“FUCK YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKING SELF-DEALING WORTHLESS SACK OF SHIT!!”

It’s hard to imagine the Grifter-in-Chief lowering the bar any further, but he’s done it. Yesterday, Trump 2.0 announced a new Swampland Slush-Fund to fraudulently reward people who beat-up cops and tried to overturn an election (based on Trump’s own brazen lies and disgraceful failure to acknowledge defeat). These are people who pled-out or wereContinue reading ““FUCK YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKING SELF-DEALING WORTHLESS SACK OF SHIT!!””

“They’re HERE… and they’re LOUD!!”

I started reading the collection of short stories by Martin Amis called “Heavy Water” and straight away he has inspired me. In the first story “Career Move”, we get a flailing screenwriter who has submitted numerous efforts to an industry insider but to no avail. In an angry letter after many months without reply, heContinue reading ““They’re HERE… and they’re LOUD!!””

“Trivialities”

My wife was ribbing me the other day about someone’s name I couldn’t remember. It was right there at the tip of my tongue, and, given a month or two, I would have recovered it all on my own. Sadly, now that I’m on the wrong side of 60, these these happen not infrequently. TheContinue reading ““Trivialities””

“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””