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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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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