It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to find out that the guy behind Girls Gone Wild is a jerk. It is surprising to find out just how much of a jerk he is: Joe Francis, the founder of the Girls Gone Wild empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He’s pushing himself against me, shouting: “This is what they did to me in Panama City!” It’s after 3 a.m. and we’re in a parking lot on the outskirts of Chicago. Electronic music is buzzing from the nightclub across the street, mixing easily with the laughter of the guys who are watching this, this me-pinned-and-helpless thing. Francis isn’t laughing. He has turned on me, and I don’t know why. He’s going on and on about Panama City Beach, the spring break spot in northern Florida where Bay County sheriff’s deputies arrested him three years ago on charges of racketeering, drug trafficking and promoting the sexua...
Classic.
ReplyDeleteDid I tell you about the Canadian gal who claimed to be so good at accents she could tell right away that we were from the States? (I think wee Kiera's burnt orange University of Texas Longhorns t-shirt was the bigger give-away.) Uh huh. Lady said I sounded like I must be from Wisconsin. Yeah. Chicagoans sound just like folks from New Orleans. Uh-huh. And something about South Dakota (Chris' home state) being right down there near Alabama. Riiight.
accents: FAIL
geography: FAIL
Plus we all have guns.
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