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Mar 17Liked by Michael Marshall Smith

I always thought a Pizza was a market square in Italy, thanks for putting me right

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Mar 17Liked by Michael Marshall Smith

Watching with morbid fascination from the UK but also feeling like I will have the same unpalatable choice over here in a few months time. Then again, with our system and living in what has been a very safe Tory seat for decades, my vote feels useless. Depressing 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Mar 17Liked by Michael Marshall Smith

I likened it to people not liking spinach and petulantly choosing a shit sandwich instead.

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Mar 17Liked by Michael Marshall Smith

Not that our shower are the acme of government right now, but at least I don't get the feeling one of them is going to press the big red button any time soon, or join hands with Putin & Kim Jong whatshisface.

Doesn't it make you feel like moving back to the UK, though?

We have cloudy IPA & pizza…and sometimes they can manage to deliver what you ordered before it's cold, and if you're lucky they didn't carry the pizza vertically;)

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Mar 17Liked by Michael Marshall Smith

Excellent 👌🏻 How was the wine?

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Mar 17Liked by Michael Marshall Smith

Upon receiving a dodgy pizza order,im always reminded of the pizza shop scene from rise of the footsoldier...just go in there and cut someone,open them up like a tiny of cold spaghetti hoops so they can see it all,hold them up so all the staff can see...once you are released from prison I guarantee no more fucked up deliveries.

The rest of it...after a while I just heard blah blah blah blah blah.

Bidens main problem is not his age,it's that he doesn't have a gimmick.

The man needs to learn to juggle while riding a unicycle,perhaps take up playing trombone while rollerskating...the American people like a bit of pazzaz and badabing in their leaders,this is obvious,the mad orange King has appeal,his followers have seen the artwork that appeases Putin-heroic muscular,you know the sort of thing...and they have reproduced it in a manner and volume that only the truly insane can imagine.

I'll be surprised if he doesn't win tbh,the fix is in,corporate media have decided to side with chaos,but what's new about that?,the ghouls in the media eat this stuff up like human brains.

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Astrologically, I'm calling it for Biden. He has strong, "fortunate" transits on the day of the election. And on inauguration day, he has beautiful, expansive, idealistic transits. Meanwhile, the asshole has nothing but agitation, revolt, and conflict in his chart for those two days. I've been doing this since 2000. Before that election, I looked at the transits of both candidates and didn't see a clear result. I asked a colleague at work if there were any reasons that the results of the election would be delayed. He couldn't think of any. Of course, the day after the election, he came into work, pointed at me, and shouted, "Spooky!" LOL

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Mar 17Liked by Michael Marshall Smith

But a) did you add artichoke to the C-grade pizza to make it a B-grade pizza, 2) what dipping sauce did you use for the chicken nuggets, and iii) what the fuck is "too drunk to eat pizza"? I seriously can't conceive of such a notion: the more drunk one is, the *more* one should want to eat pizza, right up until the point one passes out.

The analogy's a good one, nonetheless.

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Mar 17Liked by Michael Marshall Smith

Get over yourself, and vote for Joe! I think I'm going to put that on teeshirts. Thank you.

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Mar 17Liked by Michael Marshall Smith

Olives. Artichoke hearts. I know people who consider both those things to be literal poison. I truly hope that whoever got your pizza masterpiece understood the value of an artichoke heart.

Do you ever feel, fellow Old, that we are screaming into the void? I do, every single day. I will never stop screaming.

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Mar 18Liked by Michael Marshall Smith

I regularly find myself arguing to people that voting is about making a least-worst choice. Which baffles me. How is it confusing. Even if they weren't the product a system that selectes for people whose primary skill is promoting themselves, the choices are for parties that are themselves coalitions, and that have to get a majority of the overall vote. You are not special, go and [_many_ expletives deleted] vote. If you don't like the offers, join (or even start) a party, but for now, vote, for the least worst. "Would you rather be stabbed once or twice?" | "I don't want to be stabbed at all so I'm not making a choice I'll just let others decide") | "Aargh".

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