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John Mendelssohn (thee / thou)

@johnmendelssohn.bsky.social

I am a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Sarcasm. I reside on the southwestern tip of London, where I compose songs, take long walks along the Thames, and write six essays every week for johnmendelssohn.substack.com.

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Return to Benidorm, Again Many Brits know Benidorm, only as a weird cross between Manhattan โ€” skyscrapers beyond counting!

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Where Manhattan and Las Vegas conflate, mate! Read! Subscribe! Subscribe again!

28.11.2025 08:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dominatrices to March in the Big Parade! We have overcome! We have!

For the first time since 1959, the left-of-centre heterosexual erotic community is being represented in the Big Parade! johnmendelssohn.substack.com/p/dominatric...

20.11.2025 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dominatrices to March in the Big Parade! We have overcome! We have!

For the first time since 1959, the left-of-centre heterosexual erotic community is being represented in the Big Parade! johnmendelssohn.substack.com/p/dominatric...

20.11.2025 09:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dominatrices to March in the Big Parade! We have overcome! We have!

Iโ€™ll bet you $5 that in the last 24 hours no fewer than 100 American emo and alt-[whatever] bands have renamed themselves the Quiet Piggies. open.substack.com/pub/johnmend...

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Brunch With a Xenophobe Mr.

Well, here I am, shrieking into the void again! johnmendelssohn.substack.com/p/brunch-wit...

17.11.2025 08:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

XTC Lite!

14.11.2025 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please consider me. I sure fit the bill obscurity-wise. :-)

14.11.2025 08:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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14.11.2025 08:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Kindness Club Reading the other afternoon about the Mango Monstrosityโ€™s claims of having ended (non-existent!) wars โ€” between Iran and Pakistan, Cambodia and Armenia, and Azerbajian and Albania โ€” made me realize Iโ€™...

I am taking a short break from making little videos of gorgeous women in provocative attire while my motion graphics software decides whether or not it wishes to remain on my good side.
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13.11.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The mortification of Sal Valentino!

13.11.2025 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Kindness Club Reading the other afternoon about the Mango Monstrosityโ€™s claims of having ended (non-existent!) wars โ€” between Iran and Pakistan, Cambodia and Armenia, and Azerbajian and Albania โ€” made me realize Iโ€™...

I am taking a short break from making little videos of gorgeous women in provocative attire while my motion graphics software decides whether or not it wishes to remain on my good side.
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13.11.2025 08:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lady Cressida and Her Manservant Extra credit if you spot the Beatles joke

Lady Cressida is based on a real person Mrs. Mendelsohn (she prefers the original, legal spelling) and I semi-met at Rick Parfitt's Xmas party a few years before his passing. open.substack.com/pub/johnmend...

12.11.2025 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Building the Ideal Restaurant Employee Another adventure in AI

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Hot you up, hon?

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Itโ€™s never not a really, REALLY good idea to read my Substack. Some days itโ€™s thought-provoking. Other days itโ€™s amusing. Sometimes it is both. How can you go โ€œwrongโ€?

07.11.2025 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Read my Substack six days a week! Find it life-changingly enjoyable! Insist, to the point of being in serious jeopardy of alienating them, that your friends and family do likewise! There isn't a moment to lose!

05.11.2025 10:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s All Right, Ma, Iโ€™m Only Leaking Protein Into My Pee If there's one thing my urine is not, it's foamy

Mike Johnson is a shameless little hypocrite and an enabler of evil. How can he imagine that he'd be fooling The Lord Thy God if such a thing existed? open.substack.com/pub/johnmend...

04.11.2025 07:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Come Clean! Put on the hair shirt, Your Former Highness! Button it up!

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01.11.2025 10:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And you thought the Ronettes were the bees' knees! What an eye-opener this will be for you, and for your loved ones, and your hated ones. Everybody, truth be told!

31.10.2025 09:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There's a New Movie About Bruce's NEBRASKA Album, and I Can Wait to See It Iโ€™ll say this before anything else.

Tramps like us, baby, we were born to read
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30.10.2025 08:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Did George Martin Deserve His Knighthood? Much is made of the late George Martinโ€™s brilliance.

Greatest record producer of all time? Sometimes I can't help but "wonder"!

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27.10.2025 08:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Deluge of Delight! Or at least a dollop, or a frisson

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At Play on Formerly Twitter Did you know that John Lennon once had a girlfriend named Thelma Pickles?

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23.10.2025 07:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Dedicated Follower of Fashion Mama was fervently fashionable after Prohibition was repealed and my poorly paid thug grandfather suddenly became a very rich liquor wholesaler.

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22.10.2025 07:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I Think "No Kings" Is Rotten Branding ...but boy, do I endorse the sentiment!

How about "No stupid, incompetent, infantile, delusional, corrupt, hateful, petulant, vulgar, treacherous, soulless fascists" an alternative?

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19.10.2025 07:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I Think "No Kings" Is Rotten Branding ...but boy, do I endorse the sentiment!

How about "No stupid, incompetent, infantile, delusional, corrupt, hateful, petulant, vulgar, treacherous, soulless fascists" an alternative?

open.substack.com/pub/johnmend...

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A Delicious Tale of Athletic Derring-Do After he won the Actor of Year award at Howard University in his junior year and went to Hollywood in hopes of becoming the next Denzel Washington, David Williams was advised by his agent to change th...

If you have even a shred of self-respect left, youโ€™ll hasten to open.substack.com/pub/johnmend...

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