Trumps’ presidency is such a disaster that, at this point, our only hope may be to launch a team of plucky oil drillers into space.
Every time I mention “Armageddon” (1998), someone makes a joke about its Morgantastic, Freemaniffic contemporary, “Deep Impact.” I tell people it is on my list of things to watch, but I still haven’t even seen “Predestination” (2014), “The Fifth Element” (1997) or a single episode of “Breaking Bad” (2008 – 2013).
“The Tower,” by W. H. Auden
(Part IX of “The Quest”)
This is an architecture for the old;
Thus heaven was attacked by the afraid,
So once, unconsciously, a virgin made
Her maidenhead conspicuous to a god.
Here on dark nights while worlds of triumph sleep
Lost Love in abstract speculation burns,
And exiled Will to politics returns
In epic verse that makes its traitors weep.
Yet many come to wish their tower a well;
For those who dread to drown, of thirst may die,
Those who see all become invisible:
Here great magicians, caught in their own spell,
Long for a natural climate as they sigh
“Beware of Magic” to the passer-by.
Oil on canvas.
Heyyyyy, I’m losing weight. I think I lost 11 pounds since … I dunno, the last time I publicly whined about it here.
The trick is this — eat M&M’s in bed while watching Battlestar Galactica reruns, until Gaius Baltar’s shenanigans become so revolting that you inevitably drop M&M’s without realizing it. Awakening after midnight, you find crushed M&M’s in your sheets like the sticky, crushed carcasses of blue- and orange-backed beetles.
You develop a revulsion toward M&M’s, and therefore eat less of them. (Less, fewer, whatever.) I’m a goddam genius.
Seriously, though, frak Gaius Baltar.
“They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.” — Henry Ward Beecher
I wish everyone a safe and happy Memorial Day.
Photo: American flags sit at the gravesides of service members on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., May 30, 2016 (Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz.)
Oil.
I thought these were pretty neat.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 