From the mailbag:
Spotted Andrew Ross Sorkin at a bookstore in Penn Station berating a young clerk for not carrying more copies of his book, “Too Big To Fail.”He actually said quite loudly: “Dude, you need to carry like a 100 copies of that book. It’s gonna be huge!”
Sorkin has yet get back to us with a comment on the account, and while it doesn’t really seem very in character for the DealBook editor to be making such a spectacle (in public), you can’t deny that he’s right to fight for the guy who just wants to get a gripping account of the shit that went down last year over a few rounds at the Houlihan’s bar, or in the station’s lush new accomodations. One thing you can be sure of is this:
Charlie Gasparino will break the legs of any Borders clerk who fails to keep a minimum of a thousand copies of When Mooks Fail on hand. That’s not a threat, just a fact. To that end, failure to make sure his cardboard cutout is prominently displayed near the entrance at all times will result in having your cojones “snapped off and boiled in motor oil” (that’s a direct quote). Everyone’s been warned.
Posted by merkin capital partners , Nov 03, 2009 1:27PM
The Gel Out: How Four Decades of Goomba Greed and Follicle Mismanagement Destroyed the Finest Coif This World Has Ever Known
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 1:33PM
Sorkin has a very small penis.
Ping Jiang
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 1:33PM
He looks so pensive, I'm worried.
CG
Posted by pfluger , Nov 03, 2009 1:34PM
Oh the memories. After a long day in the trenches of Wall St, I always looked forward to pissing in the stainless steel urinals at Penn Station, checking out the oblivious cops standing around in groups of two or three and discussing the status of their pensions, and buying a luke warm 16 oz Heineken to consume on the ride back home.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 1:36PM
The Gelato: How 10-lb Tubs of Frozen Goo and a Spatula Built Triceps Like You Wouldn't F*ckin' Believe.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 1:38PM
Sorkin's ghost writer is Mark Klein, M.D.
Those fucks, those fucks.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 1:40PM
I have some tube socks that I'd like Charlie to autograph when I buy his book. Bess, could you use your influence to get his OK to do that besides just signing the book for me?
~CG Fan Club Member
Posted by Anal_yst , Nov 03, 2009 1:46PM
Now is this a naked, or at most, cutoff Champion zip-up hoodie cardboard cutout?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 1:48PM
Bess, what are you wearing today?
Shia
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 1:52PM
@4 Penn Station? What? Take your long island trash elsewhere.
-Alicia Wetmore (I'm back! http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alicia-wetmore/a/b16/738)
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 1:53PM
What kind of tool would throw his middle name into the mix just to sound more sophisticated?
-Paul Jones
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 1:55PM
sorkin- the dirty jerz or strong island?
Posted by merkin capital partners , Nov 03, 2009 2:07PM
Did he get that shirt and tie in a box combo from Marshall's or Ross?
Posted by pfluger , Nov 03, 2009 2:25PM
@10:
Don't get too excited. I also pissed in the urinals at Grand Central, and observed identical groupings of oblivious cops standing around discussing the status of their pensions.
But the stainless steel urinals in Penn Station were kind of unique.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 2:25PM
whatadoooooooouche
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 2:33PM
I hate that term Dirty Jerz. Jackie O's horse stable was in Bernardsville, NJ....wonder why she chose NJ over CT or even worse, Westchester?....because she could.
Posted by pfluger , Nov 03, 2009 2:39PM
Jackie O lived in NJ because she's a filthy whore.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 2:47PM
I live in Gowanus. Its nice.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 2:59PM
Bess hails from the land of the Livingston Mall!!
http://www.simon.com/Mall/?id=111
But I have a feeling she was more of a Short Hills kind of girl.
http://www.shopshorthills.com/
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 3:01PM
Anybody that says bad stuff about Jersey is usually a shitheel.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 3:02PM
Beautiful
Elegant
Sexy
Sensy
Dats my poem for taday.
CG
Posted by american bandersnatch , Nov 03, 2009 3:03PM
Books? How 2005! Get a Kindle.
Posted by american bandersnatch , Nov 03, 2009 3:04PM
@19 - Definitely Short Hills for Bessie. Livingston Mall is too "urban".
Posted by Anal_yst , Nov 03, 2009 3:15PM
Short Hills Mall, good spot to big up MILF/Cougars ("Hi Ma'am I'll be your er, concierge, this afternoon...")
Posted by american bandersnatch , Nov 03, 2009 3:19PM
@24 - Damn, last time I let my wife shop there.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 3:19PM
I live in Gowanus. Its nice here.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 3:30PM
Re: married MILFs/Cougars.
Should anyone be so lucky as to hook up at the mall, let me tell you from personal experience you will not regret it. I had things done to me from an innocent looking soccer mom that I'm still looking for definitions of.
Posted by NakedShort , Nov 03, 2009 3:32PM
You know what is a favorite NakedShort pastime during Holiday Shopping Season? During a crowded afternoon or evening at a mall or store yell out "Mom!" and watch how many heads snap around so fast youd have sworn they shattered their neck.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 3:38PM
ARS and Shia would be a good pair.
By the way, did anyone else notice that Sorkin's initials are the same as that of Argentina's currency? Exactly. And look where that went a few years ago...I'm just sayin'
Posted by NakedShort , Nov 03, 2009 3:40PM
@29 also note that they are the same as that of another credit market buggaboo: Auction Rate Securities
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 3:42PM
@30 Lest we forget; Atlanta Rythym Section
Posted by Anal_yst , Nov 03, 2009 4:28PM
@AB
This was more a 'back in the day' spot; can't remember the last time I went trolling for milf (or any other type of) poon outside Neiman Marcus...
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2009 5:11PM
ARSe
Posted by Largebrneyes , Nov 03, 2009 5:20PM
I go by that bookstore in Penn Station every day. Those books aren't going anywhere.
Posted by The Captain , Nov 09, 2009 3:10PM
@6 -I love it. Pure gold. None of these other donkeys must read dealbook, but I can't stand Klein...