Joyce Carol Oates
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is this a serious problem? really? speaking for "real women" no one particularly wants to be naked in a locker room or anywhere with strangers or possibly with anyone anywhere at any time naked or not. cannot believe this is an issue in good faith.
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(bar bill: $66. food bill: $12. tip: $0 N Y Times expense account)
This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
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no one wants to acknowledge that perhaps teenagers spend so much time on their cell phones because the conversations of their elders, including mansplainers like Ross Douthat, are exhausting, boring, & unrewarding to them.
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utter shock of discovering that your child is not a clone of yourself but an independent, individual being with a personality unfathomable to you; not a possession of yours but "unrecognizable." quite a blow to the parental ego! someone must be to blame.
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The only thing that the “vast majority” has to fear from the private lives of individuals who represent a small minority of the population is that their irrational hatred for this minority will poison their souls & lead their own children to abhor them.
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Telling us to deny our very own eyes and putting pronouns in our mouth is a form of hatred and violence
Refusing to acknowledge that the lifestyle is counterproductive for the vast majority is an insult
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Please RT 1 million times: it is not "left-wing"--"leftist"--to believe in equality of races, genders, citizens, ethnicities. it is American
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"We shall boo in the arenas, & we shall boo in the stadiums, we shall boo on the fields, in the hills & on the beaches & the high seas, we shall boo in the mountains & on the plains, from sea to shining sea we will never surrender our First Amendment right to boo the demagogue"
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true! mainstream media seizes upon highly atypical, microscopic samples of an issue that affects virtually no one, amplifies it maniacally, continues to focus upon it as if it were some sort of threat to the commonweal, & not an amplified paranoid-figment of media imagination.
The New York Times’ trans coverage is under fire. The paper needs to listen | Arwa Mahdawi
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he looks like everyone's best-loved friend, actually--the one who is especially kind, considerate, thoughtful, fun.
This is the Communications Director for the Secretary of Interior:
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when women demanded the vote, when minorities demand to be treated equitably, it will seem like "social contagion" to those who imagine themselves doling out permission for others to live as freely & without risk as they do.
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The rising number of young people identifying as trans is driven by a complicated mixture of reasons, social contagion being primary.
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We can imagine how this highly sensitive individual reacts to assaults on actual persons as in war. Assume he can barely draw breath reacting to the war in Gaza in proportion to the comic assault on an inanimate puppet. Such empathy!
Wil Wheaton Rages at Larry David for Elmo Attack: "Appalling, Unforgivable, Despicable"
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Joan Rivers:
"You're dead, you deserve to be dead," she yelled, offering no sympathy for the civilians who have died in Gaza, including children. "At least the ones who were killed, were the ones with very low IQs," she said.Aug 7, 2014."
PHOTOS: Remembering the life and career of Joan Rivers on what would’ve been her 90th birthday!
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once, I asked an editor of the New Yorker who is a friend/neighbor to explain a puzzling New Yorker cartoon & he said, "Some of our cartoons are just inane & not very funny."
Totally stumped by this cartoon in the current issue of The New Yorker ...
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(a friend who is a literary agent told me that he cannot even get editors to read first novels by young white male writers, no matter how good; they are just not interested. this is heartbreaking for writers who may, in fact, be brilliant, & critical of their own "privilege.")
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isn't this against the law? inciting violence publicly?
it's bewildering why some feel that they are threatened by transgender people. what do they imagine is going to happen to them personally? why are they so frightened?
Charlie Kirk, CEO of Turning Point USA, is openly calling for the lynching of transgender individuals.
Says that trans people should be "dealt with" like men did "in the 50s and 60s"
He's the latest major conservative calling for violence against us.
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Charlie Gross, February 29, 1936--April 13, 2019. Brilliant, beautiful, beloved husband.
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when seeming to pass a superior sort of judgment on people who have taken their own lives it is well to consider that some (of us) are born less happy than others & are drawn to ending unhappiness from an early age; if we live to 40 or beyond, consider that we have triumphed
And then Anthony Bourdain said: “wow, I’m a world-famous millionaire who takes dream vacations for a living yet I’m still depressed and unfulfilled. Maybe the good life isn’t about traveling and eating in restaurants and people should stop emulating me.”
So true, Mr. Bourdain
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not true. I never say anything over-obvious.
how could i ever leave twitter it’s where joyce carol oates calls david brooks a cheap mean alcoholic
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it seems unbelievable now that children were actually beaten for being "left-handed"--yet it's true.
one can be solidly for women's rights & for the rights of others who are transitioning to X / Y --whatever they have declared is their true identity.
sympathize/don't rage.
@benryanwriter
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@reluctantlyjoe
I wonder if people are more likely to be who they are when they are not punished and bullied for it? 🧐
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dropping a mature groundhog a few feet onto the ground would certainly not kill or even injure the groundhog. anyone who thinks otherwise is not a gardener & does not know the first thing about the obduracy, rapacity, & sheer animal cunning of a groundhog.
NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio drops Staten Island Chuck during the yearly Groundhog’s Day celebration.
Chuck died 7 days later, the Staten Island Zoo covering up his death until September.(2014)
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yes, surely true. better to think of trans-persons as refugees to be welcomed, not shunned. their experiences are not identical with ours but must surely be harrowing, difficult, each in their own unique way. not long ago just to be a woman uninterested in marriage was aberrant.
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Lilith is glum at prospects of polyamory when she has yet to meet her first true love.
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Ironic that I am a judge for the Truman Capote award when Capote in a druggy interview said he hated me & that I should be executed. LOL.
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history is best approached via a B O O K.
in the B O O K you can read about things that happened before you were born (!).
recommend H I S T O R Y B O O K S for those wishing to learn that there was a time before they were born.
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what is this demonizing of the mere word "men"? is there some bizarre twilight zone in which every human being is equipped with radioactive genitals somehow possessed of superhuman power to harm? what tiny percentage of persons are an actual threat to you? .0001%?
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interesting to note that "Seinfeld" is ever more witty/funny/memorable as George's hair recedes; if the hair is too plentiful, the episode is relatively early in the
history of the show, less truly Seinfeldian & more awkwardly just another sit-com.
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Actually , you never will.
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when the worst president in US history still has 43% approval....
NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll (9/13-16, registered voters):
Biden 51%
Trump 43%
(Last month: 50-41% Biden)
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it seems that a great swath of Americans linger yearningly for ever longer periods of time in public restrooms, locker rooms & gyms, yet these same people, oddly, are sedentary, suffer from hypertension, & rarely leave their domiciles. how possible?
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And what is the obsession with Bathroom situations? Why does that resonate, decade after decade, with Church People united against light and pleasure?
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You would never have any idea what the NYC subway experience is from hyperbolic Twitter. This is the uptown E train at noon arriving at Lexington.
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Beautiful new table cloth, gift from late husband’s first wife: a relationship for which there is no word, at least in English, a language lacking such nuance even as our lives abound in nuance.
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no-blue-check Twitter is a great place for aspiring artists to post their work. here is my moody, experimental painting titled, "Red Blur Quivering Above Blackish Blur"--wall-sized, epic.
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(Hoping that a dean of admissions / president of a university or college will contact these young men & offer them scholarships in reparation for insanely cruel, short-sighted, racist behavior perpetrated against them simply because they hoped to be admitted to Colorado State U.)
Please RT one million times. Of all the outages on Twitter, this is possibly the saddest. But good for us ("white"--"privileged"--"liberal") to know & fully absorb & work to change.
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if you are so concerned for the welfare of children why not alleviate childhood poverty? homelessness? why focus on the politically-fashionable issue of child-"victims" of transitioning? these arguments certainly seem in bad faith.
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Wrong. The argument is about whether children can effectively understand and articulate their own agency.
The legal basis of childhood rests on this question.
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(can understand but my tweeting has often been about holding the media to account. it is obvious that media has been scapegoating trans people by focussing on isolated "scare" cases in purposeful ignorance of the profound implications of the phenomenon & withholding sympathy.)
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irresistible serio-comic drama of how consciousness is divided against itself: the pragmatic daytime self geared to action of benefit to others; the darker, nocturnal self that sees through all pretensions & false hope, & is deathly-funny. Dostoyevsky in weird-gothic Louisiana.
Excited for the new season of True Detective but it's gonna take a lot to surpass the lads.
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"why we have become sad"
David Brooks (again) lamenting that lost great moral upstanding feel-good Norman Rockwell America when women & minorities were not uppity, family-fun lynchings were not frowned upon by élites, & enslaved persons didn't get to sass their owners.
The most important story about why Americans have become sad and alienated and rude, I believe, is also the simplest: We inhabit a society in which people are no longer trained in how to treat others with kindness and consideration.
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please stop typing.
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"anti-fa" means "anti-fascist." anyone can be "anti-fascist." there is no "antifa" movement unless there is "fascism" to oppose.
remove fascism, "antifa" will disappear.
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decades ago everyone in NYC knew that "T***p" was synonymous with incompetence, criminality, cynicism, utter irresponsibility; yet somehow, T***p did not get seriously vetted by major media intent upon entertaining a credulous & unquestioning electorate.
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I dreamt I was in beautiful Stockholm in my Issey Miyake gift jacket from a dear friend
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So barbaric that this should still be allowed... No conservation laws in effect wherever this is?
This guy thinks it's cool to kill defenceless animals then take a selfie. Jerk.
http://t.co/WbgMklrd9u
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Why do detractors of transgender persons only focus on worst cases? many marriages end in divorce & sometimes disaster; men become “family annihilators.” Do we blame all marriages & campaign to outlaw them?
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have you delved into the detransitioned community? they feel duped and suffer irreparable damage to their reproductive organs
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Excited to receive a royalty check from my “appearance”
in an episode of The Simpsons some years ago.
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William Buckley abhorred gay culture & believed that AIDS patients should be tattooed to identify them. he sneered at any glimmer of feminism/women's rights. do not promote this ultra-conservative bigot as the greatest or most influential intellectual of his time.
Who is an intellectual you admire? "The Incomparable Mr. Buckley” premieres Friday, April 5 at 9/8c on PBS.
#AmericanMastersPBS
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at the MoMA Tillman exhibit we entered a large dark space where a solitary individual was lying on the floor perusing his cell phone. several viewers were standing watching, others filed in. when we left we learned that the installation wasn't beginning for 4 hrs.
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Twitter is a haven for people who'd studied too hard while in school & are compensating by deteriorating in semi-public in adulthood.
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J O K E
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New category of unease: not letting anyone know that you might be vaccinated because you’ve been so comfortable not being able to see them for nearly a year.
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Twitter has become so unmoored it is recommending me to follow "Joyce Carol Oates."
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Entirely depends upon what stage you are in your life. Try it again when your back has been broken.
Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is hot garbage.
There, I said it.
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yes, why would this tedious self-righteous person imagine that his opining is of more interest & depth than what teenaged girls are perusing on their cell phones? we have all seen cat videos more intellectually challenging.
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no, actually it is not. funny.
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sobering to think that if Martin Luther King, Jr. & civil rights activists were practicing non-violent protest today, the president of the US would label them "Antifa" & threaten to turn law enforcement & military against them.
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This kitty was fat-shamed by someone we’d thought was a friend. Devastated.
#Don
’tDoThisToYourPet
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what is the crime for which the turkey was sentenced to death & the sentence nullified by the US President? & what guarantee do we have that the turkey won't be executed anyway, as soon as the cameras are gone.
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what if the Unabomber, not yet known as the Unabomber, had gone to any other university than Harvard? was his fate sealed, as a Harvard freshman?
RIP Ted Kaczynski, inspiration for the most understated footnote ever
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words have consequences.
hateful words have hateful consequences.
#WeRemember
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is anyone else experiencing a distortion of time? each day feels monumental & tomorrow seems totally unpredictable; one week ago feels like one month; the future feels foreshortened, like a blank wall just a few inches away.
past crises, like raging wildfires, near-forgotten.
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Libertarians underrepresented
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in an ideal uncontentious & idyllic world, no one would be posting on Twitter but outdoors romping & gallivanting.
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we bow our heads in homage to this, which is truly nonpareil. only Hemingway's (alleged) short-short story ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn") comes close.
Since we’re talking about David Brooks’ meal choices again, let’s remember this classic
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why are people laughing at this sign? apostrophes bring fun to our lives & there should be more of them. what is most notable here is that "recliners" is given so much space.
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Earnestly discussing quantum physics after seeing “Oppenheimer” in Princeton.
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It’s natural to wonder that fanatics can live lives dominated solely by hatred & violence. It would seem impossible; but then perhaps they don’t live long.
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it is certainly hard for neutral observers to make sense of this so-called debate. one could focus exclusively on marriages that end in disaster, then claim that marriage = disaster; one side takes up the worst possible outcomes & presents these as the norm. why?
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the face of the damned....
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this episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is mocking MAGA culture (if that's the appropriate term)-- the glaring red MAGA hat is used by Larry David to repel people he doesn't want to meet in L.A. ( J O K E )
The president of the United States posts a 28 second clip in which the word "fuck" is used seven times
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asked repeatedly "Are you a robot?" by something not-human.
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Second week of this poor deluded bluebird pecking at his own reflection. He will never mate, or nest, or propel his DNA into the next generation nor even have time for an auto fiction about his atrophied life.
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suggest you give up & read something else.
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8 years ago I was apparently struggling to read one of your stories for my college creative writing class. I wish I could remember which one it was.
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cannot a man or a boy "mother"? of course! some of the most motherly people we know are male, & isn't that a great idea? I'll bet some hidebound folks have never even heard of alloparenting, which is common in animal species including Homo sapiens.
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Though it sounded intriguing in reviews "Everything Everywhere All at Once" is possibly the most tedious film I have ever seen. a few banal ideas recycled mercilessly, not absurd so much as silly, overloud, poorly executed, might still be playing, we'd bailed out after 2 hours.
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One of the less-publicized bills GOP Congress intends to pass will begin dismantling of national parklands for private (i.e. mining) use.
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Terrified satyr traumatized by nymphs. Abuse of male creatures by female is underreported & no joke.
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you could say the same ignorant things about Woolf, Proust, even Lawrence. Modernism isn't about "plots" but primarily about language, images, sensibility. it's pointless to denigrate books as roughly half the US does today. let someone else teach them if you are incapable.
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The best critique of Passing I ever heard was given by one of my students. “It’s like the author figured out halfway through that a novel needed a plot,” she said. “So she tried to stick one in.” She was exactly right.
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thank God for 1776. we may complain about life in the US but at least we are not swearing allegiance to a ridiculous "king" who did nothing but manage to get born.
Absolute state of this entitled prick. He is worth over a billion yet at a time of rising poverty, he expects the state to pay for his coronation. A medieval clown show in praise of this utterly ridiculous and pompous man.
#NotMyKing
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if this is a serious question, no, it's Key & Peele, brilliant comedians, having fun as usual with sacred subjects; sorry if I've missed irony here, but Key & Peele have been out of the mainstream for years & some might not know who they are/were.
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never thought that I would agree with Howard Stern but isn't he correct? the outrage that people feel for transgender persons, or the outrage they pretend to feel for transgender persons, is bizarre. how much more worthy of outrage are mass shootings, environmental pollution.
Howard Stern:
"I’m not bothered by gays or trans people. They don’t impact my life…I love when people are in love.
You wanna be a woman? Be a woman. You wanna be a dude, be a dude.
Be whatever you f—ing want. As long as you ain’t hurting anybody, I’m on your team”
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never a Philosopher Barbie & probably never a Poet Barbie or Anorexic Barbie or Suicidal Barbie which would be too painful a mirror held up to 21st century US & the actual lives of many girls & women.
"According to Mattel, Barbie has had over 200 careers, recently including more STEM fields."
And yet there has NEVER been a Philosopher Barbie.
What's up with that,
@Mattel
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think if all the cigarettes in all the movies of all time were miraculously erased---what a stunning void! all that busyness, fussiness, so bad for the lungs but a boon for scriptwriters, actors & directors.
'In the Mood for Love' (2000) Wong Kar-wai.
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Is “raw sewage” (about which we hear often) actually much worse than “cooked sewage” (about which we tend to hear far less)? Just curious.
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loved "First Reformed." brilliant, heartrending, stark & intransigent; spiritual distillation of Protestantism in an age of ravaged nature. amazing ending. Ethan Hawke performance is flawless & filmmaker Paul Schrader at his most transcendental.
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Surrealist Leonora Carrington at Princeton Art Museum
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why?
CNN will air HBO late-night host Bill Maher’s post-show Overtime segments late on Friday nights, beginning this week.
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not fair, no one at the N Y Times lifted a wee finger to burnish the tarnished reputation of, for instance, Charles Manson, as meanly "vilified" in his time as the Koch dynasty.
but this is just the "first big profile" so there is a promise of more corrupt journalism TK.
Elizabeth Koch is a part of the vilified Koch dynasty. Worrying about what people think pushed her to the brink of insanity.
Now, she wants to help people understand their debilitating "Perception Boxes." She spoke to me for her first big profile:
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T***p should threaten to resign if his wall isn’t funded. That would get some action.
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this disgusting meal cost me $7.98, the food was awful & there wasn't nearly enough of it which is why Biden is so unpopular.
This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
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US media seems unable or is unwilling to distinguish between leaders who are genuinely trying to govern responsibly but who may make mistakes (like Biden) & mendacious leaders (like T***p) who never had the slightest interest in responsibility or even leadership. what is wrong?
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groundhogs are the only creatures that after ravaging a garden run away from the irate gardener with deliberate provocative slowness, in a sort of fat-waddling motion of the hind parts, to taunt.
dropping a mature groundhog a few feet onto the ground would certainly not kill or even injure the groundhog. anyone who thinks otherwise is not a gardener & does not know the first thing about the obduracy, rapacity, & sheer animal cunning of a groundhog.
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Bradley Cooper seems to have antagonized great hordes of people who have never met him by displaying talent in abundance & evidently speaking too honestly/candidly about his emotions in an interview. honesty is not a prudent policy in the age of social media sound bites even
Bradley Cooper says he struggled to connect with his daughter when she was born but eventually grew to adore her.
“First 8 months, I don’t even know if I really love the kid. It’s dope. I’m watching this thing morph… Fascinated by it. Loved taking care of it. But would I die if…
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Does anyone know what these cryptic symbols mean in a Subaru? Have looked through the handbook hopelessly.
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Erase Sanders from US politics & you would see a profound loss that cannot perhaps be measured. Some exert influence even as they may appear sidelined. Unfortunately this can apply to far-right reactionaries as well.
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Joyce, please look at Bernie's actual congressional record and you will see he has accomplished almost nothing in 40 years other than renaming two post offices in Vermont. No other legislation passed. He is all talk and no action, in part because no one wants to work with him.
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