The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Is There a Croesus Complex?

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"God the Father" by Cima de Conigliano (1515) The Times recently ran a piece about the discipline of financial therapy ( “...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Girl or Guy of Your Nightmares

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What if you were grotesquely deformed and you wanted no one to see you? Yet you had a need for contact and so began to comm...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Botched Acrobat

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“The Flight of Icarus” by Jacob Peter Gowy A recent Times piece ( “Risking a Life for TV Ratings,” NYT, 10/31/14)...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Pornosophy: Vice isn’t Nice, but Neither is Sex

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Oedipus at Colonnus by Jean-Antoine-Theodore Giroust (1788) For some people sex is an embarrassing painful and even expens...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey

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Love Story was the big splashy romance of l970 which every serious filmgoer and critic loved to trash. Fifty Shades of Grey...
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Francis Levy's debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released in August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The East Hampton Star, The Quarterly, Penthouse, Architectural Digest, TV Guide, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and other publications. One of his Voice humor pieces was anthologized in The Big Book of New American Humor (HarperCollins). His collection of parables, The Kafka Studies Department with illustrations by Hallie Cohen will appear in September.
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