Your demagoguery is more demagogic than my demagoguery
“The first man who hurled an insult instead of a rock founded civilization.”...
View ArticleMe and Etta James and Yom Kippur
Twenty years or so ago, I phoned R & B legend, Johnny Otis, to ask if it was okay for a Jewish kid to drop in at the Sunday church service he conducted inside his West Adams district mansion. He...
View ArticleObama challenges Romney to a duel
Following a savage rhetorical beating at the hands of his opponent, President Obama has taken the campaign battle to the Romney team with a daring, new challenge. A one-night only singing competition...
View ArticleA Bourne humiliation
When “The Bourne Legacy” was filmed without so much as a single Bourne, Jacob Bourne went into a tailspin. He developed troubling symptoms. Pools of stage light now lit him up like a tap-dancer....
View ArticleWin or lose, Mitt Romney’s got a 5-point plan
WIN Ask Cesar Milan, “Who’s the pack leader now?” Create cabinet-level department of 5-point plans. Clear paintings out of National Gallery. Replace them with pictures of...
View ArticleMy infallible election predictor
With the Presidential election only a day away, it seems like a timely idea to revisit my first posting to this blog. Its methodology and conclusions are utterly non-partisan and, compared to the...
View ArticleAbout my MacArthur Genius Award
Dear MacArthur Foundation: The MacArthur Genius grants have been announced and, once again, due to what must be an oversight, my name wasn’t included among the list of fellowship winners. If I’d been...
View Article“I Am Fiscal Cliff”— the musical
It only seems like I’ve been slacking off. This posting has taken me longer to put together, because finding the fun in our coming economic doom is pretty damned labor intensive, especially when...
View ArticleWhen Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Went To War
Few people have the remotest idea how tortured was the path that “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” took to arrive at the silver screen. It was to be Walt Disney’s first feature length film. At the...
View Article“My Two Pontiffs.” Coming to TBS!
Expect things to get c-c-c-r-a-a-z-z-z-y in Pope Land! Castel Gandolfo is one villa that’s just not big enough for two popes. Benedict likes things just so, and doesn’t enjoy sharing his direct line...
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