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
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Our birthright is a vibrant cityscape that we seem to be doing everything possible to decimate. More broadly and devastatingly, with Walmart (devastation to rural and semi-rural small retail businesses, gutting fragile...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Priam's Daughter
Forever. Everything now seems to be changing something “forever.” Of course it has. It’s always been true. Needless, repetitive to create false drama and significance. And now a cliche as well.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
These are some of my favorite movies. Comments? Blade Runner Alien Breaker Morant Lost In America Amelie The Big Lebowski Young Frankenstein A Man For All Seasons Z
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Bread & Circuses
