It's my birthday, but I want YOU to give YOURSELF a present--go see THE LONG WALK.

It's my birthday, but I want YOU to give YOURSELF a present--go see THE LONG WALK.

BEHIND, by Bentley Little: As with most of this guy's wonderful books, the prosaic world slides into more surreal territory and then into the batshit horrific. Pirhanas in a backyard swimming pool? Check. A mummy in a Brentwood business building? Check. It gets darker.

The obvious advantage of streaming over movie theater movies is you can watch them at home. The secret weapon of the streamers, particularly when it comes to movies where the characters have strong accents: subtitles.

As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.

Trump and his greedhead cronies may get a big surprise in spite of their efforts to rig the 2026 election. They could find themselves swamped by a blue wave. Americans are wising up to the fact that Trump is turning the American dream into a nightmare.

Trump is a hell of a carny pitchman, I have to give him that. When a ton of people tune in, he's going to say he's sending troops to Chicago. Probably started the rumor he's sick or dead himself.

Trump has thrown sand into the gears of the American economy.

Nice!

WE LIVE HERE NOW, Sarah Pinborough: Very scary. Turns out there's life in the haunted house plot, after all. Original and my God, so dark.

I see the Draft-Dodger-in-Chief has rechristened the Defense Department the War Department. In spite of his hawkish stance, I doubt he'll be gearing up anytime soon.

Free speech?
Really?
It cost Jimmy Kimmel his job.