This Week's Writing 2/9/23

Blazing Saddles, Lisa Frankenstein, Mike Johnson and more.

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If you read one thing by me this week, read:

Blazing Saddles at 50: the right don’t get that the movie is mocking them. (CNN)

Politics:

Republicans got everything they wanted in the border deal, then gutted it. (Public Notice)

Donald Trump is a rapist. Biden should say so. (EIH)

Why can’t Mike Johnson count? (EIH)

Cultural Criticism:

Lisa Frankenstein and which creators are allowed to make monsters. (CNN)

Yuma Abe’s tweek folk is surprisingly alright. (Chicago Reader)

Upgraded and the romance of (first) class. (Splice Today)

The Holdovers tells you that you are special for watching. (EIH)

Poetry:

Monostitch about working together. (Five Fleas)

community sounds nice in theory

Little poem about failging (dadakuku)

Poetry can not fail
it can only be failked
fiulked
fuck