The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." George Orwell

    By jollyroger on Thu, 04/17/2014 - 3:52pm |

    What lurks within...

     

    Behold Bill O'Reilly in 1979 Gl2jic9soyvgcyskfwyk

     

    Awhile later:

     

     

     

     

    Today:

     

     

    No further comment.

     

     

    Comments

    Speechless!  I just can't stand that blowhard!

     


    by CVille Dem on Fri, 04/18/2014 - 10:01pm

    We get our revenge every time he looks in the mirror...It's Dorian Gray in reverse...


    by jollyroger on Fri, 04/18/2014 - 10:16pm

    Strictly speaking, wouldn't the reverse of Dorian Gray be what we usually experience; the accumulation of what we do and feel that is written upon our bodies with indelible ink?

    I look more frightening than this guy sometimes.


    by moat on Sun, 04/20/2014 - 7:50pm

    As to the latter, I don't believe you.

     

    As to the former, yeah, I suppose that WAS Wilde's point...but in O'Reilly's case we can only hope that by freezing his visage in mid-snarly the pictures overstate his normal level of ugliness...or maybe not.

     

    That said, he was actually cherubic at 30, don't ya think?  I mean, he is an unusually unpleasant specimen, even as human beings go.

     

    Edit to add: You can almost hear David Byrne in the background "how did I get here?"


    by jollyroger on Sun, 04/20/2014 - 8:07pm

    Point taken on the cherubic at 30 comment. I was a lot more frightening looking at that age. But yeah, I am pretty ordinary looking now.

    This is David Byrne country. Taken from the same song you refer to: "He wonders, if, he too, had made a similar mistake."

    The use of so many commas in a popular song probably won't be repeated until standard English becomes a protest language again.

    I stand at the ready.


    by moat on Sun, 04/20/2014 - 8:56pm

    Same as it ever was....(BTW, Byrne has a blog...http://journal.davidbyrne.com/)


    by jollyroger on Sun, 04/20/2014 - 9:30pm