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Pre-ordered in April; arrived today. Lovingly assembled, handsome layout. Approximately 700 pages of poems, 500 pages of commentary. Still treasure my half dozen paperbacks of individual volumes, but this is a book I anticipate I'll be reading (at a table, for sure!) daily for months to come.
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Pre-ordered in April; arrived today. Lovingly assembled, handsome layout. Approximately 700 pages of poems, 500 pages of commentary. Still treasure my half dozen paperbacks of individual volumes, but this is a book I anticipate I'll be reading (at a table, for sure!) daily for months to come.
Happy Robert Ryan’s birthday to those who celebrate.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Happy Robert Ryan’s birthday to those who celebrate.
Addio, carissima Claudia.
September 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Addio, carissima Claudia.
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I just wrote at some length about the highly recommended Ed Sullivan doc Sunday Best. Awkward occasionally, but it holds up. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/a-really-g...
A Really Great Doc
Sacha Jenkins, ‘Sunday Best’ (2025)
robertchristgau.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I just wrote at some length about the highly recommended Ed Sullivan doc Sunday Best. Awkward occasionally, but it holds up. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/a-really-g...
Happy Art Pepper’s birthday to those who celebrate!
September 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Happy Art Pepper’s birthday to those who celebrate!
Irie! Gonna start calling you Andrew “Scratch” Male.
Sure, Frank Herbert's Dune series is a work of diminishing returns but what if we appropriated his titles for a series of heavy dub albums?
Results: Amazing.
Dub World
The Prophet of Dub
Dub Messiah
Children of Dub
God Emperor of Dub
Heretics of Dub
Chapterhouse: Dub
The Road To Dub
Results: Amazing.
Dub World
The Prophet of Dub
Dub Messiah
Children of Dub
God Emperor of Dub
Heretics of Dub
Chapterhouse: Dub
The Road To Dub
July 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Irie! Gonna start calling you Andrew “Scratch” Male.
"What’s it called … uh … Shangri-La, El Dorado … oh, Sloppy Joe’s – what, what is the name of that place? Oh, alright – Xanadu."
May 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"What’s it called … uh … Shangri-La, El Dorado … oh, Sloppy Joe’s – what, what is the name of that place? Oh, alright – Xanadu."
With his rowdy-dow-Dow in the morning.
May 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
With his rowdy-dow-Dow in the morning.
The average American has three fiends.
May 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The average American has three fiends.
Zuck: The average American has three friends.
May 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Zuck: The average American has three friends.
Popein (featuring "Masses to Do")
The Day the Pope Stood Still
The Subject Was Popes
April 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Popein (featuring "Masses to Do")
Oh Pope, Poor Pope, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
The Day the Pope Stood Still
The Subject Was Popes
April 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Oh Pope, Poor Pope, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
A Touch of the Pope
The Pontiff Cometh
The Pontiff Cometh
Long Day’s Journey into Pope
Four Baboons Adoring the Pope
April 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A Touch of the Pope
The Pontiff Cometh
The Pontiff Cometh
We could keep the Pope Latino this way, too.
April 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We could keep the Pope Latino this way, too.
Are tariffs involved anywhere in the plot?
Cinematographer and director Herbert Ponting under attack by penguin while shooting on location in Antarctica. He would release his footage a decade later as THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE.
April 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Are tariffs involved anywhere in the plot?
"So let's me get this straight..."
March 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"So let's me get this straight..."
Me in the national security group chat.
March 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Me in the national security group chat.
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Me in the national security group chat
March 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Me in the national security group chat
Say no more.
March 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Say no more.
But where have the Lower Wolves gone?
March 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
But where have the Lower Wolves gone?
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From 100 YEARS OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: “New cast member Zeppo Marx walked out in protest, but Lorne Michaels defended his choice of host for the 1933 Christmas episode. ‘You can’t deny Adolph Hitler is an interesting figure, and that’s what we do here — the new, the interesting.”
March 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
From 100 YEARS OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: “New cast member Zeppo Marx walked out in protest, but Lorne Michaels defended his choice of host for the 1933 Christmas episode. ‘You can’t deny Adolph Hitler is an interesting figure, and that’s what we do here — the new, the interesting.”