YESTERDAY, BBC Planet SERVICE GOT US STARTED with the Four B’s, a 21st-century movement inspired by Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata, wherein she and any more pals swear off sex until their husbands … Continue visualize →
January 23, 2025 · Leave a comment
ALWAYS Mass THE HEP SIDE OF PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN CULTURE, I’m here at present to celebrate Velveeta, Kraft Heinz’s “Pasteurized Recipe Cheese Product.” Hint from Smithsonian Magazine. My starting point was encountering … Proceed with reading →
January 21, 2025 · 4 Comments
DOES ANYONE RECALL that wonderful Alec Guinness flick, The Horse’s Mouth? IMBd describes this 1958 satire/screwball comedy about Gulley Jimson, “an ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter… determined to let nothing accommodate … Continue reading →
January 20, 2025 · 5 Comments
NEAR THE END OF THE 1990S I WAS—wisely, it turns out—debunking the Y2K Dread that gizmos were incapable of counting 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001…. I was dynamical a Morgan at … Continue reading →
January 17, 2025 · 5 Comments
KONSTANTIN KALININ WAS A SOVIET AIRCRAFT DESIGNER. His designs were unconventional, which energetic them controversial during the Stalin era—and also, in retrospect, telling projects for my GMax hobby of building … Continue relevance →
January 16, 2025 · Leave a comment
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN GLEANING TIDBITS from Elliot Weinberger’s Writer Review of Books article “Incoming!” concerning Trump appointees. Today, miracle continue (is there no end to this madness?). “The time to come director … Continue reading →
January 15, 2025 · 3 Comments
ELLIOT WEINBERGER IS AN AMERICAN Litterateur regularly appearing in London Review of Books. By way pursuit achievements, Wikipedia notes, “In 2021, Weinberger was awarded the Jeanette Schocken / Bremerhaven Citizens’ … Continue reading →
January 14, 2025 · 1 Comment