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May 24, 2010

From Steve Heilig: MS. BUSHTAFARI

MS. BUSHTAFARI
(no I did not make this up – Sunday NY Times book section, 5/23/10:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/books/review/InsideList-t.html

JAMMIN’: Laura Bush, whose new memoir, “Spoken From the Heart,” enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 1, once cited the “Grand Inquisitor” section of “The Brothers Karamazov” as her favorite work of literature. But in a cute mother-daughter moment in an otherwise tightly orchestrated press rollout, Jenna Bush let it slip on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that her mother is also a “secret Rastafarian” who listens to Bob Marley around the house.

2 comments:

  1. and, PS: just after posting this, I was at a supermarket checkout and the National Enquirer or Star or Weekly World News or one of those scholarly journals had this huge headline:

    "LAURA BUSH LEAVING GEORGE: "I JUST CAN'T LIVE A LIE ANYMORE." So there you have it. True rasta dawta nah cyan reason with crazy baldhead.

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  2. Whoa!! Does that mean she also partakes of the 'sacrament?'

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