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5 Feet of Fury

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Antifreeze and Gatorade: my latest at Taki’s

January 10, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Although I was quite attached to my admittedly pretentious original title (“The Sorrows of Old Boomer”), and wish I’d included the line “…more ‘I’s than a Mexican porno…”, which only occurred to me after I hit send.

Excerpt:

Joe Bodolai was a true boomer, born in 1948. I’ve heard of show-biz types becoming parodies of themselves, but when you become a virtual parody of someone else—say, a character in The Big Chill—maybe killing yourself is the only option. (…)

His narcissism, boastfulness, and self-pity make for excruciating reading, exquisitely encapsulated in the near-final sentence: “The shelter I am volunteering in will be my new home.”

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