…bears a certain resemblance to Andy Serkis’s Gollum. There’s no debating this. This may not be a fair or kindly observation, but it’s certainly a valid one. And if you think Average Joe voters won’t come to the same conclusion you need to sit down and think again.

A former astronaut and the husband of former U.S. Senator Gabby Giffords, Kelly is a thoroughly decent and respectable fellow but in my humble opinion he’s more than a little unexciting. This plus the Gollum thing means Harris should perhaps think twice about picking him. Nobody wants a bald, pointy-eared gremlin one heartbeat away from the presidency.

Francis Coppola is an older rich white guy, and a decent percentage of urban progressive women (teens to mid 30s and perhaps beyond) would just as soon explode his life into smithereens as look at him.

I’m not kidding. Guys like Coppola are deer, and it’s deer hunting season everywhere right now, and if the Coppolas of the world want to be dead all they have to do is give the “hunters” a reason to get out their high-powered social media rifles and fire at them.

…I naturally think of (a) Miriam Karlin‘s “Catlady” Weathers (green leotard, white stockings, razor-sharp vocal chords) in A Clockwork Orange and (b) Edith Beale and her daughter in Albert and David Maysles‘ Grey Gardens

I personally relate as I’ve been a cat lover all my life.

J.D. Vance quote from 2021: “The U.S. is being run by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. It’s just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”

…after visiting 11 or 12 times and living there for an entire summer in ’03, I wouldn’t be there for the Olympics right now…not for anything….must to avoid. Tourists and lookie-lous are bad for the soul.