How’s about an Indie double bill: Janet Planet and Take Out. Utterly, utterly different takes on cinema: Sean Baker all doc close-up, Annie Baker all staged intimate wide-shot.
I don’t have any friends..it’s a complete mystery to me.
America! Everyone now’s a bit confused. Cats and canines. Can’t speak for the snakes. Think writer Clive James hypnotized with that one. You know, in New York over the past decade, a conversation could not be had about Trump. No dialogue, no dialectic. Starting point, the Republican party also off-limits, that by now we all know is a totally different kettle of tariff fish. So when writer Batya Ungar-Sargon whole-heartedly supports President Trump [though not dear Elon..;)] on Bill Maher’s Real Time you know we live in interesting times not the nadir. And when Bill Maher champions Mahmoud Khalil’s freedom of speech though vehemently opposing the message he’s not performing on a dime sussing which way the penny drops. He’s invoking Noam Chomsky whose only ‘crime’: to awake people to what news outlets were telling them. Freedom of speech is precisely what Trump was railing about with Truth Social. And when Trump says he’ll turn on a giant faucet for Los Angeles water, Ok we get the rhetoric. But what if this President could turn on a giant faucet to up-end America’s healthcare system? Make healthcare equitable not greedy. RFK?? A lot of companies pissed off. Though they’d still make profits, afford their life-styles, and the people could afford healthier lives. And that’s it for ‘politics’ here folks!
So: no comic for the White House Correspondents’ Awards [sorry, DINNER]. No more Amber Ruffin. SO: jokes Seth and Amber can’t tell upon RUFFIN! [That’s a Late Night Show in-joke…it’s of no importance: wait: didn’t AMBER dream of that animal change in the White House. Oh, looky there’s SEAL jugglin’ you know as Ambassador to: schatzie, we own it all now. You’re fired! ] And so the world turns….
Such a shame Amber got ‘cancelled’ for if anyone could conjure some jokes at this time ’tis Ruffin. These White House correspondents are supposed to be fact-finding journalists! So surely they’d know the one thing Amber hates more than the current administration would to be vitriolic and unfunny. That would be worse than…come on AI kick in. Nah, all I’m getting is a frog and a toad kissing meme. Hmmm: AI inculcating kids with Richard Dawkins. And so the world turns…
If you see a first edition at The NY Antiquarian Book Fair of Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene inscribed “My dearest creature, it was ever thus!” Most probably a fake. They must see this new breed of disposal income coming! Joking…all very reputable dealers, except maybe that snake from Texas. Childhood issues, maybe. What to do?
Normally you’d get an eyewitness account of the Fair on this blog alas a simple cold felled me and if attending coughing and spluttering the ‘Covid police’ would be upon me even after 5years. Understandably, now there’s a kettle of fish Bill Maher folk still don’t want to hear.
‘Newbies’ to the Fair: not just a bonfire of expensive old books! OK, they don’t market with Mick Jagger and Jimmy Hendrix even so, that wouldn’t be entirely misleading advertising! There truly is something for everyone at this Fair as I’ve stated many times. And Indy bookshops and Antiquarian are holding their own agin all odds so what does that tell you about the economy of books? Very clearly ain’t all digital nor deceased. Legendary London bookseller Peter Harrington is opening an NYC flagship ‘bricks ’n’ mortar’ on Madison Avenue. Now how did Aristotle’s THIS survive all those centuries? Not sure how long semen stains last or indeed what they look like, or still ‘exist’. Evaporated salt has residue? Very sure Mr. Harrington will give full disclosure;)
So here’s last year’s ‘rap’ and pics. [Last year’s world quite disturbing, wasn’t it?] ANDREW and KITTY are still friends and business partners: rare for NYC relationships even catatonic. And if you’d don’t find it funny then there’s always Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry: please stop wearing those whiskers. The part’s been cast! And you don’t want to play a ferret! Funny moi story: Konchalovsky [Mikhalkov’s equally talented brother] was casting his Nutcracker film in London. So, as you do, bravely phoned casting director Celestia Fox. “Well, you don’t want to play a rat do you?” -almost her words. “I’d just love to work with Konchalovsky,” said I. Never heard back. Never assume NO!
Oh,where we. Reality? Hmmm…
Exclusive Architectural Creature Digest of ANDREW and KITTY’s Kitchen.
If you launch with title Dying for Sex and it ain’t then DOGS can’t ever ‘yelp’ you! Luckily this series no slow burn, emotional explosions very 15min in first ep! How’d thought Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate! Well: all seems fine to be not fine! And we’re off….!!!! Given this series’ ferocious obsession with living a life you want before dying, is it reading too much expanding all into a lifestyle parable? America is a great place for achievement, equally social cancer. What one thought was so right gets out of control fueled by the body politic. So often hard to focus on what you want when everything mitigates unpopular decisiveness. Molly’s [Michelle Williams] enlightenment engenders everyone around her an extra inch of life. Real increments of truth.
