Yes. Not just addicts, casual users too, it’s the fastest, no muss no fuss way to boost a nose-ingested but waning high.
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Yes. Not just addicts, casual users too, it’s the fastest, no muss no fuss way to boost a nose-ingested but waning high.
let’s hope their inexplicable Get Out Of Jail card expires soon.
at least show biz has a little discretion! Never seen anybody do a gum blast in a meeting, never mind ON STAGE.
just noticed, she even says “of the fine white lines…” at the end. Just to make sure we get it, maybe.
You may be speaking metaphorically but let’s face it, cocaine has been a dominant force in show biz—I worked at SNL, I know! — , especially music. “A prisoner of the white lines, on the freeway“ is a metaphor too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=879X...
Nailed it! Your expiration date is *way* past due when you openly rub coke on your gums on a stage surrounded by cameras. That guy has completely lost the thread.
yes, the gum rub is a coke exclusive move.
speaking from experience, your better judgement takes a holiday when all you need is one more blast…
ya think?
Not unless he’s free-basing. Which he probably is, come to think of it!
What impresses me is the pre-rig. No unscrewing the vial, he’s got loose powder ready to go. We all knew he’s an addict but this is next level. Can’t go 5 minutes without a blast. In public. On, stage, with cameras everywhere. Won’t make a blip.
fine but here’s an anthem from another family, a great companion to that one, I contend! youtu.be/8QZvoOqUkqw
Clearly you’ve absorbed the lessons of the seminal National Lampoon primer How To Write Good by Michael O’Donoghue.
the last line of Candide got famous for good reason.
Silly, that’s the ghost of the calico’s twin listening in from the other world.
if only people listened to each other in such a civil and focused way.
No, you’re the first! Has anyone ever told you that your arguments consist of little more than passive aggressive ad hominem insults? Cuz it’s true!
Well your assumptions suck, Dr. Smug. I’m a lefty radical Ex-Pat. who, unlike you, tries to see the forest and not just the news cycle trees. E.g. I’ll take Hedges over MSNBC any day. Yes I consume news but unlike you I don’t take political positions based on podcast appearances.
All I know is you like their non-appearances on right wing pods. You’re living under a Fascist Dictatorship & that’s the pass/fail for you? There may not even be elections by then. If I were you I’d vote for someone best able to combat that. EVEN IF THEY HAVE APPEARED ON RIGHT WING PODCASTS!
Sorry but your reading skills suck. Have stated more than once his trans views deeply problematic. Have never said I support him. The question is, WHO ELSE YOU GOT? Politics: who 1)can get nominated 2)can win the general. Bring on the primaries! (& watch DNC appoint next Prez.)
If you read my post I said, bring on the primaries! Or i said that to someone around the time I was pointing out, kudos to Newsome for fighting back, and landing punches. But who else you got? Name somebody with his skills, who can win a general election? I got nobody. Time will tell.
Why not both? He’s a politician, of course it’s politics, nothing he does or says in public isn’t. He’s using politics to protect the rights of his state. That’s good, right? But that’s just a slice of it. He’s risen above the noise to take shots at a Fascist regime that seems to be landing.
True. And? I guess my point is politics is a long game & we all love or hate whoever’s in the news but ultimately it’s about who strikes a chord with enough people in Nov 2026. And right now i think Newsom deserves kudos even if he is a weathervane prick.
I find his trans rights views deplorable & wouldn’t be surprised if there’s other stuff but who else we got? Pritzker & others yes, bring on the primaries to see how they do. But kudos for being the first *effective* pushback. Bernie AOC Crocket et al not getting traction. Politics: see attached
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Sorry wrote that before I re-read your original post. Not 3 minutes—UNTOLD MINUTES searching for something that would REALLY BURN ME in front of your people. But try one! :) Maybe What Is The Ideal Woman, that must be super-misogynistic/racist! Imagine the ammunition!
perish the thought of you investing 2 minutes to try one out. so much easier to have spent 3 minutes thinking of something snappy to say…and then typing that.
C-. Scatological ripostes self-indicting. Do *all* the reading next time!
Grant u this, points for spending hours scouring my replies to come up with something embarrassing. Otoh that’s the best you got? Keep trying, there’s gotta be something worse than that. & can you turn on the AC? It’s awfully stuffy & claustrophobic living in your head, even if it is free!
Oh good lord talk about the pot calling the kettle black, I ask an honest question & get ‘talk less’ as a response. Way to win hearts and minds! Truly funny.
Much better!
sometimes Occam’s razor holds: maybe a guy with Resting Mouse Face was…a mouse.
Having bad views on trans rights doesn’t make you mediocre. That’s the wrong word. And go fuck yourself, ‘talk less,’ you smug, ignorant fuck. Block me if you don’t want to hear my questions.
Aside from his deeply problematic trans rights views, what are your receipts on his mediocrity? I am not aware of any. Yes, he is white. And male. But other than that? Bigger picture: you can’t shame people into who they turn to for leadership.
I’ve heard it wasn’t even Epstein’s cell.
Not suggesting they deserve a break but to be fair everybody was racist then! Except maybe Quakers. Dismissing them on that alone would be like future generations dismissing ours because most of us eat factory farmed meat. That’s barbaric. Someday it will disgust everyone. Norms change.
perhaps mainly due to casting of Nolte vs. Peck Sorry Nick: there’s just no contest there. In the embodiment of Virtue department.
I will go so far as to say, as good as the remake was, the original was even better. No disrespect to Scorsese! It’s just that the original was that good.
Totally. Nobody loves films more than Martin Scorsese & it’s fun to see him show it like that. I’m sure the original holds up like gangbusters, there something timeless about casting virtue v. evil as Peck v. Mitchum. It’s so scary!
imho Goodfellas is also a masterpiece; Cape Fear one of the great contributions to the suspense genre. As was the original! share.google/slTQfK1Vek5C...
Raging Bull. I typed raving Bull cuz there was an imaginary gun pointing at my head.
Marty Pilleti, naturally. What's not to love? If you mean Mr. Scorsese that's like asking someone to name their favorite child. But if there was a gun to my head I'd have to panicly mutter "Taxi Driver? Raving Bull?" As a question cuz there's a gun pointing at my head. Need some wiggle room.
Well shiver me timbers! All on your list are in my personal pantheon. Even studied, with great pleasure, Anthony Mann's westerns in film school. Must confess I somehow missed "The Conformist," must rectify that ASAP, the imdb blurb couldn't be more inviting. As is your recommendation! Thank you.
It’s wonderful but pretty sure her handlers are on acid.
well I’m not citing institutional inertia as a good thing. I’m saying, despite arguably Hague-level aiding & abetting of genocide malpractice, normalization of Trump & Fascism etc, institutional legacy media still follow their lead. Out of inertia
Totally. Fuller got his start as a tabloid crime reporter & that over the top, sensational sensibility informed just about all of his low budget genre work. It’s pulp! Brilliant, sui generis pulp. Not everyone’s cup of tea
Well I don’t know about ancient Rome but in America fast food was invented in 1916 by Nathan’s in Coney Island. They were the first restaurant to not have sit-down service, you just paid your nickel & walked away with hot dog in hand.
The phrase struck me as oxymoronic too but then I remembered times friends used insight into what I was feeling to get me to do what they wanted and I changed my mind. As counter-intuitive as it may seem I don’t believe the two cancel each other out. Now in the case of Trump…fuggedaboutit.
nah, that’s just self preservation.
institutional inertia
oh good lord, Trump wouldn’t understand or recognize what empathy is if it leapt out of his cheeseburger and did an interpretive dance waving I AM EMPATHY placards on his chocolate cake.
Absolutely love Joyce Carol Oates’ presence on social media but have not agreed with a single post relating to movies. It’s weird, always as if she saw a completely different film than I did. Shrug emoji goes here.
Things may be shifting, pedophilia rings get traction unless it involves a priest or Republican (I know, big carve out), they’ve been eviscerating public figures since forever. Michael Jackson, anyone? Not as if they wait for public opinion before they attack.
whoops, just fact checked myself & I was pretty sure, but wrong, it was Jones. Please pardon this interruption.
pretty sure James Baldwin said the line you attribute to Jones; re your 1st insight see below
I often ask myself libety or tranny, why all the fuss?
er, hate to be that guy (no I don’t) but without the e all meaning is lost, it becomes what Salvatore’s friends call him.
I instantly understood what kind of sale it was & they saved 2 letters for a rainy day so mzltof.
Bernie’s aging out, not sure AOC has the fire in her belly to crawl through the rings of Hell of a presidential run, who else you got?
They’re just making up words at this point to avoid reporting on reality. Maximalist is an art term or an adjective for extremism, neither of which they mean. It’s just pathetic.
This is really good. It feels to me like you didn't think and that is good. Un mediated instinct and feeling informed by technique works.
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No fan of Vance but raising or lowering water flow of a lake is something that is done all the time to facilitate human-powered boating, it harms the body of water no more than does a heavy rain fall, for example. Yes the optics are bad but the lake & its denizens will be fine.
The cover of “In My Room “ you linked to in your newsletter has closed its comments so I am posting this cover we did about 25 years ago on Egg the arts show, cuz you referenced how few covers there are! vimeo.com/880378860
Which pre-existed the old and new testaments, cuz, DUH. It’s not that hard: treat others with respect. Recognize their humanity. Even children!
It’s like they’re missing the intuitive moral compass that every human capable of empathy already has. That software is pre-installed. What’s so hard about grokking the Golden Rule?
Good. T**** is doing his best to defund PBS but gov’t provides only a tiny slice of their funding so he may not succeed. PBS will air Sesame Street as long as it exists, it is their quintessential programming, core to their brand since 1969.
it will also air on PBS which is free so you can stop thinking about #1
South Street Seaport has currents ripping past it that can exceed 7 knots. If a ferry lost power on approach it would be equally catastrophic.
nope, gonna be remembered for green lighting arming & whitewashing a genocide & being too old to be president. everybody knows this.
you’ll be fine if not sailing solo, water will be incredibly cold but if you go for a swim, between the suit & PFD & the instructor fishing you out pronto you won’t die. I’m a kayaker, once had to make a wet exit in the Hudson River in April. Light wet suit. Don’t ever want to do that again.
…I got hypothermia once submerged for maybe 2 hours shooting an underwater sequence in a pool. Gauge of the full wetsuit just wasn’t thick enough for that length of submersion.
most important thing is to match the gauge of the neoprene with the temperature of the water/how long you plan on staying in the water. Obviously the colder/longer the thicker you want. Which feels mor restrictive but if you need it you need it. …
If you can mobilize all limbs without feeling like a shrink-wrapped ham you’re doing well.
try 1 size larger to see if it feels more comfortable. It should be snug but not restrict mobility.
May be technically true but deeply misleading, Hudson River is profoundly clean, have swum & sea kayaked in it for decades. Wildlife galore, too. You’re spreading myths.
sad story once he walked out on an intvw I was doing (for an arts show in the 90’s) when he realized it was doc style & I wouldn’t e on camera with him, cuz he wasn’t comfortable with the editorial freedom that would give me with his answers. Never stopped loving his music. Just a very odd duck.
welfare & medicaid too. Died penniless in a public asylum i think.
eh, her whole thing is Selfishness is Holy, is it odd that so many people gobble that up? Makes assholes feel fabulous.
sure agreed, i’m just devil’s advocating for the sport of it, in real life I condemn fundamentalism , it’s always bad results with those guys & patriotism? That just makes me smile ruefully. Peace!
i mean look at the Shakers! Brilliant furniture, true, absolute devotion to celibacy. Downside, procreation comes in handy, keeping the fundamental sect alive-wise. The Puritans were fundamentalist, views so extreme they were kicked out of Europe. You must see an upside to that one, right?
i would argue that cultural narratives like patriotism & fundamentalism are tools for both good or evil, depending on a whole lot of things. Sometimes both!
my example was intended to draw a parallel between Fundamentalist religion & Patriotism in the context of reasons to be willing to die for your faith or country. If it was about divide and conquer, that’s all doing fine without my modest contribution to the project.
most people not wired that way. Apparently you need something that big to get people to die for their country. Like the 40 Virgins I believe Mohammed indicated would be waiting for Martyrs in Heaven. Need something a lot bigger than altruism, which half the people don’t even have anyway.
so in conclusion no it is not ‘good’ in & of itself, it’s mostly stupid, a reassuring nostalgia for a past that never was, often used as a tool of evil. Would have thought we’d be past the need for that Idol by the Enlightenment but nope, need to give the boys a reason to die for their country.
When it’s a rooting for your team thing that’s fine but when it goes unconditional that’s fundamentalism, bad as in Iran Afghanistan Israel & much of u.s.
perfect
such a colossal waste of time until senate flips 21 seats. When he isn’t convicted he’ll scream he’s been vindicated from yet another witch-hunt & be strong more invincible than he is now. OBVIOUSLY.
why would this matter? He’s king now, let them eat expensive eggs.
true but i did just unfollow you after reading about a dozen of them. Not offended, it’s just that maybe half my feed is you. you post way too much, i’m out.
Bullwinkle would know but don’t know if he’s on Blue Sky.
she’s getting so good at this, feels to me like she’s overcome her cognitive dissonance ambivalence about working inside the American Political Shit Show….so easy to imagine her winning the Presidency in 2028 or 32….. That would be sweet.
Guess someone read the replies to his post re the new Obamacare exhibit in his vanity library.
i hope so. He’s never willfully leaving. An impeachment conviction would do it if public outrage forced 20-ish R senators to vote for it. Is that possible? Never say never. A mass, sustained general strike & oligarch-product boycott wouldn’t hurt…
And the war didn’t end for many years. And even when it did, that was a policy change, not authoritarian regime change. With 1 or 2 exceptions, Fascist regimes only fall by war or military coup. civil rights, women’s rights, policy fights apples & oranges to authoritarian regime change.
Does it? They don’t seem terribly concerned about getting votes—why sweat the small stuff when you suppress the vote, count the ballots, claim any loss is illegitimate, threaten political opponents and say things like ‘we don’t really need elections anymore…’
