt laughed, then told the woman he had stolen her car.
The victim, who is 35, tried contacting Pratt for two days before calling the sheriff's office, according to the paper. Pratt called her four days after the movie outing and said he dumped the car in a Walmart parking lot in New Port Richey, authorities said. Deputies found it and arrested Pratt on Wednesday. The car, a silver 2012 Ford Focus, was a rental.
According to the Times, Pratt previously served more than a year in prison for the same charge, as well as fraud, uttering forged bills and failing to return rental property. He is in the Pasco County Jail. No attorney was listed on Pratt's jail records.
Dear dog. I am not carrying your crippled ass to the park, so stop looking at me like that.