charlie gasparino jimmy cayne pineapple express.jpgCharlie Gasparino’s self-described “definitive book on the financial crisis,” Up In Smoke, comes out tomorrow. Sadly, one of the main subjects of CG’s most recent contribution to literature, Jimmy Cayne, will not be available to make an appearance at the party tomorrow evening, which is deeply upsetting to those of us who were hoping to get high in a bathroom stall with the former Bear Stearns CEO. And of course it’s upsetting to Chaz, who is well-aware that just one Jimmy Cayne would beat all of the star power Andrew Ross Sorkin had assembled at his soiree last week. Which is why JC knew he had to break it to Gaspo easy. Calling the country reporter this afternoon, after what one can only assume was a seriously successful hotboxing sesh, Cayne, I shit you not, had this to say:

Charlie, I wanted to call and tell you that I’m sorry I can’t make the book party. I really wanted to but I’m going to be out of town. I want to wish you the best of luck with the new book, and tell you that you are the greatest reporter in the history of reporting, hands down.

You have an opinion and you stick with it and I respect that. I just wanted to tell you that you’re a square guy.

Comments (27)

  1. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM

    suck it, sorkin!
    -chaz

  2. Posted by merkin capital partners | November 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM

    If the SWK/BDK entity isn’t called Black Stanley the terrorists win.

  3. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:25 PM

    @2 if you don’t shut the fuck up and focus on JC calling me the greatest reporter in all the land, the terrorist win.
    -cg

  4. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:26 PM

    Bess is this a joke or did Charlie really call you and tell you JC said this?

  5. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:27 PM

    It’s hip to be square.

  6. Posted by Bess Levin | November 2, 2009 at 4:27 PM

    @4 the latter.

  7. Posted by pfluger | November 2, 2009 at 4:29 PM

    Don’t worry Charlie, I will be there. Trust me.
    -I-man

  8. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:30 PM

    bess, you going to tell us where the party is?

  9. Posted by Joe Mac | November 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM

    Those pecs never get old.
    Stan O

  10. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM

    he was clearly stoned off his gourd when he placed this call.

  11. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:34 PM

    @8
    Are you kidding? Bess wants all that man for herself!

  12. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:37 PM

    charles–
    blow me.
    -the sorkin

  13. Posted by BSD | November 2, 2009 at 4:39 PM

    If there was ever a time for a victory sopressata sammy and creatine shake…

  14. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:42 PM

    i love this fuckin jabroni

  15. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:49 PM

    Bullshit!!
    ~C. Suetonius Tranquillus
    Author, “The 12 Caesars”

  16. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:51 PM

    Charlie knows, as the saying goes, if you don’t blow yourself, nobdy else will.

  17. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 4:58 PM

    Bess,
    I love you.
    Andrew Borkin

  18. Posted by Investorcluzo | November 2, 2009 at 5:02 PM

    @merkin – “black works” is much better. it’s like a shout out to my peeps (and adds the positive connotation of being employed)

  19. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 5:31 PM

    @18 I’m surprised there was no decker related joke. Obvious setup there.

  20. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM

    Yeah, Walter Cronkite? Edward R. Murrow?
    Fuck YOU, and Fuck YOU.

  21. Posted by Joe Mac | November 2, 2009 at 5:48 PM

    I love Melissa Lee calling him “Chazzy” on-air.

  22. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 6:00 PM

    Gasparino is. on. FIRE.
    Calling friends, lovers, and family to brag about the love you’re receiving from a bridge-playing, spliff-rolling, blow-huffing, Bear of a man is THE MOTHERFUCKING KILLING IT.
    That is all. Chaz is the King! All hail the King!

  23. Posted by merkin capital partners | November 2, 2009 at 6:16 PM

    @cluzo maybe Black Stanley Works Decker
    Probably what Andy Roddick’s wife was doing before he met her.

  24. Posted by guest | November 3, 2009 at 1:13 PM

    Drink everytime CNBC plugs ‘The Sellout’. Shit-faced by noon.

  25. Posted by guest | November 3, 2009 at 1:13 PM

    Drink everytime CNBC plugs ‘The Sellout’. Shit-faced by noon.

  26. Posted by guest | November 3, 2009 at 1:18 PM

    @25/26 *hic*

  27. Posted by BAss | November 3, 2009 at 1:46 PM

    @25 – 27
    … or anytime this Beth Levin does the same.
    – BiffAss

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