First, Andrew Sullivan must have been channeling Tom Wolfe when he wrote this portrait of Joe Biden entering the House of Representatives to give his State of the Union Speech. He looks very old though. The first thought I had watching Biden enter the House was that he looks less like Biden than someone wearing a Biden Halloween mask. The features are all there in some kind of uncanny valley, buoyed by fillers and stretched by Botox into a mask that hovers somewhere between Jo[an] Rivers and John Kerry, the pure black raisin eyes peering from within the carved carapace of what was once a face. The Botox is so severe that he has the habit of looking and listening to someone without any measurable change of expression, as if frozen until he can prove that he is not a mannequin. That gives him the open-mouthed squint expression that makes him seem angry at something and yet clueless about why at the same time.
Wednesday Potpourri
Wednesday Potpourri
Wednesday Potpourri
First, Andrew Sullivan must have been channeling Tom Wolfe when he wrote this portrait of Joe Biden entering the House of Representatives to give his State of the Union Speech. He looks very old though. The first thought I had watching Biden enter the House was that he looks less like Biden than someone wearing a Biden Halloween mask. The features are all there in some kind of uncanny valley, buoyed by fillers and stretched by Botox into a mask that hovers somewhere between Jo[an] Rivers and John Kerry, the pure black raisin eyes peering from within the carved carapace of what was once a face. The Botox is so severe that he has the habit of looking and listening to someone without any measurable change of expression, as if frozen until he can prove that he is not a mannequin. That gives him the open-mouthed squint expression that makes him seem angry at something and yet clueless about why at the same time.