The passive-aggressive approach would be to write three skits only for Musk to appear in, and at the each one ends with his character getting kicked in the balls. Or he has to play a worker in one of his factories.

One less reason for my wife to murder me? Sold!

I can see that. I’m reminded of his short story, “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” in which the protagonist has his manhood called into question (verbally and physically), and attempts to compensate for it in the story’s climax.

I remember seeing Iron Man and The Dark Knight that summer and leaving both movies thinking, “Finally. Finally!”

If you were at or anywhere near the front lines, you couldn’t be labeled a bystander. A witness, sure.

There are some recordings out there. He’s surprisingly soft-spoken for someone who projected his degree of machismo.

Hemingway’s clickbait: “Ten Reasons Zelda Fitzgerald Ruined Her Husband’s Career - #4 Will Surprise You”

Ah, yes, I remember the outdoors. Good times.

Gregory had what was (and may still be) known as “gender dysphoria.” He would fluctuate most of his life between male and female identities. (While fathering eight children in the process, I might add.)

The main character in The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes, was rendered impotent by a war wound. Hemingway, on the other hand, fathered three children after his own injuries so it appears he avoided the same fate, albeit narrowly.

His son Gregory later become known as Gloria. Coincidence?

Like the saying goes, “Never meet your heroes.”

No wonder he raised so many of them!

During the — let’s call it extended downtime — this pandemic has offered, I’ve chosen to correct a severe lag in my reading activity.

She was the abrasive, boozy, emasculating mother I never had. I am genuinely going to miss the shit out of her.

Can he sing, Jeremy Piven?

God damn it.

I do remember that episode, and that “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!”

No Roger, No Rerun, No Rent!

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