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Rick Moody Pies Dale Peck

Dale Peck has become so much less angry since he scored that $3 million book deal! The novelist and critic—whose Friendster profile was once described as "incredibly anti-corporate and anti-consumer," who famously hated things much more than most reviewers do these dark days, and who was slugged by Stanley Crouch because of it—recently allowed himself to be pied by Rick Moody. Moody was once described by Peck as the worst writer of his generation. But at a fundraiser the Montauk Club last night, it was all fun and games and pieing. [NYT]

6:53 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
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Dickdogfood at 07:11 PM on 04/30/08
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Oh I refuse to watch this. Dale, it's much too late to convince me you've got a fully-functioning sense of humor.
VirusWithShoes at 07:13 PM on 04/30/08
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I love how the interviewer suddenly breaks free of gravity at around 40 seconds in, and decides to question him horizontally for the last 20.

And - does it still count as being pied if it's fully expected? I'm confused.
Conbon at 07:18 PM on 04/30/08
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In the morning, Dale Peck will have showered; and Rick Moody will still be the worst writer of his generation.
Tammany_Fall at 07:42 PM on 04/30/08
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@Conbon: Have you read the book in which he tries to reimagine himself as a Hawthorne character? It's in the "poor misunderstood WASP" genre; very poignant.
Priam at 07:44 PM on 04/30/08
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Bell County at 07:45 PM on 04/30/08
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@Conbon: Absolutely right, but for some reason I think you still won't be sober.
famousauthor at 07:55 PM on 04/30/08
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So was that Tom Friedman pie-ing also a fundraiser?
VirusWithShoes at 08:02 PM on 04/30/08
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@famousauthor: No. A fun-raiser. Slight difference.
Hez at 08:07 PM on 04/30/08
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These pie-ings seem awfully wasteful. Can there not be a new trend of cupcaking?

Unrelated: I'm feeling a little nonplussed by the "Connectedness" rankings of commenters on GM sites I don't even read. How about a site-specific ranking so I might actually, you know... care?
Conbon at 08:12 PM on 04/30/08
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@Bell County: Which is why no one ever asked me to heroically lead a country during global conflict.

@Tammany_Fall: One of these days the WASPs are going to pull themselves up by their Italian leather bootstraps, and overcome the centuries of prejudice they have had to endure. Or was that his point?
Bell County at 08:12 PM on 04/30/08
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@Hez: At least they took the GM employees off. Now at least Betty Crocker is representing for us. By the way, did you see me enlist the term "Hezism" earlier?
Sargasm at 08:19 PM on 04/30/08
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I see Betty is representing us, but commenting ability is not enabled?
moff at 08:25 PM on 04/30/08
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@ILovePuppies: Yeah, that happened last week. It was ugly.
Bell County at 08:25 PM on 04/30/08
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@ILovePuppies: No! And Ketch gave Spirit Fingers a pass. I can't imagine they won't let BC back in, though.
Hez at 08:29 PM on 04/30/08
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@ILovePuppies: Yeah, Betty went a little berserker and never made it out of the Sean Bell thread alive. That shit was rugged... I'm kind of not surprised.
@Bell County: Dead motherfuckers iz connected! Also, some (cough-#1 ranked-cough) people's usernames iz a bit geigh, no? And also, "Attention Whorror" is absolutely worthy of the term Hezism, and bless your ever-lovin heart for shouting me out like that.
Sargasm at 08:40 PM on 04/30/08
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@moff: @Hez: I thought he might have gone out for a sandwich.
Pope John Peeps II at 08:45 PM on 04/30/08
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Aww. This makes me feel good about the world. People get angry, get passionate, try hard, find success, and then when they feel good about themselves, right old wrongs.

Just makes you want to feel good about yourself, doesn't it.
if_i_only_had_a_heart at 09:03 PM on 04/30/08
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@Bell County: where is betty? send my love
CopyofBlueboy at 09:12 PM on 04/30/08
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I thought this said "Rick Moody Pies Pale Dick." Now I'm so disappointed.
BalknChain at 09:27 PM on 04/30/08
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@CopyofBlueboy: Right? Those words jumble together like Drew Barrymore's sweater puppies duking it out in her infamous braless green dress escapade of the Oscars.
hughman at 09:49 PM on 04/30/08
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you are all probably too young to remember this but Peck was a sales clerk in a "new wave" boutique on Christopher St. in the 80s.

Most. Morose. Clerk. Ever.
Dickdogfood at 10:38 PM on 04/30/08
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@hughman: OMG, he didn't have a stint at Star Struck on Greenwich Avenue, too, did he? Because suddenly some distinct late-eighties memories of a dude behind the counter there are beginning to come into scary focus.
mladen at 11:38 PM on 04/30/08
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Rick Moody (who seems to have a lot more hair in this clip than in recent pix) was, in the '80s, the most morose museum guard ever. But in San Fran so it don't count.
the Librarian at 10:34 AM on 05/01/08
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Rick Moody is a tool and his books stink like old pie. How sad Dale Peck is getting so cheesy. I liked him better when he was poor and angry. He had some integrity at least.