Whatever Works on DVD

Woody Allen and Larry David=Dream Team: Whatever Works DVD; my review:

Whatever Works is Woody Allen's starkest comedy since Deconstructing Harry (1997), and one of his best in over a decade; thanks to another sharp turn by Larry David.

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Mussolini is Dead?

While rummaging through my old poetry, I found this little snippet:

Mussolini is Dead,
Living in California,
Alone.

I have absolutely no idea what it means, but I kinda like it.

Tim Russert, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, and President Gore

As sad as it was for Russert's family to suffer his early demise, the fact remains, Tim Russert was a hack. He carried water for the Right during the Clinton years, and he played footsie with Dick Cheney under the table at Meet the Press, while the VP bullshitted America into war. Joan Walsh wraps up her review of the book, The Clinton Tapes, with some sad and disturbing insights. Parenthetically, does anyone else ever play the "What if..." game? How much of the horrific crap that's happened in the last 10 years would we have avoided if Gore had been President? What would that alternate universe look like?

"When Tim Russert mocked Bill Clinton -- in song" by Joan Walsh

Working, Bored and Naked, waiting for The Graveyard

Now, how does this work again?  How do you blog?  It's been so long since I simply wrote about myself, and how I'm doing, what I'm doing, I almost forgot.

I am currently trying to nail down a job that will hopefully ease my transition from struggling small business owner back to regular 9 to 5 employee, receiving a consistent paycheck.

I am editing and revising three poems I hope to have ready for submission, to an upstart arts magazine; deadline Nov. 1st.

I am totally enchanted by this new HBO series, Bored to Death; created and written by the perversely funny essayist *Jonathan Ames:



I read Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (one of my favorite postmodern-romantic novelists).  I liked it.  Very Anne Tylerish (my other favorite semi-romantic novelist).  Not as great as About A Boy and How To Be Good, but, still quite lovely:

I am reading *Jonathan Ames collection of essays entitled I Love You More Than You Know, patiently waiting for my daughter to finish Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, so I can read it before Halloween:

Saving President Obama's Nobel

In reacting to the news this morning that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, the President struck a note of humility and recognized that the award was a nod to a vision of what is to come:



What did Tom Hanks say at the end of Saving Private Ryan?  "...earn this... earn it."

Mr. Obama, tear down this wall!

Mr. Obama, tear down this wall!

I know.  It may be a bit ironic that I chose to insinuate a connection between President Obama and Gorbachev, given the right's ignorant refrain of "Obama's a communist".  But, I thought Reagan's line a good one to reuse for the monolithic monster that is the corporate health care system currently dividing the haves from the have-nots.

WellPoint Cuts Workers' Health Insurance Benefits by Rachel Weiner

The Politics of Spite by Paul Krugman

Great piece by Paul Krugman, reminiscent of something I posted earlier:

The Politics of Spite by Paul Krugman

Repost: Conservatives Revel In America's Olympic Defeat

Now we know. When America loses, Republicans win. That explains so much: Vietnam (Nixon wins), Iran Hostage Crisis (Reagan wins), Iraq, Katrina, 9-11 (Bush wins). When the Bushies were running around claiming liberals wanted America to fail in Ira...q, they were actually the ones secretly hoping for failure. If they can only devise a few more devastating defeats to the American psyche before next years elections, the sky's the limit!

Conservatives Revel In America's Olympic Defeat
by Rachel Slajda