Feb
8
Ruby Keeler
I was walking Obie after work and listening to A Confederacy of Dunces. I was listening to the part of the story where Ignatius is talking to Dorian Green about getting a political movement going. Dorian mentions that he is in a “Ruby Keeler phase”.
After dinner I was reading the Five Dials publication on David Foster Wallace (PDF via Daring Fireball) and one of the eulogists called David the “Ruby Keeler of fiction”.
Two mentions of Ruby Keeler in a single day — kind of weird.
