Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.22.08 | 2:36 PM ET
More than two years after Laura Albert was outed as the person behind novelist and sometime travel writer JT LeRoy, the Los Angeles Weekly’s Nancy Rommelmann caught up with her in San Francisco. It’s a fascinating story, though a long one—more than 7,400 words.
Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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John M. Edwards 02.22.08 | 5:09 PM ET
Hi Michael:
What’s this candyass sitting-on-the-fence about, Sarge?
Surprise, surprise.
Victor Victoria Day has dawned! Now in the expert export-import hands of John Morris, who kissed Paul Theroux on a boat, carefully disguised as “Jan Morris,” well, I forgot what I was going to say. JT LeRoy is a highly suspicious name, both fey and fickle, but with a touch of lightness around the heavy-set sunken eyes in the sad makeuppy clownface deathmask.
In an unrelated issue of gender, I think the Seneca Apple Juice Company should make a new rousing commercial using some Boys Band band of menacing castrato, amidst a glorious background of “classic music, singing, “Seneca, the first frozen apple juice, enriched with vitamin C. Rich, delicious Seneca, sweetened naturally.” Maybe the heroic mock opera of the lead singer from October Project could pull it off. It makes a good hiking song, whether you are of the male or female persuasion—or something in between, like a shrill voodoo-dolll shemale lunging at you on The West Side Highway of the glorious island-state of Manhattan, New York.