Tuesday, June 30, 2026
A Hot Dog Program
Doctor to the Stars
In the waiting room earlier the nurse came out and asked the two toddlers who'd just gotten shots what color star they wanted; I don't think they even know what colors or stars are but hey long story short look who ended up with a star of his own.
SPEAKING of The New Yorker...
...I rather humbly submit that while this is close to being a great joke bigger would've been funnier than big here.
SEE MY PREVIOUS RATHER HUMBLE OPINIONS ON HOW THE NEW YORKER COULD'VE BEEN FUNNIER HERE
WELL Well Well....
...it's been a long year for The New Yorker front covers - and you know I love them! - so I'm relieved to see one I finally like. Finally.
The Musicality of Joyce Endures 🇮🇪
Moi Say Moi back in 2011:
Like Finnegan's Wake I've never even bothered trying to understand Ulysses when reading, but from time to time I pick it up and flip to a random page to read just for that smooth rhythm of Joyce's. I can think of no other author for whom I do such a thing. I don't know what the hell's going on and I don't give a shit; it's like loving a song when you don't really know or care what the words mean.
I've repeated this several times throughout the years in conversation whenever Joyce has come up and - unlike my recent shocking Confederacy of Dunces revelation 😲 - upon finding more of my old college papers from a million years ago, it's kind of nice to know I thought the same thing back when reading & breaking down Joyce meant actually reading & breaking down Joyce. 😜🕺📓📚
Current News
NPR fucked up earlier today:
PR has dramatically retracted a news story announcing that conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel
Alito would retire—and admitted its reporting was wrong.I'm guessing Trump will have his standard $10B lawsuit ready to go today by 4, maybe 4:30pm at the latest.
The story, written by longtime legal affairs NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg, 82, was published minutes after Alito dissented from the Supreme Court ruling to keep birthright citizenship in place.
Her report was replaced by an editor’s note.
“Editor’s Note: Earlier today we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. He has not announced his retirement and we have retracted the story,” the story now reads.
The GOP & God & Slavery (That's Right!)
It's ironic that because of their pathetic daddy issues Republicans are so desperate for Trump to be their daddy when what they've gotten is a fucking toddler. - 2026
If we could have just one Republican president in my lifetime who’s not ruled by their daddy issues that’d be great, thanks. - 2025
Can we get a psychoanalyst to assess the GOP's fascination with martyrdom? It goes: Jesus Christ -> The Confederate Army -> all Christians -> Trump -> any Republicans seeking public office - 2024
... the GOP has turned into that sitcom character who wanders into the charismatic clutches of the leader at a local youth center, and promises to allow the leader to make all of his decisions for him. - 2011
...it's the GOP's weird daddy issues that are going to fucking get us all killed. - 2025
This seems to be thruline/pattern for the American Right, that there is not greater honor than being a martyr in their eyes; the problem is they insist on both being the martyr AND wielding the most amount of power over everyone else at all times. - 2024These are just a few of the bazillion times on this blog I've mentioned Republicans' Daddy Issues or demands for more religion as being both a weirdly infantile infantile way to live but also a crushing & stupid way to run a government; mostly so far I've felt lost in the wild all by myself on this but an article today in The Atlantic shows maybe I'm not the crazy one after all:
Reynolds leaves the strong impression that slavery flourished in the South instead of the North simply because southern religion and ideology depended on mastery rather than because southern topography and climate also favored the plantation system.
As long as daddy issues & fake Christianity run the country, we will be forced to deal with Trump/Trump 2.0/Trump 3: The Quickening over & over again until we're all just dust & bones and Fat Orange Baby Huey is all by himself writhing around in his soiled diapers happily clutching not only all our money but our collective integrity & self-worth with fat, orange greasy fingers. And we won't even be able to blame Trump since each time the bell was rung, 75M people showed up and demanded he be given all of it, so.
Nice Try Macca
Okay I can fend off my bff Paul McCartney no problem but now he's using my beloved Scooter to try & get me to listen to his new album? Not cool Sir Paul, NOT cool!! 🎸🐶
Maybe Let the Dishes Soak for Bit
Eventually, the few names on the Voyagers' Golden Discs will be the only people whose existence will be recognized from the entire course of human history, of which by that time there may be no record of having ever existed otherwise.
Business & Bullshit Oh My!
Its funny that for at least the last quarter of a century Republicans have tried to sound smart by insisting the country should be run like a business & these are the two business geniuses they’ve come up with so far.
Monday, June 29, 2026
Goals. I Have Them.
Moi Say Moi back in 2011:
I wanna quit drinking so I can be incredibly judgmental and self-righteous. I don't really have a lot to hang over my friends. I'm not rich, or successful; I pretty much go through life like a fucking buffoon. But if I quit drinking and lord it over everybody, then I'd have something! I just wanna be sitting around with my buddies and when I hear one crack open a beer, loudly sigh, "great, HERE we go," and act disgusted the entire time.
I want all these new & amazing AI music production/recording programs to become the industry standard so I can super-snobbishly say to some young musician "hey buddy I was on the front lines of rock, recording on a goddam reel to machine & sweating out train money back from practice in Manhattan before Brooklyn was even a thing, youngblood."
Probably won't happen, but hey.
It's Actually Pretty Easy Being Cheesy, Thank You for Asking
You might remember when I was so happy that the people in the cheese department downstairs were drawing funny faces on the cheese:
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Okay that was pretty lame, in particular when put up against how much joy the smiley faces had on the cheese, but it's at least half the sendoff it deserves which is the best I can do.
I don't know what the hell kind of cheese this is and I sure as hell didn't know cheese came looking like cantaloupe but if you put funny faces on it YES I WILL BUY IT!!10 months later it's finally time to throw it out - some sort of surely disgusting fluid is gathering against the plastic & threatening to burst open - but I wanted to send Mr. Smiley Cheese McCheeserson off with a proper salute:
Thanks whoever did this at Wegmans, I needed this today. 🤗🤗🤣🤣❤️
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Okay that was pretty lame, in particular when put up against how much joy the smiley faces had on the cheese, but it's at least half the sendoff it deserves which is the best I can do.
They haven't done the faces on the cheese in a while, but I will be looking for them later on today & will be sure to tell the people doing the drawing how much I love it, as I did last time (you now know what it takes to get me to initiate a chat with strangers and it's faces drawn by Sharpies on cheese. )🕺🧀
Just Browsing
Either my eyebrows are trying to escape or they're making money on some sort of Late 19th-Century President Impersonations tour. 😬🤷♂️
RIP Penelope Keith
Stone-cold BBC Legend Penelope Keith has died at 86.
Incredible. I'm grateful I got to know who she was while she was alive.
She had a great, long life so there's no reason to be extra sad, but this is a big one. Incredibly beloved as a National Treasure in her home country, the discussion was never whether or not she belonged on Mount Rushmore, but which of her characters, Margo Ledbetter or Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, should represent her.
Incredible. I'm grateful I got to know who she was while she was alive.
From my Top 10 BBC Sitcom Characters List back in 2018:
Her role as Margo Ledbetter in The Good Life could’ve easily gone in here since they’re basically the same character, but I chose [Audrey fforbes-Hamilton] because it’s the lead. It takes an amazing actress to pull off a character we’d normally be set up to not like, the sort of English upper-crust who believes people around her exist merely to maintain her own social status. There is a thrill in her initial “downfall”, but we quickly root for her because even though she’s a snob, she’s so damn likable. Partly because she’s of the (maybe?) last generation of “noblesse oblige”; she’s lost almost everything but the idea of letting her butler Brabinger loose out into the cruel world is unthinkable to her. Her role is to desperately fight maintain the status quo of her once and future estate. How good of a character is this? Incredibly, her natural sense of entitlement is somehow endearing.
As this clip below says, she was Comedy Royalty. And yes, she made my THINGS I LIKE list from a few years back.
Current Events
Trump demanding his followers agree there's a 350-gash in a reflecting pool that's incredibly easy for anyone to observe at any time of the day may be his most strident "blindly believe me like you would God" thing yet.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
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