The Screaming Pope
Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.
Friday, December 30, 2022
Would You Rather End Up as "Trash" or "Junk?"
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photo: Fruggo Have you mistakenly consecrated someone to “trash” who is merely “junk?” Sometimes it’s hard to separate the wheat from the ch...
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Diasporic Dining: Chez Ivermectin
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overflow of wastewater, photo: Susana Secretariat For your first course you're served a broth spotted with slim reeds of Beyond Vegetabl...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Is Beauty a Grecian Urn or a Blond?
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tracing of engraving of Sosibios Vase by Keats What is beauty? Is it a Grecian Urn? There's some controversy brewing about the show of A...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Buddha Rejects
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Dante's Inferno by William Blake The Buddha is generally deemed to be a symbol of ultimate compassion. But does that magnanimity extend ...
Monday, December 26, 2022
The Unbelievable Weight of Massive Talent
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Many Americans brought up on a diet of James Dean, Marlon Brando and more recently Nicholas Cage, Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise, regard actors as...
Friday, December 23, 2022
Judging a Book By Its Cover
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Do you really want to see The Collaboration, a play about Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol (shades of Rimbaud and Verlaine?). The forme...
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Trump and Newton's Third Law
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Does Hamlet’s “How all occasions do inform against me” apply to Trump? The DOJ, the Fulton County prosecutor and the January 6 Committee hav...
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