The Chris Moeller Archives

Vanity Fair explores Clintonworld

Everybody's talking about this Vanity Fair piece on Bill Clinton, including Bubba himself. (And who could miss this story behind a magazine cover like this?)

There are some juicy (read: slimy) new tidbits in the article pertaining to Bill's post-presidency globe-trotting aboard the private jet Clinton aides have dubbed "Air Fuck One," but actress Gina Gershon wants it known that she would never debase herself in such a way as to involve herself with our 42nd president-- and she was in "Showgirls."

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Through a mutual contact, I discovered this terrific blog maintained by an Iowa woman abroad. Val Flynn is a Peace Corps volunteer, only 23 years old, currently serving in an isolated part of China significantly effected by the Sichuan earthquake. Her written accounts are staggeringly vivid both as a profile of this region and then as a first-hand account of the earthquake's devastation. It makes my blog look like a student paper. Keep in mind as you read it that censorship in China is extraordinarily pervasive, and government officials are no doubt monitoring the site closely.

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Joshua Tyree of McSweeney's publishing house has never been able to buy into the plausibility of the Death Star's trash compactor, made famous in a scene from George Lucas' 1977 epic "Star Wars." I wouldn't link to it if it weren't important.

posted by CM @ 8:43 PM