

I don’t know what’s wrong with a good All-American HJ, but then again my experience with the opposite sex is almost nonexistent. “You have to start somewhere,” she always says. None of the corporate executives she’s profiled have proposed to her, but she has made sandwiches with quite a few of them. She’s a staff writer for Boardroom Hotties, a gig she treats as her own Rich Asshole dating service. If they ever do a show called Washed Up at 38, I’m sure she’ll be the first cast. This wouldn’t be so bad if she was my age and in school, but she’s old enough to be my mom. Kathleen is sprawled out on the living room couch watching 16 and Pregnant. Like mine isn’t? As I said, my roommate is a total B. Grey’s time is precious and oh-so-valuable. The interview can’t be rescheduled, Kathleen says, because Mr. Instead of studying for my final exams, though, I’m about to ride my bike three and a half hours from Portland, Oregon, to downtown Seattle to meet with Earl Grey, the fabulously wealthy CEO of the Earl Grey Corporation. (The interview, not cleaning up her vomit.) I am mere weeks away from graduating from college with a liberal arts bachelor’s degree. Since she’s too busy throwing up buckets of puke into the toilet, I’ve been volunteered to do her dirty work. She was supposed to be the one interviewing this mega-corporate beefcake for Boardroom Hotties magazine. My roommate, Kathleen, has the brown bottle flu. The situation I’m in, however, is still fifty shades of messed up. my eyes are blue! It dawns on me that I haven’t been looking into the mirror-I’ve been staring at a poster of Kristen Stewart for five minutes. As I brush my long brown hair, the girl in the mirror with brown eyes too big for her head stares back at me. Why is it so kinky and out of control? I need to stop sleeping with it wet. I growl with frustration at my reflection in the mirror. H&N Interview With Shaffer: Philosophers That Failed At Loveīook Excerpt: 'Fifty Shades of Earl Grey' By: Andrew Shaffer.Shaffer told Here & Now's Robin Young that in the original "the most he does is fly a helicopter.

In his book, Earl Grey is into fantasy role-playing rather than bondage and he takes the billionaire hero to new heights. Romance book reviewer Andrew Shaffer has read James' books and found them so appalling that he wrote a parody, "Fifty Shames of Earl Grey." Readers have been enraptured by the tale of college co-ed Anastasia Steele who's swept off her feet by billionaire Christian Grey only to find that he is into bondage and dominant/submissive sex. James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" has been burning up the best-seller lists this summer.
