In the South Dakota governor’s mansion, a wistful Gov. Kristi Noem wonders whether things might have worked out differently if she had written about that time she humped a couch rather than that time she shot her family dog.
Elvis Costello’s father, Ross MacManus, was a fairly successful musician in the UK. EC is more successful. Is he better? I don’t know if EC would say that.
I saw them around ‘86, and I remember being blown away by “The One I Love,” which hadn’t been released yet and I’d never heard. When the album version came out, it didn’t sound as good as my memory of the live version.
It makes sense if you think of Vance as a pretentious white guy who spends too much time in right wing Internet forums. I love LOTR but there’s a weird contingent of right wing fans who take the “Rise, Men of the West!” stuff way too seriously.
Usually the VP pick is meant to broaden the candidate’s appeal, soften his image. But what could Trump do to do to change people’s minds about him in 2024? People have already made up their minds about his character. May as well go for it and give the Thiel/Musk types the candidate they want.
