On Mailer

Dear readers,

Norman Mailer, the distinguished man of letters whose eyeballs haunt the logo for this very website, has died at the age of 84. Some have said his life served as a model for my own hard drinking, hard living, hard loving ways. On that I can only utter a feeble disagreement. Although it was he who taught me how to make love to a live kangaroo's pouch while writing a great American novel.

He will be missed.

Here I present a memorial video of Mailer rolling in the grass with Rip Torn.