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Sam Lipsyte and Lucinda Rosenfeld

It's Dial-a-Lash, Not Stalk-a-Lash

Posted Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000, at 3:45 PM ET

What's with this low-budget Sue Ellen from Dallas deciding the presidential election? As one of our readers so astutely points out, Florida's secretary of state seems to have gotten her mascara tips from Tammy Faye Baker. (Note to Katherine Harris: It's called Dial-a-Lash, not Stalk-a-Lash.) But seriously, doesn't this to-hand-count-or-not-to-hand-count stuff belong in the Supreme Court? Or, Sam--organ please!--is the only "supreme court" the one we stand before in the next life?! Something to ponder in the wee hours of the night, a time during which I suspect you wear nothing but post-ironic underpants. ...

One more thing: Readers, if you're ever in New York, skip the Soho Sanctuary. Those phony new-age bastards gave me a half hour rub down with Musak accompaniment and charged me for the full hour--just 'cause I was running a few minutes late! OK, I was a half hour late. But it was raining, I was stuck in Midtown, I couldn't get a cab, and they wouldn't let me reschedule. That was yesterday. Today has been nicer to me. Thanks for listening.

Till death do me part,
Lucinda

It's Dial-a-Lash, Not Stalk-a-Lash

Posted Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000, at 3:45 PM ET
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Sam Lipsyte just published his first book of short stories, and Lucinda Rosenfeld just published her first novel. (Click here to buy Lipsyte's Venus Drive and here to buy Rosenfeld's What She Saw ...)
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