The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Dismembership

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In the current climate do you frequently wish that this or that demagogue were dead? Why won’t Putin simply topple over, like a bust of Stal...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Property

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Temporary Elgin Room at British Museum by Archibald Archer (1819) Who owns what is a sticky question. It comes up in reference to intellectu...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Athens or Rome?

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Will the Old or New Testament prevail when the Republicans take over the house? Will the ethos or culture of capital hill be an eye for an e...
Friday, November 18, 2022

The Lost Age of Hype

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Sam Cohn Are you familiar with the personality type who’s always running for office? They live in a world hyperbole in which everything is a...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

CNNese

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“All happy families are all alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The famous Tolstoy quote might be applied to CNN new...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Mad Men (and Women)

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Abrams Main Battle Tank at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Have you seen the TV ads for Bentcarrot.com, the site that touts Xiaflex, the only...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The Novelist's Film

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In Hong Sang-soo’s   The Novelist’s Film, now playing at the Bunin ,  a famous novelist, Jun-hee (Lye Hye-young), visits another writer, the...
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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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