This charming man

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/04/11/secret_family/index.html

I can't believe this is real.

Or rather I can't believe the waves of self-delusion emanating from this essay, assuming it is real.

I'm a sucker for a story with a laughing priest

PJ McDowell is the pen name of an East Coast writer and blogger. He has four children, two estranged partners and one laughing priest weaned on the cheap morality of tabloid TV and glossy magazines

In all seriousness though, how many of these articles is Paul Auster going to write?

I never much cared for American women. I found them too materialistic and emotionally needy, spiritually warped by commercial television.

Weirdo

Pen name's a bit close to PJ O'Rourke

I didn't know Mark Sanford blogged tbh

I think it's good that he wrote under a pseudonym because I wouldn't want to buy a book from such a bad writer anyway, it's drivel.

Moral: When life is lovely, problems are unimportant. When it's not, the problems are all too real.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l84s1ecZBd1qzaxefo1_400.jpg

Read this on my news-reader on the train this morning, nearly spit out a tooth because of all the GRINDING GOING ON, immediately checked the orig site for comments which were predictably outraged. Phew.

And I *wondered* if the internet would be putting odds on who it really was. Hot new blind item?

I'm perplexed at how he could make this article so boring! Soap operas can run for 50+ episodes on this premises!!

There are no premises, and soap operas need some sort of premises, e.g. a pub.

Punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
When in this charming car
This charming man
Why pamper life's complexity
When the leather runs smooth
On the passenger seat?