My plan tonight was to write an awesome post about the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut of 2017, and how, contrary to what we were promised at the time, they didn’t “pay for themselves” by driving increased corporate investment, but instead pushed the federal deficit to a record-breaking $747.1 billion. None of this, of course, is […]
Tag Archives: 1975
Deficits v. Dolomite
Posted in Art and Culture, Economics, Uncategorized Also tagged bonuses, budget deficit, canes, Congressional Budget Office, corporate welfare, Dolemite Is My Name, Dolomite, Eat Out More Often, Eddie Murphy, entitlements, film ideas, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, karate, kung fu, Los Angeles, Mark's, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Medicaid, Medicare, Netflix, pimps, Rudy Ray Moore, Russ Forster, social security, Steven Mnuchin, tax cuts, theology of tax cuts, Tony Clifton, Treasury Secretary, Trump tax cuts, welfare, welfare reform, XXX 35 Comments
The silent rattlesnakes of Truman Capote, and the hoax behind Hand-Carved Coffins
Late last week, I took a few days off from work and went to Chicago with the family. We visited friends, ate really good brisket, poked our heads into the small and dark apartment of Henry Darger, invested way too much time studying the habits of the longnose walking batfish, and spent Linette’s birthday seeing […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged 1980, Al Dewey, Amphetamine Reptile, amphetamines, Chicago, coffins, decapitation, Department of Homeland Security, domestic terrorism, drinking, fiction, folk art, Green Street Meats, Hamilton, Hand-Carved Coffins, Henry Darger, hoaxes, In Cold Blood, Intuit, Jake Pepper, Jean Henry, Johnny Carson, Kansas, Linette Lao, longnose walking batfish, murder, Music for Chameleons, Perry Smith, pumpkins, rattlesnake, Richard "Dick" Hickock, Richard Nixon, Rose Styron, Shedd Aquarium, silent rattlesnakes, snakes, Studio 54, Thanksgiving, The Tonight Show, Truman Capote, vacations, visionary art, white nationalism 57 Comments
Death Race 2012
It’s not that I want to run people over, but, occasionally, I see something that brings Death Race 2000 to mind, and I wonder, if I were to slip into Machine Gun Joe Viterbo mode and do the unthinkable, how many points I’d get. Today, driving through downtown Ann Arbor, I had one of those […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged Annual Transcontinental Road Race, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, cars, cult classics, Death Race 2000, donkey semen, dystopia, Fear Factor, Machine Gun Joe Viterbo, Rocky, Roger Ebert, running people over, Russ Meyer, Sandy McCallum, Sylvester Stalone 8 Comments