Ars longa, caenum facile…

May 15, 2012 by JOB at 1:09 pm

RIP Mike McGrady – aka one-part Penelope Ashe.

“It came after a night of reading ‘Valley of the Dolls,’ ” he later told Newsweek, “which I couldn’t put down because I was asleep.”

JOB

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Big Jon, Bully says

May 15, 2012 at 1:39 pm

Did Quin know him?

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Matthew Lickona says

May 15, 2012 at 5:46 pm

So it’s come to this. I can’t even delight in this kind of news any more, because I’m mad I didn’t do it first. That said, I am wildly impressed. He proved that parody was impossible with the first 20K copies, and then went on to prove the opposite.

TAGGED WITH: ENVY, CAUTION.

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- job says
  
  May 16, 2012 at 7:19 am
  
  No, no! No need to worry about my usurping your beat, pal!
  
  I’m just taking up a little niche within your niche is all – the dynamic interplay (ahem) of porn and literature.
  
  You still get to write about all that other yucky stuff; I’m just trying to park the Pinto next to the Pontiac to make the Pontiac look like a Cadillac…
  
  JOB
  
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  - Matthew Lickona says
    
    May 16, 2012 at 7:24 am
    
    Ah, such is friendship that I never suspected otherwise. It’s this McGrady fellow who has me tinged viridian. Carry on, old man.
    
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    - job says
      
      May 16, 2012 at 7:49 am
      
      Oh, I see: you wanted to write “Naked Comes the Member” only to find out someone scooped you!
      
      Still, robots are an uptick of sorts. Work on it…
      
      JOB
      
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Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

May 15, 2012 at 7:54 pm

Mike McGrady

aka

Penelope Ashe

aka

E.L. James

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