Second New Yorker submission in a row. I’ve never even been a finalist, and I was happier after giving up. Why am I doing this to myself again?
P.S. I tried thinking up a caption about an out-of-body experience, but nothing came to me. I’m hoping somebody was more successful exploiting that angle.
The Frontline documentary “America After 9/11” paints a justifiably grim picture of the failures over the past 20 years of American policies and actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. The series is produced in Boston, which played an outsized role in the 9/11 attacks, due to lax airport security. The documentary doesn’t mention that, nor does it mention the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 by the Tsarnaev brothers.
Ever hear of Big Train? If not, here’s a Big Train sketch, coincidentally about a big train, featuring Simon Pegg.
If you liked that one, this playlist has 25 more examples of the same sort of uniquely British nonsense.
It’s been a long time since I last entered a New Yorker caption contest. I won’t be surprised if the winner is a reference to coins in couch cushions.
Note to my twinster Jean.
I’m going to come out about something, so I can’t back out of seeing it through to completion. Not that I would want to anyway.
Thanks to WhatsApp, I’m working with Prue on her memoir. Some of the cultural references she makes are challenging. She mentioned the name Diaghilev. When I pleaded ignorance, she added the name Nijinsky, and thanks to that I found this documentary.
https://youtu.be/lmsR8eR2-MI
The video is narrated by Tilda Swinton, who played Dr. Strange’s teacher the Ancient One. Hah! So my Marvel Comics background isn’t completely irrelevant.
One of Prue’s earliest memories is of a German V1 rocket overhead in London. They were called Buzz Bombs or, as she remembers them being called, Doodlebugs.
