As we commemorate the brief and tumultuous lives of the Trump tariffs, let us also say a few words for a few words of mine that will nevermore appear in Shouts & Murmurs, nor in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, nor anywhere but on Substack. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Let them eat cake pops!

This delightful picture book, published in 1976 by a small press, took my mind off of the end-stage capitalocalypse … until I started to imagine how it would go down if the artist tried to get it published today. 
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