Slingshot, by R. Scott Adams and Nathan Parker

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Admin

Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburn are the stars of this simple movie. Basically they are on a ship that’s on its way to Saturn’s Titan moon, but in order to get there they have to use the enormous gravity of Jupiter to hurl them 2 or 3 times as fast, otherwise it would take far more than 2 years.

The problem seems to be that the drug which they’ve developed to keep these guys in hibernation for 3 months at a time is so powerful it causes hallucinations and paranoia.

It got lousy reviews from the critics and only slightly better reviews from the amateur users, but I thought it was quite good up until the end.

The reason is that about halfway through the movie I knew what the rest of the story was and my only concern was that they were going to leave the story unfinished — the hanging ending or the ambiguous ending that so many writers like to use when they don’t know which side to pick.

It can be a choice, but almost always, you can go back through the story and see the arc of the characters and where the story was meant to go. Sometimes the authors tack on an ending which can be a shock, but if you follow the story backward, that’s not where it was going. And this, I feel the ending was actually tacked on. People are saying that it was dull and not developed but I didn’t find it dull at all.

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Quitting

Posted on August 31, 2024 by Admin

I stopped writing about my drinking problem a long time ago because it was so very boring and basically it’s the same old story, repeated ad nauseam through the human condition. Some of us are heavy drinkers and alcoholics, and others of us have no need to drink excessively or at all.

Drinking ends up cutting you off from the world. That may be its point. That’s why so many go to meetings and share their stories. Like the joke, “I’m not an alcoholic. Alcoholics go to meetings.”

But two days ago I had a dream which was kind of hard to interpret, except that I had, for a moment, an enormous sense of relief. I can’t remember where I was but I was doing my usual thing of trying to hide my drinking and I went downstairs where there was a kind of bar and restaurant. Some guy came and sat next to me and he said, “Let me ask you. What is it with the drinking?” And that’s when I felt such a huge sense of relief and I was just about to start telling him that I was an alcoholic and I was trying to hide, like most do, but then my family came in and sat down and started talking and showing me pictures and things and I never had the chance to come out. And then I woke with a sadness. But maybe knowing this feeling of relief was really the point of the dream.

My cousin’s husband is just like me. He cannot talk about it. He will stop and has stopped, but he can’t bear the shame. I think that’s what they call a dry drunk. George Bush was one too. But maybe that’s enough. I don’t think people should feel ashamed of anything, except cruelty, and those types of people never feel shame. But maybe avoiding shame is okay.

But I must stop very soon. It’s affecting many things now — my walk, my gait, going out. Oddly not so much my liver but it might be inflaming my liver a little too. Anyway, with so many people younger than me dying of various things, I really have to become a teetotaler.

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Blink Twice, sort of by Zoe Kravitz

Posted on August 24, 2024 by Admin

I’ve always disliked Zoe Kravitz. I saw her in Fantastic Beasts but it wasn’t until Big Little Lies that she really got on my nerves. Then there was a commercial for Pepsi or something. Then The Batman and now this, which she kinda wrote and directed.

At first I thought she must have just watched Don’t Worry Darling and copied the plot but that movie came out in 2022 and according to the New York Times’ profile, she started writing this script in 2017, in London, while working on Fantastic Beasts. She wanted to vent her frustration, was how she put it. The actress with no training, but only the good luck of being the daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, and the granddaughter of Roxie Roker (the neighbor on The Jeffersons which was also, I believe, the first interracial couple on television, thanks to Norman Lear,) and Sy Kravitz. In other words, she was born into Hollywood.

And therefore gets all the advantages of Hollywood when it comes to having no experience and just jumping into screenwriting to work out some feelings.

The story is, more or less, two besties and roommates get invited to an island owned by an uber wealthy nothingburger, and once there, start to have strange feelings. The island has a rare flower, found only on that island… HINT… and they are rounding up some “harmless” snakes…. HINT… There is an indigenous woman going around killing the snakes and whose language they can’t understand… HINT… they do a lot of drugs after dinner, but safely… HINT… she finds lots of pictures of previous guests… HINT. A gift in her room is some perfume made only on that island… HINT.

Eventually the indigenous woman has her drink some snake venom and the main character starts to remember the rapes and the attacks and the beatings and so on that the men in the group perpetuated on the women the night before. The snake venom is an antidote to the memory loss caused by the perfume and the flowers.

There is a young guy there who I thought was the token gay but it turns out he is simply a eunuch. He’s also wearing the perfume so he doesn’t remember the other four dudes going at it with the unwilling women and apparently got beaten up for not participating. (Because he’s GAY!)

Apparently, women’s biggest fear, is men making them lose their memories of abuse, rape and harassment. This movie and “Don’t Worry Darling.” Men’s biggest fear is trying to find their buddy that they misplaced while in a blackout state which Bradley Cooper called, “A Great fucking time,” in “The Hangover.” and then again in part 2 and 3, both of which sucked balls.

But my biggest complaint is that the movie was made at all. The script misses on just about every level with the exception, I think, of Simon Rex, one of the male guests, who seems to have learned a lot from his time as a gay jerk off porn star. Christian Slater could be funny at times. I wish he had had a more successful career. But Channing Tatum was an absolute drip and although I’ve never disliked him and even found him fun to watch in the Coen Brothers movie he made, it kind of makes sense that he and Zoe Kravitz are engaged. The lead, Naomi Ackie, is absolutely horribly misdirected at least at the beginning — so much so that I wanted to leave. But Alia Shakwat performs pretty well in spite of the awful script and bad direction. Geena Davis is completely wasted and it’s a real shame. The gay/non gay kid is Levon Hawke, son of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. Basically the entire movie is a nepotism project and it infuriates me that there are so many people who can write better scripts and directors who are better directors, but then this is the piece of crap that gets made, just because she had issues she wanted to work out at a London cafe in 2017. What? That you’ve been too successful? That every door you want to open is opened for you. Ugh. Now I hate her.

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Skincare, by Austin Peters and 2 others

Posted on August 20, 2024 by Admin

Elizabeth Banks is one of those stars that always seems to come near greatness but never quite reaches it. She reminds me of Debby Reynolds or Joan Collins vs. Elizabeth Taylor. Or in the more modern version: Jennifer Aniston vs. Angelina Jolie.

That isn’t to say she’s bad, nor either Debby, Joan or Jennifer, only that something gets in the way in almost everything she does. In this case, I think it’s the script. I certainly enjoyed the movie, and some people in the row behind me whooped because they liked it so much. But the movie is like its setting: Los Angeles. And although, (skin deep), it’s a story about dueling estheticians, the real story is about the deep and unexamined paranoia that most people live with. People would rather deal with their skin conditions than understand what is actually going on in their hearts and minds.

The Californians on Saturday Night Live kind of tackled this human condition when Fred Armison, for example, would walk in on Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig kissing and keep talking about how he had picked up some tangerines from a guy on the off ramp of the 405 freeway, and then, practically a minute later, seems to realize that “Devon” is kissing his girlfriend. Every episode of their soap opera satire ended with all the characters looking in the mirror, as if they were trying to see themselves but were unable to. That’s what this movie is, but with much less humor, and the movie was criticized by the few places that reviewed it, for not being enough of a satire — not being funny enough. But I think that any more humor would have completely missed the point.

She never misses an opportunity to see what she would look like if the space between her eyebrows were raised just a tiny bit. The movie opens and closes with extreme and repulsive closeup of her putting on her makeup. In the opening sequence it’s preparing for a television appearance. In the final sequence it’s to surrender to the police. But that’s sort of where the problem lies. You have an unreliable lead character. And someone somewhere once said you can’t write about a crazy person because nobody wants to spend time in the mind of a crazy person. It’s that strange contradiction about most story telling. The funniest stories are about people whose lives are in danger. Slapstick comedy is about desperation to get away from the police for example, or get away from a killer. The sitcom may be funny, but its structure is actually the structure of a tragedy. Every week we come back to the same people making the same stupid mistakes and ending up in a worse place then they were at the start of the half hour. How many times did Lucy screw up? But we laugh.

This near miss, I would call it, was good in the sense that she was absolutely right about being paranoid: she just had the wrong person. I’m not going to write more about this. I enjoyed the movie, but like most Elizabeth Banks pictures, it’s slightly off. I think her best performance was probably in People Like Us, from 2012, starring with Chris Pine.

She’s also one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood.

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Getting assaulted, by me

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Admin

It hasn’t happened in a long time, but today I got attacked by one of those crazy people, all because I walked past him on the left. He didn’t physically touch me, but he followed me for several blocks, screaming at the back of my head, until I turned around and started screaming back.

The last time this type of thing happened, I was walking back to my apartment and a guy came out of a pizza joint and walked into me. He spilled his pizza and blamed me for not watching where he was going. In that case, he followed me, and a crowd gathered because they wanted to see a fight. When the crowd was too big to push my way through, I had to stop and the guy — he was an older black man — lunged at me and sort of hugged me but then backed off and left. That was the end of it. But what I was left with was a feeling of helplessness — when someone decides to attack you, for whatever reason they have, there is almost nothing you can do about it.

This guy, after I passed him, started muttering — very loudly — things like “can’t even fuckin’ say, ‘Excuse me,'” and other things, and he was getting louder. Finally I stopped and looked and he said, “Yea, you. This ain’t your grandfather’s time when you just hang me. I’ll kill you motherfucker.” So I continued walking but he wouldn’t stop the screaming — and maybe realizing that he wasn’t going to stop I, myself, finally stopped and screamed, “All I fucking did was pass you. I didn’t bump into you. I didn’t stare at you or say anything. I just passed you.” And that lead to him screaming to “hit me, hit me motherfucker. I’ll knock you the fuck out. I’m as big as you and…” blah blah blah. Eventually he started walking faster than me on his way to Union Square and he was several buildings away, still screaming. But that was when the adrenaline kicked in, or when I started to feel the after effects of the adrenaline rush, and boy was my old body shaking. I almost couldn’t even walk. I was heading to the 19th Street movie theatre and by this time he was at about 18th Street, thank God. But I could hardly order my ticket or pick the seat, and then I couldn’t eat anything — I had planned to make it my lunch. The whole thing was entirely demoralizing, but again, it makes you realize what — I think it was Joseph Campbell said — about other people. They aren’t insulting you. They aren’t attacking you. Even if they kill you, they aren’t killing you. It is entirely inside their own heads. They just externalize it, and this guy was angry as all fuck, about racism and maybe some weird old belief he had about himself that he was small and weak. He wasn’t small — he was my height and he was thin.

At first I was depressed. The movie was awful so that kind of had an opposite effect on my own depression. But on the bus on the way home, I was wary of black men who looked somewhat shady — a little disheveled. And then I wished I knew self defense.

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Housekeeping for Beginners, by Goran Stolevski

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Admin

Goran Stolevski is an extremely talented filmmaker who lives Down Under but is originally from Macedonia. He gets the details so damn right it just boggles the mind. In “Of An Age,” for example, one of the characters is an Australian who is moving to Brazil or somewhere in South America to get a master’s degree. The other is a Serb who wants to win a dance contest. The Australian tends to listen to salsa music while the Serb dances to Azucar Moreno’s Bandido. This song won the Eurovision contest of 1990 and it was a huge massive hit in Serbia, but less so elsewhere. Why people in The Balkans took to it is sort of a mystery to me. But it’s the fact that this young Serb is dancing to it is what makes this director so great.

Anyway, I didn’t mean this to be about how much I like his previous movie, this movie is a total surprise in that it takes place in North Macedonia and is largely about a made up family of LGBQT people. Dita is a professional and the working half of a relationship where the other woman stays home to raise her two daughters. There is a gay man involved and he is the beard, literally, to the women, pretending to be the husband to one of them. He has a lot of lovers but finds one that “sticks” so to speak. The mother of the daughters dies and it’s known from the beginning that she is going to die. But Dita does not want to raise the children. So this is where the conflict begins and even though I can’t tell at this point, all the ups and downs of the plot, because I’ve forgotten, you believe it in its entirety. The closet is (being in the closet) is almost another character in the movie because of deep rooted homophobia which, maybe not ironically, seems to get worse as you move the West side of Europe to the Eastern part on the way to Russia. Even though I utterly and fully support Ukraine, I’ve seen a lot of videos where those soldiers are calling Russian prisoners faggots and the like. In this movie, that danger is always there: it’s almost the villain.

There have been so many wonderful foreign movies that take place in these distant (for Americans) settings. It’s uplifting to see them coming into their own while our movies keep declining into Pixar-ish cartoons about germs and constantly self-referencing super hero tripe.

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Reslience, by the Elderly

Posted on July 29, 2024 by Admin

This is part 2 of my take on Biden and his age; what’s happening with polls and the media and so on.

So Biden was forced out, probably by mainly Nancy Pelosi who is driven to win more than most and is also incredibly good at reading the tea leaves, so to speak. But he waited until after the Republican convention to pull out, and he probably did this to spare Kamala, his natural heir, the five days of hatred that were being mis-directed at Biden. He’s not an idiot.

I finally took a look at some of the footage of the debate and I simply did not understand, based on the few snippets I could find, what the problem was. But it’s undeniable that his withdrawal from the race — what he actually said is that he would not accept the nomination — has energized Gen Z, other young people, and Democrats in general as Kamala shops around for a vice president.

And because the media is now focused on her, Trump’s near miss — possibly staged assassination attempt — did not track. It gave him no bump. Recent pictures suggest he was not hit by a bullet and if he was hit by something, it was a shattered glass. But there have been no pictures, say, of the supposedly shattered teleprompter, no reports on what treatment he might have received, and no explanation of how he was allowed to stand up in the circle of secret service agents and wave his fist like he was some mythic hero — during an active shooter event no less! This is why so many people think it was staged and, of course, he knows no bottom. He is depraved.

The polls are generally in Kamala’s favor, but not by much. Mindy Beller today on Facebook declared that Fox news was circulating a false poll which showed her ahead in four important (battleground) states. She thinks they’re doing this to create apathy among democrats. But it seems like pouring an 8 ounce can of seltzer on a forest fire.

But really the media is at fault. The NY Times, Washington Post, Twitter and Facebook (to a lesser extent). I don’t use Instagram so I don’t know what’s going on with that one. But it’s really the need to generate likes and clicks and retweets and shares that has completely warped our system. People are not getting their news from what used to be considered reputable sources, like NBC nightly news or PBS. They’re swallowing all the garbage that’s on Twitter and Facebook and their minds are warped. I don’t know how a reckoning can be made of this, but Joe Biden was really a victim of this warped vision. There’s been no corresponding cry for Trump to withdraw from the race even though he shows all the signs of dementia.

It’s a shame the bullet missed. Some people I know say we would have had riots in the street (by his supporters), but I’m not so sure about that.

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The Man In The High Castle, by P.K. Dick

Posted on July 20, 2024 by Admin

I watched the entire series and then read the book because I wanted to see the changes that were made and if they actually translated Dick’s work and ideas into the film.

In one way they did. In another, not.

Either way, for someone who only wrote novels and short stories (I think 44 and 121 respectively), Philip K. Dick must be the most remarkably successful “screenwriter” ever. At least 13 titles — either stories or novels — have been filmed and a few more adapted to the stage. His themes often play with reality but, weirdly and maybe a bit scarily, much of what he envisioned has become true. Margaret Atwood was asked how she was able to depict such horrifying dystopias like in The Handmaid’s Tale or Oryx and Crake, and she said, “I just read the newspaper.” Orwell, knowing that the title 1948 would be a mistake, switched the last two numbers to 1984 so that everybody could think it was the future, when what he was writing about was actually starting to take place. In many ways, I think Dick understood what was going on in his own time and managed to fit his vision into the future (as in Minority Report), or into alternative timelines, which this one is.

The main difference between the series and the novel is that object — the MacGuffin. In the novel, the MacGuffin is a novel. In the series, it is a set of film strips — I think 8 mm but might be 16mm I’m not sure. That is a major major difference and it has something to do with the phrase, “Seeing is believing.” In Dick’s book, the Man In The High Castle as he’s called, has written an alternative history called “The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.” I should have said first, that the United States lost World War II because it refused to get involved in the European theatre. The Nazis conquered Europe, Russia and England, then attacked Africa and finally the United States. On the other side, the Japanese attacked as well and those are the two super powers in the book: The German reich controls the East Coast and the Japanese control the west coast. Much of the mountain area is independent but poor. 15 years later, the American population has adjusted to their new circumstances and, in many respects, accepts and even admires them.

So people in the novel read this Grasshopper book and are intrigued, but nothing leads them to believe that it is anything but fiction. In the series, people watch film clips of the Nazis and Japanese being defeated by a powerful United States and they begin to believe that it may have happened. In the novel, one Japanese character seems to time travel, or alternate reality travel, toward the end of the book, but he attributes it to meditation. In the movie, alternate reality travel becomes one of the central themes and there are several reality travelers. In the book, the Nazis are colonizing Mars and possibly Venus (Dick was writing before anyone knew what was under the Venetian clouds.) In the series they are pursuing time or reality travel.

And this is what the Nazis came up with. The Time tunnel from the TV series.

Both the series and the novel end ambiguously, which is way that Dick liked his books to end.

As always with Dick, I got a little bit tired of the philosophizing, but I still admire him even though he was a homophobe and anti-abortion.

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Horizon, updated

Posted on July 12, 2024 by Admin

I’m pretty sorry to hear that Horizon Chapter 2 has been pulled from its original August release. I saw Chapter 1 again and it was much clearer the second time around. It still suffers from the basic flaw of not knowing who the characters are when they first appear on the screen. Jenna Malone, for example, goes up to some house, shoots a man in the chest twice, then flees with some horses and a baby in her wagon. First she lets a horse out of its pen and slaps it on the rump to make it run away. That’s the last time we see her until, perhaps, an hour later when Kevin Costner has finally entered the movie. She is living in some mining town which has a corner store and a hotel and presumably a saloon. She has a woman living with her who appears to be a local prostitute. The baby is a bit grown now, maybe 2, and at first I couldn’t fathom what they were all doing together. But it turns out that the prostitute was hired to look after the baby while Jenna did other chores. There is a man involved who she doesn’t seem to like too much and he’s got some sort of idea that he can get more money for some land he leased to this pair of brothers. This gets him killed. But after the second viewing I finally understood that these brothers have been chasing her to get back the child. You don’t know what happens to Jenna Malone. But the prostitute ends up leaving the child with some Chinese family and disappearing. The implication is that she is going to go to Horizon and try to make a life there. This is the same town that keeps getting burned, and I’m guessing, over the course of the four movies, the town will be established after a shit load of blood shed. In fact, everything in the first installment, suggests that all these diverse characters are making their way to Horizon. Costner, the prostitute, a wagon train with Luke Wilson, some horribly written and acted English couple, with two obvious rapists, and an assortment of sod busters. One brother is dead and now the other is trying to find Costner, who killed him. He’ll probably end up in Horizon too. Then it occurred to me why he called this town “Horizon.” Because all roads lead to (the) Horizon.

The music is not as good as I thought, so I have to take that back, although I did enjoy the final montage. But it’s really the characterization that does the movie under. You just can’t figure out who is who and in some cases what they even want. These are amateur mistakes. And it was extremely disappointing that Costner is catering to the right wingers by quoting Glenn Beck. (The maga crowd didn’t show up to save the movie in any event.) And he’s also shooting the third installment now, so maybe people will come around, the way they came around to Shelly Duvall’s performance in The Shining and a smaller number came around to Michael Cimino’s disaster, “Heaven’s Gate.”

Speaking of (RIP) Shelly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a genuine scream as that moment when Jack Nicholson is chopping at the bathroom door with the axe, and the moment when she sees the entire head of the axe come through the door. Her screams go gutteral and raw just at that moment, as if she hadn’t realized it was really an axe that he was using. It was like she “shone” for a moment, and saw her dead body.

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Resilience, by the elderly

Posted on July 7, 2024 by Admin

Don’t like to include politics in this web site, read by no one, which is meant purely for me to talk about my thoughts and feelings about books and movies. I don’t allow comments because it seems that if you have any kind of page like this, it quickly turns into an exercise is deleting spam.

But the setback that President Biden is experiencing because of the debate performance, which I didn’t watch, but has been described to me by everyone from 15 to 80, does not freak me out in the same way as it seems to be freaking everyone else out. For one thing, not watching and not reading the 172 negative articles The New York Times published (vs. the 1 article about the Niagara of lies that Trump spewed the same night), is the greatest way to keep your head sane and your mind clean. People are losing it, not because they have an opinion, but because they watched a debate where the moderators did no work (An AI machine could have done as well), and where CNN’s policy was to not fact check — simply a gift to Donald Trump. They are losing it because 90% of the country’s media is controlled by Republican interests, and besides that obvious bias, from a click, share, retweet, repost, meme-creating, declining readership and oversaturated media market, every single newspaper and “social” website, or news website, is hopelessly (and I mean hopelessly) invested in making sure the news is “exciting” or “dramatic” or “historic.” Hence the ceaseless calls for Biden to resign and all the speculation about who is going to run or should there be an open convention and so on.

But I want to go back to when I worked for an gay rights organization that I would say was one of the main organizations to work on achieving gay marriage rights. At Lambda, we had brought a case before the Hawaii court asserting that the denial of marriage licenses to gay men and women was an act of discrimination based on sex. I, personally, was skeptical of this argument, because it asked the judge to believe that gender also included the right to marry the same gender, which I just didn’t think it did. Nevertheless, the judge agreed and was very close to arguing that the state of Hawaii had to start issuing wedding licenses to men and women no matter what gender they were choosing to marry. The decision was weeks away from being issued, but then the Hawaii legislative body quickly passed a law that determined the legal definition of marriage was between a male and female. With that law in place, the judge had no other recourse than to state that the case was moot, and dismissed it.

I remember the office, which was about 45 people at that time in the New York branch, got together in the large lobby of our office and we shared some champagne and Evan Wolfson, who was the leader of the marriage project, offered up a toast that I thought was quite beautiful. He said, basically, “we keep on.” And he should know, too, because he had argued the losing case in the Supreme Court where the court ruled that cops had a right to barge into people’s homes and arrest them if they think sodomy was taking place: that the states could criminalize oral or anal sex. But I realized that day that being an activist and working for progressive things involves not just advocacy and strategy but also being ready for (Edit) [an endless array of setbacks] and continuing on in spite of it.

(Edit). After the Hawaii legislature made a law stating that marriage was between male and female only, we at Lambda watched, pretty much in horror, as one state after another created laws that defined marriage as being between male and female and most states made it a part of their constitution. Then the federal DOMA law was passed and Bill Clinton signed it into law. The case Obergefell v. Hodges nullified every one of those laws, but it’s significant that to this day, only Nevada has written gay marriage rights into their constitution. Nearly every other state still has in their constitution bans against gay marriage.

This is because they will overturn Obergefell if they get their way. The hate is still there. Luckily, Joe Biden signed into law the Respect for Marriage Act, which requires states to recognize same sex marriages performed elsewhere, just as they are required to do with heterosexual marriages.

So in that roundabout way, I’m saying that I am not particularly freaked out about Joe Biden’s age, his gaffes in front of the camera, and I will vote for him even if he’s in the hospital after having a stroke. Why? Because there are systems in place: The Vice President, for one, will become the president if he is incapacitated. The VP as well as the staff can remove him from office if he is incapacitated (something Mike Pence and the other cowards under Trump failed to do). Third in line, after Kamala Harris, is Johnson, the speaker of the house. He would be a problem, but not nearly as much of a problem as Trump. The most criminal of all our presidents prior to this election was Trump. Trump is the most criminal presidents ever, including Warren G. Harding. Prior to Trump it was Nixon. During Nixon, the government was mostly a functional place, But ever since Ronald Reagan decided that it was time to attack, “Liberals,” the right has spent decades persuading their followers to hate the leftists and liberals that they claim are destroying America. We got to this place, not by a natural gravitational pull of one or the other sides, but because the right and their followers began a campaign of hate, to the point where web sites were created to “kill all liberals,” “kill democrats,” and that horrible painted witch Sarah Palin put bullseyes on her web site indicating which lawmakers she wanted to see assassinated. Then came January 6 where the hate was on full display to see. There was no corresponding growth of this hatred on the left. The left never created, “Kill all conservatives,” or “Conservatives must die,” web sites, and we continued to advocate for a ban on AK47 and other absurd weapons.

But basically, right now, July 2024, where we are is in a place of the need to persevere, even if Trump pulls ahead (and despite what the polls say, there is no actual proof that he has pulled ahead. It appears, for the most part, that Pennsylvania will be the deciding state. For the record, this debate was extremely early, it’s high time that the media and newspaper stop referring to it as his “disasterous” or “catastrophic” debate — we all know that — and should start focusing on the lies and their plans for Project 2025. But I think if we can get back to talking about all the horrible things the Trump admin wants to do, Biden will not lose, and enough women and blacks will come out and vote for the old man.

And enough with this garbage of tossing out older people. The body can fail us at any time. A great producer just died (Jon Landau) at the age of 63. But with age and the various infirmities that accompany it, also comes wisdom, unless you’re Trump and have no intellectual curiosity, even about your own death. And mostly that’s because we, the older people, have been through things before. We carry on.

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