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Sarah Bernhardt laughs at Charlie Chaplin's international fame: how many people traveled for days across Texas in a covered wagon in order to see him perform in a language they didn't understand?
And of course she made films long before he did, for the Divine Sarah dominated all media.
And of course she made films long before he did, for the Divine Sarah dominated all media.
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Sarah Bernhardt laughs at Charlie Chaplin's international fame: how many people traveled for days across Texas in a covered wagon in order to see him perform in a language they didn't understand?
And of course she made films long before he did, for the Divine Sarah dominated all media.
And of course she made films long before he did, for the Divine Sarah dominated all media.
Wait, what now? A key lime pie WITHOUT KEY LIMES?! How...how does that even work?!?
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Wait, what now? A key lime pie WITHOUT KEY LIMES?! How...how does that even work?!?
I have decided that Cal is an all-or-nothing team: either they function on all cylinders, or they don't function at all.
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I have decided that Cal is an all-or-nothing team: either they function on all cylinders, or they don't function at all.
We're going to try meddling in the immigration policies of other countries, aren't we?
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We're going to try meddling in the immigration policies of other countries, aren't we?
So, a hammer and sickle tattoo is okay? Can I display the black flag of anarchy?
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
So, a hammer and sickle tattoo is okay? Can I display the black flag of anarchy?
What are the odds that we will learn that Trump has already declared that he wants the Air Force to firebomb Chicago?
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What are the odds that we will learn that Trump has already declared that he wants the Air Force to firebomb Chicago?
Is this a spoof, a take on the irksome "every detail of my life is deep and representative of the times we live in" memoir? Or a teenager drunk on his ineffable insight and sensibility, reaching desperately for the sublime? If so, he needs to put down the Wordsworth and Byron and step way back...
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Is this a spoof, a take on the irksome "every detail of my life is deep and representative of the times we live in" memoir? Or a teenager drunk on his ineffable insight and sensibility, reaching desperately for the sublime? If so, he needs to put down the Wordsworth and Byron and step way back...
Ehhh, all ABC has to do publicly decry her tone, fire her, and then pony up $20,000,000 or so for the ballroom fund. And maybe get out of the news business altogether?
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Ehhh, all ABC has to do publicly decry her tone, fire her, and then pony up $20,000,000 or so for the ballroom fund. And maybe get out of the news business altogether?
Oh, sweetheart...
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Oh, sweetheart...
The second rule is being completely oblivious to the obvious homoerotic undertones of these super-manly names.
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The second rule is being completely oblivious to the obvious homoerotic undertones of these super-manly names.
Yet another woman writer who read Joan Didion and said to herself, "Oh, I can write like that! How hard can it be?!"
Oh, you sweet summer child...
Oh, you sweet summer child...
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Yet another woman writer who read Joan Didion and said to herself, "Oh, I can write like that! How hard can it be?!"
Oh, you sweet summer child...
Oh, you sweet summer child...
Yeah, these are the same guys that are still butthurt that _Ghostbusters_ was remade with an all-female cast. I am still gobsmacked that grown-ass men are whining about how their childhoods were *ruined* by a remake of a film released before they were born!
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Yeah, these are the same guys that are still butthurt that _Ghostbusters_ was remade with an all-female cast. I am still gobsmacked that grown-ass men are whining about how their childhoods were *ruined* by a remake of a film released before they were born!
Yeah, totes not a triple-feature at a gay adult cinema back in the 70s...
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Yeah, totes not a triple-feature at a gay adult cinema back in the 70s...
Can we yeet Summers into the Sun? I really feel that we should be yeeting Summers into the Sun.
November 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Can we yeet Summers into the Sun? I really feel that we should be yeeting Summers into the Sun.
Freemasons and Jews, she says? How cliched. Wake me when the Knights Templar get involved...
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Freemasons and Jews, she says? How cliched. Wake me when the Knights Templar get involved...
Because she's not like the other girls, so only the boys can ever understand her...
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Because she's not like the other girls, so only the boys can ever understand her...
Yeah, he's assuming that the BBC will pony up a nice bribe to make him go away. If it doesn't come, Trump's handlers can just tell him that the Beeb was shaking in its boots and cut him a check for a centijillion dollars. He just needs to be able to declare a victory of some kind.
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Yeah, he's assuming that the BBC will pony up a nice bribe to make him go away. If it doesn't come, Trump's handlers can just tell him that the Beeb was shaking in its boots and cut him a check for a centijillion dollars. He just needs to be able to declare a victory of some kind.
Well, they don't have a lot of options, do they? They need to keep the Cult on board, so you start with the pedantry: pedophilia is bad, sure, but Epstein was ackshually a ephebophile, and why is that a crime, anyway? What's a poor man to do when a teenage girl lies about her age?
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Well, they don't have a lot of options, do they? They need to keep the Cult on board, so you start with the pedantry: pedophilia is bad, sure, but Epstein was ackshually a ephebophile, and why is that a crime, anyway? What's a poor man to do when a teenage girl lies about her age?
I don't think there has to be anything incredibly bad in the files for Trump to freak out: the big problem for him is that it hurts his ego. Even if film surfaces, he's not getting impeached, and about 30% of Americans will still venerate him as a god.
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I don't think there has to be anything incredibly bad in the files for Trump to freak out: the big problem for him is that it hurts his ego. Even if film surfaces, he's not getting impeached, and about 30% of Americans will still venerate him as a god.
Jenny and the Cat Club series by Esther Averill, just beautiful books (all of them have been reprinted by NYRB!); has he read E.B. White (_Charlotte's Web_, etc.)? Also, is Encyclopedia Brown still in print?
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Jenny and the Cat Club series by Esther Averill, just beautiful books (all of them have been reprinted by NYRB!); has he read E.B. White (_Charlotte's Web_, etc.)? Also, is Encyclopedia Brown still in print?
How long before his mortgage is flagged for investigation?
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
How long before his mortgage is flagged for investigation?
Maybe? He overthrows the government, installs the Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner as President, and she gives him her medal in exchange. The NYT will note that some may question the legitimacy of this, but will duly refer to him as the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Maybe? He overthrows the government, installs the Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner as President, and she gives him her medal in exchange. The NYT will note that some may question the legitimacy of this, but will duly refer to him as the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
As currently constituted, U.S. law enforcement doesn't make money for any of the Oligarchs, and why would they support something that doesn't generate a profit? They have private security and can buy the legal rulings they want, so what use something like the FBI?
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
As currently constituted, U.S. law enforcement doesn't make money for any of the Oligarchs, and why would they support something that doesn't generate a profit? They have private security and can buy the legal rulings they want, so what use something like the FBI?
Wait--I thought were going to allow hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals into our universities? Encourage this, even? Is the point that they won't be allowed to receive graduate degrees from American institutions? I haz confuse.
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Wait--I thought were going to allow hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals into our universities? Encourage this, even? Is the point that they won't be allowed to receive graduate degrees from American institutions? I haz confuse.
So words! Much smart! Many intellectual!
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
So words! Much smart! Many intellectual!