The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Friday, January 30, 2026

Two Pianos

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You may take a look at the image of Charlotte Rampling in the Kino Lorber promotion for a movie named Two Pianos  and ask yourself, do I loo...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

The Origin of Species

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The Origin of Species was published November 24, 1859. You might calender that date as man’s fall—at least from an evolutionary point of vi...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Mimicry

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  Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob Remember when you were a little kid and you mimicked your parents. "Johnny brush your teeth!" would ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Persona

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  What is it about logorrhea that’s so disconcerting. Eloquent speakers and tyrants have prolixity in common. The core of the pathogy and wh...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Exhibitionism

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Exhibitionism is colonialism. The images invade the imagination, the Sudetenland of the mind. Remember Michael Fassbinder up against the win...
Friday, January 23, 2026

"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute"

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P.T. Barnum Is the persona a person portrays indicative of their nature. It’s the old question of manifest content. Beware the smooth talker...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

More Than a Million Little Pieces

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Separation and individuation are not only stages of development, but also properties of matter--that matter. Remember the old saw about no t...
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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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