Take off
24 October 2009
This is the first in a series of guest posts by my good friend Patrick Bateman. I am sure he needs no introduction.
My problem came from being a young man with a lot of money in Manhattan. As a direct result of my position and perceived good fortune, the word NO did not apply to me. Can I have this suit, this phone, this girl? YES. This drug, this apartment, this deal? YES! This car, this table, this stretch of oceanfront? YES! Could I change the boundaries that define society? Could I create my own set of rules and live by them? YES. YES! Everything but NO! Was I searching all this time for that someone who would finally say NO to me?
No.
I was searching for Teterboro, the most convenient of New York’s private airports, even though it is in New Jersey. And by 92 I had found it. I haven’t seen the inside of a commercial plane, except the Concorde, in nearly a decade.
The French. Their cars suck but their aircraft are glorious. My Falcon 50, tail number N522PB, has the best short field performance of any of the heavy iron, and is far less nouveau than a Gulfstream, which, by now, everybody in the top tiers at Goldman and Microsoft owns. And, I should have known that after a weekend in Aspen’s thin air, this normally invigorating bottle of Far Niente would induce a sense of remorse in me that is about the only thing I can’t afford right now.
Especially now.
No thoughts can enter my mind that don’t focus exclusively on THE DEAL.
For future reference. Remind me to never pick up anyone who appears regularly on the WB network. If I have to hear one more time about how if she had known how cold Aspen was she never would have become a spokesperson for PETA and then she would have been able to wear her Fendi sable poncho to the Caribou Club, I will throw her out of the plane as soon as we’re over the Meadowlands.
Virtually yours,
Patrick Bateman
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Find out about Far Niente
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