Embracing the lattice crust challenge! #LaborDayPie
Embracing the lattice crust challenge! #LaborDayPie
I’m so pleased to announce that @VanityFair has just premiered the first installments of a video project I’ve produced with acclaimed director Tim Van Patten and @TriptykStudios: The #TrumptyDumpty Cycle, starring 18 fantastic readers including @WhoopiGoldberg, #JamesCarville, #MerylStreep, @GlennClose, and many others. You can watch the first four videos at the link in my bio, and then we’ll be rolling out the rest on YouTube and social media from now until the election eve (please vote)!
I have an exciting announcement! On Thursday, 9/24, @Bookshop_org and @WritersBlocLA are hosting a virtual launch event for TRUMPTY DUMPTY WANTED A CROWN—featuring a conversation with me and Jane Curtin, plus the world premiere of a very special video project I’m working on with some of the great names in acting! Learn how to tune in at the link in my bio.
Last little fixes on the TRUMPTY DUMPTY audiobook. The poems are a LOT easier to read than write.
It’s been a long journey (and a long four years), but TRUMPTY DUMPTY WANTED A CROWN is finally going on sale in exactly one week! Here’s a little taste of things to come. To quote the intro, I wrote it for three reasons: to make you laugh, to make you mad, and to make you remember… And maybe also to make you vote. There’s still time to pre-order a copy from my friends at @Bookshop_org, which will get you the password to this Thursday’s exciting launch event!
If listening to the TRUMPTY DUMPTY audiobook is anywhere near as fun as it was recording it…
If listening to the TRUMPTY DUMPTY audiobook is anywhere near as fun as it was recording it…
Thanks to @WillieGeist and the @MorningJoe crew for inviting me to talk about #TrumptyDumpty this morning. (Didn’t mean to make you nervous at the end there, @JoeScarborough!) If you missed it, you can watch at the link in my bio.
Alive and well!
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Back again for limerick #13—another early musing on the COVID crisis: “When persuaded to take drastic actions, Dumpty further divided our factions; A perilous error At moments of terror, But worse are the coming attractions.”
Sorry, another scoundrel from “Scoundrels and Heroes.” Heroes coming soon. Stay safe, wear a mask, protect yourself and others. Here’s number 10: “The virus-denier Rand Paul Displayed senatorial gall. But then, to his shame, He sadly became The most toxic infector of all.”
I’m gearing up for tonight’s TRUMPTY DUMPTY launch event! While you wait, here’s another limerick. Among my “Scoundrels and Heroes,” this one’s a hero: Colonel Alexander Vindman: “Colonel Vindman, the POTUS’s nemesis, Bears a fearlessness right out of Genesis. Since he showed deeper fealty Than our titan of realty, Dumpty had him removed from the premises.”
Sunday night I kick off #LivingRoomLocal for @localtheaterco Boulder’s daring theater troupe. I’ll talk about #TrumptyDumpty and lots of other stuff. Tune in and support them.
I’m back with limerick number 8 from the TRUMPTY DUMPTY “Scoundrels and Heroes” series. I wrote this one about the pandemic months ago, and I’m sorry to say it continues to be true: “In the face of the coronavirus, Dumpty’s job was to cheer and inspire us. The POTUS instead Spread confusion and dread, Since his secret desire was to fire us.”
I have another TRUMPTY DUMPTY “Scoundrels and Heroes” limerick for you today: number 9. This one’s about Alex Azar and Mike Pence—you asked for it, gents… “Ex-lobbyist Alex Azar, An unlikely pandemical czar, Was replaced by Mike Pence Who’s equally dense. We continue to lower the bar.”
Here’s another “Scoundrels and Heroes” limerick, #12 out of 21. (I hope you’ve heard the first 11.) Remember the appearance of Ben Carson with the so-called Coronavirus Task Force? “A Cabinet man in too deep, Ben Carson makes barely a peep. By his droopy expressions At Dumpty press sessions, You’d think he was falling asleep.”
So in the series of “Scoundrels and Heroes” limericks, we’re finally moving on to the Heroes. This one is #14, with another 7 to go. “House Intelligence chief Chairman Adam Is a daredevil, tough as macadam. The impeachment upheaval Made him Evel Knievel. We’re awfully lucky we had ’m.”
I have another TRUMPTY DUMPTY limerick for you—#15, on September 15th, one of my heroes from “Scoundrels and Heroes,” Marie Yovanovitch: “As diplomacy’s classiest dame, Yovanovitch merits that claim. She’s earned every honor. May blessings rain on her While Pompeo is mired in shame.”
Hi, everybody! It’s time for #7 from my TRUMPTY DUMPTY series, “Scoundrels and Heroes: Limericks from the Seat of Government.” It’s no Shakespearean sonnet, but at least it’s mine. En garde, @SirPatStew! “Kelly Loeffler had barely begun Her congressional time in the sun. But her fortunes are fading Since insider trading Has put a swift end to her fun.”
The September 29th on-sale date for TRUMPTY DUMPTY WANTED A CROWN is coming up fast, but I still have 16 more sneak-preview limericks for you from a section called “Scoundrels and Heroes”—and we haven’t even gotten to the heroes yet! I’ll be posting more of these over the next two months. Here’s #6, about Senator Richard Burr: “Intelligence Chair Richard Burr Was a senator-entrepreneur. Briefed on imminent shocks He sold all of his stocks, Then he hired a brand-new chauffeur.”
So Trump tried to steer the British Open to his Scottish golf club. Apparently…. “The emoluments clause Gives Dumpty no pause.”
