Who remembers that Craiglist ad from the 28 year old Goldman banker looking for someone to lavish with his (pretax) $722k bonus? I'm going to go with all of you because, frankly, it/he was unforgettable. The Viking stove, the custom-made oak dresser, the amazing dinners, the shopping, the great wine, the getting each other off fabulously and, of course, the baby's arm aren't things one lets recede from his/her consciousness so easily. Sure, the whole thing turned out to be fake and from the mind of someone named the Cajun Boy who does not really work at Goldman Sachs or at any other financial institution, including Bear Stearns, for that matter, but did anyone give a shit? No, us included. In fact, we were so taken by the imposter-- "real" name: Thad-- that we asked him if we could reprint parts of his journal on DealBreaker so that you all could live vicariously through his fabulous life. He said yes, if it would help him "score ass." So if you enjoy the following installment, show your gratitude.
This past weekend was one of the greatest weekends in the history of an already ridiculously great life. I know that even in an average life that there are moments that are simply unforgettable, moments where the person experiencing the greatness will never forget where they were and what they were doing in that parcel of time, moments for the average person such as getting your first Rolex or German car.
But few things can top this.
What could be so great you ask? Having a fucking American Express Black card emblazoned with the name Thaddeus Quincy Cockburn arrive at your door, that's what! Never again will I have to endure the shame of having to throw down a Gold or Platinum card when playing credit card roulette to see who pays the tab at a restaurant or club. To celebrate the occasion, I decided to throw a party pronto at my condo.
A black party.
Now the only problem with all of this were the logistics. The card came on Saturday morning and I was stressing the fuck out at first about putting all of the pieces in place to throw a kick-ass party later that night. When I throw a party I do it all out and I stay consistent to a theme, so if I was going to throw a black party, every last detail was going to be fucking black. We're talking a menu of black caviar stuffed black mushrooms, blackened black drum (for the non-meat eating women and fags) and black buffalo steaks for those of us with testosterone pumping through our veins. All of the interior decor, tablecloths, napkins, curtains, etc., had to be black. Theme cocktails made with Jose Cuervo Black and Johnny Walker Black, my lone concession to slumming it a bit, were to be served. All of the invited guests were asked to wear black. This was gonna be a bitch to put together without a personal assistant (DAMMIT I NEED TO GET ON THAT...maybe I can hire a temp personal assistant to help me find a permanent personal assistant?), but people like me are who we are because we get shit done.
Then two things hit me. First off, my slacker ass buddy Gabe has been spending his nights drooling all over my Saskatchewan eel-skin sectional sofa (conveniently black in color mind you) ever since he got laid off from B of A. I could make him be my bitch for all of the pedestrian work and secondly, Monday was the Martin Luther King holiday, which meant that I could throw the party on Sunday night since everyone was off on Monday and then I would be the only game in town, thereby making it easier to get chicks to come to the party. This little factual nugget also gave me more blackness to celebrate!
Now with all of the grunt tasks delegated to Gabe I was then free to handle the most important aspect to this or any party...securing the midgets! But for this party, run of the mill midgets would not be acceptable. I HAD TO HAVE BLACK MIDGETS! Now, if you've ever tried to find black midgets to hire to work as servers at your party, you know that there's a huge problem inherent with this, that being that there's an alarming shortage of black midgets out there!
So I did what I always do when I have a pressing need for varying degrees of human flesh, I placed an ad on Craigslist. And what do you know, within a few hours I had four black midgets in route to Manhattan. One of them came from Staten Island, the other three came from Trenton, New Jersey, which must be home to a colony of black midgets or something. Who knew?!
Finally Sunday night came around and the party was off the fucking chain. Gabe found these food service sombrero thingies for the black midgets to wear on their black midget heads, that way they could just walk around at the party and the guests were able to pick hors dourves right off of their little domes. I invited Monique, a smoking hot, black, 6'3'' Amazon fire-eater from The Box, to come as my date for the party. The Giants game was also playing on my 65-inch Panasonic True HD 1080p plasma TV. They won, so everybody was celebrating. But probably the best aspect of the whole night though was what Gabe did with the area on the wall above the fireplace. He went out and found a huge framed portrait of Dr. King and hung it up there. He also blew up a photocopy of my new black card, with my name, card number and expiration date and everything, and had it framed and hung it right next to the portrait of Dr. King. There they were, two symbols of having dreams, two great American Dreams, side by side above the roaring hearth. It was the hit of the party. All night people were standing around it and talking about it, taking pictures of it, typing messages about it into their iPhones, Blackberries and Treos, and even scribbling down notes on their hands.
The only downside to the party was that little prick Josh from my floor showing up uninvited, with identical twin blondes that he flew up from Tampa for the weekend as his dates at that. He kept coming over to me and was trying to fuck with my head by telling me that he had heard that Monique was a tranny. Whatever, all I know is that I passed out later that night and woke up to find that Monique had saddled my pony and was taking a ride reverse cowgirl style. It was too dark in my room to see anything, but all I know and care about is that my cock was filling a tight hole.
Fuck him, I'll trump his ass and get triplets to be my dates if and when his gay ass ever throws a party. And I'll find them on Craigslist too!
Earlier: How To Find The Right Tailor And Other Things We Learned From Thad, The Fake Goldman Trader
Editor's Note: We'll let you know when we have a thad at dealbreaker dot com email, but for now, if there's anything you think he should address, send a note to cajunboyinthecity at gmail dot com and he'll pass it on to Mr. T.






Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 2:25PM
That's the most messed up story I have ever heard
Posted by yawn , Jan 23, 2008 2:26PM
this is a piss poor attempt at an LSO post. please stop.
Posted by yd , Jan 23, 2008 2:29PM
This is a poor rendition of
http://yuppiedouchebagchronicles.blogspot.com/
Posted by Free Money , Jan 23, 2008 2:31PM
Its kinda funny...I think all of us know a Josh who's a prick.
This Thad guy sounds cool! And he's so creative!
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 2:35PM
1080p is shit. but this guy does pretty well for someone who obviously knows nothing about the world of finance. i think it is interesting to see what outsiders imagine our life is like
Posted by Calgary Schmooze , Jan 23, 2008 2:47PM
Saskatchewan eel futures are up in brisk trading at the Nickelback Commodity Exchange in Hanna.
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 2:58PM
funny thing about the midget part is that there actually is a midget colony in New Jersey. However, its in North Jersey and the midgets are of all races, to the best of my knowledge.
Posted by Calgary Schmooze , Jan 23, 2008 3:14PM
How is trading on the midget markets? I don't have access to data from that exchange. Is there an Ag ETF linked to cabbage?
Posted by Noonan , Jan 23, 2008 3:30PM
This was weak.
The yuppie douchebag was a far more superior product. I miss that sockfucker.
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 3:47PM
for your very own indian personal assistant, see asksunday.com
Posted by Reo , Jan 23, 2008 4:09PM
I am so sick of this guy. He is funny the way a 3-year-old telling a joke is funny, because you don't suspect they have the mental capacity for anything more complex. Bess, if you give him any more airtime, please be more direct with the fact that you believe he is in a tight race with John Fitzgerald Page for the 'worst person in the world'...
http://gawker.com/news/douchebags/nightmare-online-dater-john-fitzgerald-page-is-the-worst-person-in-the-world-309684.php
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 4:20PM
Not bad but I agree, LSO is much better.
This is just upfront way too fake, I know it's a joke but at least a lot of people actually think LSO is for real, and thus that makes me laugh even harder.
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 4:24PM
i dunno, LSO takes itself so seriously, this is refreshingly fresh
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 4:32PM
what is LSO? link?
Posted by Bess Fan No. 1 , Jan 23, 2008 4:48PM
Ah, Bess. Funny and a potty mouth..
Posted by Nominate me , Jan 23, 2008 4:52PM
LSO is be far the superior product the last post was from Halloween. I'm dying for some more wacky exploits.
Posted by Nominate me , Jan 23, 2008 5:00PM
LSO is by far the superior product, but the last post was from Halloween. I'm dying some more wacky exploits.
My lack of humor is only trumped by my lack of connecting words in a coherent sentence.
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 5:02PM
micro-baller: someone who fantasizes about being a mini-baller
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 5:04PM
This....is.....EL-ESSSS-OOOOOOO!
http://www.leveragedsellout.com/
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 5:56PM
I absolutely love this, the midget thing especially. People in this business harbor an odd fixation on them. He's got a good eye and ear for an outsider.
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 6:08PM
Just wanted to mention that because this is upfront about being fake that it probably hits some too close to home because it is obviously taking a jab at them and their lifestyles. LSO had an air of "is he or isn't he" mystery and was maybe more accepted because of that. But remember, this was all spurned by a Craigslist ad that was just as outrageous as this story if not more and many people took the bait because as outrageous as it was, it was believable because these sort of jackasses do exist in this business.
Posted by , Jan 23, 2008 6:11PM
Just wanted to mention that because this is upfront about being fake that it probably hits some too close to home because it is obviously taking a jab at them and their lifestyles. LSO had an air of "is he or isn't he" mystery and was maybe more accepted because of that. But remember, this was all spurned by a Craigslist ad that was just as outrageous as this story if not more and many people took the bait because as outrageous as it was, it was believable because these sort of jackasses do exist in this business.
Posted by , Jan 24, 2008 6:33AM
02.58pm - Funny!
Posted by , Jan 24, 2008 11:12AM
I imagine that the way some of the angry comments about this sound are similar to the reactions that die hard Bill O'reilly fans had the first time they saw The Colbert Report.