Steven Goldman

Bat him and Chadwick Tromp back to back and we're well into Dickens territory.

Some of us remember gas rationing when OPEC shut off the spigots--spending what was an eternity to a child sitting in the backseat of mom's car as we waited in blocks-long lines to fill up, if the pumps had gas at all. There were fights just because the situation provoked such frustration.

Listening to Dylan's "Masters of War." No reason, really.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

Forgot about that one. He very much made it his own.

The fabled missing scene from von Stroheim's "Greed."

And on one true chord through the whole thing!

I appreciate Harry as much as anyone and yet it's a close call for me. Ditto his version of "Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear" vs Randy Newman's original vs Scooter and Fozzie.

But which version is better, Harry's original or the Muppets'?

Those stories about how Miller has directed all gov't resources away from counterterrorism so they can concentrate on ethnic cleansing aren't so trivial now.

I appear twice in this 1989 panel from Blondie. I am the worker on the right. I am the boss on the left. We will grapple for all of eternity and only succeed in feeling bad about how much one demands and how little the other one achieves.

Through the epidemic of opioid deaths, at least some of us have learned to have empathy for those who develop drug dependency. As I explain, I learned, though it took some work. But this? Was it just a weird unmotivated decision? A lack of vigilance about what he consumed? It's confounding.

The industrialization of language production is destroying the artisanal production of text.

We should be clear about what this is: The real subsumption of life under the logic of capital

I'm not very religious at all, but I always look forward to getting my king cake and throwing it at Haman at the appropriate moment in the story.

You have my empathy. My version of the same fall involved carrying a comic book long box down a flight of stairs. It turns out once you've aged out of warranty your ankle can bow like Robin Hood is going to storm the castle with it.

The worst thing for me about depression sleep is I will wake up in the middle and be doubly sad because (a) I've lost so much time, but (b) fuck, I'm awake and now I have to feel my feelings and hear my thoughts again.

I'm not saying Cobb was a great guy. He wasn't! But if you read accounts by people who encountered him in old age, he sounds less angry than profoundly lonely. His penchant for the former probably had a lot to do with the latter, though he also lost one son early and another was an alcoholic mess.

I remain frustrated that we had one shot at a Cobb biopic and it was based on Stump's bullshit article rather than Cobb the player. When he was a maniacally driven athlete, Cobb was a unique character. As a cranky old man, Cobb was the same as every third grandpa. That it was false was the cherry.

I feel so seen!

America is like your mom. Mom is generally good and on the whole doesn't have evil intent, but if we're honest, she has her bad days. That's when we respectfully call her to account and say, "Do better, mom." We do that because we love mom: honesty = loyalty. As for DT, there's no debate, not really

Makes for a neat twist on Ray Parker, Jr: "Who's not gonna call? Wife ghoster!"

What profit a nation to cast idiot protest votes over the price of eggs and receive World War III instead?

I nominate his excellency Rufus T. Firefly, who did such a great job with Freedonia under similarly trying circumstances.

Percy Crosby, 1937 (an excerpt): Life before and likely after MAHA.

Percy Crosby, 1937. I admit I've had this feeling.

See also: Camp Funston, "Spanish Flu," 1918.

Officer Krupke, we're down on our knees
There's a nutjob in the White House
With a social disease...

Hopefully, the Jets will peacefully merge with the Sharks and work together to give the West Side the athletic dancing and Sondheim/Bernstein tunes it deserves.

"'Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' said Werner Von Braun."--Tom Lehrer

and i'm sure ppl will say, sure, but presidents have used force without congressional authorization for decades. and yeah, that's true. but nothing like this. not even the pretext of a legal argument, the motion of seeking public & congressional support. we are so far beyond norms.