Polly Bruno

I struggled with s1, e1 which featured extensive McNulty dialogue about kids “shooting crap.” It’s craps, not crap. You shoot craps.

Recent earworms: “I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night” and “Laura.” Pretty hard to improve on that.

I wake up thinking “Maybe today is the day!” And then i remember this.

Joe Gillis: You really going to send that script to DeMille?

Norma Desmond: Yes, I am! This is the day! Here's the chart from my astrologer. She read DeMille's horoscope, she read mine.

Joe Gillis: Did she read the script?

Your regular reminder that normal pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform.

Ha ha! Anytime my brother or I say Jerry Lewis’s name, the other person is required to say “C’est un génie!” It’s a family rule.

Lovely! 🎰

Reading the work of dead writers is fundamental. Discuss. (Or not, as you wish.)

The second was when this company, which specializes in locking people up, ended its big celebratory kickoff email with “You nailed it!”

Let me guess: they can’t handle past tense, either.

Ha ha, major self-own. It’s not a “sensitive topic” unless you voted wrong.

I’d rather read “many of we” than “a large amount of us.” Go figure.

Say a prayer for me. I have begun reading Simenon. 🙌

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

A nightmare on film. Mesmerizing. Defies most of the conventional dicta about story, character arc, motivation, and the like. As you say, Davis is incredible.

And it never works!

“The third stiff whisky fumed into Martins’ brain, and he remembered the girl in Amsterdam, the girl in Paris; loneliness moved along the crowded pavement at his side.”

- Graham Greene

We just keep going, that’s our secret.

Also, “Tylerian.” So there’s a bright side… at least we were spared Poeian, Cainian, and Lippmanian.

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

Glad you were heavily inspired! Look forward to reading.

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

[The crowd goes wild.] 👏👏👏

So it’s true, there’s a tenth circle of Hell that Dante missed on the first go-round.

Untitled Mike Judge project, take 32.

"Why are you crying? It's just a kids movie."

The movie:

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

He quips? I have heard quips. That is not a quip.

“Happy things occurred at intervals, but it was not a happy time.”

With some fava beans and a nice Chianti?

I like the red velvet. (RIP, my dark green velvet sofa with the roll-arms.) Feel better!