It’s Shiny Object Day again at Der Orange Haus.
Hoping to distract the media from the masked, murderous ICEholes goosestepping around Minneapolis, His Excremency’s Injustice Department has ordered a massive dump of Epstein files — “more than 3 million pages of documents … as well as more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images,” according to The Associated Press.
“I’m shocked! — shocked! — to find that perversion is going on in here!”
“Your underage victim, sir. …”
“Oh, thank you very much. …”
Thank you very much not at all, you oinking fucking swine. Here at El Rancho Pendejo we supply our own, wholesome pasatiempos.
Save for Monday, the weather has been suitable for cycling and running, which, yay. Soon as I post this mess I plan to get right back after it, too.
Between bouts of healthful outdoor exercise, “Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man” on HBO is a must-see, as is the Oscar-nominated “Train Dreams” on Netflix, though the adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella doesn’t come close to challenging Mel in the yuks department.
After abandoning a second crack at the source material for another Oscar nominee — “Vineland,” by Thomas Pynchon, the inspiration for “One Battle After Another” — I’ve been reading “The Five Wounds” by Kirstin Valdez Quade, which has taken me on a backstage tour of my old stomping grounds around Española, N.M. My favorite restaurant from those days, El Paragua, gets a shout-out, as does Saints and Sinners. I took Herself to our first date at the former, where we later had our pre-wedding dinner, and once bought her a T-shirt from the latter.
So, no. We are not buying what these fascists are selling. Mel taught us how to deal with Nazis — by mocking them, savagely and relentlessly. He’s still at it. And so are we, though at times we wish we had his stamina.
And now I’m off for a ride. It feels like springtime out there right now. Not for Hitler, though. Especially if he’s just some half-baked orange understudy who can’t sing or dance worth a shit.
Mad Blog Media 
You probably couldn’t make a movie like The Producers today without getting shelled for being politically incorrect. Interestingly, I watched it in grad school. At the Stony Brook Hillel House, of all places.
And yet, the Broadway version ran for 2,502 performances and holds the record for Tony Awards (12). So … who knows?
Now, “Blazing Saddles?” It features the use of a certain word that even Richard Pryor got sick of using. And he was in the writers’ room.
Yep….Blazing Saddles…
Real men love some shiny shit. Ain’t no better way to distract folks than dumping millions of items of sanitized and highly polished bullshit and saying job done.
It’s like opening the front door to find that someone took a shit on your porch. You don’t even notice that your car’s been stolen.
Golden! Chapeau! Stealing that one for sure.
Did anyone go see the “melania” documentary yet? We all need to make sure Bezos and Amazon at least break even on their propaganda.
I live in a “C” market meaning even the box stores don’t keep wide array of products. So over the years I’ve had the Amazon trucks come down the drive with everything from stainless screws to Honda parts. No more…the Melanoma movie is the last straw. I cannot believe Amazon left their fingerprints all over the crime scene. They could have licked Adolph tRumps nuts in private instead of so openly in public.
Shit, bezos been polishing them balls for a while. Boy can never have enough. Look at that fucking wedding show he had. How can anyone see the need in this world and pay $6 megabucks on a god damn boat. The MGM lion is probably out on a world class bender after fronting that shit show.
Sorry, the cost of the yacht koru and support vessel, carries toys and supplies, is over $600 million and has annual maintenance cost of $30 million. Yacht carries 18 passengers.
Rave reviews for sure https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest
I heard it said it’s as painful as walking barefoot through a room full of Legos while suffering from diarrhea.