I’m harkening back to that glorious day When I first felt the pull of the scene. On the gallery wall, I unlatched a door Setting something inside of me free Can you recall that wondrous day when The magic first fell on your ears? The record’s slow turn, the joy in its throw Like aContinue reading ““You Only Need One””
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“Supreme Idiot”
I’ve started reading “Napoleon: A Life” by Andrew Roberts and from his introduction alone several key features of the great warrior-statesman arise. The first is that he was a voracious reader and student of history, further aided by a prodigious memory. He excelled at mathematics, geography, and philosophy, devouring the texts of Rousseau, Voltaire, Plutarch,Continue reading ““Supreme Idiot””
“Jump in, the water’s great..!!”
I have more and more friends who are contemplating retirement, and I’ve dropped to 80% myself. There comes an inflection point in life wherein time is more valuable than money. Many consider the Medicare birthday, age 65, to be a natural stopping point (in finance, the age is closer to 40, but think of allContinue reading ““Jump in, the water’s great..!!””
“Carnival Life (with Tommy Treacle)”
Host: Great Exudations has the supreme pleasure to welcome back Tommy Treacle, our timeless troubadour, with his tales from the backroads of America and thoughts on the present state of our culture. Tommy, how have you been since — was it Christmas? TT: It was the Yuletide! Well, I’m mostly on the diagonal of late.Continue reading ““Carnival Life (with Tommy Treacle)””
“You can’t lose skills you never had…”
You could start a bar fight over A.I.’s many pros and cons. I’m picturing pocket protectors and bottles of ZIMA flying around the room! Mine is a perpetual state of fluctuating ambivalence. I will stipulate that in my medical career as a radiologist, I embrace it as an adjunctive tool (notions of our replacement beingContinue reading ““You can’t lose skills you never had…””
“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!!””
“Marching Marginalia”
Like many, I’m deeply ambivalent about artificial intelligence with all of its countless advantages and dangers, both the known and unknown. A.I. credibly threatens to disappear entire job titles without a clear pathway for their replacement. Human creativity is being actively coopted through unattributed imitation, if not blatant theft. We see the destructive capabilities ofContinue reading ““Marching Marginalia””
“DEMAGOGUE Records presents…”
… the complete back catalogue of the incomparable and highly consequential musical artist COVFEFE. The sound of an entire socio-political movement that broke like a category-5 tropical (septic) cyclone. No graphics required. He neither asked permission nor forgiveness. No shits were left to be given — it was all there in the music. The highsContinue reading ““DEMAGOGUE Records presents…””
“Black Mirror”
“It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.” — President Donald J. (for Jackass) Trump on COVID-19 in 2020 KenContinue reading ““Black Mirror””
