Killer answer

Flipping through Vanity Fair, which arrived today, dwelling on their big Awards Show tie-in Country & Western [!?] Music Portfolio, which offered many WTF moments.

I imagine these things are put together on a tight schedule and maybe some who should be included can't get it together for a photo shoot while travelling to 300-plus cities a year. But off the top of the head, no Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Big & Rich, George Strait or Toby Keith? No Dixie Chicks? In their place Bob Seger, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, Dan ZANES???!!!

Much strain noted in the editorial categories created to explain to city folk why they should care about this or that hillbilly (obscuring the fact that VF's readership is much more likely to be WalMart than Upper West Side). I can imagine interminable editorial meetings hammering out the many shades of nonconfomity conveyed by the Bohemians, the Rebels, the Outlaws, the Adventurers, the Renegades....

And a huge omission was partially rectified by running the Proust Questionnaire past Jerry Lee Lewis, whose many pedestrian answers were offset by some truly memorable ones, including perhaps the best Proust Questionnaire answer ever:

What is your most marked characteristic?
My left hand is dynamite!