George Soros, Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, what do they have in common? They are multibillionaires, who in varying degrees, are on the liberal or progressive side of the political spectrum, a place where one doesn’t normally find billionaires.
Impeachment (and After)
There is no grand narrative. There is no way to game this. There are no distractions. Get whatever scum undead hunk of putrid, writhing jelly you can get while the getting is good. And then get the next one.
Burying the Dead, Raising Cain
The Beat Goes On
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Big Thief: Not Another Brooklyn Band
Big Thief is an alt-folk band from Brooklyn, but their spirit isn’t tied to that place. Usually, “Brooklyn band,” scares me off.
Fires in the Night (A Sequence from “Candy Mountain”)
Robert Frank’s magnificent picture of kids with sparklers on the beach reminded your editor of night scenes near the end of Candy Mountain–the 1987 road movie directed by Frank along with Rudy Wurlitzer. (Forgive the German subtitles!) Click “Read more” to see a bigger screen. [P.S. THE EMBED HAS BEEN IFFY – IF THE MOVIE STARTS AT THE BEGINNING, CLICK ON AROUND 1:22.50 TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE NIGHT.] B.D.
Armacord (From Nabokov’s “Speak Memory”)
Vladimir Nabokov—another exile on Main Street like Robert Frank—left us with visions of childhood worthy of Frank’s. Here’s the final passages from the last great pages of Speak Memory where Nabokov—speaking directly to his wife Vera—evokes their son’s European childhood under “the shadow of fool-made history…”
A World Without Borders
I just wanna feel myself, you want me to kill myself
Art & the Collective Idea
Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism (Reaktion Books, Ltd. London, U.K. ) By Mary Ann Caws. Hardcover, Summer 2019, 352 pages. $35.00
Patriotic Culture (and Cant): George Bancroft’s History of the American Revolution
How loud did “the shot heard round the world” sound when you were young?[1]