October 28th, 2009 / 1:33 pm
Author Spotlight & Mean

Gore Vidal Endowed Chair

arts-graphics-2006_1174783a.jpgIs Gore Vidal just old or did something bad happen to him? (I’m not so glib to write this post usually, but it’s mean week.) He’s been sitting down, by my estimations, since c. 2002 and I wonder what his problem is. Maybe he always wanted an Endowed Chair.

Here he is in his reading chair with what appears to be either flat champagne or apple juice. He’s gonna have to get up to pee soon, and I’m worried about his efficiency. Below on the left is an image from the 14th Los Angeles Times Festival and the wheelchair clarifies that the sitting down might be an imperative. Notice the Prada shoes — good to know the royalties are in good shape. The picture on the right is him as close to camping as he’ll ever get. The cerebral man has no need for a suntan. He’s probably petitioning for the invention of color photography.

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I think it would be difficult to speak over ~10 violins. This is my problem with classical music: they all think they’re doing us a favor by playing it. Shut the fuck up Yo Yo Ma 10x, I want to hear Gore Vidal speak. I’m pretty sure I answered my own question: Gore Vidal is not simply lazy, but has some problem with his legs. Old writers are cool, but they don’t have blogs. I wonder how many comments Tolstoy would have gotten for a blog post called “Shaved my beard.”

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If a Brazilian guy was waving his 7″ – 8.5″ dong around, I’d be pretending to look into the camera too. The awesome thing about being a famous writer is you can hang around the pool and an international assortment of guys with massive cocks can hang out casually while some photographer for Vanity Fair or something takes pictures. And this all happens after the catered lunch which included crab cakes.

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Wtf? Now I’m starting to think Gore has some chair fetish. When people sit in chairs backwards like that, I think of a) that Janet Jackson video where she did the same, b) over-eager college professors who want to “get down” to business, and c) some controversial monolog from a one-act play about getting raped. Actually, I feel sort of bad about making fun of Gore Vidal because he was really nice to Ali-G when he got interviewed (compare this to Andy Rooney who was a little bitch). I’m sorry if this post really wasn’t about Gore Vidal’s books, since I never read any of them. I just checked out Gore Vidal’s wiki page and when confronted about his views of 9-11, Vidal said “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m a conspiracy analyst.” Wow, that was an awesome response. I started this post thinking he was weird and now I think he’s way awesome. The moral of this post is: if you can give a smartass reply to a solemn question then it’s okay to look funny, which is good news for everyone here.

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40 Comments

  1. Schulyer Prinz

      Gore can still stand, but it is laborious for him to do so. I had a drink with him last tuesday. Funniest motherfucker you will ever meet.

  2. Schulyer Prinz

      Gore can still stand, but it is laborious for him to do so. I had a drink with him last tuesday. Funniest motherfucker you will ever meet.

  3. Tim Jones-Yelvington
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  5. Aaron

      I saw Vidal once and he was being rolled in that wheelchair. As long as his brain isn’t in a wheelchair and can still stand, he can sit forever. It’s the flat apple juice that’s the real tragedy here.

  6. Blake Butler

      i want that pic of him and the nude dude blown up huge on my wall above my bed

  7. Aaron

      I saw Vidal once and he was being rolled in that wheelchair. As long as his brain isn’t in a wheelchair and can still stand, he can sit forever. It’s the flat apple juice that’s the real tragedy here.

  8. Blake Butler

      i want that pic of him and the nude dude blown up huge on my wall above my bed

  9. Schulyer Prinz

      would that wall above your bed also be called a ceiling?
      (mean/weak)

  10. Aaron

      Now I’m thinking his dong might the reason he’s been sitting since his admittedly handsome youth. Could it be as massive as his intellect? I mean, the man is extremely bright. That Brazilian got me thinking…

  11. Schulyer Prinz

      would that wall above your bed also be called a ceiling?
      (mean/weak)

  12. Aaron

      Now I’m thinking his dong might the reason he’s been sitting since his admittedly handsome youth. Could it be as massive as his intellect? I mean, the man is extremely bright. That Brazilian got me thinking…

  13. Blake Butler

      actually, Schulyer, i was thinking about the wall.

  14. Blake Butler

      sitting down since 2002

  15. Blake Butler

      actually, Schulyer, i was thinking about the wall.

  16. Blake Butler

      sitting down since 2002

  17. Tim Jones-Yelvington

      want that nude dude blown up huge on my bed

  18. Tim Jones-Yelvington

      want that nude dude blown up huge on my bed

  19. Ryan Call

      we’re assuming, here, that its something he’s been drinking, rather than something he’s been expelling.

  20. Ryan Call

      we’re assuming, here, that its something he’s been drinking, rather than something he’s been expelling.

  21. Ellen Frances

      THIS IS HILARIOUS. ALL CAPS. HILARIOUS.

  22. Ellen Frances

      THIS IS HILARIOUS. ALL CAPS. HILARIOUS.

  23. Aaron

      ha, so that’s where he sticks the out-end of his colostomy bag tube? things have gone from great to greater

  24. Aaron

      ha, so that’s where he sticks the out-end of his colostomy bag tube? things have gone from great to greater

  25. Sean

      I hope HTML actually pays Jimmy Chen. I mean all their posters/posers are so incredibly weak, and Jimmy drops in like a fucking crooked skyline of hope. Dude is honestly funny and hardly anyone is. Funny is hard.

      Love it, man, but you are like the singer with the lame band. You got to fire the drummer and break up with the guitar dude, even though you are fucking him, you know?

      Keep rocking

  26. Sean

      I hope HTML actually pays Jimmy Chen. I mean all their posters/posers are so incredibly weak, and Jimmy drops in like a fucking crooked skyline of hope. Dude is honestly funny and hardly anyone is. Funny is hard.

      Love it, man, but you are like the singer with the lame band. You got to fire the drummer and break up with the guitar dude, even though you are fucking him, you know?

      Keep rocking

  27. Ellen Frances

      agreed

  28. Ellen Frances

      agreed

  29. AS

      One of the best post I’ve read here. Not familiar with Gore but he clearly has a sitting problem.

  30. AS

      One of the best post I’ve read here. Not familiar with Gore but he clearly has a sitting problem.

  31. Charles Dodd White

      God this post was worth it for the pictures alone. I’ve gone back at least five times to titter whenever my work day was dragging on.

  32. Charles Dodd White

      God this post was worth it for the pictures alone. I’ve gone back at least five times to titter whenever my work day was dragging on.

  33. Charles Dodd White

      BTW Jimmy,

      Read LINCOLN. Damn good book. He’s a better novelist than Mailer–hands down.

  34. mike

      want to be blown by that nude dude

  35. Charles Dodd White

      BTW Jimmy,

      Read LINCOLN. Damn good book. He’s a better novelist than Mailer–hands down.

  36. mike

      want to be blown by that nude dude

  37. Tim Jones-Yelvington

      I like you

  38. Tim Jones-Yelvington

      I like you

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