Gore Vidal: Superawesome Crotchety Old Bastard

This is fucking awesome.

Start here:




Then go here (Seriously, read as much of it as you can).

Then this awkward interview with the NY Times:

Q: How did you feel when you heard that Buckley died this year?

Vidal: I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred.

The Times article has some other great stuff in it about how much Gore Vidal hates contemporary fiction, Al Gore, and the interviewer herself (I'm not kidding). Vidal also says Generalissimo John McCunt is a pretend war hero who married that rich pill beer lady because that's what young douchebag officers do.

Good stuff.