Joaquin Phoenix gives a masterful performance in a film that often struggles to live up to it while still managing to create a world worthy of a Batman. While I have no real desire to discuss Joker, director Todd Phillips’ take on the DC Comics supervillain, as an exercise into how virtue signaling can sometimes be a square peg forced… Read more →
Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton took to a baseball broadcasting booth Friday night, using his signature enthusiasm and weirdness to elevate a game in desperate need of it Former NBA star Bill Walton once again reminded viewers he’s a goddamned broadcasting legend Friday night as he took to the booth with partner—and rising star in his own right—Jason Benetti… Read more →
Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein allegedly hung himself in a Manhattan jail cell, effectively insulating many powerful men from prosecution Jeffrey Epstein is dead, and the world is better for it. Arguably, it is also worse off; not because a billionaire with reprehensible sexual predilections is no more, but because his death effectively seals off and protects the many men of… Read more →
As America marks the 50th anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca murders, we look at the parallels between the Manson Family and the Cult of Trump Fifty years ago today, Winifred Chapman showed up for her housekeeping duties at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles to find the mutilated bodies of Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski and Abigail Folger, seemingly shattering… Read more →
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author passed away Monday after a brief illness. Toni Morrison taught me to dream. Famed prizewinning author Toni Morrison died Monday night at the age of 88; although her writing has been part of the collective consciousness of American society for most of my near-42 years, the timeless nature of her work never felt dated. At this… Read more →
