I think of him as “Shitty Warren Harding”, knowing full well that the original model Warren Gamaliel Harding was already a pretty shitty president. He stuffed his cabinet with various friends and cronies, based more on their relationship to him than on their competence for the job in question, with Secretary of the…

I usually run by myself, so hopefully I’m not one of the dicks blocking the path. I appreciate when passing cyclists give me a heads up, and I try to give a ‘thank you’ to acknowledge that I heard them. Even if I don’t have them time and energy to get angry at everyone behaving badly*, I can at least offer positive…

All this time, I thought “Fuck You” worked in selling real estate:

He just seems short when you see that photo of him with Andre the Giant.

“You can’t? Well, I’ll have to do something about my big nose instead.”

While it’s only 25 years between Slap Shot and Slap Shot 2, I thought that might be worth mentioning as another William Baldwin vehicle. When I look it up now, it turns out that one is Stephen.

“The whole spectacle was short, stupid, and entirely unnecessary.”

“Also, if he has loads of money and pays for everything in cash, why did he have a reputation for not paying people? If he’s such a great businessman, how did he repeatedly bankrupt his casinos?”

I was trying to find the video of him running the Gauntlet for the first time, but this one from an international competition is pretty good too:

They have inflatable versions of Joust you can rent for parties, and I can confirm it’s fun as hell. A couple different friends had them for their high school graduations, and I’m proud to say I was able to withstand all challengers- I’m not very strong, but I’ve got a lot of reach, and I’d just get a kayaking motion…

That’s physically impossible for a human being to accomplish unassisted. Which leads me to conclude it must, in fact, be the shoes.

I’ll skip that as well, and assume his name is pronounced like Donald Sutherland’s inhuman scream at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Great guitar solo... or greatest guitar solo?

Good idea, but why did you leave space for three digits in front?

Someday Werner Herzog will read this comment over a bleak documentary of Trump’s America.

There’s an odd grain of truth in that- their last couple of albums have been produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, who also shared some songwriting credits. Back in the 90's, he was the lead singer / chief songwriter for The Hippos, a third-wave ska act I used to listen to.

It’s a necessary component of “laughing all the way to the bank.”

Kids these days watching movies for college classes. Back when I was asked to write an essay on Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”, I just wrote back “I would prefer not to.”

I got more of a CSNY’s “Deja Vu” vibe from it, but I’ll cosign anyway.