where everybody knows your name

"Bullying is totally unAmerican."

~ Anthony Scaramucci

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     There's an interesting video on You Tube, 16 minutes -- title:

Scaramucci Urges GOP To 'Save The Country,' Speak Out against Trump |  Velshi & Ruhle


     Anthony Scaramucci highlights some perspectives that are unique and specific, and "big-picture."  It is worth listening to.

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     I read somewhere a while ago that Donald Trump was giving someone a tour of his New York apartment and he mentioned that Mrs. Trump sleeps in a separate bedroom because she likes to read at night before turning off the light.



     I wonder what she reads.

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     On the Guardian article, "The age of comfort TV:  why people are secretly watching Friends..." there are many Reader Comments that I found interesting:

^ People like to feel good.  The 90s were very optimistic, a new millennium, now the Nazis and the far-right became a thing again.


^ I remember the 90s being a nightmare:  square, overbearing, saccharine.
     Culturally things are getting better but think the return of the far right is a symptom of that....

^ "Parks and Rec" is one of the few .. where the Americans vaguely comprehend subtle humour.


^ I personally find it hard to get excited about the new hit show because, whether they're set in a mythical middle ages (GOT) or present day US, like HOC or Veep, they are basically all the same:  behind the facade everybody is powerhungry, perverted and corrupt.  It gets boring.  At least Frasier was kinda easy to watch.

^ This is spot on, behind the facade everybody is powerhungry, perverted and corrupt.  It gets boring.  It's like the writers can't write anything else and it is so predictable.

^ Is there really any higher value in subjecting yourself to the millionth violent unpleasant drama, disconnected from any lived or desirable reality, that tries to "shock" and vaguely traumatize you?  Does this help anyone?

^ I do some game design, making environments, which pretty much amounts to designing landscapes and architecture, and it occurs to me all the time that just exploring these places is entertainment enough on its own, if that's all you expect to get out of it.  Safe and beautiful spaces.  I wonder if stories really do need conflict, or if it's just what we're used to.


^ Is it really such a big mystery that people like to be surrounded by positive things?

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