Listening this morning to the great David Feldman discuss late Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s secret house deed, which insisted – in binding terms – that Big Bill could never sell his home to “non-white people,” I was reminded of a fun fact I learned about the very same judge, back when I was working for a certain muckracking pornographer in the Reagan Era.
“But has anybody else noticed how much he’s begun to sound like late-career Dean Martin, addressing rallies and sit-downs with that low-register, 4 AM at the Copa slur? At the debate, the ex-prez was so logy I half expected the ghost of Sammy Davis Jr. to scamper out and hop in his arms.”
This is a very dialed-in observation. Trump’s free association is much more in the lineage of the late night lounge act than, say, talk radio. (On a different note, I still think about your Moth story from time to time.)
“But has anybody else noticed how much he’s begun to sound like late-career Dean Martin, addressing rallies and sit-downs with that low-register, 4 AM at the Copa slur? At the debate, the ex-prez was so logy I half expected the ghost of Sammy Davis Jr. to scamper out and hop in his arms.”
This is a very dialed-in observation. Trump’s free association is much more in the lineage of the late night lounge act than, say, talk radio. (On a different note, I still think about your Moth story from time to time.)
Little Poop Coffins was the name of my psychobilly band in high school
Ha - That is one of the funniest things I have ever heard.
A glorious history in one fell swoop! Better living through chemistry on full display. Good work Jerry.
Thanks for the kind words, David.
Part One of my ongoing series—
Fascists At Play.
Great read, and very narco informative! Glad to see you posted again! I thought I chased you off the platform with my own amateurish prose!
Hey man, everybody’s half a fucking amateur.
That’s what Substack is, right?
A Pro-Am Tournament of Prose.
Well compared to your stuff, mine is way more Am ..
Got Norman's book as well.
Cool. I think you’ll dig it.
Really loving Earthquake Weather.
Brilliant. Raoul Duke couldn’t have said it any better himself.
Jeez, man. That’s high praise - thank you!