But we can be thankful and tranquil and proud,
For Man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud,
And we know for certain that some lucky day
Someone will set the spark off
And we will all be blown away.

"Mock mockers after that, for we
Traffic in mockery."

You're *not* talking about Scientology?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

I share your anxiety, but I'd urge you (whoever you are in back of all that glass) to be careful as to how you deal with that fear. If we fall to pieces, that will do nothing about solving Trump.

And the OPI in the South was one of the wellsprings of the revived Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups of the '20's and '30's. Some of the same people involved in the gardening clubs would later join the Better Baby contests.

I'm more of a "movie freak."
And I wish Pauline Kael was here now.

"Glad to meet you. I voted for you."

My Dear Friend and I have been seeing old TV shows for the first time. After finishing "Blackadder", we're now covering "Quantum Leap". We're on the boat episode in the second season, with the little sister playing Edward Everett Horton.

Frau Blucher: Ovaltine?

IMDB's listing of "Get Out" provides a link to the Breitbart review. I didn't click on it. I have some pride.

Speaking of which, "Get Out" has a very good soundtrack.

. . . Sitting on their balalaikas, playing their samovars."

The first is mine. The second — Mary Ann Madden used to run a wonderful competition in the back of _New_York_Magazine_. Yet, for all the talented contributors (among them Stephen Sondheim), she could turn a phrase herself.

Cat Stevens, "Numbers." Overproduced album with lame-brained concepts. (I know the singer wasn't the best with ideas, but high-concept vapidity is worse than simple stupidity.)

I'm surprised. I would have thought it would be too measured for our short attention spans.

I'd also recommend his film, "White Mane." It's just as obsessive and weird, though in a completely different setting.

I just use a pressure cooker to tenderize the meat.

Pollution. Depletion.

Not "love," but "lur-ove."