I want to do anything but write about ________ today.
Literally anything. Except jump out of an airplane or die. Which in my mind is the same thing.
And, he referred to my hands –‘ if they’re small, something else must be small.‘ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.’
I’m just gonna leave this here…
Here’s what Modern Family writer @DannyZuker recently tweeted on the subject.
In the spirit of that, here’s a line from one of my favorite films, Rosemary’s Baby (1968) –
He has his father’s eyes…Satan is his father…
Drumpf.
Get ‘em out, get’ em out, get ‘em outa here!
And suddenly all the Black people were gone – pushed and dragged away by large burly men when they dared to speak out in a public place. Or dared to just be standing around doing nothing but listening.
Bill Maher played the Hitler card in a short, hilarious reference on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday.
I suggest watching for its mere 2 minutes. But if you don’t want to it involves a visual of the Fuhrer shouting loudly and hysterically to thousands of rabid, cheering supporters in the 1940s. Yet instead of listening to words from the leader of The Third Reich we’re hearing recent 2015/16 sound bites from ________ as if they were utterances from Heil You Know Who.
The transitions are seamless. I mean, you’d never ever know. Even the occasional joke feels real. It all works.
Here’s part of the climactic monologue/speech from another movie I love, Tootsie (1982), when the hero-in-female drag explains why in the end female leaders are in much more preferable to their male counterparts.
…Now you all know that my father was a brilliant man; he built this hospital. What you don’t know is that to his family, he was an unmerciful tyrant – a absolute dodo bird. He drove my mother, his wife, to – to drink…
Dorothy tells it how it is
I don’t drink much myself but I can’t say a nice stiff Scotch wouldn’t hit the spot just about now. Perhaps even a sip would do it for me. Yes, I’m a lightweight. But at least I know it. Unlike some people.
The grammar mistakes are________ ‘s, not mine. Just in case it was confirming his thoughts about how inaccurate journalists are. Well, I used to be a journalist. Now I’m just a blogger. Or, to use ________ ’s language, a loser. Of course, so is the New York Times, according to ________ . So, journalistically speaking, I’m in good company.
Louis C.K. wrote an open letter to his fans this week about the Person of Color (Note: Orange) whose name we dare not speak. It was funny, honest and intelligent. Creative reportage is perhaps the best description. Much like the new journalism writings of people like Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion and Hunter Thompson in the 1970s. But given the informality of Twitterverse and emailspeak of the new millennium, a quote like this speaks volumes:
Of course, there was a lot more to what he said than that – a whole letter to the public, actually. You can read it here.
If you don’t, just know that preceding the above quote was this thought from Mr. C.K. (Note: Calling him that seems so weird, doesn’t it? #Louie) – he’s okay with the next president being from the other side of the aisle.
We are about 40 percent conservative and 40 percent liberal…And it always made sense that everyone gets a president they like for a while and then hates the president for a while. But it only works if the conservatives put up a good candidate. A good smart conservative to face the liberal candidate so they can have a good argument and the country can decide which way to go this time.
Though this is what Robert Redford had to say in one of the most romantic movies ever made – The Way We Were (1973). He plays a pretty boy aspiring novelist and eventual screenwriter who is speaking to mousy, brainy political activist/Jewish girl Barbra Streisand, a college classmate who he will marry, cheat on and years later divorce right after she gives birth to his only daughter.
Well, you make fun of politicians. What else can you do with them?
BRB watching this for the 1,000th time
You can call them out – or not vote for them.
Actually, ________ ’s competitors are doing the former in great big shouts all over the country and every time you tune into our many airwaves. But none are willing to say they’ll do the latter. In fact, at their most recent debate this week, they all vowed to vote for him if he is their nominee. That’s exactly the opposite.
It sort of reminds me of a line from one of my all time favorite guilty pleasures – Postcards From The Edge (1990).
…I’m not a box, I don’t have sides. This is it, one side fits all!
It is interesting to note the character saying that is a reformed drug addict.
… or in the same condition I am when I watch any GOP debate
Movies, like history, repeat themselves and their messages. And often in the form of history – both past and present. Much as I love film, there are times when I so wish this weren’t true.
notes from a chair 