"WHEN WE COULD BE DIVING FOR PEARLS..."

Too bad NPR has thrown Shearer into its slagheap of tired satirists, his Crescent City show learned me more about the town than anything else in the past couple of weeks... That one SONG taught me more... It's the Bush limbo dance: how LOW can you GO, creating unlikely heroes along the way... This was my take on "the" apology, that well-lit speech last night was appalling, restaging New Orleans as Bush uplift. Shearer pointed out that Rove was literally laid up during the admin's delay, once he got back they kicked into gear. And steadied those freefalling poll numbers.... UNWRITTEN STORY: how the looters made good visuals, whereas white-collar looting in Iraq, and coming soon to Louisiana, doesn't make good TV... If you're a psychopath CEO, just don't take videos of your Enron orgies... I don't care what anyone says about FEMA, the rank and file was thinking about the kids, they're the future, right?... Is it just me or are these guys getting better and better?

TAGLINES TO LIVE BY:

"Heckuva job, Brownie." Rivals "If the glove don't fit you must acquit." We're waiting for the reprise of "Have you no shame?!"

BONE UP FOR SCORSESE



My World Literature Today Dylan essay is just out (pdf), including a couple lists.