how trashy can you get?

[MantaRay at aol.com]

Pyn-Wankers:

Back from smoggy L.A. where my younger sister had a joint with my mom.
Unbelievable!

Meanwhile...


>He _can_ be found and photographed, apparently with minimal effort. He's
>not an ascetic hermit; talk of "smoking him out" seems to be overstating
>it.

Um, why? I never said the guy was Obi-Wan Kenobi. Smoking him out (like my
sister did to my mom) is exactly the phrase for it. Just because he leads a
normal life, doesn't mean he clings to his privacy. There's a big diff
between having lunch with someone and having your face on or in Time
Magazine.

>There's a difference
>between personal, cover-of-People, gossip-column publicity and the kind
>of publicity it takes to sell books. 

Only in a high/low culture. Authors are personalities (Stephen King, Norman
Mailer, Amy Tan, Jay McInerney, blah blah, even J.D. Salinger has gotten into
the game) and celebrities whether they like it or not. Kathy Acker wouldn't
sell a book if this wasn't true. Publicity, like Foucault's power, is
everywhere (and repressive/productive: it sells books and steals privacy). 

>Could you imagine the horror of seeing him squeezed between Pamela Lee
>and Quentin Tarantino on Leno's couch? "So, Tom--can I call you
>Tom?--what's all this crap about entropy?"

Yeah, I've seen it with Lynch or Cronenberg on those shows. Leno (nice guy
that he is) has not a brain in his head to deal with these kinds of text.
This was my point about TRP not wanting to be smoked out. Why put up with
that when you could chill with the fam? CNN was about to make that private
life harder for him.

Right now, I'd like to apologize for all the fantasies I had about beating
all the Pynheadz who went on and fucking on about the ampersand. Read
something in the SF Weekly that said TRP tied up the book's release for
awhile figuring out which ampersand he wanted. I'm a bad boy; hit me sister,
hit me again.

MantaRay