AKA what if a John Waters film wasn’t a John Waters film? 🤭

Only my TIAA account could manage to *lose* money in the stock market last quarter.

I will never be able to retire.

The good news is my renewed passport arrived in the mail today!

The bad news?

No matter how bad the worst passport photo you’ve ever seen is, mine is soooo much worse…

🥸

Ha! Well… 🤣

I think for many, this war is the tipping point. When the economics get even worse (and they will), only a valiant idiotic few will still buy blaming Biden for everything.

Or maybe the glass is completely empty. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s a shame few people saw Grindhouse. This worked far better edited down as half of that double feature experience. If you see it now at home, you’re not really seeing this film the way it should be seen.

It isn’t the fact he started a needless war that sent jet fuel prices soaring.

No.

According to Trump, the reason he must bailout Spirit Airlines from going bankrupt is…

…Joe Biden.

🤔

C’mon, Don. Even your supporters aren’t *that* stupid.

And now the Virginia election was “rigged.”

“…Lime sherbet,

The impermanence of objects
- Like a vector hallway -
Only outlines green

Yet possibly sweet.

Her grin entices,
Tempting,
Promising nothing
But a moment's sugar tang
On top the tongue.”

Full Poem
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If Kevin Warsh is too dumb to see tariffs have pushed up inflation…

…Kevin Warsh is too dumb to serve in the Federal Reserve.

💙💚 Happy Earth Day 💚💙

Heh. I worked at the TV Guide Channel.

“We bow before
The polished mirror,
But it never speaks.
It never says a word
We need

And we are thirsty.”

Full Poem
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Thank god…

If only I liked tequila… 😀

I’m working a trade show this morning.

I’m unsure this half pot of coffee’s gonna do it…

Every time Emily Blunt starts her weather report on the trailer for Disclosure Day, I swear she’s going to bust into Drop It Like It's Hot.

“I see you clearer now
Than we can ever see ourselves.
I read your life by braille.”

Full Poem
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It would be so easy to be disheartened today, but O, no, week…

You definitely don’t get to take me down this early.

The Iran war is one of the dumbest American actions in history.

It is proving a complete, pointless disaster.

It's time for mini phones to make a comeback We're ready for someone to take another crack at the mini phone format

As somebody still blissfully carrying about his iPhone 13 Mini, I obnoxiously agree.

www.techadvisor.com/article/3113...

Tax cutting is a ridiculously dumb piece of Trump’s religion for Democrats to co-opt, and I’m deeply disappointed in Cory Booker and others who are indulging in this dangerous opiate.

Jack Reynor is miscast and not terribly convincing in Lee Cronin's the Mummy.

This Week’s Movies in the Theater

Normal ***
Lee Cronin's the Mummy ** 1/2

From the trailer, Wild Horse Nine looks ridiculously fantastic.

People talkin’ like they know Stanley Tucci and they haven’t even watched the first season of Murder One.

Wade–Giles > Hanyu Pinyin

Out of the Eater Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina

“The honeycomb,
A hanging mess
Delicious.
Scrape it
Bare.”

Full Poem
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Thank you!

I post one picture of my bare butt, and Bluesky collapses like an election campaign promise…

Ooph.

“He offers you a bourbon,
Smirking,
‘Me, I never touch the stuff now,’
As he takes a quiet sip.
In minutes,
He will challenge you to pushups…”

Full Poem
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