<![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> @web_mom:
Couldn't agree more, Web Momma. Charlotte Simmons wasn't terrible; it was just too relentlessly accurate, especially as satire. You want proof that Tom was onto something in nailing a generation for its addiction to fame, watch The Hills.


semperfido

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> Even the Hamptons and Wolfe have that generic vacation mentality sometimes. I love his dapper presentation in public but I certainly didn't expect him to be sauntering around town like Gene Kelly in a musical number.

I disagree with Yossarian and thoroughly enjoyed Charlotte Simmons. Could be that I'm a southerner and former sorority girl, or just a big Tom Wolfe fan.

ouiserboudreaux

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> Say what you will about his appearance, but that Charlotte Simmons book was terrible.

Hops

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> @Truculent: I thought that was you and I waved, but you didn't hear me.

scroll_lock

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> fond as I am of the earl, my fiance's valet compels me to point out a reporting error. spats are not shoes. they are worn OVER shoes. by total anachronisms, of course.

Honoria Glossop

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> I heart the Earl.

PandoraSpocks

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> Geez, the Fire Island report is getting so boring.

depardoo

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> See, now I thought the only thing missing was some Hookerface he picked up in a bar. You know, the drill: ask her if anyone has ever told her that she looks like Britney Spears and then offer her a ride home.

I mean, not bad for such a old guy. But if a guy walked up to me and so much as suggested that I remotely looked like that haggard piece of batshit crazy trash, well, I would not be accepting his ride home.

HookerfaceAnon

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> Awesome review, Earl G. The only thing missing is a Girl with Brown Lipstick riding shotgun in the Caddy.

hhpeterson13

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> Big deal. Every man looks like shit in the Hamptons. Martha's Vineyard shirts and stained twill. The women are understated, naturally playing down their "striking features" (horse faces) in some sort of brushed cotton forgettable and the kids are basically standard issue in Crocs and bathing suits.

What I want to know more about are the "more than a few lives" were claimed by the Jitney! BWAHAHAHA!

HowDareThey

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> Unnessary Haiku with Pressing Question


Something about the water.
Clothes less important.
But Earl? Was he commando?

rod townsend

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> @LolCait:

Too funereal.

NotAndersonCooper

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> At first I wanted ice cream. Then I got sick of it.

Debussy Fields

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> I was on the North Shore this past weekend. Attire -- cheap Hawaiian shirt from Kohls, Target shorts, Pacific Trails sandals. No one noticed or complained. The car was a rental.

Truculent

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> Did he do that thing with the cup?

earlytimezone

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> Driving Mr. Lazy?

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> @TedSez:

I was going to say something about how you're either on the jitney or off the jitney, but now I'll simply bow to thee instead.

c_webb

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> Better sweats than seeing this Bush supporter lounging on the beach in a Speedo.

Ed

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> Ah, the Earl Grey. Can always count on him for a full report.

I wonder if the shabby dress is his Clark Kent version of himself, whereas the white suit is the Superman costume?

Sally Tomato

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> I don't think I'd be satisfied with anything less than a glorious dazzling white carriage drawn by six horses and/or pool boys. Either that or some sort of rocket car.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> "There they go, in the family car, a white Pontiac Bonneville sedan -- the family car! -- a huge crazy god-awful-powerful fantasy creature to begin with, 327-horsepower, shaped like twenty-seven nights of lubricious luxury brougham seduction. . . ."
--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

TedSez

]]> <![CDATA[Tom Wolfe Dresses Way Down In The Hamptons]]> A man of his age and refinement should own a car that deserves to be seen cruising through a supermarket window at 45 mph.

KarenUhOh

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