Donald Trump gives stupid white people permission to be Stupid White People. This is beyond fascism. This is enshrined idiocy.

I've seen the future, and (SPOILER ALERT) it sucks.

A piece about my stepbrother's suicide. perrind.substack.com/p/a-death-in-t…

This appeared in my timeline. Who the hell would wear this in public? Maybe some punk rocker circa 1978, trying to be contrary (then again, maybe not). I'd be curious to see how this would play at a supermarket.

I wrote about ICE last October, and I think I called it. substack.com/home/post/p-17…

Michael O'Donoghue said this to me about being rich and famous: "I can see wanting to be rich. But famous? Who the fuck wants to be famous!"

Most people have no idea what they're talking about, but thanks to social media, their ignorance is widely shared. It truly is a Golden Age.

It had its moments.

"The Gestapo has a job to do, but when you're rounding up Jews, you have to ask yourself, 'Are we dweebs?'"

Also, some stern Tweets!

The original ICE.

The greatest American magazine cover of the 20th century.

Trump calling anyone a fraud would be ironic, if irony hadn't died ages ago.

Any writer worth their weight owes everything to music, not literature.

My latest. And you get two, count them, TWO posts in one! perrind.substack.com/p/land-of-the-…

RIP Catherine O'Hara. Legend. LEGEND.

I'm still crying about Catherine O'Hara. I can't believe she's gone. I'm gonna write a longer piece soon.