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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Artsy If You Can Dupe Gus Van Sant…Who Can’t You Dupe?

Posted by Matt Davis on Sat, Feb 23 at 10:22 AM

A 38-year-old woman pretending to be a 15-year-old boy becomes world famous for writing stories about his imaginary victimhood. Portland’s LA-transplant Nancy Rommelman has a 9-page cover feature at the LA Weekly, all about it. The irony, of course, is that the story about the woman behind JT Leroy is more interesting than the stories he never wrote.

She wears a wig, her fingers are gray, and she’s had what some might call excessive elective surgery — on her breasts, her nose, and her lips, which this afternoon show the pricks and puffiness of recent injections.

Great reading for your lost weekend, the whole story is spookily Warholesque, and at the same time, very much anti-Warhol. And anti-Van Sant. And then again, of course, very Warholesque. And very Van Sant. Are you still following at this point? Because I’m not…just go read the story and enjoy it.

And have a great weekend.

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Comments

thanks for the "news", matt. this happened last year.

Posted by ... | February 23, 2008 12:49 PM

Ahhh, Nancy Rommelmann, the Daniel Pipes of our low-cost little burg.

Thank you for linking us to her work! She is a freaking genius!

Posted by Wassalam alaikum | February 23, 2008 3:48 PM

Um, I assume the last comment was a joke? 'cause this story wasn't interesteing even before our own low-cost leathery dilettante---er, Daniel Pipes, picked it up.

Posted by middling | February 24, 2008 2:51 AM

That's some interesting hatred you guys are spewing. Care to elaborate?

Posted by Matt Davis | February 24, 2008 1:24 PM

inane blogger covers a shitty writer covering a boring story well past its expiration date, and gets confused about why the unfriendly portlanders aren't showing him love... you're one of a kind, matt (thank god).

Posted by kelly | February 24, 2008 5:54 PM

Let me rephrase that:

"Talented, bordering on genius blogger covers a super-talented genius writer covering a story with its pulse firmly on the zietgeist, and is wholly unsurprised when Portlanders resent all this because they're generally suspicious of intellectual insight in any of its forms."

One of a kind indeed.

Posted by Matt Davis | February 25, 2008 1:17 PM

Whenever I hear the words "intellectual
insight" I reach for my pistol...

Posted by the flying hun | February 25, 2008 1:19 PM

No wonder you're named after the Nazis.

Posted by Matt Davis | February 25, 2008 4:18 PM

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