She looks worse than that up close. At the post 9/11 Red Cross money drive I was inches away from her for Bush’s entire speech, when the whole place froze and listened live. For a brief moment my eyes focused on her caked makeup, the red on her lips and the thickly drawn dark lines around it.
Before retina damage set in, I bathed my eyes in who was sitting next to her, Larry Elder in a light denim button down wtih white wifebeater peeking out the top... What was Bush talking about? The evildoers were going to hear from us soon? I don’t remember. But Larry was wearing that shirt...