Tales of Unspeakable Taste

Photo inside this photo by John Kopoulos  And then from the back: I found this with a bunch of Gramps's old Army pictures, so I can only...

 I didn't really expect GF #1000 to make any big waves. It's good to see a couple other people talking about the need to invoke Arti...

 I still can't wrap my head around it. Orson Welles was offered the role in Caligula? As in, Gore Vidal's Caligula? As in, in all re...

  This is going to be more of a note to self than a GF, but I'm putting this here for a reason. Once upon a time I went to Washington, D...

Vidal, that is.   The other day I found myself with an extra hour before I needed to meet up with a friend for lunch, so I went down to the ...

  There's been an odd confluence of Gore Vidal going on with me right now. I've gotten into three conversations about him this week,...

Emperor Julian, who called churches "charnel houses."  Sorry. Busy night. I've run out of time to talk about something of grea...

 I'm sure you recall my obsession with Gore Vidal's Empire books upon my escape from the psych ward. I found myself in a Half Price ...

  *sigh* I really wanted to say nothing about this book. I didn't post a review on Amazon, and I certainly won't put one on Goodread...

 [What follows is my recent Goodreads review of Corey Taylor's book, AMERICA 51 . If you don't know who he is, he is the lead singer...

 [Here's the second Goodreads review I'm reposting. I've been doing this too long, so I'm going to post and get out and do t...

 So last time I talked about Gore Vidal's historical novel, Empire. I went in search to  many used bookstores looking for his earlier wo...

 My first day on the psych ward. After a torturous meeting with one of the doctors, who looked oddly like Jerry from Parks and Rec, only mea...