CRANKY OLD FART’S
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#365  [archive]
• The morgue at the Gray Lady
[Archived page] • Bright thinker Naomi Klein is tired of being mistaken for wingnut Naomi Wolf
[Archived page]
    Excerpt: Its guiding question is how so many people have in recent years broken with conventional left-right political affiliations and a shared understanding of reality, and crossed over into the “Mirror World,” a realm of “uncanny people” and “upside-down politics” where facts are arbitrary and people who still advertise themselves as liberals can make common cause with conspiracists and fascists. … [read more]

When I came home from my one-day work week on Tuesday, my flatmate Dean looked like Kansas after the twister.He moaned as we passed in the hall, and had nothing to say, but twice I heard him puking in the john.Which … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S
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#364  [archive]
• Eight O’Clock in the Morning
by Ray Nelson
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    This is the short story that inspired John Carpenter’s They Live. … [read more]

For my first assignment from a temp agency in Seattle, they sent me to Whitewater Marine, for Tuesday-Friday this week.

I’d never heard of them, so I googled and learned that it’s a shipping company, the kind that has real ships. … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING
FILM FESTIVAL
#180  [archive]
They Live (1988)[Streaming free at Internet Archive]
Recently on these pages, your humbly obnoxious host was scolded for not giving John Carpenter the accolades merited by his work. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S
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#363  [archive]
Here’s the bad news: Two months of joyous unemployment end tonight. Tomorrow at 8:30 in the yawning, I’ll be the new temp at some boring office. … [read more]

Fun fact: Did you know San Francisco is the birthplace of illegal drugs in America? “In the United States, the first drug law was passed in San Francisco in 1875, banning the smoking of opium in opium dens,” says Wikipedia. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART’S
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#362  [archive]
• When is it OK for white people to ask about other people’s ethnicity?
   
Any time, any where, any time my mother is chatting with any person who
isn’t white, she’ll ask that person’s ethnicity. … [read more]

Your arm pits stink horrendously, so please smear on ample deodorant and/or keep your distance.My arm pits, however, have a savory, succulent odor, reminiscent of fresh-baked lasagna. … [read more]