David Dvorkin @DavidDvorkin@qoto.org

And like magic, America's brief fascination with soccer vanishes again. If only its obsession with American football, the most boring team sport on the planet, would do the same.

Some webcam girls have started following me on Twitter. I'm delighted that, when they're not busy chatting with and etceteraing for their customers, they like to read pithily phrased, witty, trenchant observations about life, literature, politics, and so on.

The layout of the calendar repeats over time. You don't have to buy a new calendar every year. For example, for 2023, you can reuse the calendar for 2017. Big Calendar does not want you to know this! Wake up, sheeple!

(Yes, I know that most of us receive so many calendars in the mail that we never actually buy new ones. Don't stop me. I'm on a roll.)

I was interviewed this morning on the Chicago Jewish Cafe program about my book ONCE A JEW, ALWAYS A JEW? Here's the video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bU-nMPmhIo

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"Please don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

"Bruce, no one likes you now."

So far, 520 people, and counting, are running for mayor of Denver. I don't know anything about any of them, but judging from the e-mails they're sending me, each one is absolutely terrific. The choice will be difficult.

Behold the Cucumber God.

He is surrounded by His adoring worshippers. The crowd is so dense that some of those in it must stand upon others so that they can be bathed in the effulgence of His divine stupendiferousness as he spews his seeds (of wisdom). Sadly, there seem to be some doubters among the tomatoes.

You might notice that the god is made up of two conjoined aspects. How can this be? How can He be both one and two?

This is a deep mystery that can be understood, to the extent mortal mind can understand it, only by those who have studied deeply the ancient writings, the Cuke Canon, and the centuries of exegisis performed thereon and extrapolation derived therefrom by generations of cucologians, cranky fellows crammed together in stinky little rooms, performing their sacred labor while their wives and children labored to provide food and shelter for their families.

For us ordinary mortals, it is sufficient to know that He is the bigod. When a person thinks he is saying "By God!" he is in truth offering a prayer to the only true god, the bigod. Or should that be the bigods? It is a bit confusing.

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'Tis the season when the coronavirus feels very, very thankful.

181,000 words, and still a long way to go. That may not sound like much to those who have written long books, but it's humongous by my standards. I wonder how long it will be when it's done. I wonder when it will be done. I'm trying not to wonder whether it will be done.
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Now that I'm an old far-- guy, I write much more slowly than when I was young and the words poured out of me. However, the words that creep out of me so slowly now are better chosen, and the result needs far less rewriting to be good.

Or possibly I'm deluding myself about that.

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Inevitably, after the mass murders at Club Q in Colorado Springs, newsreaders are telling us solemnly that the city is in mourning. It should be, but we all know that there are many in that city and across the country who are delighted and gleefully anticipating more murders of gays, trans people, Jews, blacks, Asians, and on and on -- and that will happen, thanks to the twin evils of hatred and the proliferation of guns.