Mark Olmsted
@markolmsted
Gay Writer, Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir, My insane story: Everything is Stories podcast/The disorientation of survival
Oh it's Bastille Day! I sorta wish I was still the kind of person that would go day-drinking in some ex-pat bar to cheer on my ma nation maternelle, but hopefully if they win, I can get someone to join me somewhere for the final. Meanwhile, enjoy my annual mistranslation of La Marseillaise
This will probably only make laugh the 65 or older set, but what the shirtless #Waymo destroyer finally reminded me of just popped in my head.
The narrative of the conniving woman can be traced all the way back to Adam and Eve. As if she would even been the one the snake successfully tempted. You know damn well it would have been Adam #GrahamPlatner #MeToo
His image in the current reflecting pool is very Picture of Dorian Gray. #Trumpmemes #reflectingpool #algaepool
It's seems impossible that I've come up with this first. #Trumpmemes #Reflectingpool #Algae
Patel forgot to make an honorary bottle for Trump. I bet he's pissed. #KashPatel
I wonder if gas prices have to go this high before we have a mass uprising that results in the Mussolini-like ending deserved by this fascist clown.
Pete Hegseth, insisting there were extensive war games played before starting the war with Iran.
HISTORY ACCORDING TO TRUMP. (How much do you want to bet if I tweeted this to him he would post it?) #TrumpBallroom
He disappointed because Cole failed. It would have been a glorious way to go out - best ratings ever. All sins forgotten, monuments built. Anything better that going out like his father or via impeachment. He wants to go out a winner. He coulda been a Kennedy. Damn Secret Service.
When considering how to compose his next speech, I think Pete Hegseth might be inspired by a different scene in Pulp Fiction.
I can't help but notice that he's calling it "The Triumphal Arch." Notice what letters you can't spell "Triumphal" without? How much you wanna bet this is his design?
Though a lapsed Catholic, I still won't go full photoshop in a depiction of the orange one in Mount Gethesmane agony. But it is the seminal event in Christ's life that I would happily see the Orange one actual suffer through. An evocation will have to do.
With the chaos of flying, and the expense of driving, I thank my lucky stars that we have these fabulous bullet trains that crisscross the country at high speed. Thank God this was a no-brainer that red and blue states could agree on decades ago and have continued to pursue and build on since
I'm auditioning for the writing staff of Colbert. Or Kimmel. Or Fallon. Or Oliver.
A non-stressful post about an adorable baby and her grateful grandmother in Gaza. open.substack.com/pub/markolms...
@janisian.bsky.social Thrilled that you posted my meme on Facebook -- can you believe I first created it in 2016. A little bummed that you didn't get a version in which I put a credit for myself. So if you repost it here, do use this one. I AM A HUGE FAN and have been forever. THANK YOU.
She had a copy made for him and kept the original for herself. #Nobel