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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE LOVED JOHN McCAIN: Here’s that 2000 Rolling Stone profile of John McCain by DFW, who killed himself this weekend. It is pretty gross, but Wallace said a few months ago that he no longer lurved Walnuts, the end. [Rolling Stone]
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It bothers me that he left no note.
As to WALNUTS: Senator Jekyll and Candidate Hyde.
No I’m not gonna read this whole thing, but the opening, “Since You’re Reading “Rolling Stone,” the chances are you’re an American between say 18 and 35…” is hilariously out of touch.
Just from reading the first page, it’s evident that McCain was as much a phony then as he is now.
Why smear the mans name after he’s dead?
ARE YOU HAPPY JOHN MCCAIN!?!?!?!?!?!
Yeah, Wally gives me the howling fantods too.
His people calling us a nation of whingers and all that-
TGY: He didn’t leave a note because he wasn’t a whiner. He must have known that his depression wasn’t “real” , it was just a “mental depression.”
‘loved’? i don’t remember it being very positive.. let me guess, you didn’t read all the footnotes?
And it only took FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN!
WHY DID JOHN MCCAIN DEPRESS DFW TO DEATH
Is it safe to say McCain deserves at least some blame? If I had genuine admiration for a guy, with whom I’d spent a lot of time, and he turned out later to be the quintessential political whore, so unprincipled a bastard that he makes Bush-Cheney look restrained — the sort of guy who would run proudly away from everything he once claimed to believe in, who would gladly swing from Falwell’s saggy white sack, much less pick an empty skirt for VP, to salvage his one last shot running the free world like a crazy old fuck… that might depress me a little bit.
FlakJack: How can you call Palin an “empty skirt” ? I bet if you lifted up her skirt it would look like Bob Marley raping a wind tunnel.
TGY: Yes, I found that there was no note, even a poorly contrived one as highly suspect.
Borat: Perhaps the family wanted to keep it private?
ronaldpagan:
“Since You’re Reading “Rolling Stone,” the chances are you’re an American… either a female around age 15 or a 59 year old baby boomer douchebag, depending on this issue’s cover. Jonas Brothers or Crosby, Stills & Nash?”
facehead:
Fuck you. That made me laugh hard enough to get unwanted co-worker attention.
TGY: The reason there was no note is because by the time David Foster had finished all his footnotes, non-sequiturs and tangents, he would have died of natural causes.
I have a lot of respect for the man, and loved his work, especially “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” (it was a cruise), so I mean nothing offense to other fans.
i’ll just jump in here:
i’m sure you noticed the lehman employees carrying out their things including golf clubs and tennis raquets. wtf were they doing in there.
In the preface to this article in his book, DFW notes that he voted for Bill Bradley.
The Unfairman: It’d be hard to write a suicide footnote.
I don’t know if anyone can answer this, but why do they call him Walnuts…I assume it’s some old, nutty toothless old man nickname, but a friend of mine, whom I introduced to Wonkette, asked me and I wasn’t sure…
olddognewtricks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uuoyKKcAwU