The Executed’s Song

Or
Mailer in the Coffin

Or
The Naked and the Dead

Or
Looks Like Playdude Needs Another Aging Libido Author
(Props to Phil)
Aged, racist crank novelist Norman Mailer has died at 84. Best remembered for his cameo on The Gilmore Girls when Sookie realizes she’s pregnant, he also won a couple Pulitzers and a National Book Award. His novels are full of manly men doing manly things, while his personal life was full of a deranged goof doing deranged things. How different the two are is subject to interpretation. He concluded that Marilyn Monroe was murdered by the CIA and FBI who were upset by her dalliances with Robert Kennedy. He also tried to get Lee Harvey Oswald off in his 1995 book Oswald’s Tale. His failed 1969 bid for the mayor’s office in New York City was based on a platform of seceding from the Empire State and declaring New York the 51st state and was bolstered by Jimmy Breslin’s bid for City Council President. He went Mike Tyson on Rip Torn after Torn went Bob Vila on Mailer (Mailer bit off part of Torn’s ear while filming Maldstone after Torn attacked Mailer with a hammer) and head-butted Gore Vidal before taping The Dick Cavett Show. He was the unindicted accomplice of convicted killer Jack Abbott, who, within weeks of securing the parole that Mailer had championed, stabbed a waiter in a New York restaurant. In fairness, the soup was a tad cold. Life imitated art in 1960, when Mailer stabbed the second of his six wives in an incident many critics claimed was the embodiment of his novelized misogyny.

The early delivery of the Mailer probably screwed up a few lists; luckily, there are 16 days, 1 hour and 12minutes left to get those lists in.