It’s always seemed to me that a music festival in the low California desert, even in April, would be hell on Earth. I was right.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Taylor Lorenz
Disney’s Business Model
…is sick.
A few months ago, I got a free six-month subscription to Disney+ through Verizon. Now that they’ve started charging me for it, it’s a great opportunity to be able to cancel it.
Quitting Disney
I got six months of Disney+ free from my Verizon account. The six months is up, though, and I now get the pleasure of cancelling it and telling them why, like Karol.
The Silence Of The Lambs
Thoughts on “transgenderism” from Michael Walsh.
The women should have all refused to swim against him. I hope that the next time this happens, they’ll have more courage.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Sorry, link added…
Generation Jones
Why I’m not a Baby Boomer. I do have a vague recollection of Howdy Doody, though.
Sanctions Start To Bite
Russian porn stars hardest hit.
TBH, I wouldn’t pay anything to look at those women.
P.J. O’Rourke
RIP. He will be missed.
Little-known fact: He was a big fan of space. He was on the board of The Space Foundation. He never used email, but I sent some stuff to him once via his wife, and he wrote a nice letter thanking me.
[Update late afternoon]
John Podhoretz remembers him.
[Update Wednesday morning]
This kind of thing is why he was a national treasure.
[Monday update]
Matt Labash remembers him, as does Jonathan Last.
[Bumped]
That NYT Ad About J.K. Rowling
Sea Cruises
Other than a Windjammer Barefoot Cruise on a schooner in the late 90s (the ship went down in Hurricane Mitch a month afterward), I’ve never been on one, and have never felt a strong desire to do so. This tale doesn’t inspire me.