L. Bangs

Ignore this. Go see it.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is the 80s cult classic you always wish you had seen in the theaters.

See this now!

I hope you also have a great day!

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

I’m hitting three movies today, and my hot date is me. 😁

It is a truth not realized frequently enough.

The better the news source, the worse its art critics.

Holy crap.

ICE just set up office in my city 1 1/2 miles from where I live and a block from my former residence.

Go away, goons and thugs!

His translation of Virgil is still my favorite.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Try this one…

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Homeland Security is gathering identifying information from social media companies on folks criticizing ICE.

This is an outrage.

This is our government terrorizing its own citizens, treating them like the enemy, when all along Trump and ICE are the enemy.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Have you see it before?

Everything ICE says is a lie.

They are not serving America.

They are invading America.

They are the enemy.

I await…

I’m not superstitious in the slightest, but boy, do I love playing these things up!

Damn alarm! That’s no way to awake on a Friday! 🤬

I love you own that shirt!

“Today,
The world's an open wound
From severed legs,
A broken glass of blood-red wine,
A message on their phone
You never should have left.

You never should have left.”

thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/02/shat...

#poet #poetry

If you don’t get enough bad luck this Friday the 13th, don’t worry - There’s another one next month!

(You might want to skip any winter camp plans you have, though…)

I also find several of those folks are liberal and afraid it leaves them undatable in the South.

I don’t have time for women like that.

If her political affiliation is Conservative, I swipe left.

If her political affiliation is Not Political, I swipe left.

This is why I always carry a piece of tin upon my person throughout the day, and you should, too.

I hope the tea was even stronger! 👹

Somebody got dissed good, and somebody broke up?

“You empty everything
To fill it past the brim and past
Just like the unexpected sight of your beloved
On cold and lonely winter nights,

And yet, eventually you are putting in
Too much for not enough.”

thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/02/walk...

#poet #poetry

How would we know?

I had this poster, a birthday present, on my wall throughout my twenties.

Aw, Bud Cort died.

Those of us who discovered Harold and Maude in junior high are a touched group.

And I was just listening to my Cat Stevens playlist earlier today entirely unawares…

“You poked until
You cracked the speckled shell
And pushed the brittle fragment
Till it slanted and fell
And you emerged
Unfolding,
Slick and raw and new.”

thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2026/02/wet-...

#poet #poetry

It is so early, so maybe I’m still in a dreamstate, but I actually… learned something on Bluesky today?

I love this, Susie Dent. Thank you! 😃

Now maybe I’ll start working on getting one of these muscle things you mention…

It is a memory trip watching a television show in 2026 made in 2016 based on a novel I read in 1994.

We should send tissues. And arrest warrants.

The heads of ICE spoke before Congress today.

They shared the sad story of struggling ICE agents.

Their pain.

Their mental burden.

Folks, their feelings are really, really hurt.

America’s Gestapo agents really hate being called Gestapo agents.

It turns out invading America is so hard. 😢

Root beer… 🍻