What’s this about political butts?
John Wyndham was correct that we are fucked as a species: the seas will rise, and plants will hunt us for food and sport. But I’ve read this sentence from…
Don Quixote – 341 years into the future
Cervantes had Trump figured out over 300 years before that dofus was born: “[T]he man who never intends to pay isn’t worried about any problems when he strikes his bargain.”…
Dispatches – Picking on VW
This particular discussion inadvertently veered into insightful observations on a current event and its implications for modern society: “You hear it’s been a year since Volkswagen got caught cheating on…
Dispatches – What Pootin Wants
We live in interesting political times, if interesting can be a euphemism for society weighed down by populations living in opaque bubbles, blind to their own braindead expositions: “These pretzels…
Should have seen Drumpf coming
Infinite Jest has many layers of awesomeness, tough in places but always worth the price of admission, which requires true commitment given its 1,000+ pages and 300+ endnotes. Among its…
Something New
The short story “The Crook of a Tree” was done a few years back and first made “publicly available” as part of the compilation “Stories from Austin: A Collection of…
At least he can easily pass his tiny hands…
There are many great passages from Infinite Jest that presage this year’s presidential campaigns – and no better description that could apply to Donald Trump than this insult buried near…
Frowsy…
I re-edited and posted the very short short story “Toy Lists” to start the new year. You might be asking, Why keep this story alive? Because it uses the word…
“I’m not politically correct…”
When did Republicans adopt the Ricky Bobby philosophy of discourse? Basically they proceed as if they can say whatever they want, so long as they preface with the proper qualifier….
More Greene
So sayeth one of Graham Greene’s priests – “Sometimes I think God was not entirely serious when he gave man the sexual instinct.” (A Burnt-Out Case, pg. 191, Penguin)