• February 13, 2012

WALNUTS!DAVID FOSTER WALLACE LOVED JOHN McCAIN: Here’s that 2000 Rolling Stone profile of John McCain by DFW, who killed himself this weekend. It is pretty gross, but Wallace said a few months ago that he no longer lurved Walnuts, the end. [Rolling Stone]

{ 22 comments }

TGY September 15, 2008 at 3:59 pm

It bothers me that he left no note.

As to WALNUTS: Senator Jekyll and Candidate Hyde.

ronaldpagan September 15, 2008 at 3:59 pm

No I’m not gonna read this whole thing, but the opening, “Since You’re Reading “Rolling Stone,” the chances are you’re an American between say 18 and 35…” is hilariously out of touch.

SayItWithWookies September 15, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Just from reading the first page, it’s evident that McCain was as much a phony then as he is now.

grendel September 15, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Why smear the mans name after he’s dead?

Serolf Divad September 15, 2008 at 4:07 pm

ARE YOU HAPPY JOHN MCCAIN!?!?!?!?!?!

MoodProcessor September 15, 2008 at 4:13 pm

Yeah, Wally gives me the howling fantods too.
His people calling us a nation of whingers and all that-

facehead September 15, 2008 at 4:13 pm

[re=96510]TGY[/re]: He didn’t leave a note because he wasn’t a whiner. He must have known that his depression wasn’t “real” , it was just a “mental depression.”

bond September 15, 2008 at 4:15 pm

‘loved’? i don’t remember it being very positive.. let me guess, you didn’t read all the footnotes?

HomoPolitico September 15, 2008 at 4:17 pm

And it only took FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN!

White Nick September 15, 2008 at 4:17 pm

WHY DID JOHN MCCAIN DEPRESS DFW TO DEATH

FlakJack September 15, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Is it safe to say McCain deserves at least some blame? If I had genuine admiration for a guy, with whom I’d spent a lot of time, and he turned out later to be the quintessential political whore, so unprincipled a bastard that he makes Bush-Cheney look restrained — the sort of guy who would run proudly away from everything he once claimed to believe in, who would gladly swing from Falwell’s saggy white sack, much less pick an empty skirt for VP, to salvage his one last shot running the free world like a crazy old fuck… that might depress me a little bit.

facehead September 15, 2008 at 4:23 pm

[re=96540]FlakJack[/re]: How can you call Palin an “empty skirt” ? I bet if you lifted up her skirt it would look like Bob Marley raping a wind tunnel.

Borat September 15, 2008 at 4:25 pm

[re=96510]TGY[/re]: Yes, I found that there was no note, even a poorly contrived one as highly suspect.

irisheyes September 15, 2008 at 4:29 pm

[re=96550]Borat[/re]: Perhaps the family wanted to keep it private?

obfuscator September 15, 2008 at 4:32 pm

[re=96511]ronaldpagan[/re]:

“Since You’re Reading “Rolling Stone,” the chances are you’re an American… either a female around age 15 or a 59 year old baby boomer douchebag, depending on this issue’s cover. Jonas Brothers or Crosby, Stills & Nash?”

Botswana Meat Commission FC September 15, 2008 at 4:36 pm

[re=96548]facehead[/re]:
Fuck you. That made me laugh hard enough to get unwanted co-worker attention.

The Unfairman September 15, 2008 at 4:43 pm

TGY: The reason there was no note is because by the time David Foster had finished all his footnotes, non-sequiturs and tangents, he would have died of natural causes.

I have a lot of respect for the man, and loved his work, especially “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” (it was a cruise), so I mean nothing offense to other fans.

njdon September 15, 2008 at 4:49 pm

i’ll just jump in here:
i’m sure you noticed the lehman employees carrying out their things including golf clubs and tennis raquets. wtf were they doing in there.

wilhelms September 15, 2008 at 5:05 pm

In the preface to this article in his book, DFW notes that he voted for Bill Bradley.

TGY September 15, 2008 at 5:18 pm

[re=96579]The Unfairman[/re]: It’d be hard to write a suicide footnote.

olddognewtricks September 15, 2008 at 9:16 pm

I don’t know if anyone can answer this, but why do they call him Walnuts…I assume it’s some old, nutty toothless old man nickname, but a friend of mine, whom I introduced to Wonkette, asked me and I wasn’t sure…

wilhelms September 17, 2008 at 9:03 am

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