A capsule review in this week's New Yorker "Goings on about town" intrigued me. An unabashed one-woman show about sex is playing Manhattan's Cherry Lane Theater through Aug.18
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So, yeah, I'm watching a little TV, here in central eastern FL -- and Rachel Maddow is on, saying that the main newspaper of Orlando (80 miles from here), the Sentinal, has gone on record NOT endorsing Donald J.Trumpsky in 2020
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You ever-kind friends here welcomed "subkatie" as my new girlfriend last August. It falls to me now to say, sadly, that the relationship has ended. I won't go into the reasons, but cannot resist telling you that POLITICS played a part
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I've been talking to one of my favorite LJ people, Anna, the Czech linguist, about recent political difficulties in her country. She worries particularly that the flood of refugees into Europe has stoked national passions in unfortunate ways, provoking both the far right (including neo-Nazis) and leftist apologists (actually nostalgic for Communism
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I just watched John Stewart's Daily Show from last Monday. (Both the best and lesst-than-best aspects of DVRs: you can watch the show anytime, so you catch it later than you might wish
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