So fun. 

Thanks for the correction Yummsh, I have definitely been mishearing it since 1980 when I was 11.   Can you acknowledge that the song makes little sense anyway? 

I drunkenly tried to solve the mystery of the narrative of Donna Summer’s “On The Radio” 1980 hit last night. Because it has been badgering me for nearly 40 years now. I broke a cardinal rule of NEVER TWEET, but thankfully I cleaned that mess up.

That was marvelous.  Thanks for sharing it.  

Sounds more like Veep. Charlize is a Sec. of State running for President? Sounds like Veep, except less realistic.

We can’t even get Americans to make terrible movies anymore.  God, we’re lazy, we need immigrants to make our insipid rom-coms with boners and pot-smoking.  

Charlize Theron with a fake mole.

Though it opens with the character crashing a white supremacist gathering,

Yeah. I consider myself a fan from long ago, part of me will always like her a bit, but she’s deffo vampiric. In the photos for this new one, “Medellin”, she’s grasping the male singer (Maduro?) like Nosferatu. Earlier this year Lady Gaga won an Oscar, and at Madge’s after party she’s grasping Gaga and her gold…

Andrew Sullivan (he isn’t terrible, just annoying as all fuck).

Ps. I can’t recommend enough James Wolcott’ s book of essays called Critical Mass. Once a Catholic boy I suppose. (Where he cast this aspersion upon the sainted and demonic Mrs Vreeland. ) It’s just a great survey of the 70s to the 2000s, it’s really good.

I’m surprised it didn’t appear at the Daily Mail Online (UK). They regularly cover her, leaving her house or cavorting on some meaningless super-expensive (to US taxpayers) jag to Africa as recently, her “women’s empowerment” bullshit, where she cavorts dancing with the natives on the Ivory Coast, and clearly…

The 19th century was very very weird about the drugs. And to be fair, unknowing. Also unregulated. God only knows what sorts of crazed potions were mixed and sold. They must have known about arsenic though, Hm. All I can think of is the great 1950 film, The Sweet Smell of Success, where a main character is…

This isn’t even the first time he’s talked about this disgusting “game”, he talked about it a few years ago- Trump not mentioned- and he thought he was hilarious. Yuck. Y’know what though, I don’t think he did it to Trump, I think he’s making it up. 

Thank you. Just, in the 19th century UK, way before Band-Aids, I don’t think it was odd for chemists and pharmacists to use actual plaster. (which was my point, just answering Sam who was asking why a pharmacist would ever have to use plaster.)It had a lot of uses. Even today we cast broken bones in plaster in the…

Oh, that’s very interesting, and thank you. It was definitely the London shop that Diana Vreeland brought Jack to, part of her ancient childhood. (Circa 1910) Junkies queuing around the midnight hour is exactly the sort of thing she would leave out, speaking of the early 70s. She had a chronic need to avoid and…

Meghan is just a horrible asshole who will do anything for attention and airtime. It’s not much more complex than that.

Same here with Fleabag. Really enjoyed the starting episodes, but the season just sort of peters out by the last few episodes. I do find Phoebe Waller-Bridge very compelling though, I’m looking forward to S2.

Neal sent a neighbor to a pharmacy owned by Charles Hodgson (it’s not clear why a pharmacist was selling plaster),

“All I get from the theatre is a sore arse”- Paul McCartney to Joe Orton circa 1965. It’s interesting how our main entertainments have to take into account the fact that we are restless giant apes running around and have to pee often.