RIP PJ O’Rourke

[GoSU96]

P.J. O’Rourke Dies: Satirist, Author & NPR Panelist Was 74

P. J. O'Rourke, the political satirist, NPR panelist and bestselling author, died today of lung cancer.

deadline.com

Great writer, observer of the last 60 yrs

Funny, funny dude who got it.

 

[CA Monk]

One of my favorites. Could describe the human experience with humor and poignancy. How we're all punching our little hearts out, inside a paper bag. A person first and a commentator second. Something like that.
RIP PJ. But he won't. I'm sure he'll have something trenchant to say in his new realm.

 

[GoSU96]

Great story

Ferrari Reinvents Manifest Destiny: P.J. O'Rourke Drives Cross-Country in a Ferrari 308GTS

We remember the late satirist and essayist with this classic story from 1980 in which he streaks westward in a 308GTS.

www.caranddriver.com

1980, what a time

bonus, that car became very famous on its own.

guess why

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Great story

Ferrari Reinvents Manifest Destiny: P.J. O'Rourke Drives Cross-Country in a Ferrari 308GTS

We remember the late satirist and essayist with this classic story from 1980 in which he streaks westward in a 308GTS.

www.caranddriver.com

1980, what a time

bonus, that car became very famous on its own.

guess why

 

[GoSU96]

Yep

 

[bevosu]

For many years O’Rourke was Rolling Stone’s foreign-affairs desk chief. He was a detector of dichotomies, when he wasn’t camped out like Graham Greene in a hotel bar. “Each American embassy comes with two permanent features,” he wrote: “a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas.”

P.J. O’Rourke Wrote With High, Cranky Style in a Shrinking Tradition