NEXT Please

Next American tourist attraction: The Museum of Mass Shootings.

Next Painting by Brooks Roddan: The Guns of Abstraction.

Next Painting I Saw Recently that Made Me Happy: A Map of All the Rainbows in the World by Marley Roddan.

Next Movie I Want to See that I’ve Seen Before; Mr. Hulot’s Holiday.

It’s diffcult if not impossible to be positive when you don’t feel like yourself. And the patient is more often the one who makes the doctor look good. And yet I must admit that if I close my eyes when nothing seems interesting I find something new always pops up, a cartoon, a gangster movie, a baseball game in the bottom of the 9th.

We’ve smothered our onions in incompetence. There’s an expiration date on the world’s water supply. Freud’s dead, so is Karl Marx.

Nietzsche distinguished between three kinds of history—antiquarian (works of genealogy) monumental (glorification of the nation-state) and critical (history that judges and condemns).

Truth Social, All aboard Truth Social! Truth Social, where the mainstream media seems to be getting most all of its news. The megaphone belongs to Trump, apparently. Even the nice rain we had yesterday in San Francisco seemed at least a little damaged by the end of the day.

Next is a swarm of of red-masked parakeets.

Tony and his psychiatrist face-off. From The Sopranos, (1999-2007).