"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Keep in your thoughts Dylan, who has been having a rough time, but who notes the anniversary today of his Tenebrae blog. Stop over and wish him well. Best also to the family of Bill Cork, whose daughter is in the hospital.
Interesting to note Larry Flynt beat Gary Coleman and porno actress Mary (Carey) Cook in the California election results. And all three beat former GOP candidate Bill Simon.
Wonder what Erik Keilholtz will make of Paul Johnson's new history of art, which gives thumbs-up to Rockwell and dismisses Picasso as a fraud?
Mottram? Pecksniff? Sent scattering by Dale Price, who has been on a tear of late reminiscent of the Python's Piranha Bros:
Interviewer: Doug?
Vercotti: Doug. (takes a drink) Well, I was terrified of him. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.
Interviewer: What did he do?
Vercotti: He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious.
Midwest Conservative Journal has announced a contest in connection with a story of a clown-preacher delivering a high-wire sermon in an English cathedral.