She's now officially allowed to do things for the craic.
23.02.2026 13:40
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She's now officially allowed to do things for the craic.
'Melania' is not screening in Dutch cinemas, which is a shame because now I can't not go to it.
We did not continue with the series.
Unbelievably bad. I was truly stunned by some of it. (No surprise that she couldn't sell that crime novel side hustle until her agent revealed that JKR was behind it.) And then it turns out she's a complete asshole. Double vindicated!
I read that first one to Sylvie when she was maybe eight or nine. Possibly six. The writing made my eyes bleed.
I went to dozens of those Sunday night Dorothy gigs. (Largely because my sister was dating him for many years.)
They sure freakin' are! But think how much worse it'd be if they were doing it right!
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Ending things with "thank you for coming to my TED talk" is officially over. Do not do it anymore.
(This is an example of not doing it.)
Does quicksand count?
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young
son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's
very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41.
Here’s the President of the United States of America.
Listening now!
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"Fear" Toussaint! (His name is actually Jean)
Vince Sorrenti - a blasta from the pasta
My 2013 anti-romcom novel published by Macmillan.
(The 2025 anti-romcom novel film with the same title is not based on it.)
It has indeed. It's right up there with Final Cut and Powerhouse in the pantheon of books about 'the business'.
That book is excellent!
Lies about, @nytimes.com. We can’t keep doing this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
This is A+ trolling
In-fucking-deed.
That would've been a great one.
Thank you, Dave.
Will it come to Bandcamp?
The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
Kristi Noem: Sen. Padilla Had Even Deadlier Opinion That Failed To Go Off — theonion.com/kristi-noem-...
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”