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Dec 6, 2024 | 
english.pravda.ru | Guy Somerset
Everyone needs a Puerto Rico story.
This is mine:
Of a late afternoon on the beach fronting the San Juan Ritz Carlton this author sat reading the description of an execrably worthless mother given by Long Day's Journey Into Night, thinking, "Yes, I'd say that's rather accurate…”, then sullenly gazing out to sea…when he noticed a complimentary guidebook sitting upon a table near his friend Gutierre.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
english.pravda.ru | Guy Somerset
Friends, Americans, Countrymen, lend me your Crocodile Tears,
I come to Mock Smugly McSenile, Not to Praise Him.
For the Evil which Corrupt Plutocrats do lives after them;
The Good is…er, well, Smugly McSenile has done naught Good.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
nzreviewofbooks.com | Guy Somerset |Carl Shuker
One of the sly pleasures of Carl Shuker’s last novel, the Ockham NZ Book Awards- shortlisted A Mistake (2019), was its nod to dystopian British writer JG Ballard. The surgeon central character in A Mistake is named Elizabeth Taylor, not so much for the actress as for the fetishist fantasy of her in Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
english.pravda.ru | Guy Somerset
Your author is a peculiar individual and not only for his love of Loly Hardcore.
(Incidentally, VLAD, you keep giving speeches about repopulating Russia but no Loly on my doorstep yet…it was my understanding Russian shills were compensated spectacularly!?!…*sigh*…)
Anyway — as your Humble Correspondent was reminiscing — the more I exist the more unusual I become.
To wit, every day seems to me as if yesterday.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
english.pravda.ru | Guy Somerset
“Truth is the first casualty of war!”
It’s a good line. Not mine. That belongs to George Orwell in the 1940s…or perhaps Arthur Ponsonby in 1928…or maybe United States Senator Hiram Johnson in 1918…or probably Samuel Johnson in 1758…or possibly, as with most things, Aeschylus in 500 B.C.
Actually, no one is aware of the origin as even with first documented uses it is referenced as “an ancient proverb”.
What we do know…at least about Orwell?
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
english.pravda.ru | Guy Somerset
The American stock market has approximately 250 trading days a year.
Of which, there are around 60 trading days remaining.
At present, the market has reached more than 45 "New All-Time Highs!” in 2024.
That is essentially One-Fourth of every day. Think about that, Sportsfans.
Consider. Of every FOUR DAYS this year, ONE DAY has been another "New All-Time High!”
Are you scared sh*tless yet?
Here's some more, diarrhea.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
english.pravda.ru | Guy Somerset
Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz has led a charmed life.
This He-Man has been in more scrapes than a cheese grater and come out for the better.
And while I might regale you with innumerable tales of his derring-do, we must stick to the highlight reel of that figure who no doubt would have been Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers had he not nobly sacrificed those ambitions to care for we urchins of a petrifying nation who needed him most.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
english.pravda.ru | Guy Somerset
Craw-Dadding.
Actually, Craw-Daddin'.
The first time I used it the blonde with me had no conception.
It's derived to me from the "poor relations” of my family and is itself derived from when you are out on the waves catching lobster, crabs or (obviously) crawdads.
Once caught, you put them in a bucket about half-filled with water so they won't die; and if you're having a good day that bucket gets full quickly.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
nzreviewofbooks.com | Guy Somerset |Steve Braunias
Steve Braunias – three parts Hildy Johnson to one part Evelyn Waugh and one part fox in a henhouse. Johnson, played by Rosalind Russell, is the star reporter in Howard Hawks’s 1940 screwball comedy His Girl Friday, which is set in the golden age of ‘yellow journalism’, with Johnson set to escape her newspaper job for married life when editor Walter Burns, played by Cary Grant, suckers her into a last assignment.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Guy Somerset
David Coventry's Performance completes a triptych started with The Invisible Mile and Dance Prone. Photos / supplied At first blush, Performance, David Coventry’s book about living with the debilitating disease myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), is “a novel” because of the most basic truth (or untruth) about a memoir: no one has that good a memory, can remember that much detail from so long ago, can recall conversations as extensively and accurately as that.
