Detached Critic Pillows

Wifi in Hell

Trial by Media

"Welcome to the future"

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

'Personally I take all these programmes with a pinch of salt.'

Squeezing the Free Press.

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

Thomas Mann.

First Novels.

Department of Theatre, Film and Television: Lights...Camera...Unemployment!

Reading my Critics

'His best qualities are circumventing questions and evading answers.'

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

Blue Stockings

"Now I really hate poetry."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Why we need poetry. . .

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

German Expressionist Breakfast

Shakespeare was bisexual

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

BBC - Crisis Management, Damage Control and Liability Supervision.

"And on the eighth day, God sat back with a scotch and soda and waited for the critical reviews."

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

Donald Trump Playing Golf With Hair On Fire

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

"Do you have any of those books that understand men?"

Difference of Opinion

Meet the Enemy

"If I 'HAD IT ALL' it would it be enough?"

'Thank heavens! For a minute there I thought it was the news!'

'There's nothing on.'

"I did the math. If we want to read all of Proust in this lifetime, we have to start tomorrow morning."