A.D. 2020 How did we get here? Dan Flanigan intends to tell us the story of our modern times through a series of novels, chronologically arranged, recounting, from the 1980s to the present day, the life and adventures of his...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Bread & Circuses
Am I just a hopeless curmudgeon or are others offended by all the Happy Thanksgiving emails from vendors etc. clogging the inbox?
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
“Look” Updated. It’s spreading so fast! IT’S A MEME! NO, IT’S A VIRUS! Officious and Arrogant combined.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
“Look” I am picking up an increasing use of this intro word when people are answering a question, especially finance types. “Look . . . “ followed by answer. Imperative and arrogant. Call me paranoiac, curmudgeon, misanthrope, or all three,...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Everyone, everything— in movie and music reviews especially— is suddenly “luminous.” But so much light gets to be blinding, so that we lose our sense of direction—and critical judgment.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
How is it that we have allowed two off-the-grid states to have such an outsize, wholly unjustified influence on our electoral politics? This is one where the media really has led us astray.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Priam's Daughter
A gentleman I know committed suicide today. He said he just couldn’t stand the suspense any longer.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Post No Bills
Word Of The Year! Well, no sooner than i post the previous one, I see on my building's "elevator news" that Dictionary.com has chosen "existential" as its Word Of The Year for 2019! Say no more. I will be trying...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Why do I have to say it again? In a previous post, I already had to gag about this word: Everyone’s using it now along with the word “threat,” i.e. Existential Threat, a threat to the existence of something or...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex