We wish

From The New York Daily News:

"Norman Mailer yesterday undertook a cultural suicide mission, dive-bombing not only The New York Times but also a group of Asian-American journalists incensed over his strike on Times book critic Michiko Kakutani.
The 82-year-old novelist - who in an interview with Rolling Stone called the Japanese-American critic "a one-woman kamikaze" and "a token" minority hire - received a spanking yesterday from Dallas Morning News reporter Esther Wu, president of the 2,000-member Asian American Journalists Association."

For a moment there, the Babu's hopes were up--what would the headlines read tomorrow, MAILER HOSPITALISED WITH SORE BOTTOM?--but it seems the NYDN was speaking metaphorically. Damn.