AITF?? (am i the freak here)
Like there is a non-zero chance that I, as a red-blooded listener of The Daily, am just projecting here, but did the first half of this writeup of the man, the myth, the voice! of Michael Barbaro from NY Mag strike anyone else as relentlessly and hilariously horny???
The actual description of Barbaro as “owlishly handsome,” with a “corona of salt-and-pepper curls” and a “scruffy, too-busy-to-shave beard” is already a lot, for one thing. Like if I were reading a novel and this is how they were characterizing the main love interest, I would be like…listen this is really lovely but maaaaaaybe cool it down a notch unless we are about to commission Fabio for cover???
But then you throw in some choice phrasing about rooms groaning, teams mushrooming, ranks swelling...and then specific asides about “deliberate pauses that never hit exactly where you expect” and how Barbaro “has been known to burrow beneath bedcovers”......and I’m like GOODNESsSs at least warn a gal before she reads this in public in 14 pt font???
Or maybe this is all very innocuous, and I am just being the singular freak here. WHAT DO YOU THINK?