The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Kaddish

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Allen Ginsberg (photo: Hans van Dijk) Modernity is becoming synonymous with millenarianism.  Ideologues deconstruct the very notion of reali...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Kamala

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Lower the volume, you'll lessen the conflict. If you're a straphanger you know that. If you get an unexpected heated response from s...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Little Murders

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A girl is chained up willingly to a wall. She asks, "should I show my bosom?" She is intelligent looking and treats her ensuing de...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Garbage

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Last night Lawrence O'Donnell gaslighted Trumpty Dumpty when he threw the former  president's appellation right back in "The Du...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Bannon

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photo: Gage Skidmore Eloquence and erudition can be hypnotic. Words cast a spell. They're like a disingenuous  seduction.You're won ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Picasso

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When you took algebra you learned about equations with two unknowns and about plotting lines with coordinates representing X and Y values. W...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Raskolnikov

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There are unrepentant criminals and sociopaths who only know a "crime" is something you can't get away with? Are crimes those ...
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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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