A brilliant piece by a former British diplomat about what it feels like to live in Trump's America – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...
15.01.2026 23:59
👍 0
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
A brilliant piece by a former British diplomat about what it feels like to live in Trump's America – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...
Trump--a Russian asset and/or useful idiot with the morals and mentality of a moronic mobster--the "leader of the free world"? You must be joking.
Well, to be fair, he IS a "very stable genius". He told us that himself. And when has he ever lied about anything?
Painting of a black and white longhair cat looking back at the viewer over his shoulder. Voluminous black inky tail. Dusty pink background and old marble columns in the background.
Same painting but now the cat in question is being held up next to it. He is not observant.
the meow himself
👇
John Barrymore once said that reading a book with footnotes was like continually having to go downstairs on your wedding night in order to answer the phone.
Illuminated movie marquee reading EVERYMAN - FRIDAY 24TH OCTOBER FRANKENSTEIN VS SPRINGSTEEN
The matchup we've been waiting for.
THE COUNSELOR exposes what is wrong with much film writing. All too often critics bewail the lack of cinematic originality. But when something genuinely original, like THE COUNSELOR, comes along, something that isn't formulaic, how do they greet it? All too often, with derision and incomprehension.
I endorse this post.
Stephen Sondheim introduced his childhood pal Tom Lehrer in 1998 for an exceedingly rare stage performance, part of a tribute to Cameron Mackintosh.
(This will always be my favorite Lehrer song. Interestingly, he here changes one word: "squirrel" becomes "sparrow.")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-e...
Poet & essayist Walt Whitman, photographed & painted by Thomas Eakins in 1887. Today was Eakins’s day. @catherineh.bsky.social
"WTF, Moloch!" erupts Netanyahu. "You let in Trump! So why not me?"
had to excavate and share this passage from The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron
MY BIG BEAUTIFUL WEEK
by Donnie Trump
(1) Erected pole which is YUGE, much bigger than the one I usually play with!!!
(2) Turned Rose Garden into parking lot where I can keep my toy cars!!!
(3) Started my very own war!!! With naughty Iran!!! Why should Vlad & Ben in Ukraine & Gaza have all the fun?
A Parisian street by night; in the background, a shuttered Asian restaurant and a shop with a blue-lit interior. In the foreground, a young woman, in a green jacket and red lipstick, holding a can of Coca-Cola, and a young man in spectacles checking his mobile phone. Both are wearing beanies.
Parisiens (2015) photography by Anne Billson
A deserted tram stop in the middle of an unusally car-free avenue in the De Singel area of Antwerp. The ground is wet after the rain, and the unearthly orange sky hints at another downpour in the near future.
Jan van Rijswijcklaan (2024) photograph by Anne Billson
"Telly" was/is indeed a contraction of "television". But it was also derisively called (not only by those who didn't own a set) the "idiot box."
Important to know that the very footage that is appalling all of us--rows of faceless men in riot gear, protestors running, clouds of gas--is what Trump and Miller and the MAGA-sycophant anti-city press have had a collective hard-on for since the campaign. This will be wall-to-wall on Fox all week.>
The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
Star Turn (1936), the one and only novel by French film director René Clair. About a film star who increasingly loses himself in his roles, until it all comes apart when he has to play the part of God.
neglectedbooks.com/?...
Old Hollywood joke (if it IS a joke) :
Q : Why are they remaking Casablanca?
A : They got it right the first time.
FUN FACT : If you look quickly during one of the callbacks in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE : THE FINAL RECKONING you'll see an ID card that reveals Ethan Hunt was born in 1964. Make of that what you will.
"A kazoo mocking a Stradivarius"
Using taxpayers money to write back to children? Has Clinton NO shame, NO decency, NO integrity? Surely there is some way he can be retroactively made to pay for this heinous offence? Not to mention the even more heinous crime of a former president wearing CAT SOCKS? Impeachment & imprisonment NOW!
Hey, Microsoft Word users.
I used this in March to disable AI scraping on mine.
You may want to as well, if you haven't already.
#privacy
Cover images of six titles from The Brooligan Press: Ferocity by Stephen Laws, The Ex by Anne Billson, The Companion by Laurence Staig, Valley of Lights by Stephen Gallagher, Darkfall by Stephen Laws
As it's Indie Press Day let me draw your attention to these handpicked titles from The Brooligan Press, a nonprofit in which 100% of the revenues go directly to the authors brooliganpress.blogspot.com
Leaked video of the LNP activating their "secret weapon" when the election was announced
😂
