Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

In those selfie videos he keeps disgorging, Trump huffs and puffs like a dilapidated bellows, as he wrestles with the words he is trying to articulate.

Administration in, administration out, City Hall exists to make the developers happy, and is willing to practice any deceit in order to do so. City Hall told us it was going to build “affordable” housing at 388 Hudson Street. Turned … Continue reading →

Unbelievably, in a time of ever-shrinking newsroom personnel, USA Today has decided that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift with each be covered by a dedicated reporter. A[pparently, USA Today believes its obligation to deliver an even more ignorant, celebrity-obsessed citizenship trumps, as … Continue reading →

His spasms of anti-Semitism are occurring at shorter and shorter intervals. Now he accuses Jews of betraying America. And the corporate media stays largely silent about his remarks.  The GOP stays completely silent. It’s chilling to watch for the first … Continue reading →

The Meet the Press interview was a disaster for NBC, for America, and–fortunately for the continued existence of this country–for Trump’s legal defense as well. The corporate media is treating Trump as if he’s running again as a newbie, as … Continue reading →

on a daily basis. Their response so far has been so lackadaisical that’s almost as if they want to be Swift Boated.

Last week, Dan Schneider interviewed me for a podcast on Tallulah. My fellow guests were two generation- Z women: Julia Schnarr, an undergrad who’s made a student film about her and wants to make a feature one, and Carrie Chappell, who’s … Continue reading →

Grandma Sallie [a/k/a Sarah, born Zoli], who claimed she’d gotten virtually zero parenting lodged in close tenement quarters with many other siblings and two hard-working parents, doted on my father.  And yet she felt compelled to remind him that her … Continue reading →

From my father’s autobiography.  Will annotate shortly: “Once reading to me for bed when I was very young, my mother told me what she said was a joke. A little boy about my age was Was nervously, hesitantly, fearfully standing … Continue reading →

They scam  potential ticket-buyers, myself among them as of last week, by trying to simulate the actual look of performing arts venue web sites, then charging outlandish prices for tickets that are 500 % more than the actual prices.