All signs of today’s Daily News “life as an intern” article pointed to blogger pretty boy Toby “Vividblurry” Halliwell. If you’re unfamiliar, Toby is the Internet’s dildo tester dujour who laments about his internship and job as if he actually had them.
But the report from Abbie Finfrock (not her porn name .. we’re guessing) sounds disturbingly similar to the Spice Girl worshipper’s online life as a D.C. playboy.
One minute Abbie is playing with her, uhm, tape recorder, and the next it sounds like Wonkette’s uber-crush is reminiscing about another day on the Hill.
It is 11 a.m. in Washington. Here I am, an ing??nue 20-year-old intern, sipping my coffee and desperately trying to figure out how my tape recorder works so I can accurately cover an event at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, when a man in his late 50s walks over and offers to help.
I think to myself, “Wow, this is a nice gesture. What a cute old man.” We start chatting about how one of my college professors works at the same think tank. He asks me if I’d like to attend a conference with him, and slips me his business card. The cute grandfather act has vanished.
“Call me, anytime,” he says, with a smirk.
Later that day, two other middle-aged men try the same pickup routine.
Old guys always love gay interns young female reporters. You’ll know it’s a trend when, 3.5 months from now, the New York Times fills its New York Region section with 1000 words on it.