You have to go behind the billboards to understand what’s happening in America. So said the novelist Nelson Algren, who was as sharp a social critic as H.L. Mencken ever was. Seems to me that the British author A. Robert Lee would agree with Algren. But Lee has taken it upon himself to cite the billboards themselves as diagnostic proof.
Our Biggest Problem
His mouth is too big, and his conscience . . . well . . . he doesn’t have one.
Mad Dog at the FBI Sued in the Noonday Sun
Fired FBI agents are suing the bureau and Kash Patel for dismissing them because they took part in an investigation of el presidente Trumpscheisse’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
The People Marched
‘No Kings’ Signs and Costumes Spoke for Them
‘No Kings’ marchers in Manhattan, March 28, 2026
Reboot Your Eyeballs
It’s food for the retina.
Unmasked
It’s Banksy’s World . . . But Not Officially
The museum in Lisbon, Portugal, showcases 100 reproductions of Banksy’s artwork through video, installations, graffiti, canvases, projections, and murals.
He Was a No-Show at the Academy Awards But …
. . . somehow he turned up in this collage.
Days of Judgment
Poems and Drawings That Speak for Themselves
New from Moloko Print — ‘Days of Judgment’ by Mark Terrill with drawings by Gerard Bellaart.
Swiss Composer-Musician-Videographer Takes a Bow
They’re celebrating Steff Signer’s 75th birthday at the Palace tonight in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Paul Zelevansky’s Absurdist Tale of ‘Monkey & Man’
It began as a performance piece. That was a long time ago . . . 1985, to be precise, in Brooklyn. The author presented Individual stories as performances and installations. The texts also began appearing in little magazines.
Just Because . . .
. . . Trumpscheisse has repeatedly threatened to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship (pairing her with Robert De Niro), the staff thought this worth posting.
THE BLACK SCHOONER
Amistad Slave Rebellion Retold in New Graphic Novel
Before Black History Month runs out, let’s note that David Lester has a new graphic novel in the works: THE BLACK SCHOONER. “It tells the true story of the 1839 uprising aboard the Amistad,” Lester says, and is one of a “growing number of titles depicting history from below.”
Peter Mathiessen Had Many Eagle-Eyed Identities
Among them were novelist, naturalist, fisherman, CIA spy.
AI Is Working on It
Do you remember January 6?
About Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Apostasy . . .
This is a curiosity.
‘Don’t Forget My Old Soul’
When I saw this eye-popping video for the first time, it bowled me over. I’ve rewatched it several times and am still marveling at it. But is this work a piece of AI-slop? Is it “kind of meaningless in [its] calculated reality,” as Doug McLennan has written of the genre? Or is it more than that?
Thoughts While Not Thinking
Stealthy
quantum words
phantoms of expectation
and suicides of time
riddle us
with springs and traps.