Sunday, July 25, 2021

New Poem: NEVER ENDING PANDEMIC RAMBLE

 the pandemic never ends because of ego and frailty the refusal to correct course when the wind shifts after the Mission Accomplished sign is posted on billboards all over our once great nation and the CDC can’t climb down from its don’t need to wear masks indoors redwood tree and the GOP climbs only a few inches down its covid vaccine is bad because Trump wasn’t re-elected mountain 

Tucker Carlson gets his braying ass handed to him in Montana and all he likely thinks is look at the impact  my irresponsible shit-talking has on the nation that some random guy got in my face and it went viral and the libs still know my name and writhe in pain because Rupert and Lachlan continue to have my back and all I care about is good television and I’m Harry Lime in THE THIRD MAN on top of the Vienna Ferris Wheel with no worries whatsoever about the tiny unvaccinated people way down below who believe they’re self-determination martyrs—and they are dying from the words coming out of my and my network’s mouth

Sunday, July 4, 2021

New REVIEWS AND OTHERWISE: HOLLER/THE DRY/NO SUDDEN MOVE/GUILTY BYSTANDER

 This is the last episode for a few weeks, covering two new VOD releases (HOLLER and THE DRY), Steven Soderbergh’s 1950s noir NO SUDDEN MOVE (now playing on HBOMAX) and an actual 1950s noir—Joseph Lerner’s GUILTY BYSTANDER (now playing on both the Watch TCM app and the website https://www.bynwr.com

https://anchor.fm/terry-mccarty/episodes/HOLLERTHE-DRYNO-SUDDEN-MOVEGUILTY-BYSTANDER-e13tui2

Saturday, July 3, 2021

New REVIEWS AND OTHERWISE: THE TOMORROW WAR and VOYAGERS

 New 4th of July episode discusses THE TOMORROW WAR (the Chris McKay-directed, Chris Pratt-starring futuristic epic now on Amazon Prime) and VOYAGERS (from Neil Burger, director of LIMITLESS and now available for inexpensive rental/streaming).


https://anchor.fm/terry-mccarty/episodes/NEW-SCIENCE-FICTION-THE-TOMORROW-WAR-AND-VOYAGERS-e13sj77

Thursday, July 1, 2021

New Poem: UNREPENTANT OLD BILL

 he comes out

 with Twitter photo

 head bowed, arm raised

 right fist clenched in midair

 trying hard to appropriate 

 Tommie Smith and John Carlos in 1968

 at the Mexico City Olympics 

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 Tommie and John were fighting 

 for something bigger, more important 

 than the determination to drug and rape

 and have no compassion for the sixty victims 

 plus the money and the iron will

 to insist on getting out of prison early

 on a technicality previously judged not strong enough 

 to stop the trial which sent him to prison

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 let the gaslight TV interview victory lap begin