A Million Little Pieces - Page 5

gldstwmn · #61 01-12-2006, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Some call the president a dry drunk.

There's nothing dry about him.

gldstwmn · #62 01-12-2006, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Just last night on Larry King, he said that he wrote of cutting his cheek when, in reality, he "fell down, [his] lower teeth tore up my lip and penetrated it in two separate places." When pressed by King as to why, he said "Because it's a lot easier than saying over and over again that I cut the area between my lower lip and my chin." That answer made me wonder if he was still lighting that crackpipe up. He had no reason to invent all of these things or exaggerate these things unless his actual story wasn't all that interesting to begin with. Don't tell me it's 100% true when it's 75% bull****.

That was one uncomfortable interivew. It's obvious though that something happened to his face, looking at pictures of him before and seeing him now.

gldstwmn · #63 01-12-2006, 06:38 PM

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I know I'm in the minority, but I think it puts American consumer culture in general in a much more unflattering light than it does him. I think the whole story reveals a lot more about the piss-poor state of the American literary imagination, celebrity worship, rampant voyeurism, all that crap, than it does about Frey's ethics as an author. I say good for him for exploiting the system and the public.

Get over yourself, already.

gldstwmn · #64 01-12-2006, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

has anyone read frey's followup "My friend Leonard"

No but I probably will. Does that make me pathetic?

dissention · #65 01-12-2006, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

That was one uncomfortable interivew. It's obvious though that something happened to his face, looking at pictures of him before and seeing him now.

I cringed throughout the interview. He couldn't even come up with any good excuses for being such a liar. "It's a memoir." If he said that one more damned time, I would have kicked a hole through my telly. Who the fukc remembers spending three months in prison when they never did? Who remembers hitting a cop with their car when they never did? Who remembers being charged with felony mayhem and felony DUI when those charges didn't even exist? Who remembers being beaten up in prison by a man they read Tolstoy and James Joyce to in retaliation for hitting a cop with their car when they were never in prison in the first place? If that's his memory, I'm sending his stupid ass a case of Ginkgo.

macfanken · #66 01-12-2006, 08:24 PM

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I cringed throughout the interview. He couldn't even come up with any good excuses for being such a liar. "It's a memoir." If he said that one more damned time, I would have kicked a hole through my telly.

He should have said "truthiness".

dissention · #67 01-12-2006, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by macfanken

He should have said "truthiness".

He should have said "I suffer from assholism."

Jyqm · #68 01-13-2006, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Get over yourself, already.

No.

(idiotic emoticon of some sort)

sara1998 · #69 01-13-2006, 08:24 AM

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Get over yourself, already.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

DavidMn · #70 01-13-2006, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

He's a fukcer. The ultimate was when he told King that he's been tempted this past week to go back to drugs. I literally screamed at my television set and woke up everyone in my apartment from all my bitching about that rat bastard. What a weasel. Pray that CNN reruns it this weekend so that everyone interested can see it because this guy is a real piece of work. A memoir is an autobiography, **** For Brains, not "creative nonfiction."

AND he trotted out his poor mother on the show to play the sympathy card.

That mother thing was bad. I was dissapointed to see that. Bull**** is bull**** no matter which way you try to spin it.

cliffdweller · #71 01-13-2006, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by macfanken

He should have said "truthiness".

Long live Stephen Colbert!!

Jyqm · #72 01-14-2006, 06:39 AM

Interesting article on CNN.com today that looks at this controversy from the literary perspectivewe were getting into here. It's not terribly long or in-depth, but it strikes a nice balance between my and Josh's opinions, I think:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/01/1...ory/index.html

SuzeQuze · #73 01-14-2006, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

There's nothing dry about him.

'Cept maybe the powder going up his nose.

Jyqm · #74 01-15-2006, 06:59 AM

Very good op-ed piece in the New York Times today about this whole thing. Josh, I think you'll really like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/opinion/15karr.html

dissention · #75 01-16-2006, 07:15 PM

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Very good op-ed piece in the New York Times today about this whole thing. Josh, I think you'll really like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/opinion/15karr.html

Thanks, it was a good read. That's essentially how I feel, though I did get a chuckle out of "And now, writing my own memoirs, I know God is in the truth."

And did you hear what Oprah just picked for her new selection? Elie Wiesel's "Night." I found that to be particularly amusing.