American politics has been a joyless pursuit for a long time now. But Kamala Harris is a potential game-changer, and her candidacy is making it feel like Christmas in July.
The lens through which many Europeans view Texas, and America in general, is from the TV show “Dallas”, which was wildly popular in Germany, France, the UK, and beyond.
Imitation, being the sincerest form of flattery, reached its weirdest and widest extent in the early 1980’s. One of the very first “rap songs”, Rap-O Clap-O by Joe Bataan, was covered in Dutch by “Danny Boy”.
Shelley Duvall passed away today. No more “Hello, I’m Shelley Duvalls” to be heard anymore.
After all of these years, I just watched the music video for Kate Bush’s “Experiment IV” for the first time. Dawn French and Hugh Laurie are both in this video!
ChatGPT’s attempt to write a victory song for Labour in the style of Joni Mitchell was surprisingly good, coherent, and while most of it doesn’t really convey Joni’s style directly, the chorus (at least in my head) is highly reminiscent of the chorus of her song “The Circle Game.”
It gives me no pleasure, as an amateur, to say that I could have predicted the current crisis the Democrats are currently experiencing as it relates to Joe Biden’s age and his debate performance.
I’ve never felt more stuck in my entire life as I have in New York – I have never felt more like an outlier, an outcast, a misfit, an injured athlete who looks back at the game they once played so well with a quiet disdain for those who came after.
Since the day I was born, I felt like I was too old for Sesame Street – after all, I was reading decades-old National Geographics in kindergarten (mostly for the Kodak 35mm camera commercials, or the occasional pre-deregulation airline ad). But I’m never too old to become obsessed with something like German Sesame Street!
Here are some pictures from the past few weeks in the Bronx. They are mostly from the area west of Jerome Avenue.