having spent much of 2019-20 losing my mind over humanities academics who supported Elizabeth Warren over Bernie Sanders, my next mental health crisis will stem from leftists who regard the Green Party as a serious organization rather than a hopeless crank-magnet

23 years ago this month I discovered New Beverly Cinema: Bogie/Cagney, alienated French postfeminist sex, + Tsui Hark! 9/11 slowed the mail & either Romance or Baise-moi (can't recall which) didn't arrive on time, so I--new to L.A. & knowing no one--went back next night to see both

good statement that marks the direction DSA should follow (but I fear won't): acknowledging that defeating the fascist GOP threat is a top socialist priority, & that there's no simple magical solution in dead-end third-party voting that will extricate us from this awful empire

another day, another act of censorship at a public university for the sake of protecting Israel from criticism. even as someone who's written entire books on censorship, I can't believe how endless this cycle is. truly shameful indeed.

everybody's dunking on Michael Eric Dyson but dude was just trying to smash the fash in his own special sexpest way

also, Staying at the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport (2021)

possible Republican governor of North Carolina living like a walking footnote to Jeffrey Escoffier, "Imagining the she/male: Pornography and the transsexualization of the heterosexual male," Studies in Gender and Sexuality 12.4 (2011): 268-281

if there were justice in this world, a bee would sting Ross Douthat in the eye every time he types the phrase "Great Awokening"

re-reading Peter Camejo's "Liberalism, ultraleftism or mass action" to prepare for today's DSA chapter meeting poli-ed section, feels like the good old days (not ironic, I mean it)! marxists.org/archive/camejo…

Oil paintings of x-rated picnics

glad to see Bill finally getting some attention, I love Smogball