James Perloff Launches YouTube Channel
I have started my own YouTube channel. Quick introductory video below:
I have started my own YouTube channel. Quick introductory video below:
Back in 2017 I did a post called “Chicks Be Like . . .” It was sexist, guys’-only humor. But with a load of new material out there, and my forthcoming 9/11 post going well but slowly, I’m publishing a new edition. It’s grown from 32 to 112 items. Sorry,
While preparing, with Art Olivier, a unique article about 9/11, I again divert briefly into classic Hollywood. In early 2025, I wrote a post about the egregious discrimination that the 1951 Bible-era epic Quo Vadis received at the Academy Awards (0 wins out of 8 nominations) vs. 1959’s Ben
Guest Post by Patrick O’Carroll Preface by James Perloff More than 20 years ago, long before I embraced Eastern Orthodoxy, I was regularly attending a men’s Bible Study at a church in Winchester, Mass. After a while, something began bothering me. Jesus and His Apostles frequently quoted the Old Testament.
With two major serious posts in the works, I take a break for something lighter. You may need to click twice on the video below. Of possible related interest—my only live stand-up comedy routine, from 2009: https://jamesperloff.net/news/my-only-stand-up-comedy-routine/
It’s long been said that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Decades ago, my mother was visiting my sister and me in Boston. As my mother was a professional artist, as well as an instructor in art history at private schools, she wanted to visit the art galleries
After taking a respite for some very short posts, mostly about the Golden Age of Hollywood, I return to the more serious. Sorry, this is a long post. I don’t like long posts any more than anyone else, but to quote Margot Channing in All About Eve: I have been
Amazon’s publishing platform, KDP, is suddenly requiring authors and publishers to provide proof of identity. This is a short video about my recent encounter with it, and its meaning in a broader context. You may need to click the video twice to play it.
Some of my readers must be wondering why I’ve written three straight short posts concerning Hollywood’s older days. Don’t I know about the coming digital ID and currency, and the rest of the whole dangerous mess our world is facing? Am I playing a fiddle while Rome burns? Frankly, I’m
OK, when I call something a “gem,” I almost always add a caveat, “what’s a gem for me may not be for thee.” Most of my readers know I appreciate the moral entertainment of long ago to most of what’s produced today. I also realize that much of what I
It’s the same thing.
Why don’t schools teach children about the Bolsheviks who killed millions of Orthodox Christians?
Never forget that FBI Director Kash Patel LIED Under Oath:
“There’s no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors”
At least 40 minors gave sworn testimonies that they’d been trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein
Kash is the lowest of traitors.
You can burn an American flag but not an Israeli one.
You can boycott an American company but not an Israeli one.
You can protest America but not Israel.
Your taxes give Israelis free healthcare but not Americans.
This is America in 2025.
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