The idiot who edits this blog was supposed to tell you all about how Tom Wolfe was coming to speak last night at Emerson Suites. Said moron was going to enlighten you as to the oeuvre of the man many call "America's only public intellectual," since anyone who saw the film adaptation of Bonfire of the Vanities would have naturally assumed it had been written by a committee conscripted entirely from the head trauma ward.

Alas, as often happens when cold medicine and bile convene, our dimwit-in-chief forgot to actually post the story he wrote in a timely fashion. Thus, we're left with this pitiful post-game analysis. Which, as it happens, is rendered even more pathetic by the fact that none of us actually attended the event in question.

There was an incident with pumpkins -- that's all I'm going to say.

Anyhoo, we'd love to hear what people thought of the Man in the Eternally White Suit, especially since he went all Bushie these past few years. In the meantime, check out this podcast from the New York Times and listen to TW tell all about an ancient and strange time clandestinely known as "the sixties" (we Rattlers prefer "the Great American Weirdness"):

http://readingroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/the-man-in-full/