# david jolly (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover david jolly. Page: Feed: --- ## [So You Don’t Have to Learn Chinese or Russian](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/so-you-dont-have-to-learn-chinese) _2026-08-21 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ I was watching Lioness when a scene between Joe and her daughter punched me in the face. ## [The best song intros](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/the-best-song-intros/) _2026-08-20 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Listening to Ron Carter’s bass part on “Excursions” for the 200th time on a plane last week, I envisaged a project whereby I looped the introductions to favorite songs, forever. Some of these below are brief. The most fraught and delicious ones (“I Need a Lover,” “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” “Mother of Pearl”) have \[…\] ## [Art damage: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/art-damage-teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma/) _2026-08-20 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ An ambitious queer director, Kris Williams (Hannah Einbinder) gets sent by the studio, in search of profitability for “woke,” to the Pacific Northwest to make a reboot of Camp Miasma, the title for a series of Friday the 13th-inspired cheapo horror films. Kris’ problems with the series’ transphobic presence do not mitigate her affection for \[…\] ## [I need to score: Songs about drugs](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/i-need-to-score-songs-about-drugs/) _2026-08-20 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Bernard Sumner of New Order and about 6000 rappers can write about the highs and consequences of drug-taking, which means I could easily quadruple this list. I listen to these tunes most because they’re catchy and their musical complements catch the contradictions in this foul behavior. 1. New Order – True Faith 2. D’Angelo – \[…\] ## [The Government Is About to Let Private Companies Hack Cybercriminals. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/the-government-is-about-to-let-private) _2026-08-20 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ There was a story out of Washington last week that barely made a dent in the news cycle. ## [Dems in array?](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/dems-in-array/) _2026-08-19 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ We tried the moderate old former Republican in the 2022 gubernatorial race. We’re trying the moderate old former Republican in the 2026 gubernatorial race. Let’s try the younger Black leftist woman for Senate. It can’t hurt. I have no illusions about Florida. Treebeard’s lament from The Two Towers rolls around my head often: “It is \[…\] ## [David Jolly’s 900,000-Vote Problem](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/david-jollys-900000-vote-problem) _2026-08-19 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ By: Jamie Miller ## [I won’t give up on my life: Songs about the night](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/i-wont-give-up-on-my-life-songs-about-the-night/) _2026-08-19 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. When the sun goes down, rock ‘n’ \[…\] ## [The inequities of adjunct professorships](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/the-inequities-of-adjunct-professorships/) _2026-08-18 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ I knew adjuncts worse off than me two decades ago: in the years before online courses they’d wake up and remind themselves which of three college and university campuses they had to visit in one day. Lucky enough to work in an administrative position, I regarded this part-time teaching as extra but essential money. Adjuncts \[…\] ## [The CIA Admitted the Conspiracy Was Real](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/the-cia-admitted-the-conspiracy-was) _2026-08-18 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ The other day I came across one of those videos on X that makes you stop scrolling because the question is so good that you need to hear the answer. ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GcavKRJNqAG3) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [The best songs about actors](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/the-best-songs-about-actors-2/) _2026-08-18 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Readers will look at the top entry and think, ‘lol wtf.’ But John Grant’s thick rattling synth jam reconstructs an actor’s image in queer form with the thoroughness of a Pet Shop Boys approach to same, and as of 4:30 p.m. EST it’s the song I want to keep listening to. The list: 1. Cornershop \[…\] ## [Purgatorial: ‘Her Private Hell’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/purgatorial-her-private-hell/) _2026-08-17 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Calling Her Private Hell a bad film does me no favors because this is the kind of “difficult” film I want to defend against pedants who prefer biopics starring Judi Dench. I should have expected no less from Nicolas Winding Refn, the wannabe perv who made Drive (whatever) and Only God Forgives (Hague-level offense) and \[…\] ## [The best songs alluding to Shakespeare](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/the-best-songs-alluding-to-shakespeare-2/) _2026-08-16 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ A couple weeks after reading Clinton Heylin’s Despite the System, I needed a monthly excuse to revisit Orson Welles films. In an hour I’ll re-watch Othello for the first time since a 1992 reissue sent a bowdlerized yet accepted edition of Welles’ Shakespeare adaptation to theatres; it earned good reviews anyway. Please watch Welles’ own \[…\] ## [Dave Marsh — RIP](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/dave-marsh-rip/) _2026-08-16 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ If readers in 1990 lived in a small town or in a small town like Miami posing as a city, the B. Daltons and Waldenbooks at the local mail saved your life. Dadeland and International malls carried three books of rock criticism: Christgau’s Record Guide: The 1980s; The Trouser Press Record Guide, edited by Ira \[…\] ## [Ranking #11 U.S. edition: 1967-1969](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/ranking-11-u-s-edition-1967-1969/) _2026-08-15 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Every time I post a rundown of hits from the sixties I have to say, Goddamn it and restrain my nostalgia, but, really, any chart with Mother Popcorn and I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) and Is That All There Is will draw attention. Immune to Simon and Garfunkel, I placed Scarborough Fair \[ \] ## [Walk the dinosaur: ‘The End of Oak Street’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/walk-the-dinosaur-the-end-of-oak-street/) _2026-08-15 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Had my screening of The End of Oak Street taken place at night instead of 9 a.m., I hope the audience would ve applauded loudly when Ewan McGregor turns into an amuse bouche for an Allosaurus. The latest film by David Robert Mitchell, director of the excellent It Follows and the unseen by me Under the \[ \] ## [Ranking #6 singles U.S. edition: 1965-1967](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/ranking-6-singles-u-s-edition-1965-1967/) _2026-08-15 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Because aging potbellied men ran the music biz and constituted part of the audience during the High LBJ Era, The Men in My Little Girl s Life exists. It so happens that I was watching The Apartment with dinner a few minutes ago and Mike Douglas attitude towards women was Fred MacMurray and his four dwarves. \[ \] ## [My favorite novels about adolescence](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/my-favorite-novels-about-adolescence/) _2026-08-14 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ By necessity incomplete, this list of old, new, and new-ish favorites treat adolescence as a hinterland whose borders recklessly separate childhood and adulthood when, really, to some degree we should ve held on to medieval notions about children as young or little adults. Maybe I knew I was queer by adoring Judy Blume and especially Louise \[ \] ## [Criticism in an age of discontent](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/criticism-in-an-age-of-discontent/) _2026-08-13 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Jill Mapes, formerly of Pitchfork and whom I know from Pop Conference, wrote an elegy for Brooklyn Vegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine that doubles as an elegy to an ideal: the full-time music journalist. The way I read it her essay comes across as a mea culpa for failing to consider the utility of \[ \] ## [Leave Paris in the morning with T.E.E.: Songs about trains](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/leave-paris-in-the-morning-with-t-e-e-songs-about-trains/) _2026-08-13 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ The preferred method of long distance travel for Americans and the cheapest until deregulation lowered airplane fares in the 1980s, trains dominated pop songs well into the 1990s when for example Soul Asylum earned an unexpected top five with Runaway Train. Elvis scored the first and best hit: a missive from a country within a \[ \] ## [Stream Torrents & IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3d0Ud0kDjxPU) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Search magnet links and stream movies, music, books, and live TV in-browser ## [The best songs about states](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/the-best-songs-about-states/) _2026-08-12 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Listening to what is to my ears Public Enemy s most powerful album, I thought about good songs in which states figure. Ray Charles sets the standard: Georgia as state of mind, like Wallace Stevens jar in Tennessee. Many of these tunes are classic in themselves. Which states dominate the imagination? California, whose temperate climes serve \[ \] ## [‘Trans-ideology is far outside of what most normal gays espouse’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/trans-ideology-is-far-outside-of-what-most-normal-gays-espouse/) _2026-08-11 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Interesting! Democrat Elijah Manley, a gay, Black and Jewish Gen Zer, faces two veteran U.S. representatives in a high-profile Democratic primary. Shevrin Jones, Florida’s first out gay state senator, and Kendrick Meek Jr., an out politician whose father and grandmother both represented South Florida in Congress, face each other in a heated Democratic primary. Self-described \[ \] ## [We’re Already Being Tracked. Flock Cameras Just Make It Obvious](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/were-already-being-tracked-flock) _2026-08-11 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ I checked the DeFlock Maps today and there are around 30 Flock cameras within five miles of my house. ## [The best songs about business](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/the-best-songs-about-business/) _2026-08-11 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Pop music would not exist without capitalism: the business of recording and distribution, the means of production, the media in which the art gets to the people. When non-critics complain about the Death of the Album, I remind them that the sainted album relied on products (ahem vinyl) and things like radio and stores to \[ \] ## [On Nora Ephron and ‘You’ve Got Mail’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/on-nora-ephron-and-youve-got-mail/) _2026-08-10 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Although I haven t seen a flood of appraisals, I ve read or heard enough praise for the late writer-director Nora Ephron s comedies from younger film writers and film podcasters for me to reexamine my prejudices. A spring watch of When Harry Met Sally occasioned by the death of Rob Reiner delighted me: a fizzy and still \[ \] ## [The Math Problem: Why Byron Donalds Will Be Florida’s GOP Nominee](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/the-math-problem-why-byron-donalds) _2026-08-10 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ By: Jamie Miller ## [What Florida Voters Should Know About David Jolly](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/what-florida-voters-should-know-about-1f6) _2026-08-07 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ David Jolly is a fifth-generation Floridian, born in Dunedin in 1972 and raised in Dade City. ## [What Florida Voters Should Know About Bobby Williams](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/what-florida-voters-should-know-about-ee5) _2026-08-06 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ A few months ago, Bobby Williams’ posts started showing up in my feed, so I reached out and had the opportunity to speak with him one on one. ## [What Florida Voters Should Know About Paul Renner](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/what-florida-voters-should-know-about-8fa) _2026-08-06 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ Paul Renner was born in Atlanta in 1967 and raised in Northeast Florida, where he attended public schools. ## [What Florida Voters Should Know About James Fishback](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/what-florida-voters-should-know-about-e1f) _2026-08-05 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ James Fishback is a fourth-generation Floridian from Davie who now lives in North Florida. ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PQtHeLOArFu9) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [What Florida Voters Should Know about Jay Collins](https://reasonablearguments.substack.com/p/what-florida-voters-should-know-about-b0a) _2026-08-04 · Reasonable Arguments® · Reasonable Arguments®_ Jay Collins spent more than 23 years in the United States Army.