I don't think anyone else read this hilarious blog back in the day but Trump slips into this exact register all the time and it's so funny I can't stand it. postmoronic.blogspot.com/2005/05/
Whenever I read one of these pieces I find it helpful to mentally replace each use of the word "birdwatching" (or "building model railways" or whatever it is) with "having a big shit".
Me, all the time: parenting has destroyed my ability to focus! Me, setting a new catch record with my small son: 153 [blocks out all extraneous data], 154 [is oblivious to the weather, the traffic, my wife calling me], 155 [the universe is ephemeral, there is only the ball, only ever the ball]
We all have to pretend to be amiable teddy bears, what me, fighting duels and seducing wives, no i like ranking biscuits and visiting provincial railway stations, but behind closed doors we're all strutting around in monocles, humiliating our enemies
