The Banality of Perversion: TGIFreekay's
Okay, with the Spitzer thing...I guess I understand: high priced call girl, top hotel, minibar, you've got a weird power-trip going down, you're buying her silence as well as her service....it's reprehensible, yeah, but comprehensible.
But then there's this, from a former driver for New Jersey Democratic Governor Jim McGreevey, who claims he and McGreevey and McGreevey's wife, well...
The aide, Theodore Pedersen, said he and the couple even had a nickname for the weekly romps, from 1999 to 2001, that typically began with dinner at T.G.I. Friday's and ended with a threesome at McGreevey's condo in Woodbridge.They called them "Friday Night Specials," according to Pedersen.
T.G.I.Friday's?
There's a lot of cold-blooded, depraved, weird crap you run across on the internet, even when you're not looking for it. And yet...T.G.I.Friday's?
Nothing screams out "hot deviant three way gubernatorial orgy" like T.G.I.Fridays. Nothing. You just can't take the First Lady of New Jersey and your 21-year-old aide/boy-toy to Applebee's and expect the magic to happen. Gotta be someplace special.
Someplace with a propeller on the wall, and some wacky antiques. And a potted fern. And fried cheese on the menu.
Someplace like Friday's.
Was the Olive Garden too...I don't know, too exotic for the McGreeveys? Too ethnic? Too dangerous?
Maybe the kid's making all this up. It's quite likely he is; the deal is pretty far-fetched, but, still...T.G.I.Fridays?
If that's a lie, it's a scary good one. Because, who would tell a lie and include an odd detail like that? An amateur like me tries framing the Governor and Mrs. Governor in a tawdry sex scandal, I'm gonna go with "we would order in Thai food", maybe. Or insanely-spicy ceviche at an obscure hole-in-the-wall Salvadoran joint where the gov had once pulled some strings to let the proprietor's aunt stay in the country. Something like that.
But who comes up with "we used to meet at T.G.I.Friday's?" A detail that makes the whole thing seem emptier and more soulless than even Spitzer's furtive transgressions?
A damned evil genius, that's who.
JYB Tailwag: Hot Air Headlines.
UPDATE: New Jerseyans might remember Governor Tom Kean's old "New Jersey and You: Perfect Together" ads from the eighties.
The JYB News Bureau has learned that ex-Gov. McGreevey has recorded a new set of tourism PSAs, featuring the updated tagline: "New Jersey and you, and you, too: Perfect Together!"