Tuesday June 08, 2004

What a Deck

Designer Marc Jacobs — who I hold personally responsible for The Maritime Hotel, which got underway shortly after his 2002 Fashion Week shindig, at what was then still just a big ugly building — makes it up to me by issuing a deck of cards featuring the malevolent knuckleheads of the Bush administration. Based on the deck of top Iraqis distributed last year by the Pentagon — and, of course, The New York Post — this one casts Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft as the Aces. According to Reuters, Bush also appears as both Jokers — striking out in T-ball on one and standing around in that ridiculous “end of major combat” flight suit on the other. Reuters doesn’t have pictures, but photoblogger Thomas Locke Hobbes does. (Thanks, Thomas, for sparing me the invigorating 10 block walk.)