Thanks, you're really good at hostility.

Idealism these days just seems exhausting. Moody nihilism just hugs you like a blanket. Why bother getting up indeed?

Anyway, as depressing as this story is,
Pshaw, this story is hilarious and humiliating for Trump. I ain't depressed.

Madonna's brother had an entertaining (bitchily resentful) memoir describing his worthless ass sponging and hanging with the rich and famous because of his sister. Anyway, you mentioned blow and Naomi- yeah, some chateau in the south of France. Johnny Depp and Keef Richards and Oasis drinking whiskey and smoking…

That's a big thing. He wanted to be a fucking rock star. Because he was, all of a sudden!
I wouldn't say that the rest of U2 are "born again" in the American sense at all though. They're coming more from a prim Irish sense of being Christian. And that the tidal wave of experience of becoming worldwide stars could…

"Sting" probably sounded punky and nasty enough when they started in that era and wanted to get noticed. Sting was an ardent fame whore, he worked it like a hooker on the stroll. I'm remembering some laughably hokey fake story from Casey Kasem's American Top 40 radio show that Sting got his name because he wore a…

"I'm worth over $200 million, I shan't care what anyone thinks of my stage name" is the one I would go with.

He survived dating Naomi Campbell in the 90s, which must have been harrowing. All that booze and cocaine and leather straps that Naomi insists upon. All those bindings and uncertainty as to which luxury hotel you're in. It's all a blur.

It was a very moving statement. Cynically, I wonder if I were personally worth $200 million, how many people might love me and what the quality of that love might be.

Good for him. He really is an awesome bassist. Everyone in U2 really excels at what they do musically. And when they come together, they're really great. U2 is a band that one feels the need to go away from, and they need to stay away for a long while. But they really are excellent. And I know I'm a knob for…

Who?

I hugely recommend, to people who are interested, Rick Perlstein's magisterial The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. The excellent follow-up to his great Nixonland. Anyway, it's the story of the 1970s, as well as Reagan himself. The 70s really were a fucking insane and messy time. …

"TV viewers were also more likely to be young and urban, while radio listeners were often more rural and older. "- Sorry, but this isn't true at all. Televisions were still hugely expensive in 1960, a middle-class piece of furniture. An affluent Republican farming family in Kansas would be far more likely to own a…

Good to know! I had seen the promo teaser things where Tilda as the corporate executive describes chillingly about scientific advances in producing a new beast for industrialized meat consumption, but apparently it's a heartwarming comedy for the whole family. Thank you for setting me straight.

Huh, a kid's movie? Okay, you've seen it, I haven't- the teaser promos made it seem like a dystopian satire about industrialized meat production and consumption. Is that what kids are into these days?

Gayer than thou, Gertrude dear. Alice wrote in her diaries how upset she was that he never returned your new electric Anal Intruder jackhammer dildo device and gewgaw. But she wrote that you were nonchalant about it.

See, I don't want the dumb people there to be hurt, I wish they would just fucking LEARN. Learn to realize when Republicans are lying to them which is all the fucking time. Those places have voted hard Republican for over forty years- why don't they ask themselves why they're still living in dismal broke…

I agree with you largely, that Dali was asexual in his later years, his fame years. But in his youth, he had gay affairs, most notably with the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca . Who was said to be obsessed with Dali. A brief dalliance, but they did make a film of it. I don't know why you say so freely that…

That story was so crazy. It's frightening how profoundly dumb and hateful so many of our fellow citizens are, just strikingly ignorant.

Huh, it's like the Republicans are taunting Trump voters to their face. You voted for this shit and misery, you voted to eliminate your own health care, and for 23 million other people too. Good going guys! You deserve every bit of the misery and poverty that you deserve, that you voted for a maniac over…