December 02, 2004
LUCKY BITCH
Barbara Boxer is soon to be a best-selling 'author'. Her 'literary' agent hooked her up with SF novelist Mary Rose Hayes to 'collaborate' on a novel: "Boxer's provided characters, details & descriptions; the novelist has combined those elements into a story." In other words, Babs' contribution is - her name.
The 'plot' concerns "personal friendships & betrayal, political infighting & pragmatism" as a short liberal extremist takes on right-wing evildoers. This should be choice, as I actually met Mary Rose Hayes at a writing conference a few years back. She's an eccentric Brit who writes overwrought Gothic sudsers with titles like Amethyst, where all the characters have soap names:
"Catriona, Gwynneth & Jess are attending an English boarding school when Victoria Raven predicts their futures with the aid of her magical amethyst ring. During 2 decades, Catriona discovers that her husband is a homosexual in love with Victoria's manipulative bisexual brother, Tancredi; Gwynneth, who adores Tancredi, becomes a fashion model; artist Jess is romantically linked with an eminent Mexican surgeon; Victoria heads for the world's trouble spots as a journalist. In 1985, Tancredi summons them all to the Ravens' castle in Scotland for a fateful reunion."Clearly, a perfect choice to tell the Barbara Boxer story.
"Oh Babs," he breathed, "how how how does a loudmouth little extremist like you keep getting elected to the Senate?"
"Oh Manfred," she moaned, breast heaving in the crepuscular gloaming, "perhaps it's because my dirty campaigns make Karl Rove look like Reese Witherspoon! Or perhaps it's the wire coat-hanger I wear in my hair! Or perhaps it's because the California Republican Party has its head so far up its ass, it can check for polyps! Or perhaps it's just because I'm a - LUCKY BITCH!"
Posted by Jeff at December 2, 2004 02:57 PM