It’s hard to describe the unbridled joy I get from sending an out-of-the-blue book to a friend when it’s one I’m fairly sure they will utterly disdain. We are talking laugh-out-loud funny to picture them (or their spouse!) opening the package to find… wait, what?! You imagine them struggling to explain to their kids, orContinue reading ““Love What You Hate””
Author Archives: Stephen Futterer
“First Amendment, MOTHERFUCKERS!!”
It is beyond dispiriting, to the point of apoplexy, that Trump and his rogues’ gallery of fellow travelers are trying to pass off political violence as being predominantly on the Left. Conveniently, the DOJ (under the Stepford-AG Pam “Pom-Pom” Bondi) has recently removed from its website a decades-long analysis published in 2024 by the NationalContinue reading ““First Amendment, MOTHERFUCKERS!!””
“The Yellow Brick Roads Not Taken”
They say it’s the journey and not the destination. Hard to argue with that kinetic theory of life and our elusive search for happiness. And yet — to wax Zen — it seems the more complex the problem, the simpler the solution. In short, as Warren Zevon succinctly put it as he was dying ofContinue reading ““The Yellow Brick Roads Not Taken””
“Amer-biguity”
There’s a stillness and withholding in this scene that, for me, fondly recalls Edward Hopper. But note also the gentle breeze ruffling our national flag. It’s sunny but not exactly warm out there somewhere in America’s heartland. The house’s interior signals absence and the barren tree suggests the season’s end. There’s a lone soul onContinue reading ““Amer-biguity””
“SALE is the New Black!”
“Advance Directives (Eternal Bliss)”
There will come the day, On this I am resigned, When anyone who’s known us Themselves are lost to time It’s the run, alas, of all things As sand forsakes the stone The scattering of legacies In dust that once was bone When finally I’m bidden Forgive me one last crime Gobsmacking for the mournersContinue reading ““Advance Directives (Eternal Bliss)””
“A Matter of Perspective”
I have a theory. I’m still working it out, but here goes. It’s actually two related theories or perhaps simply flip-sides of the same notion. The first is that while the human mind can become enthralled with things that are large and/or vast, it often quickly short-circuits. Think of the Grand Canyon. Okay, now what?…Continue reading ““A Matter of Perspective””
“Things that remind of other things…”
“Trivialities”
It begins with “The Bear.” I get it that some people just don’t get it. Yet, at least. Fine. I quit “Mad Men” after two episodes before later discovering the layered complexity and its occasional pure joy — such as the wonderful song and dance homage bit done by Robert Morse after the death ofContinue reading ““Trivialities””
Great Exudations 