Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Category Archives: Popular Culture
How Hamilton Lost Us The Election
Laurie Frankel places the blame squarely where it belongs: right down Broadway. Continue reading
Deaths of Distant Friends (or, John Updike Fucking Rocks)
Kurt Baumeister and John Updike met once upon a time. The event probably wasn’t memorable for Updike, but it was for Baumeister. Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Literature, Memoir, Popular Culture
Tagged Deaths of Distant Friends, John Updike, Kurt Baumeister, Memories, Rabbit, Run, The Weeklings
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Twenty-five Women I Fell in Love With Before I Was Twenty-five
A random and possibly embarrassing list of crushes, inane longings, smoldering gazes, and youthful inamoratas. “Deep down, all we really want is to be righteously hated by a woman not even deigning to put effort into her pretense of love.” Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged 25 women, cherie curry, David Bowie, emmylou harris, inger stevens, kim novak, Lauren Bacall, lisa bonet, Love, Lt. Uhura, Lust, lyn collins, Madchen Amick, michele phillips, nico, poison ivy, Sarah Vaughn, senta berger, teen, terri nunn, the bangles, the skinny one from heart, Tippi Hedren, wanda jackson, yma sumac
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We Might Be Heroes (or, Don’t Bother Me, I’m Coloring This Wicked Sweet Dragon)
In his Weeklings debut Scott Waldyn asks the musical question, “What’s adulting anyway?” Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture, Uncategorized
Tagged Adult Coloring Books, Scott Waldyn, Star Wars, Superheroes, The Weeklings
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With The Ringer and “Any Given Wednesday,” Bill Simmons Jumps the Shark
Two media launches, two failures. It’s like Mookie Wilson hit not one but TWO ground balls to first base, and Bill Buckner botched them both. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Any Given Wednesday, Bill Simmons, ESPN, Grantland, Kesha, Nicholas II Romanov, Patrick Ewing, podcasts, sports, The Ringer
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Beyond Good and Evil
Give evil a chance. We can’t do any worse, can we? Continue reading
Sideshow Donald: Trump’s Campaign is Right Out of “The Simpsons”
Let’s hope Hillary is a better candidate than Joe Quimby. Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Popular Culture
Tagged Clowns, Donald Trump, evil, GOP, King of America, kings, Narcissism, predict the future, Republicans, Sideshow Bob, The Simpsons, Trump is a clown, voter fraud
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