What is the world coming to? I talked to Tom Houck this morning and he said Larry Flynt, the pornographer, wants to buy the Gazette! At first I didn’t believe him, but he said it’s true. “Well, I guess we’re out of a job,” I said, but Tom said Flynt isn’t going to change the Gazette staff. He just wants “two or three pages a week for his rantings.” Two or three pages? Can you stand it? I mean really, I love writing for the Gazette, but I can’t work for Larry Flynt! I felt really freaked out about it. I didn’t even want to go to the movies and see old Lina Wertmüller’s latest. I just went to the Krystal and ate three little cheeseburgers and went home. Weird, weird, weird. I turned in early, but then I dreamed about Larry Flynt getting out of flying saucers all night long and the dog kept scratching to be let out every two seconds. Then Deignan got into bed with us and all in all, it was not a restful night. I asked the editors of the Gazette if we were all going to have to pose in the nude when Flynt became the head cheese and they didn’t think it was funny at all. Strange things are happening. Flynt is also looking at New Times magazine and Rolling Stone.