A new billionaire is just more evidence of the disgusting system we live in and is nothing to be celebrated. The only thing this should inspire in anyone, including the person who became a billionaire, is nausea and a desire to hurriedly be stripped of billionaire status.

The Neutral Dead Milkmen Hotel
(did I do it wrong?)

Interesting... Cohen's song, "I'm Your Man," is featured prominently in Maggie Gyllenhaal's big breakout role in "Secretary".
I mean, I doubt that's why she bought the tribute CD, it's just where my mind went.

I loved the video. You had so many more hot sauces to get through than a guest would on Hot Ones... so, take that Sean Evans! You are completely badass!
(And you'll be good for your district, and the country, when you win!)

UP is great, in my opinion, even though it was their first after Bill Berry left, and I did miss his drumming (and I think the album does demonstrate just how important his drumming was to the band).

I admire Wilson's making it very readable (and finally using words like "slaves" instead of maids and servants). I do love Fitzgerald's poetry (I love his "Aeneid"). I was a real Latin and Greek geek in high school. I was offered a scholarship to study it at BU, but decided to pursue theater.

What translation are you reading? I'm a nerd about this stuff. I love Fitzgerald more than Fagles. Emily Wilson's 2017 translation is really good, too, in my opinion.

I hope she and Maria ignored the guys and just cut up together with some of them Spanish dances.

I remember seeing that in the cinema, and I definitely cried at the end. Probably a lot.

It's funny you should say that! This wasn't in public, but five years back, I did Mr. Jones as a spoken word monologue for a girl I was dating to make her laugh. Lines like "I want to be a lion" are fun. But I added some lines from the girl they were staring at, who didn't appreciate being ogled.