He can spend more time with his photographer now. And RuPaul's always looking for new members of the Pit Crew...
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Yesterday afternoon the multiple FB threads on this mofo checking out of his red room made schadenfreude an Olympic sport once again, all topped off, so to speak, by Barney Frank adding "no straight man goes to the gym that much." Oddly enough, only the shallowest of observations serves, Frank's boilerplate bitchery sounding like cutting edge pasquinade. And then last night on MSNBC of all places that sniveling NY Times reporter Jeremy Peters tried to mansplain this political implosion (to Joy Reid, of all people) as "tragic." If this narcissistic imp's descent is tragic, Aristotle is turning over in his urn.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
I have to admit I find this final scene a complete let-down.
I was so hoping this story would end in a public coming-out on Ellen's show--complete with her getting him up for some embarrassingly bad white-boy dancing or startlingly good girly twirling--along with a major mea culpa for his anti-gay votes. (That was the part I was really hoping for.)
And maybe, because he was such a Downtown fan, a surprise on-set visit and hug from Lady Rose--or Thomas!
But no, instead we get bad bookkeeping and petty theft (or not so petty).
What a putz. As graceless in his exit as he was in his excess.
Oh dear! To lose your job over a not-very-good imitation of something that was not very good in the first place is rather careless - Congressman Schock should have consulted Girouard.
"...the interior (with the exception of one room) is of a notably lower standard than the exterior."
And on the main hall, "...illiterate and curiously old fashioned".
Mark Girouard on Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey) in The Victorian Country House, Yale University Press, 1979.
^ The Downton Abbey office (or--more to the point--the media coverage of it that he arranged) might have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but it's not the reason he's leaving office. It merely opened the door and allowed the more serious ethics violations to come to light.