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...
Uh. Whoa. What the hell? I mean. Whoa.
ReplyDeleteYeah.
Whoa.
The liquid-hoff, or the German video?
ReplyDeleteWhere in the name of all that is holy are you finding this stuff? Here I was, just starting to recover from those Finnish people. And now I fear that I am permanently scarred.
ReplyDeleteIt is my gift. It is my curse.
ReplyDeleteAnd more than that, they come from my friends, who come and go on the waves of teh intareb zeitgeist, frolicking like drunken gnomes.