I hope this isn't just about honoring Guiliani.
Playwright, retired Entertainment Lawyer (used to work for Fox and then for NBC Universal), William Shakespeare fanatic, fan of 1940s pop culture. I write and self-publish Shakespeare parodies, horror sketches, and science fiction-sketches.
1,075 followers 1,421 following 560 posts
view profile on Bluesky
I hope this isn't just about honoring Guiliani.
There should be a service where you could pay to get a phone call immediately as soon as Trump dies. I want to know right away.
I must own at least 20 anti-Trump t-shirts. I wear a clean one every day, all the time, except when I am going to a formal event. I am retired, so I do not have to worry about work-related dress codes.
At the very end of the cartoon, the wolf runs through the wall of the court house. I have friends who remember this same cartoon. But when I search for it on the internet, I always get referred to "The Trial of Mr. Wolf" which was definately a different cartoon.
When I was a kid in the 1950s, I used to see a cartoon parody of Red Riding Hood. The wolf is on trial, and at the end he says, "I 'll go straight - straight to grandma's house! This was NOT the Loony Tune "Trial of Mr. Wolf. It was definitely a different cartoon. Does anyone remember this?
A closed casket so no one can see the wooden stake driven through the heart?
That is a flock of scarlet-tufted micro-ball busters.
Are you going to wait until he is dead first? I am not trying to tell you what you have to decide to do - I am just asking the question.
I am skeptical about conspiracy theories, and I formerly thought that there was a very strong likelihood that Epstein really did commit suicide. But the longer it takes the Trump regime to release the Epstein files, the more likely I think it is that Epstein was murdered.
Also, you are not allowed to vote unless a you vote Republican.
The Monster at the End of this Epstein Book is Donald Trump. (If you do not get the reference, you are probably too young to know the book.)
You mean to say there actually are people who are happy and successful? I thought that was just a fairy tale that parents told their children to help them get to sleep at night.
The theme song for "Absolutely Fabulous" comes to mind. "Wheels on fire / Rolling done the road / Notify my next of kin / This wheel shall explode."
I think there is a reasonably good chance that Trump will die before RFK, Jr. can ban all Covid shots. I hate Vance almost as much as I hate Trump, but I do not think Vamce will allow RFK, Jr. to stay.
Are you allowed to say, "He's dead," without adding ", Jim" at the end? I know that the post was about Trump, but I cannot hear the words "He's dead," without automatically adding ", Jim."
I was working at 20th Century Fox in the Legal Dept. in 1977, the year the first "Star Wars" movie came out. Before the "Star Wars" film opened, the word at Fox was that most people expected their big Sci Fi film that year would be "Damnation Alley."
Congress passed laws about how long ex-Presidents ger secret service protection. I believe Congress gave ex-Presidents protection for life, but gave ex-vice president protection for 6 months. President Biden passed an executive order extendiilnt Harris's protection for a year.
Also we need more outrage about church shootings, and shooting of children ANYWHERE. I am an atheist, and not a big fan or religion, but there is no god-damned excuse for shooting children praying - or doing anything else.
My dog knows more science than RFK, Jr.
That ape is a redhead!
A tribunal composed of dogs?
A horse has an ass / But listen, class, / You don' t want to talk to a horse's ass! / Just say, I pass." / Because the ass, / It could be Donald Trump! / When most people start to talk / it doesn't matter a bit /But when Trump will open his mouth / Then out will come nothing but shit!
That is easy to explain. Crimes comitted by you while you are not white and not rich get you deported. Crimes committed by you when you are both white and rich get you elected to high public office.
At NBC / Universal, I worked solely on television projects - mostly on talent contacts, but also sometimes on contracts to acquire rights in literary properties.
I worked as an attorney for Fox and then as an attorney for NBC (which became NBC Universal. At Fox, I started out reviewing old contracts for movies to make sure Fox still owned all the necessary rights. The I started drafting talent agreements - mostly for television, but sometimes for films.
I'm not very good at social media. I assume you're asking about my statement that I want to puke. That was in connection with something Trump or one of his supporters allegedly said. But I lost the original post. As I said, I am not very good at social media, but I'm trying to improve.
I think we really need to remove the entire Trump administration, but RFK Jr. Is a good place to start.
I honestly have no idea what you are getting at.
Sorry. That respnse was intended for another article, quoting some Trump acolyte comparing Trump to Teddy Roosevelt.
I feel the need to puke. Or burn a flag. One or the other. Or maybe both.
"Hooker? The proper term is "whore." Don't use a two syllable word when a one syllable word is more concise.
They should redact the names of the victims, but everything else must be made public. Everything else!
It is not so much Israel that is unpopular as it is Netanyahu and his fascist, racist suporters. Lots of Israelis hate Netanyahu. I similarly hope the entire country of the United States is not blamed for all the shit done by Trump and his supporters.
I like the stage version with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. It was recorded with Cumberbartch as Victor Frankenstein and Miller as the creature, and also with Miller as Victor Frankenstein and Cumberbatch as the creature. I preferred the former version.
The oval office is now a waiting room. It is waiting for Trump to go away and to take sll that crappy gold decorations with him.
He wants to be awarded the newly re-named Nobel War Prize.
My dog does not understand physics. She believes that if we go for a walk and she's on a leash, she can walk on one side of a tree and I can walk on the other side, with no problem with the leash. She is correct, but only because I untangle the leash.
There were several different submissions (including mine) based on "You don't get down off an ostrich. You get down off a duck." None of these was a finalist in the New Yorker caption contest.
As a devotee of William Shakespeare, I own the Barbie & Ken dressed up as Romeo and Juliet doll set. Should Mattel release another Shakespeare doll set? What would you like? Hamlet and Ophelia? Macbeth and Lady Macbeth? Othello and Desdemona?
A hundred bottles of beer on the wall...
Dt. Soon is full of shit, even if he did create Data and Lore.
Medea - not Media. I think that one was done by auto-correct.
In addition to writing the play "Media," Euripidies also wrote an earlier play about how Media plotted the death of the man who stole the crown from Jason's father. Unfortunately, that play is lost.
I thought Maxwell said Donald Trump's mother was a virgin. But whichever it was, Maxwell was overdoing it
Unfortunately, there has never been a time when everyone would agree that all slave owners were bad people. Even among liberals, excuses are still made for George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. And among conservatives, excuses have always been made for pretty much all slave owners.
Come a' listen to my story / About J. D. Vance / Such a poor mountaineer/ Couldn't buy a pair of pants/ And then one day he was shootin' at a gopher/ When he preferred to be lying on a sofa.
The answer to that is obvious. It is understood that in in any marriage in the Democratic Party, both partners will be treated as equals. But it is also understood that in any marriage in the Republican Party, the wife will be subservient to her husband.
Syphilis has a life. Did you know that? Syphilis has a life. I have a life and syphilis has a life, and I know more about syphilis than any other human being who has ever lived. I am going to spread syphilis like you have never seen before. I am going to make syphilis great again!
I saw aproduction with Annette Bening as Medea. She was excellent.
We are cutting 40% of our intelligence???
One of my very favorite moments is when Dame Judi Dench says, "It is I, Hamlet the Dame," reference the line Hamlet says right before he jumps into Ophelia's grave.
Yes, especially since the original cost of developing many of those medications was funded by taxpayers.
Ninety years old? I am only seventy-five.
Was the start of that post an actual quotation?
In 2016, in a movie theater, I watched a screening of the RSC's "Shakespeare Live." Last night I was delighted to discover it was available for streaming on Amazon Prime. I highly recommend it.
I watched that film when I was researching my stage play version of the story. I loved the irony of the ending when Zeus vaguely acknowledged that everything would not always remain happily ever after for Jason and Medea. My version is in my book "Greek Mythology Parody Playhouse."
The new portrait painting of Trump in front of all those flags reminds me of the end of that "Twilight Zone" episode, where Burgess Meredith broke his eyeglasses after the nuclear apocalypse, except that Trump never reads.
If you want to go to heaven, you probably should not be criticizing people and institutions for saying slavery was bad.
No matter where you live, if you are talking about posssible future CHANGES to your local voting system, mail in voting is safer than in-line voting.
I got my flu shot last week, because my pharmacy was promoting it, but my doctor usually recommends getting the flu shot in October. I was told the newest Covid shot will be available later this year.
Why can't you vote by mail? I assume you have access to mail delivery. Voting by mail is much, much safer than online voting.
It is not about blue states paying for red states or not paying for red states. People in need need to be helped, no matter where they live. Wealthy, greedy corrupt politicians (not all polititians, but the wealthy, greedy, corrupt polititians) never need any help to do their wicked deeds.
I also have problems with depression. My dog is a big help, except when she decides that suddenly chasing a squirrel or some other stange animal is more important than preventing her caregiver from face-planting on the sidewalk.
I was probably overly sensitive because I had just re-listened to a recording of "Mollie" (also known as "The Quest for Mollie") by A. J. Liebling, the story of a young American private who was killed in World War II.
I checked out the caption contest entries the New Yorker is requesting readers to rate, snd someone submitted the same joke as I submitted but mine went on and on with more bad comedy routine cliches.
Sorry. In a world where Donald Trump is President of the United States, it is difficult to tell dark humor from reality.
I do not have anything against sailors. The one getting his shoes shined by Sluggo seems particularly cheerful and carefree. I think World War II was the last war the American forces fought In when the results of the war were worth the cost of the soldiers risking (and often losing( their lives.
That looks a lot like my dog.
I just submitted an entry to this week's New Yorker cartoon caption contest. I think this is my finest entry ever, and I will be very upset if I am not a finalist.
I am seventy-five years old. To the best of my recollection, that has never happened to me. But I might be wrong about that.
"Danger: Dinosaurs" had a plot device that if you time-traveled to the past and you died before you were born, you would be erased from history. The past was rewritten, and no one would remember you ever existed. I thought that was pretty cool when I was in elementary school. Now it seems dumb.
I should have mentioned that Hannibal Lector said that with tears in his eyes.
The United States fell pretty damn far the first time Trump was elected.
Newsom does a mild parody of Trump, but it isn't nearly stupid enough. He should have said something about Hannibal Lector coming up to him and asking him, "Sir can you give me your secret recipe for cooking a little girl so that she tastes like a Big Mac?"
I have said this before and I will say it again - Trump could rape a child on Fifth Avenue, and he would not lose a vote.
I know it is a comic strip, and the sailor is not an actual person (though he might have been inspired by an actual person), but I do not want that sailor to be killed in a war.
I am 75. I am very, very old.
Is this a car where a student is taught how to drive, and the student sits on the left hand side, and the instructor sits on the right hand side, and the instructor has a brake pedal to stop the car if the student driver screws up.
"May now be attempting"??? There is no "may now be." It is definite. There is no question about it. Trump is definitely paying off Maxwell.
1947. So this is after World War II and before the start of the Korean War. The sailor getting his shoes shined by Sluggo was relatively safe for the time being.
That depends on HOW you find out for yourself. It is generally okay to rely on research from people who have a reputation for doing adequate studies and thinking logically. We cannot all do our own studies from scratch.
When I was very young, my favorite science fiction book was "Danger: Dinosaurs," credited to Richard Marsten, who also used the names Evan Hunter and Ed McBain. The book made no sense at all, but was an exciting story for a child.
There is a nice recording of "Mollie" on Audible. When you search for it, you have to reference both "Mollie" and the author, A. J. Liebling. Warning: it is a depressing story, but very well written.
Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow, and oh so mellow. Try to remember the kind of September, when dreams were kept beside your pillow. Try to remember the kind of September when you were a tender and callow fellow...
Trump could rape a child on Fifth Avenue, and he would not lose a vote.
Republicans are generally in favor of pardoning Republican child molesters, even if the Republican granting the pardon is not a child molester. As long as the child molester seeking the pardon is a Republican, other Republicans will be in favor of granting the pardon.
Someone should make a film based on "Mollie" by A. J. Liebling - the true story of a World War II army private who broke all the rules and went on whatever missions he wanted to, until he was killed. It reads like a comic book come to life, until Mollie gets killed.
I am a citizen of the United States. When I was in grade school, we were required to sing a piece of crap song called "This Is My Country" about how the U.S. is the absolute best country on Earth. I hope children are not required to sing that shit anymore, especially with Trump as President.
One of my favorite bits in "Doubt That The Stars Are Fire" is when Captain Hamlet Dane says to Horatia Catwranger that he likes people who are not passion's slave. There are a number of ship's captains who like officers who are logical rather than passionate.
Sorry. Noem, not Noam.
I object strongly to this episode of "South Park." Noam should NOT have been ablevto fatallyshoot Krypto unless she has access to Kryptonite coated bullets.
"The Sragull" has an offstage gun firing at the end of the play. There is a gun in "The Cherry Otrchard," but it is never fired.
In either "The Cherry Orchard" or "Three Sisters," there is a woman who has a gun in one scene, and the gun is never fired. I cannot remember which play it is, but it is in one of those plays.
Because I did not floss enough, my gums bled badly when I had my teeth cleaned. There is bacteria living in your mouth that is good for you in your mouth, but can be deadly in your blood stream. That bacteria went to my heart and attacked an aorta. I needed heart surgery.
If you believe it is more important to build a nuclear power plant on the moon than it is to develope new treatments for cancer, then you should do humanity a big favor and cease to exist.
Seriously, I nearly died because I did not floss regularly. I needed to have heart surgery because I did not floss regularly. I am not joking.
Her botoxed face is melting down?
I am 75 years old. I can remember other times when the world saw the U.S. as this corrupt. But I cannot remember another time when the world saw the U.S. as this unsteady, adrift, incompetent and this stupid.