As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Sunday, March 5, 2023

“Cocaine Bear” movie vs. DeSantis book

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/02/cocaine-bear-desantis-book-review-satire/

 

Is the writing good?

 

“Cocaine Bear” includes such lines as “An apex predator ... high on cocaine ... and you’re headed right towards it” and “The bear! It f---ing did cocaine.”

 

“The Courage to Be Free” includes such lines as “The failure to robustly wield authority permits the unaccountable leviathan to metastasize.” (This is a description of the federal government.)

 

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What kind of things would you text your friends while you consumed it?

 

“Cocaine Bear”: “cocaine bear is phenomenal”

 

“The Courage to Be Free”: “This book will never end. Yet is somehow only 262 pages long.”

 

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  1. AnonymousMarch 21, 2023 at 7:57 AM

    And not only that, but "to robustly wield" is a split infinitive.

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