Phoebe Waller-Bridge is god. So it isn’t possible to care about the follower of the lesser god, God, as we are asked to do in Fleabag season two.
The Great Exaggeration
The other night I read my obituary.[1]
come in like a rapture
I love artists who don’t try to be critics. Kawhi is that guy.
MC/DC (Biden Now)
Although the rain had thoughtfully let up, midday remained overcast and chilly on Wednesday 1 May, so it wasn’t the weather that brought me, one of my Boys, and a couple hundred other people to an Iowa City brew-pub located in a non-site, amidst building construction and a city-park-in-progress. And it wasn’t to celebrate International Workers’ Day, either. No, we were gathering to hear “Middle Class Joe” Biden.
The Kate Smith Perplex
American Humor
“Old Town Road”–the country/rap hybrid that’s graduated from tween meme to pop moment, thanks chiefly to censorious types who got it bumped off Billboard‘s country music chart, led your editor to Fly Rich Double’s country/rap jape, “Big Boom.” It’s another novelty song that’s not fated to be an American Country classic. OTOH, there’s at least one video sparked by the song (see below) that may be funny for all eternity. It starts slow but I hope that sexy tractor keeps you rocking until the brothers start their delirious dance…
Mueller Day
Originally posted on April 18th…
The Living Jesus and the “Monk’s Alphabet”
Jesus had a way of looking at things that was very far from the ordinary, even contradictory to common sense.
All of his careful teachings and powerful examples served the purpose of helping us to see clearly, to understand, and to discern as if our lives depended on it, because they do. Even beyond the grave.
I Will Keep You Alive (Excerpt from the Levins’ “Cardiovascular Romance”)
Bob and Adele Levin’s I Will Keep You Alive: A Cardiovascular Romance is this husband and wife’s joint account of Bob’s heart attacks and recoveries. The Levins’ write-ups of their own emotional states, as well as their angles on vagaries of our country’s healthcare system, make their book a national resource – a map of the future for countless Americans fated to cope with hearts gone wrong.
Betomania
“First’s” new, ah, Iowa correspondent follows up here on his first pass at Beto. This reporter will look to provide close-ups of other Democratic candidates as they roll through Iowa in the coming months…
Quintessential Mesopotamian Protests
My old friend Charlie Keil emailed me–“See why you like Kanan Makiya. Love those lions.”–after he read Makiya’s recent piece in the Kenyon Review, “The Dying Lion.”